A man tried to grab a girl. Her sister hurled coffee at him to escape

[ehrnst]

Four girls, aged 11 to 14, bought drinks on Friday night from a gas station in Millington, Michigan, and they noticed a man following them, according to CNN affiliate WJRT. They fled to a well-lit store across the street and then fought to save one of the girls in the group.

The man grabbed the youngest, an 11-year-old girl, in front of the Dollar General Store, according to Millington police.
"He said, 'You're coming with me.' And like, he grabbed my face," 11-year-old Allison Eickhoff told WJRT. "This cannot be happening. I thought it was a test at first, but then I'm like, 'This is real.'"

Allison's sister had screamed moments earlier, trying to warn her. The 13-year-old used what she had in hand to fight the man off. "I grabbed my drink and chucked it at his head. I tried, I punched him in the head," Lauren Eickhoff told WJRT, adding that she was holding a hot cup of coffee.

The other two girls got involved as well, with the oldest friend attacking the man, according to WJRT. Once the man let go of Allison, he turned his attention to the 14-year-old.

"He grabbed another one by the hair after he had let the little one go, and they continued to kick and punch him and scream until they let go and ran off," Millington Police Department Chief Jason Oliver told WJRT.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/us/girls-throw-coffee-at-attacker-trnd/index.html

[samnsara]

1. what 14 yr old girl drinks coffee? glad she did that day!

[MaryMagdaline]

2. Starbucks Generation

[Texin]

19. I'm 64. A late Baby Boomer, and I've been drinking coffee since before my teens.

My sister - eight years my junior - started sipping coffee at the age of about 4. I'm being deadly serious about this. She and her husband now live in Seattle (we were, sadly, born and raised in Texas). This doesn't have anything to do with the Starbucks generation of addicts.

[zanana1]

4. I started drinking coffee at 13. nt

[meow2u3]

36. So did I

I started drinking coffee with lots of milk when I was 13. I wasn't allowed until then.

[zanana1]

38. Are you French, by chance? nt

[meow2u3]

39. Nope. I was born and raised in New York

I'm now living in Pennsy.

[malaise]

5. We all drank coffee long before we were fourteen

Mom would make a huge pot with lots of milk and sugar. It was pretty weak but it was coffee.

[Javaman]

15. I started when I was 11.

I'm 55 now.

this is nothing new.

[Doreen]

23. You think 14 is bad. Try 5.

I started drinking coffee at 5 because at very young ages coffee calms those who are hyper active.

[moriah]

29. Ahh, another medicinal coffee kid!

For me it was when I got a cold and was wheezy. My mom didn't have any coverage for us until she graduated college and got a job with the state, and we lived with my grandparents. My grandmother grew up on a farm in the Depression, her mother was a midwife, etc. Grandpa believed more in doctors, and Mom got medical attention as a kid if something was seriously wrong, but a broken pinky didn't count as an emergency if Granny could splint it herself.

So I got a lot of old folk remedies for allergies/mild asthma, including coffee, until Mom got insurance for us and could get a real doctor to deal with it. I think the coffee was probably the only one backed up with any science.

[steve2470]

24. I was about 12 when I started nt

[moriah]

28. My grandmother had me drinking small amounts as a child.

The old-fashioned treatment for childhood asthma-like symptoms when she was growing up. Surprisingly science backs it up, but it's what they did for her little brother when he got wheezy in the Depression.

From a percolator. It probably *was* medicinal in strength, or at least certainly tasted medicinal. It grew on me, though... and by 12, yes, I was drinking coffee in the morning regularly.

Nowadays, though.... very few young people drink scalding hot coffee -- Starbucks, or the gas station version of one from a machine. Still, anything as a distraction would help, and if it was iced coffee even, would have been a surprise their attacker didn't see coming.

[tblue37]

30. It was the 13-year-old who threw her coffee at the man. nt

[shanti]

32. It was iced coffee n/t

[Aristus]

33. I started drinking coffee when I was ten.

[Crunchy Frog]

34. I started at 14.

Only lasted a few years because I developed a panic disorder, and I still can't tolerate it, but I enjoyed it at the time.

[Glorfindel]

3. Awesome girls! I hope the incident was caught on camera by someone.

That man does not need to be wandering around and following tRump's advice to "grab 'em." At least he only grabbed faces and hair this time. Well done, young ladies!

[mythology]

6. He was arrested a short time later. His mug shot is in the article

[George II]

9. Look at his coffee stained shirt!

[lagomorph777]

13. "mug shot" - shot by a mug of coffee.

[Glorfindel]

27. Just goes to show...I should never post on DU until I've had two cups of coffee!

Consumed, not spilled. Apologies all around.

[Trust Buster]

7. If you click on the link, you will see his mugshot.

[pazzyanne]

10. Love the coffee stain.

Congratulations to the girls who fought back!

[Soxfan58]

14. Whoever would film that instead of helping

Needs help! God job young ladies.

[tblue37]

31. How weird to grab her by the face. nt

[Maggiemayhem]

8. He certainly doesn't look 22

He looks much older.

[Renew Deal]

11. Why would they allow him to have bail?

He is clearly a danger.

[mfcorey1]

12. There are so many reports of people trying to snatch children with what seems like

desperation. They do it in broad daylight and even in the midst of department stores. Many are pedophiles but it makes me wonder if there is some underground market for selling children for nefarious purposes. Parents, please watch your children carefully. It's frightening!

[dragonlady]

35. There absolutely is a market for young girls

They are treated like a commodity from shockingly young ages and wind up being raped numerous times per day by the pimp's customers. Google "human trafficking" if you can endure reading about it.

[2naSalit]

16. Self defense 101...

mess up their eyes, stab your fingers right in the sockets or throw anything that you can into their eyes. I know, easier said than done but it's very effective. Or one, if favorably positioned, ram the palm of your hand up into their nose, it could kill them but at that point it would be self defense.

Just sayin'.

[riversedge]

17. Pic of the prick..........

[Duppers]

18. This guy will be a risk the rest of his life.

He needs major therapy.

[lark]

20. Therapy isn't effective in most cases for pedophiles.

Lock him up

[steve2470]

37. that's correct

There's a community by Lake Okeechobee in Florida which is 100% pedophiles and sex offenders. That's the best they can really hope for, besides dying in prison.

[CrispyQ]

21. There was another story yesterday about a man who tried to grab a little girl,

walking with her mother, by her backpack. He claimed it was a case of mistaken identity - asshole.

[MaryMagdaline]

22. I posted this on Facebook as kind of a "go girls!" Post

But I sincerely hope they find all of his prior victims and find a way to keep him off the streets.

Not a kid. Not his first time.

[marble falls]

25. Got him good. Got him real good ...

[geardaddy]

26. Awesome girls!