Happy Birthday DAD!
Gresham County, OR
Police arrested David Dennis Franklin, 23, of Gresham for fourth-degree domestic violence assault in the 19500 block of Northeast Halsey Street between 11:30 p.m. Saturday, March 25, and midnight Sunday, March 26, according to a police report.
The victims, a 47-year-old Gresham woman and a 46-year-old Gresham man, are the man’s parents. They told police that they were celebrating the father’s birthday, listening to country music and drinking beer when the intoxicated suspect changed the music to heavy metal.
When the parents confronted their son about the music, he threw things around the apartment, head-butted the mother and pushed her onto the couch. The father came to the mother’s defense, but the son punched him in the face and left.
However, when he returned and knocked on the door, the mother thought it was the police and opened it. Instead, it was the son, who head-butted her again. This time he hit her so hard she flew back against the wall.
The father grabbed the son, who gave his father a black eye and bit his father’s thumb so hard it needed stitches. The father ended up punching the son in the head until he let go.
The suspect told police that his parents assaulted and threatened to kill him. He also told police that his mother head-butted him for no reason. He insisted he’d done nothing wrong.
He said he couldn’t hear out of his left ear, but other than it being slightly bruised and swollen, doctors said there was nothing wrong with it.
Found in the Gresham Outlook
April 20th, 2006 at 4:13 am
This is why you are supposed to raise kids in a barrel. You feed them through the bung hole until they’re 18, and on their 18th birthday, you close up the hole.
April 20th, 2006 at 4:58 am
ok, I leave mine in the closet, with a glass of water, some bread and a bucket, they behave quite well. and never complain.
oh, by the way, you said bung,,,,,,lol
and show me a 47 year old mom that repeatedly head butts…….whatever
April 20th, 2006 at 6:16 am
The son’s story is only believable if the parents are retired from Big Time Wrestling (does anyone else remember Big Time Wrestling?). Otherwise he needs to be taken behind the woodshed and taught some respect for his elders. It’s much more likely that they are the touchy-feely, hippie “If we refuse to believe the world is a bad place, all the bad things will go away” type. I do not condone beating childresn, but if you nip this behavior in the bud while the child can still learn, you have a good chance of raising a productive citizen instead of a violent, ungrateful criminal. If a child of mine did this I would feel the need to remove it from the world and consider myself a failure as a parent.
April 20th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Hey, Mike - I remember Big Time Wrestling…Killer Kowalski, The Sheik, et. al. Funny stuff!
In this case, I think that this family is left over from the right-wing extremists that was holing up in the OR, WA, ID mountains, creating their own armed compounds like David Koresh and they missed the call to disband. Incest has a tendency to populate small settlements like this with psychopaths, birth defects and (sorry, Tiger) spaz’s.
April 20th, 2006 at 8:59 am
…Thankyou Mike sawyer, you said it best! I feel so bad for these folks, how sad to be beaten by your own son. This guy is just plain pitiful excuse for a human being!!!!
April 20th, 2006 at 9:03 am
..Is a pitiful excuse for a human being!!
April 20th, 2006 at 9:23 am
Sounds like a crack or crystal meth problem to me……he needs to be put somewhere so he can get help, I feel sorry for anybody in this position.
April 20th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
I can’t stand country music, either, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t need a heavy metal fix that badly!
April 20th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
I wonder, did he just get back from a road trip? Sounds a lot like the driver a few days ago. As for hitting parents, if they’re hitting you with an aluminum bat it is okay to defend (been there, done that), but just for an arguement over music? Should I do this to my hubbie next time he turns on country?
April 20th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Nightmare: It wouldn’t “hurt”, I guess!
April 20th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Through years of neglect and abuse poor David did the only thing he could do to show his father love the way his father showed him. And Mom her caring and attention of being there for her son all his life, David reacted in the only way he new how. In this disfunctional family this is how they function, they call it bonding. Isn’t that sweet….
April 20th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
That boy would be buried in the back yard! And Mike, in the late 60’s early 70’s I was a ALL Star Wrestling Fanatic, is that the same as Big Time?
I remember The CLAW.
April 20th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Don’t forget Tough Tony Bourne and Jimmy “The Fly” Snooka. They got their start on Portland Wrestling. Gresham is a suburb of Portland. I’d love to see this guy TRY and go one round with either of those guys. He’d definately learn how a real headbutt feels. Serve him right, too. And just as an added bonus, Mom and Dad can sell the ringside seat tickets for the “match”. Call it parental reimbursement.
April 20th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
This guy is one of those risky sexual side effects you hear about on TV.
April 21st, 2006 at 1:24 am
Perfect laugh to end the night on! Thx, leah
April 21st, 2006 at 4:10 pm
I never heard of All Star Wrestling whtgoddess, but I imagine it’s the same show with different actors. I remember Dick the bruiser, Andre the Giant (when he was young), Chief Jay Strongbow, The Samoans tag team and many many others. And, leah, I think you said it better than I did;-)
April 22nd, 2006 at 12:22 am
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