Heroic University Of Buffalo Sigma Tau Members Defeat Hapless Muggers
Some Sigma Tau members at the University of Buffalo channeled their inner Batman this week and brought down a mugger in the streets.
From WKBW.com:
We were just hanging out on the porch,” said Ryan Wood a junior at the University of Buffalo.
“And this kid walked up to us,”added Anthony Spara, while sitting on a couch with his two fraternity brothers.
“He just asked to borrow our cell phone. ‘I need to call the police. Those guys down there just mugged me.’ We looked down and we saw the two guys. So, we hopped off the porch and we started chasing them,” explained Wood.
The Sigma Tau guys confronted the muggers, and almost had to retreat when one of the criminals claimed he had a gun and would shoot them. Nobody wants to be Batman’s dad, so they backed away carefully.
But then one of the guys realized the ‘gun’ had a light that turned on when the mugger pulled it out, and was actually a large cell phone. That’s when they sacked up, dropped in, and ended that hapless thief’s night.
These three frat brothers wanted to share their story. They know they get a bad reputation in their neighborhood.
“We get a terrible rap down here,” said Wood.
“I feel like we get a bad rap just because we throw the parties that we do. But, we’re honestly not trying to harm anyone. We’re just here to help people out, have fun and get good grades,” said Spara.
A couple things instantly stand out to me in this story:
First, how many great frat stories start out with “So we were just sitting on the porch…”? Porches rule. Also low front roofs. If you have one, sit around on it with a couple brothers and adventures always come up if you wait long enough.
Second, this just confirms the bullshit stereotype that fraternity members are dangerous and bad for the community. Fraternity members are good guys who will always step in to help someone in need. More than that, fraternity men are champions of truth and justice, like our own permanent army protecting American values and the right to have a good time.
If they shot Red Dawn in a college town, that movie would have been over in five minutes because a mob of fraternity men would have risen up and kicked the crap out of the Russians with a beer in their hands.
Good job, Sigma Tau. Buffalo will sleep safer knowing you’re watching the night..
[via WKBW.com]
“We’re just here to help people out, have fun, and get good grades”
8 years ago at 1:18 pmSig Tau is one of the better fraternities here in Buffalo, good for them
8 years ago at 1:38 pmI just hate how Buffalo PD has such a hard on for shutting down our parties. Always glad to hear good about Buffalo greek life
8 years ago at 1:44 pmThere are few things I hate in this world more than the Buffalo campus police
8 years ago at 1:50 pmCampus police are fine. It’s the buffalo police dept we need to worry about. They’ve arrested myself and about a quarter of my frat in the past year. Campus PD will just slap you with a couple of community service hours and tell you to quiet down
8 years ago at 2:12 pmI feel like I see campus police more often than Buffalo PD. Regardless, just annoys the shit out of me. I feel like the cops should have better shit to do than patrolling Winspear for parties every weekend.
8 years ago at 2:18 pmI don’t know what street you’re on, but on Winspear on the weekends every third car passing by my house is a BPD squad car. Yeah, I completely agree. There’s multiple break ins, robberies and shootings weekly. But all BPD and Buffalo courts seems to be concerned with is controlling Greek life
8 years ago at 2:34 pmThey only solve about 30% of murders that happen in Buffalo but still insist that we’re the real problem. Gotta love the media
8 years ago at 3:26 pmGood shit Sig Tau
8 years ago at 1:44 pmHe has an earring
8 years ago at 2:03 pmBuffalo pd are sooner to break up a pregame than they are to stop a rape/assault/murder on the same block. Glad someone has their priorities right and some stones.
8 years ago at 2:04 pmGood on UB Sig Tau for helping out my friend Henry, making it possible for him to get his wallet back
Good on UB Sig Tau for bringing attention to the extremely unfair treatment of UB greeklife from BPD.
Gained a ton of well deserved respect for you guys in the past couple of days
Btw here’s a pic of Spara pinning the robber in a headlock
8 years ago at 2:08 pmhttps://instagram.com/p/BK8ZwdvBpOL/
That’s awesome.
8 years ago at 3:22 pmBadass.
8 years ago at 4:51 pmThe mugshot of the mugger is even funnier
8 years ago at 7:41 pm*Fraternity
8 years ago at 8:01 pmLap me all you want. When I hear news outlets saying “frat brothers” it pisses me off. It’s not a frat, it’s a Fraternity.
8 years ago at 3:07 amIt’s only a frat once you’ve become initiated. That’s our word.
8 years ago at 12:17 pmYou wouldn’t call your country a cunt would you?
8 years ago at 8:24 pmGreat story until mainstream media picks it up: “Buffalo Frat Beats Up Unarmed Black Man”
8 years ago at 6:39 pm