I had heard about him before when some loser on Livejournal was praising “Angle Grinder Man” who was some asshole who cut boots off cars that had outstanding parking tickets. Then Phoenix Jones walked in on a Nerdist recording (I forget which one), and his bravado mixed with the lackluster confirmed actions. (He claims to be shot and stabbed and such, but there is zero record of such things….and he claims to have stopped a bunch of crimes, with no records. There are a few “Crimes” he has “Stopped” but really I found his heroics to not even approach his swagger, and I find his behavior to be stupid, dangerous, and border on vigilantism.
Well Tam reports that Phoenix Jones got unmasked and arrested allegedly for spraying down some innocent people with OC.
This is why Anti gun people WANT to portray us as Vigilantes, and why our most vocal people always advise we don’t pull our guns unless somebody we know well is in immediate danger.
Phoenix Jones is an idiot who walks around Washington looking for trouble…he found it. This is why I don’t go looking around for trouble…I just carry a gun because trouble just might find me despite my best interests.
**UPDATE** Thought I’d post the video here:
Phoenix Jones Stops Assault from Ryan McNamee on Vimeo.
From what I can see it looks like there MAY have been a fight, and then a bunch of bitchy girls hitting the dorks (possibly because they go a whiff of that bear spray) And then we see a ton of de-escalation of violent behavior likely spurred on buy a man with OC spray playing super hero. Looks like the people Phoenix was “breaking up” were likely drunk, and not up-standing. But the whole bit with the cars running them down, and rocks being thrown was all because he didn’t stand back and let the cops handle it. And really how bad would that fight have been if he just watched from a distance?
Don’t be that guy, people!
Why isn’t this guy’s name the “Ultimate Anti”?
He sticks his nose in other people’s business without being asked, depends police come save the day when he gets in over his head, runs away repeatedly and to top it all off — he doesn’t use firearms
This vigilante doesn’t belong to “us” but them.
He is most certainly US. We don’t want glory, we just want the innocent to get home safely tonight. This guy wants to make a name for himself.
Well he will…I don’t know if he’ll like it.
I gotta say if I’m with a group of friends and someone in a weird mask comes charging at us spraying pepper spray it isn’t going to end well for them at all.
Generally a Mask means you’re hiding your identity from the police, certainly a mask and armor and crazy “Sidekicks” looks a lot like saber rattling to me.
Not to mention that if my eyes are burning and i was just fucking around with my buddies on my way home from the bar….