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Bill USA

(6,436 posts) Mon Aug 3, 2015, 06:12 PM Aug 2015

Teen Disfigured By Catcaller's Pipe Attack; "I looked down and saw my teeth in my hand"

here's what Jessica looked like before the attack...

here's what she looked like after the attack...

"Half her top lip was ripped from her face and her lower lip endured a deep gash from one of her teeth that were knocked out."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teen-in-bikini-disfigured-by-catcallers-pipe-attack_55be1ac6e4b0d4f33a031cd3?

A Louisiana teen may have lost her smile temporarily in a vicious attack -- but not her resolve.

"Getting my smile back is something to look forward to," Jessica Byrnes-Laird, whose mouth was disfigured by a thrown pipe, told NBC 6.

Byrnes-Laird was still in her bikini from a day of swimming on July 26 when she and her boyfriend stopped outside a Shreveport convenience store, she told KTBS. She waited in the car while her boyfriend, Jared Pelletier, was inside. Several men began making lewd comments at the teen. Pelletier emerged from the store and fought with the men. He managed to get inside the car when one of the catcallers threw a brass pipe through the open passenger window, crushing Byrnes-Laird's mouth.

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She suffered a torn top lip, a deep gash in her lower lip and lost teeth, according to a GoFundMe page set up to pay for medical expenses. In all, 12 teeth were damaged.
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[font size="+1"]praying they catch the ignorant subhuman who did this ... and I'm not even religious.[/font]

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Teen Disfigured By Catcaller's Pipe Attack; "I looked down and saw my teeth in my hand" (Original Post) Bill USA Aug 2015 OP

Arrest made Ex Lurker Aug 2015 #1

Good malokvale77 Aug 2015 #3

Great news. Thanks! Bill USA Aug 2015 #7

Who raised these young men? Nobody, apparently. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2015 #2

Or maybe it was the boyz from Deliverance Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #5

Or the ones from "I Spit on Your Grave," maybe? nomorenomore08 Aug 2015 #12

scum... magical thyme Aug 2015 #4

That is fucking horrific. Maybe he should be hit in the face with a pipe and see how he likes it. nomorenomore08 Aug 2015 #13

But we've been told that we just can't take compliments when we complain about catcalling. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #6

Shows how out of touch with reality some folks are. nomorenomore08 Aug 2015 #14

But cat-calling (and pipe throwing) is simply a mechanism to let a woman know she's attractive LanternWaste Aug 2015 #8

If only she had just smiled and accepted the compliment! Brickbat Aug 2015 #9

horrifying Facility Inspector Aug 2015 #10

Some people suck mythology Aug 2015 #11

Jack Jalen, 18 should serve at least 30 years but chances are he'll be out soon to do it again seveneyes Aug 2015 #15

Based on the comments on that article this is the kind of story the racist goons love Lee-Lee Aug 2015 #16

My partially artifical front root-canaled teeth may kill me yet. hunter Aug 2015 #17

Even as a 12 year old child, it was obvious to me that catcalls and whistles were acts of aggression pnwmom Aug 2015 #18

omg. glad perp was caught Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 #19

Ex Lurker

(3,814 posts)

1. Arrest made

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 06:15 PM

Aug 2015

http://www.ksla.com/story/29698611/arrest-made-in-metal-pipe-beating-in-shreveport?clienttype=generic

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)

3. Good

Reply to Ex Lurker (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 06:52 PM

Aug 2015

Fucking pricks. Excuse my French.

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)

7. Great news. Thanks!

Reply to Ex Lurker (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 04:43 PM

Aug 2015

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

2. Who raised these young men? Nobody, apparently.

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 06:21 PM

Aug 2015

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

5. Or maybe it was the boyz from Deliverance

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 10:34 PM

Aug 2015

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

12. Or the ones from "I Spit on Your Grave," maybe?

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 05:03 PM

Aug 2015

BTW that dude's mouth is anything but "purty."

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)

4. scum...

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 08:36 PM

Aug 2015

immediately after the attack...

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

13. That is fucking horrific. Maybe he should be hit in the face with a pipe and see how he likes it.

Reply to magical thyme (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 05:04 PM

Aug 2015

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)

6. But we've been told that we just can't take compliments when we complain about catcalling.

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Aug 4, 2015, 12:48 AM

Aug 2015

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

14. Shows how out of touch with reality some folks are.

Reply to Starry Messenger (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 05:05 PM

Aug 2015

Evidently they don't know the difference between a compliment and a threat.

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

8. But cat-calling (and pipe throwing) is simply a mechanism to let a woman know she's attractive

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 04:49 PM

Aug 2015

But cat-calling (and pipe throwing) is simply a mechanism to let a woman know she's attractive, an excuse written by simpletons and idiots multiple times on DU itself...

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

9. If only she had just smiled and accepted the compliment!

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 04:51 PM

Aug 2015

Facility Inspector

(615 posts)

10. horrifying

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 04:52 PM

Aug 2015

mythology

(9,527 posts)

11. Some people suck

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 05:00 PM

Aug 2015

I'm glad an arrest has been made. Hopefully the trash spends a long time in prison.

It's horrible how a significant number of men view women as being there for their amusement. As a guy I know it's not all of us, but it's too many of us.

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)

15. Jack Jalen, 18 should serve at least 30 years but chances are he'll be out soon to do it again

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 05:08 PM

Aug 2015

Let him spend his violent years away from innocents.

http://www.ksla.com/story/29698611/arrest-made-in-metal-pipe-beating-in-shreveport?clienttype=generic

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)

16. Based on the comments on that article this is the kind of story the racist goons love

Reply to seveneyes (Reply #15)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 05:13 PM

Aug 2015

"Evil black thug beats up pretty little white girl" seems to draw them out of the woodwork. Don't read the comments if you have a weak stomach.

hunter

(38,317 posts)

17. My partially artifical front root-canaled teeth may kill me yet.

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 05:37 PM

Aug 2015

They lapse in and out of being fully rotten to the core. Plaques on my heart., the consequence of one of my earlier teenage attempts to be "one of the guys."

Being "one of the guys" has NEVER worked for me.

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)

18. Even as a 12 year old child, it was obvious to me that catcalls and whistles were acts of aggression

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 07:40 PM

Aug 2015

not compliments.

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

19. omg. glad perp was caught

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 08:58 PM

Aug 2015

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