From some television station in the Killeen, Texas area that prefers to hide its call letters and its exact location:
A 64-year-old man remained in the Bell County Jail Thursday without bond set on felony charges in connection with a disturbance at the Temple Social Security Office.
Perry Lee Penning was being held on a charge of aggravated assault of a public servant.
A Temple Police Department spokesperson said officers were called to the office Tuesday after a visitor to the office got into a physical confrontation with a security guard.
Police said Penning had been asked to leave and refused.
He was accused of striking the security guard on the head and in the abdomen. ...
"prefers to hide its call letters and its exact location" - huh? when you open the link, look in the bright red banner across the top where it clearly says "FOX 44" and "Waco" - or in the "about us" section where it says "we broadcast out of Woodway, Texas".
ReplyDeleteThere is only one side to this story. A 64 year old man does not assault a security guard without provocation (assuming he is sane). There must be more to it than the media is not saying. Please note I am not justifyng his actions in any way, but there must have been a trigger.
ReplyDeleteLol!! I was there the day it happened and this 65 year old man did assault the officer TWICE all because he did not have an appointment and was asked to leave and he wouldn’t. The officer handled it with such professionalism and he didn’t deserve that. 65 year old people are entitled and mean too! I was waiting for MY appointment and this 65 year old man would not let me through because he wanted to go in with NO appointment!! So yeah 65 year old people assault too!!
DeleteI have a feeling we will see more of these stories once the offices re-open to non-appointment walk-in traffic.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it will happen a lot when we re-open. People will most likely get hurt but I’m sure most that post here regularly would love to see SSA employees assaulted for something they had no control over.
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ReplyDeleteHe was asked to leave. If you’ve seen any of the violent attacks on airline and airport personnel the last couple of years, it doesn’t take a whole lot to set some people off these days. He doesn’t necessarily have to be insane to be so easily triggered, either. He could just be another entitled a**hole.
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ReplyDeleteNever worked with the public, have you?
KWKT -it is in the picture next to the story. KYLE is the sister station.
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8803 Woodway Drive
Waco, TX 76712
Again, in the "About Us" section.
I hope you look at medical records harder than you looked at this page. It took 30 seconds to find all of this.
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ReplyDeleteMy decades long experience is that the vast majority of physical altercations are initiated by retirement age visitors to the office. I don’t get it, but it is true. They come in all pissed off, belligerent and get physical with the guard.
10:25 usually it is because someone and sometimes it is them, did something and checks stopped, Medicare stopped, LIS stopped and they have no way to live. I find people are really touch about being able to stay alive.
ReplyDeleteStop federal workers pay and benefits for a week and tell them it will get repaid the month after the month and you will see riots!
@9:28 Actually every time there is a government shutdown SSA employees continue to work without pay. We only get paid after the shutdown ends. No riots.
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ReplyDeleteEvery Fed gets their pay stopped every time there is a gov't shutdown. Riots, notsomuch. Shutdowns happen and it is what it is.
I guess anybody can find a reason to get abusive at anyone. Getting into a tussle with a guard does nothing to get benefits reinstated. The situations you describe, most often, are reinstatements done by the backlogged PSCs. Local FO staff wish, with every fiber of their being, they had control to fix it there and then. They don't, so abusing them is equally unhelpful.
I been there and done that more times than I can count.
Feel bad for the SSA security guards. The OHO security guards have it pretty cushy most of the time. But even before the pandemic, these poor souls had to deal with everybody's nonsense.
ReplyDeleteHow long did those fed employees wait for the check? Was it delayed another month or did they get a mid month payment once budget was restored? Did ALL health benefits stop? Trust us we heard the whinning, I have hearing loss from it.
ReplyDelete@1104 They had to wait until funding was restored. In 2019 the shutdown lasted 35 days. One federal employee attempted suicide because of the shutdown.
ReplyDeleteFederal employees are paid biweekly so there was no mid month payment. Pay was restored soon after the shutdown ended. Healthy insurance continued during the period of shutdown.
I think it’s funny that security guard has nothing to do with benefits and everything to do with opening or closing the doors to people with appointments (during that time period) and he was assaulted and didn’t feel the need to pull his gun on the old man not once. Kudos to the security officer because we all know this is a weekly occurrence because people don’t know how to behave in public.
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