Instructor Bobby Joe Blythe watches/films a student attacking a man in his school

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:angry7:Check this link out. Click ]This jerk needs to be prosecuted as well as anyone in the building. He actually watches a student brutally attack a mentally challenged man in the school. The instructor just posted this in April of this year but he states it happened in 1984 but still knows the whereabouts of the victim. He actually instructs the students to drag the body out of the back door. This is graphic but maybe someone will know who to report this to for further examination. Disgusting.


Edited By IIF to add working Video Link.

[marcusdbrutus]

I hope someone has alerted the local police? This is pretty clear video evidence of assault.

[Ka-Bar]

Statute of limitations, boys. Look it up before we all get our panties in a bunch.

[Sam Browning]

We don't know who this martial arts master is, or if he is still teaching. If we had this information we could refer it his local newspaper whom might be interested in writing about this episode. I am appalled that this instructor let one of his black belts stomp the guys head in.

[meby]

It appears his name is Bobby Joe Blythe. He has this video posted on his You Tube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/bobbyjoeblythe007

[Sang]

Bobby Joe Blythe on the subject of what he expects of his blackbelts:

Demand and show respect to all and how you treat others, you should be treated the same. Wear your Black Belt with pride and dignity.

http://www.youtube.com/user/bobbyjoeblythe007

I hope there are some serious repercussions.

[littleoldme]

I'm wondering if they possess many other videos like this?

Somehow I doubt that this was just an isolated incident.

[Rancid Pantaloons]

what town is this guy from? We will seriously contact his local newspaper.

Edit: Should we discuss what we are going to send the local newspaper? A link to that video really says more than 1000 words.

[littleoldme]

what town is this guy from? We will seriously contact his local newspaper.

From his youtube channel he looks like he's well known locally

he's a crop sprayer and as well as a MA instructor

I was thinking, there's a lot of press coverage about this story http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...fight_clu.html

I would check out the latest news for journalists nearby (but not in the same town) who had covered this story and send a link to them / phone them.

They can then run it as a follow up to the existing story, which is "hot" right now.

In fact this could run as a national story and the national press might be interested in it.

From a journalist's POV videos like this are news gold dust.

[littleoldme]

On an interesting tangent

One of the instructor's long term students who went on to become his senior assistant is a Mr Robert Zingg


From Mr Zingg's web page...


Mr. Zingg then began his study of Full-Contact Karate in the form of Okinawan Tozan-ryu Shindokan Karate under Sgt. Bobby Joe Blythe, 6th Degree Black Belt. Shindokan is a rugged form of full-contact karate from Okinawa that utilizes full power kicking, punching and striking techniques during sparring matches and training sessions.

At the age of 14 through 17 Mr. Zingg routinely fought daily matches against the other students in the class who were US Marines, more than twice his size. Mr. Zingg trained 7 days a week, 6 hours per day for 17 months to earn his 1st Degree Black Belt in Tozan-ryu Shindokan.

In September of 1972 he was promoted to 1st Degree Black Belt and was the youngest student to ever earn a Black Belt in Shindokan at that time. His Shodan test lasted 12 grueling hours without a break.

From 1972 through 1984 Mr. Zingg was the Senior Assistant Instructor at Shihan Blythe's school in Dumfries, Virginia and became the school manager in 1979.

Currently, Mr. Zingg is a Special Education Teacher, where he specializes in teens with emotional and behavioral disorders, as well as the mildly mentally impaired.

http://www.blackbeltintl.com/info.php?id=387

It would be interesting to know if Mr Zingg was present when this happened, or if not, how he feels about his former master having seen this.

eta

the footage was shot on 13th December 1984, so it looks like it would probably have been just after Mr Zingg left the dojo.

[Rancid Pantaloons]

Great idea. We have to make this happen. It is more or less our duty.

My stalker Fu says that this guy is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford,_California

Could somebody confirm this? I sent an e-mail to that news site but I have a feeling it will go to the trash can.

[Rancid Pantaloons]

It would be interesting to know if Mr Zingg was present when this happened, or if not, how he feels about his former master having seen this.

Somebody should loose their job. Also the black belt was supposed to be a Marine sgt which makes this story even juicer for the press.

[littleoldme]

Great idea. We have to make this happen. It is more or less our duty.

My stalker Fu says that this guy is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford,_California

Could somebody confirm this? I sent an e-mail to that news site but I have a feeling it will go to the trash can.

I think that's where he flies his aircraft

The dojo where the assault was filmed is / was in Dumfries, Virginia

at least according to my stalker Fu ;)

I have to go and get some work done, but good for you rancid, something should be done about this

[Asriel]

Is there any proof that the guy is mentally challenged apart from the fact that he's pulling some crazy Kung Fu movie moves?

[littleoldme]

Is there any proof that the guy is mentally challenged apart from the fact that he's pulling some crazy Kung Fu movie moves?

Could it be to do with the fact that he claims that he was trained by Jesus?

I think that could be a clue

This dummy was in my shopping center while I was on a Bodyguard Job in Washington, DC. This guy was in the Pizza Hut eating pizza off the plates of others and the Pizza Hut Manager ran him out with a pistol. Later the very same day, police officers were called to remove him from a nearby pharmacy after having been caught reaching into customer's purses. A short time after that, he visited a Napa Auto Parts store next to my Karate Dojo and told the management he planned on teaching in that Dojo and that Jesus taught him.

the audio is terrible on the clip, but you can hear him also say that Jesus awarded him a red belt.


This concerns me too

The Napa guys told him he was confused (their polite way of warning the man against such action), but not wanting to miss a show, they told the man they would close early just to watch and that he must not know the owner, which is nobody to play with.. Needless to say, the police pulled him out of the dumpster behind my Karate Dojo where he was neatly placed. Semper Fi to all my Marine brothers. The karate student in the white is also a Marine Sgt. and a brand new Black Belt. Never get stupid with a Marine, you could get jacked up and have your clock stopped.

So if this is true, the cops just didn't bother investigating what happened to the man, or possibly just didn't care.

It suggests that this was a situation where the cops and the instructor knew each other. The fact that the instructor refers to the cops being called re this man 2 times before he turned up at the dojo would seem to consolidate this. How would he know this if the cops had not told him?

Also we all saw the blood trail, which extended behind the floor and onto the door and grass outside. Had the cops bothered to investigate this incident there would have been plenty of forensic evidence.

Also, something does not quite add up. If the man had been caught trying to steal from women's purses earlier that day, and the cops were called, why was he not arrested and in jail? I know next to nothing about your legal system in the US so please accept my apologies if this is a silly question and there is a good answer for it.