Video player not working?0:000:000:00SettingsQualityAutoAudioSpeed1×CaptionsOffEpic Beard Man InterviewDula TVFunny videos since 2008Thumbs up0Thumbs down0 Share1.6K views Feb 2010A reporter interviews the bearded man known for an AC Transit bus fight as he recounts the altercation, his arrest, and the sudden attention online. Show transcript0:00Your name, please?0:01Tommy, Tommy Slick from Chicago, Illinois.0:04All right, Tommy. So, you know, a lot of people are viewing you on, uh, on, uh, YouTube.0:09Yeah.0:09With that incident in AC Transit.0:11Yeah.0:11What do you think about all of this?0:12Oh, it's a little overwhelming, little overwhelming. I don't deserve all that attention.0:17I'm just doing what's right.0:19Uh-huh.0:19He was a murderer. I got a murderer off the streets. I feel good about that.0:24He was wanted for murder. He did 18 years in the penitentiary.0:27He's on parole. He's a pro violator. He's gonna go back for 10 years for armed robbery and, uh, assault and battery and, and possession of a knife while on parole.0:37So what, what0:38And theft. They stole my money and they stole my bag.0:41Now, what, what, what started the whole, uh, did, you know.0:44It was my Stacy Adams shoes. I said I'm gonna have, I was talking to Bob, my white friend.0:49Uh-huh.0:50I'm going to my mother's funeral on Wednesday. I ain't got no money, and I'm borrowing money from Bob.0:55And I said, Bob, can I get some shoes, some Stacy Adams? I want to wear them at my mama's funeral.1:00I said, my boy, my boy is going to shine them for me. And then all of a sudden he come by, he said, why it got to be a, why your boy got to shine them?1:08I s- he said, you a racist. No, I ain't no race. I said, a boy could be anybody, man.1:12It could be a man, it could be a girl, it could be anybody. And then I says, my brother, and he says, your brother?1:18Why it got to be a brother shining you? I said, listen, man, you a racist.1:21I says, because white, green, yellow, and black is a brother to me.1:24Right.1:24I ain't no talking about no black man. For all you know, it's a Chinaman gonna shine my shoes.1:30Right.1:30So he said, shut the fuck up, you're getting me mad. I says, I don't give a fuck.1:34And that's when we pick it up on the video.1:36Right.1:36You guys start fighting.1:37No, not yet. No, no.1:39I know he comes back to you, right?1:40He said, you better go back up in the front because you're starting to piss me off, and I said, better be pissed off than pissed on, you know?1:48So I went to the front of the bus 'cause I was getting real mad, and then I was getting scared when he showed me that knife, and then I heard the old girl say, get that nigga, and then she said,1:57hit that old white man, hit him, and next thing you know, he suckered me in the jawbone, hit me three times in the face, and then I went, I says, you're gonna get a Vietnam now, mother,2:06and I whipped his butt so fast and so quick, so pretty. I hit him with the Muhammad Ali, left, right, left.2:12I did the Ali shuffle, and then I footballed him in the head, and then I stopped him, and he was knocked out for 22 and a half minutes.2:19What's it called? Now, now, uh, police, did they2:22They took me, they had, I put my weapon down, I had my shank on me in my pocket, my shank I carry, I'm 67, I'm a senior, so I'm entitled to carry a weapon.2:33They tried to rob me 3 times already in Oakland, so I had to shoot one of them with my pistol one night, and he ran like a sissy, but I never got caught for that.2:42And then I had to fight a guy stabbing me one night.2:45There's a lot of people writing comments saying you're a hero.2:48How do you feel about all that?2:49I ain't no hero, man. I'm a Vietnam veteran. My mama died. My mama died.2:54I'm so sorry.2:55My mama died.2:56I'm sorry.2:572 days later, my mama died.2:59I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry to hear about that. Well, you know, you had a lot of people, though, feel like, because, I mean, a lot of people are like tired of this young generation being3:11Beating you up.3:12and being disrespectful, so when they saw this video on YouTube, they were like, yeah, vindication, you know?3:20Old man, old man beat up a young boy,3:23Right.3:23stabbing him with a knife, a convict.3:25Right.3:26Keep them convict murderers in jail. Why is he on the sidewalk gonna kill him behind him?3:30Right, right.3:30He should be on the sidewalk killing. If he kill one time, he should be locked up for 150 years.3:36Do we know, do you know if the police officers arrested him as well?3:39They did. He's going to the penitentiary to 10-year violation maximum.3:44Right.3:44Minimum 10 years, and he gonna get another 20 for robbing me.3:48He gonna get us 3 strikes. He gonna get 25 years to life as his third strike.3:53He got 3 counts.3:55Did you get your stuff back from, because they took you.3:57Yes, the sheriff deputy returned it about 3 hours later, but they took my, I still ain't got my identification card.4:05They stole that.4:06So people wa- when you walk down the street, do people recognize who you are?4:10Yeah, about 100 people, uh, took my picture yesterday, and all the sheriff's deputy gave me rides and bought me coffee.4:17Well, how you feel about all that?4:19I was happy to ride in the front seat of a squad car instead of the back.4:23I s- I did 14 years in prison when I was a youngster. When I got out of Vietnam, I was crazy, and I was selling drugs and pimping and stuff.4:32You know, with all this happening, what's your message to people?4:35Don't fuck with old senior citizens. They'll surprise you once in a while.4:39You might beat them once in a while, but they're gonna get you every once in a while, you're gonna come up and hurt you.4:44Okay, thank you. Did you want to add anything else?4:47Yeah, God bless America and stop the war, Mr. Obama, and I'm happy Bush is out of office.4:52All right. Wonderful in the neighborhood.4:59Okay, thank you.
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