They did the right thing.

Maybe this creep will think twice before hitting another girl.

 Good for them!

I guess there should have been a limit ... they should have stopped before the ex boyfriend fell unconscious.

Jesus! Beating his girlfriend, huh? - with a stick!

--virgil

Did he use the rule of thumb in choosing the stick?

That would have been okay a few decades ago.

What a bunch of Daleions.... I bet they don't have a full set of teef between the 3 of them.

You'd lose that bet OB, I know Anthony and he made a huge mistake by using the stick on the idiot. Good to stop the beating, but bad to use it on the gf beater...

Both guys are Heroes on my Book....BF is a freaking loser.

This type of stupid charges would make a "good samaritan" think twice before helping someone.

Darwinism at it's finest. LOL

According to Oildalian law, the girlfriend will now sue the Nights in Shining Armor for beating her boyfriend, since they have probably made up by now. She realizes that stealing his meth was just not right and that she deserved the caning.

They did what was right, but not what was legal.

If the woman sues anyone, she should be put down, but not at the local pound. Anywhere in the vicinity of a dumpster will do.

I used to be into that chivalry stuff. I gave it up the day after I moved to The Valley in July of 2000.

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO GUESS THE AGE OF AN OILDALE BRIDE---COUNT HER TATTOOS AND ADD THEM TO HOW MNAY TEETH SHE HAS

IN OILDALE IF YOU PLAY A COUNTRY WESTERN RECORD BACKWARDS--YOU STOP BEATING YOUR WIFE, YOUR DOG COMES HOME, YOUR CAR STARTS, YOUR CHECKS DO NOT BOUNCE AND YOU FIND WORK!

DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAS TEN LEGS, SEVEN TEETH- THE FRONT ROW OF A MERLE HAGGARD CONCERT

Sounds like Oildale is the Bakersfield of Bakersfield.

My brother got in a scrape like this once. Yep. It was at a bar and he saw one of his classmates knock his girlfriend to the ground then jump on her and start beating the crap out of her, so he came to her rescue. The beater then turned on my brother.  Bad move. My "little" brother is 6'5" and weighs about 230 pounds. He had to protect himself so he knocked this guy silly.

Fast forward one month. My brother was out bar hopping and standing outside a bar talking to people he knew when here comes the girlfriend beater up behind him - with an axe handle, and he clobbers my brother across the back of the head with it and knocked him cold.

Years after this happened was when I found out about it and I asked my brother if he filed charges against the guy.

Nope.

My brother has a pretty hard head. After that happened he got a job in construction where they were building a domatory at Texas Women's University.  It was seven stories and Bro was the guy installing concrete balconies outside each room.  The got to the very last one, on the seventh floor and the crane DROPPED this two ton concrete balcony onto the scaffolding where my brother was standing.  He fell SEVEN floors and landed on the safest place on his body - his head.  He got up, dusted himself off and walked into the a building where they kept the heavy equipment and collapsed.  He spent the next eleven months in physical therapy and got paid something like $80,000.00 aside from all the free medical care. I told him, "You with the hard head, knew exactly what you were doing, didn't you." He paid off his house with that money.

That last one I hadn't heard NEO. LOL

Anyone who beats a woman deserves pain and suffering.

Just got a call from Anthony's wife...rumor has it Bogue is out of the hospital and NOT behind bars! The two go to court tomorrow at 3. If the dipshi+'s , er , uh ...ex-boyfriend is not in custody, why are these two?

 In self defense, they always taught me, avoid a fight at all costs, but if you are forced to, then make sure you end it.  I had a buddy who stopped a mugging utilizing submission techniques that did very little damage to his opponent.  A minute later, the same guy comes back at him with a knife.  Round two ended up a little different.  The attacker ended up with a few broken bones, a dislocated shoulder, and was knocked unconscious when he was thrown back.  My friend, however, ended up with a knife wound in his shoulder.  Lesson learned.

When people know they are beat, they will resort to desperate measures.  I wonder what a guy who is capable of beating up a woman while threatening to kill her would do if given any opportunity to recover?  Do you knock him semi-conscious, out of pity, and hope that you can escape with an injured woman in tow, crossing your fingers he doesn't go grab a gun and follow you.  Or do you try to hold him down and trust he doesn't wiggle free and find a hidden weapon?  Why give him the opportunity? 

I guess they should have used nerf bats, or perhaps their hands so that they would end up with broken fingers, or perhaps they should have just talked him down with diplomacy

Absolutely right, Domer. My brother's karate instructor taught his students to walk away if someone tries to pick a fight. If they won't let you walk away, clean their clock and leave before the cops get there.

Sad as it sounds, there are limits and our justice system does not advocate revenge nor retaliation.  The guy got a good ass-whipping but what they did to him was nearly the same as what he did to her and therefore illegal.  The guys should have practiced restraint and performed a citizens arrest.  Thank God they were there to save her but unfortunately they allowed their own aggression to get them into trouble.  

