Random Thoughts – March 23rd
Owner of Rain Nightlife Runs Over his Son
Bostonherald - The wealthy patriarch of a North Shore business dynasty faces criminal charges for hitting his own son with an SUV as security cameras captured the alleged attack on outrageous video obtained by the Herald. If convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, Carl DeCotis, 68, of Salem - scheduled to go on trial April 7 in Malden District Court - faces up to 10 years in state prison. Anthony DeCotis, 34, of Lynn, who suffered chest and arm injuries when struck by the GMC Yukon Oct. 20 in the parking lot of the family’s Town Line Ten Pin bowling alley in Malden, said he doesn’t want his father behind bars. “This is not me vs. my father. This is my father vs. depression, and I’m caught in the middle of it,” The DeCotises’ enterprises have also included mobile home parks, the Malden club Rain Nightlife and a Saugus driving range. The suit alleges “Carl directed and instructed where Anthony would be every day and every night throughout his life,” and pressured him out of college and into manual labor because everything he’d ever need to know he’d learn from “Town Line University.”
Man I haven’t seen something this intense since the tractor scene in Footloose. I mean I'm not really sure it’s fair to say that the dad ran over the son here. This was more like an old fashioned game of chicken where nobody blinked. Both the kid and the dad headed were heading straight towards each other in a classic showdown of male bravado. It's not like the son couldn’t get out of the way. He chose not to get out of the way. So the father almost had no choice but to mow him down. You kind of got to respect the hell out of both of them for it. I guess you don't build a "North Shore Business Dynasty" consisting of driving ranges, nightclubs and mobile home parks by being a pussy. Although the move by the dad at the end when he went and stuck a 100 dollar bill in his son’s mouth Million Dollar Man style was a bit extreme. But still I call this one a draw.
Ps - Is it in poor taste if I make “Town Line University” tshirts with a picture of an SUV running a dude over? I bet those would sell like a motherfucker.