A World War II veteran was forced to drag himself from a gas station pump to the check out after a carjacker broke his leg – while people walked past.
Not one pedestrian or driver helped 86-year-old Aaron Brantley after he was attacked in broad daylight at a BP station in Fairfield, Michigan while filling up his car.
Mr Brantley, who was driving home after bible study, was just finishing pumping gas into his new Chrysler 200 when a guy snuck up from behind, hit him and stole his car.
“I had my keys in my hand and I [pressed] the button to open the door and I opened the door to get in and that was it. He grabbed my keys and jumped in the car after he had hit me … and took off.”
The unspeakable ordeal didn’t end there. It was broad daylight, others were around, yet no one stopped to help the injured 86-year-old man, who crawled his way across the parking lot and into the store.
“I’m crawling and trying to get in the filing station. [People] just walking right by me and going on in the filling station there … If I saw somebody crawling like that on the ground, I would have stopped myself.”
Brantley did manage to get himself up to the door of the gas station. There a lady opened the door so that he could crawl his way inside. Once he got inside, employees called 911, but it took police and the ambulance so long to arrive that Brantley asked one of the customers to take him home. A man picked him up, put him in his car, took him home and wouldn’t take any money for his trouble. Brantley would like to thank him.
Brantley raised eight kids, served in the military and is a retired welder. His brush with the cold-hearted criminal left him with a broken leg, but he holds on to his sense of humor.
86-Year-Old Vet Injured during Carjacking at Detroit Gas Station: MyFoxDETROIT.com
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