There is a video of the 2002 situation where a moon conspiracy grifter harassed Buzz Aldrin when Buzz was 72. Buzz Aldrin is the second man to walk on the moon.
Buzz Aldrin punched a conspiracy theorist who kept harassing him and his family and demanding that he swear on the Bible that he walked on the moon, calling Aldrin a coward and a liar. It was well deserved. Aldrin didn’t go far enough. pic.twitter.com/tbnsiOUr9A
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 14, 2023
Buzz is walking outside a Beverly Hills hotel when a conspiracy theorist starts harassing him and accusing Aldrin of lying about the Apollo 11 moon landing. Incensed, Aldrin punches his heckler in the face.
“You’re the one who said you walked on the moon when you didn’t,” Bart Sibrel told Aldrin as he walked by his filming crew outside the Luxe Hotel. “Calling a kettle black …”
Will you get away from me?” an irate Aldrin warned the man in the incident caught on video.
Sibrel responded, “You’re a coward and a liar and a … ”
Aldrin, then 72, socked Sibrel in the jaw, right when he finished the sentence with “thief.”
Sibrel tried to press assault charges but the court eventually threw the case out, citing Sibrel as the instigator.
Aldrin had been lured to the hotel with a fake story that there was to be an interview for a children’s TV show.
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Unfortunately, not all slime-molds are shy and retiring.
This was 21 years ago so more suitable for a lastbigpast.com
My purple heart war vet uncle from the same generation socked someone in the face for some profane behavior on a cruise ship in the ’90s. Anybody younger would have been punished for felonious behavior.