The Chosun Ilbo reports that Korean-American success story Young Lee was arrested for beating a homeless guy with a tire iron in LA, apparently for 보여주기’ing him an 음란 문신.
Needless to say, this intrigued me, so I checked out the LA Times piece, and sure enough:
A founder of the Pinkberry yogurt chain allegedly beat up a homeless man with a tire iron because he found the transient’s sexually explicit tattoo offensive, according to L.A. prosecutors.
The incident took place in June 2011 on an off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway at Vermont Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Young Lee was stopped at a light when he was approached by a man seeking money, police said.
Words were exchanged, and Lee and another man in the car chased the homeless man and “beat him down” with the tire iron, police Capt. Paul Vernon said.
According to a statement by the district attorney’s office, Lee felt disrespected by the tattoo. Officials did not provide a detailed description of the tattoo.
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A guy who sets up a company called Pinkberry is offended by a sexually explicit tattoo? Oh, sweet irony.
This means that there will likely be one fewer homeless person hassling innocent drivers stopped at lights on L.A. freeway offramps. Would it be callous of me to say that I’m not saddened?
Did he pull the “you don’t understand Korean culture” excuse like the holy enforcer in Orange County?
So is this what yogurt moguls and beggars do to iron out their differences.
Try the veal.
Americansentry: “I think a curfew of all Korean-Americans is in order. Better yet, kick all of them out and send them back to Korea. Those Korean-Americans are criminals. They don’t respect American culture, and they are violent to American citizens.”
Now – everywhere you see the word “Korea” or “Korean” above, replace it with “American” or “American”. And everywhere you see “America” or “American” (even in the ID), replace it with “Korea” or “Korean”. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
What man did was unnecessary, he could have paid someone to do dirty job, that’s what rich & powerful people do. Big mistake.
Ah, THAT’S the stuff.
Jeez, what could the tattoo possibly have illustrated to set someone off like that? The only tattoo that could have that effect on me is one on my daughter . . and that would be ANY tattoo.
When I lived there, there used to be itinerant Mexicans and assorted Central Americans selling bags of oranges to drivers exiting off 101 S onto Western or Vermont, none of this bawdy tattoo shit.
@#6 –
An underlying tragedy here is that although you appear to be sarcastic, there is a real possibility that you actually mean what you wrote. Thank God the judicial system in the US will punish people for wrongdoing no matter how much money they have.
Well, not always. Generally, however, they still manage to beat the rap.
This story just keeps getting better. From gawker.com:
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