This is just a bizarre story and it had to be terrifying for the Amish victims, especially an Amish woman who got clobbered in the leg with a baseball bat. Â Apparently some low-life druggies needed money for their fix and to fund a move to Fort Wayne, Indiana where they could presumably get more cocaine. Â So a 42-year-old woman hatches a plan to use her sons and sons friends to attack Amish out and about in their buggies and demand money. Â I suppose they thought the Amish would be easy targets. Â Perhaps they heard somewhere that they are pacifists and don't fight back. Â Or maybe they thought that the Amish don't usually carry plastic so that they'd be an easy cash score. Â Well, these criminals were not the brightest cows in the herd (not to be insulting to cows). Â First, any attack on Amish people is going to generate more publicity than might be typical because they are pacifists and sort of considered a distinct cultural group. Â Second, Â most Amish - as a general rule - don't carry rolls of $20s on them. Â In one of the attacks, for instance, the attacker escaped with just a few dollars. Third, while I've never attempted it, I would think robbing a buggy would be tough...horses are unpredictable, the occupants ride up rather high. Â It was just a very cowardly and ill-conceived plan. Â Glad the perpetrators were quickly caught! Read more here.
Ellen Dix Wycuff
This just makes me so mad. Berne is not that far from me . Why can't people leave the Amish alone? They harm nobody and are hard working people