Cowards robbed World War II veteran, 93, in violent home invasion

[B00Mer]

Cowards robbed World War II veteran, 93, in violent home invasion

A Canadian World War II veteran who stormed Juno Beach on D-Day is nursing fresh wounds after a violent home invasion.

Ninety-three-year-old Clem Bernard still has bruises on his arms from being tied up with a belt and pinned to the ground after two men stormed into his home near Hope, B.C.

"It was so painful," he told CTV Vancouver. "I said 'you guys are going to kill me.'"

Bernard answered a knock at his door around 9 p.m. last Tuesday from a man who said his car had broken down nearby.

But soon after, a second man came into the home and held the elderly veteran on the ground.

He was hit in the face with an unknown spray before they robbed him of about $35 in loose change.

"They grabbed me and [threw me] and jump on me, both guys spray something in my face. I was blind for three quarters of an hour," he said.

The two thieves fled the home but RCMP have not made any arrests. A forensics team has gone over the home looking for clues.

Video surveillance captured by neighbour Lenn Ellis appears to show a red car casing out the home earlier in the day, only to return hours later after dark.

He and Bernard approached CTV News in hopes that those responsible for the crime will be caught.

Ellard calls the crime "horrendous."

"Who would do something like this to a man of his age? What he's done in our country," he said.

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[B00Mer]

This is not my Canada.. very sad

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I've never understood how the word coward applies in situations like this. Scumbags yes, psychopaths, sociopath, but cowards wouldn't get past the front door. Coward is such a misused term, like hero, also misused. The 911 terrorists were anything but cowards, they were extremists, zealots, but not cowards. At this point I know peoples eyes are glazing over, some thinking 'They robbed a veteran, don't you care?'

I do, I think it's a scumbag move by people who have little regard for their fellow man and it's too bad that this gent fell victim to their scumbaggery.

And while were at it. The elderly are targeted all the time by scumbags here in Canada. Some kick down their doors and beat them up while others swindle them out of money. I'm pretty sure that this old vet didn't have his medals tacked to the door, but he is no less of victim than any person that is robbed or beaten up.

If they ripped him off for $35 and risked a felony conviction that would make them stupid heartless scumbags, not cowards.

 

[B00Mer]

A coward in the sense that they pick on a helpless old man vs somebody who is able and might give them an ass kicking.

That said you're right too, Degenerate Low Life Scumbags.

 

[Jinentonix]

A coward in the sense that they pick on a helpless old man vs somebody who is able and might give them an ass kicking.

No kidding, just rob the poor guy if you need to be an a$$hole so badly. There's no need to get overly physical with him.

But this is just another example of why I'm so dead set against Canada's dim view of armed self-defense within one's home.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I've never understood how the word coward applies in situations like this. Scumbags yes, psychopaths, sociopath, but cowards wouldn't get past the front door. Coward is such a misused term, like hero, also misused. The 911 terrorists were anything but cowards, they were extremists, zealots, but not cowards. At this point I know peoples eyes are glazing over, some thinking 'They robbed a veteran, don't you care?'

I do, I think it's a scumbag move by people who have little regard for their fellow man and it's too bad that this gent fell victim to their scumbaggery.

And while were at it. The elderly are targeted all the time by scumbags here in Canada. Some kick down their doors and beat them up while others swindle them out of money. I'm pretty sure that this old vet didn't have his medals tacked to the door, but he is no less of victim than any person that is robbed or beaten up.

If they ripped him off for $35 and risked a felony conviction that would make them stupid heartless scumbags, not cowards.

Agreed. It's not even really right or wrong, just irrelevant.

I suppose Boomster'd call them heroes if they robbed a young, fit man.

 

[Curious Cdn]

No kidding, just rob the poor guy if you need to be an a$$hole so badly. There's no need to get overly physical with him.

But this is just another example of why I'm so dead set against Canada's dim view of armed self-defense within one's home.

You figure that a 93 year old was going to shoot it out with them? Instant death for the 93 year old. There is an erroneous idea out there that turning Canada into Dodge City is somehow going to favour the honest citizenry. I would say that, looking at our neighbour's crime rates, the opposite is likely true.

 

[B00Mer]

I suppose Boomster'd call them heroes if they robbed a young, fit man.

Yup from so called lawyer to forum troll.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Yup from so called lawyer to forum troll.

Let's get you a juice box.

 

[TenPenny]

I've never understood how the word coward applies in situations like this. Scumbags yes, psychopaths, sociopath, but cowards wouldn't get past the front door. Coward is such a misused term, like hero, also misused. The 911 terrorists were anything but cowards, they were extremists, zealots, but not cowards. At this point I know peoples eyes are glazing over, some thinking 'They robbed a veteran, don't you care?'

I do, I think it's a scumbag move by people who have little regard for their fellow man and it's too bad that this gent fell victim to their scumbaggery.

And while were at it. The elderly are targeted all the time by scumbags here in Canada. Some kick down their doors and beat them up while others swindle them out of money. I'm pretty sure that this old vet didn't have his medals tacked to the door, but he is no less of victim than any person that is robbed or beaten up.

If they ripped him off for $35 and risked a felony conviction that would make them stupid heartless scumbags, not cowards.

Exactly my thoughts; they aren't cowards by any definition.