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A Great Image for Franklin

By Bryan Maersch
Friday, Jul 11 2008, 06:43 AM
I laughed out loud when I watched the movie Stripes when it came to the part of Winger (played by Bill Murray) trying to convince Russell (played by Harold Ramis) to go over the Czech boarder to help save their compatriots:

Winger: It's Czechoslovakia man. It's like invading Wisconsin

Russell: Well, I got the sh*t kicked out of me in
Wisconsin.

It seems we have a real life situation here in good old Franklin, Wisconsin where 41-year-old Donald L. Sieben was beaten by several people at The Irish Cottage a Franklin Bar, 11433 W. Ryan Road, around 7:45 p.m. on Friday, July 4 and died early Monday in his mother’s home.

After the beating, a
companion took Sieben home, where Sieben’s mother then took him to St. Francis Hospital, where he was treated and released with multiple fractures to his face and skull and had a collapsed lung. Sieben was advised to see a specialist on Monday.

Sieben died early Monday.

Donald Sieben  was a former Marine working as a supervisor at a steel manufacturer. His brother Lance Sieben , described him as a “happy-go-lucky guy.”

“Nobody deserves to be jumped by five people and get the living hell kicked out of him!,” “He went to the wrong bar at the wrong time and met up with the wrong people,” his brother said.

In the mean time, Sieben’s death is not being classified a homicide until a toxicology report comes back from the medical examiner. The case is being investigated as a battery, but Franklin Police Capt. Clark Groen said Franklin police are taking steps in case it is reclassified as a homicide.

Pretty sad to think that that wrong bar and wrong people were in Franklin!   

Comments

Unfettered Candor   

This is the second tragedy that originated in a Franklin bar since the negligent homicide on Dec. 25, 2008 by a drunken driver that was served after he was witnessed as being drunk at the Buckhorn Tavern.

This case must be languishing somewhere and, by all appearances, Buckhorn will never have their liquor license revoked.  I hope that I am wrong.

I will not be surprised if the bar where the murder took place will be afforded the same courtesy.

Something is radically wrong when the establishments that earn themselves bad reputations or serve drunks are permitted to remain licensed by laws that are abject failures.  

Then again, whom do lawmakers have in mind when they make laws that are relevant to tavern keepers?  

The Tavern League will seek out the bottom feeding legislators that will take contributions to vote for laws that have no concern for the protection of a community and their residents.  That will never end.  

That leaves only the bottom feeders in our State and local communities who sell themselves out that are really the people to blame.

On the other hand, you have the same amount of unconscionable negligence with enforcement.   Case in point:

“It’s against the law to serve someone you know to be intoxicated. . . but I don’t know of it ever being enforced,” said attorney Nina J. Emerson, who heads the Resource Center on Impaired Driving at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

July 20, 2008 11:49 PM

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About Bryan Maersch

A former reporter for several local radio stations, Bryan is now a computer geek for a large Life Insurance Company. Bryan decided to join FranklinNOW as a blogger to provide a viewpoint from a realistic Franklin Taxpayer, Dad and Husband. DISCLAIMER: The opinions stated on this blog are those of the writer only and do not reflect or are not connected in any way to his employer.