He'll be arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and spousal abuse when he's better, according to deputies.

Ok, so when does this happen?

I went to school with Jerry, he is a tard.. rumor has it he has been using roids...   AND he is a crankster...

Thank God that here are some good Samaritans out there looking out for crime victims. To bad that they are charged with assault with a deadly weapon,Won't we now all think twice if we see someone in trouble? We might be treated as a criminal for being a hero!!!!

At least they get there 15 mins of fame....

Lana - you probably know this - but a lot of women in this valley won't get involved with a guy unless he hits them.

I generally bring a rose or two on the first date; these "manly" types probably bring a ball peen hammer...

Wow, this is a cold blog. Yes those who are victims of domestic violence generally return to they're abuser. No one in plan view deserves to be beat senseless, Let alone killed.   I do believe however you do dot  punish those who tried to do good,

Why talk crap about the 08 it's all over the zip code, These people felt the need  help, and now they are in jail.  That is the real issue here.

Me too. They are the good guys here and they need the community to rally around them. I'm Here for them!!!!

Are you kidding me? This guy deserved what he got!!  These guys witnessed a women getting beat! To death if they hadn't intervened! Now you know why women are so afraid to come forward in this county.  She did the right thing, her neighbors did the right thing....yet HE is the victim!! Cmon kern county!!! Give me a flippin break!!! This is so typical!! And remember HER name will be in the media everywhere to shame even more!!

P.S. Unless you are or have ever been a victim of abuse........you shouldn't express your "would have's or should have's"........you just don't have the right!!

These guys are definately heroes, this man could have killed this woman if not for these men.  The abuser got what he deserved!!  He cowardly beat this woman but got the butt kickin' he needed from a man/men.  Free the heroes.

I won't argue the law or even point out it is, after all, Oildale.

That said public resources spent on jailing and prosecuting those two guys is public resources wasted. Was there criminal intent? As I see it Bogue got what he deserved and for most of us who are sick of crime and seeing the perps walk on technicalities it's a satisfying pleasure to see a bad person suffer the consequence of a bad act.

Considering the circumstances only a moron would think they're doing something good to charge those guys with anything and stick them in a cell. Give 'em a verbal warning and let 'em go. Too many real criminals walk because there aren't enough resources to prosecute them and jail space to hold them.

A case of GUILTY until proven Innocent, sad isn't it???

I agree with avanti... any resources will be wasted, and it sounds like these guys have a pretty good defense.  They were placed in an unusual and intense situation that required physical force.  Unlike police, they presumably did not have restraint equipment on hand to keep the suspect under control.  Another good restraint device is lack of consciousness.  Obviously the whole story isn't out yet, but they didn't do any permanent damage, from what it sounds like, so I don't see how they went over the top.  Now if they'd killed the guy after he was out, or did a severe amount of damage in some intentional way apart from that moment, it would be different. 

I wonder what he would have done to them if they had walked in and said "we hearby place you under citizen's arrest"

Rick-it looks like he was arrested on 7/31/2008. He's in the arrest logs they posted today, here ya go.

JERRY    BOGUE    M    W    31/07/2008    PC 273.5(A)PC 245(A)(1    KCS    LABOR   

And I do hope the charges against the other two men are dropped.  That is quite dumb for them to be charged.

Thanks for the update Michelle. They're being arrained today. I hope charges will be dropped as well. Anthony had turned his life around and was doing very well. After talking to his wife several times yesterday, I learned there was also a knife involved, which is why the stick was used. Just a case of taking a good deed too far IMHO

Jerry is the one that had the knife correct? Now had these guys not intervene and this woman was beaten to death, people would be saying what kind of men were they to watch.  Personally, they did the right thing.  As mentioned before, this is the type of situation that will make a good samaritan turn the other cheek.  Good luck to them!

Yes, Bogue had already slashed Sullivan at least once. I was just telling someone about this and they mentioned the same thing, it might make people think twice before getting involved. And that's really sad, in and of itself.

Ms Sullivan is quite correct in her stating if it weren't for these two, she could very well be dead.

Who knows how they would react if they came upon the scene of a woman beaten to unconsciousness while the beater continues to pummel her. 

Any man would  be very ANGRY at the attacker.  Maybe so angry they wanted to give him a dose of his own medicine.  Maybe the attacker was hyped up on drugs or adrenalin and continued being combative with the rescuers..

At any rate, we need to see how the investigation pans out.

Audrey - I tried to put myself in their shoes all day yesterday. I can say I'd have intervened as well. I'm a big guy and a haymaker to the temple has stopped many fights quickly. But with a knife and a stick involved, it may have been too dangerous to resort to fists. I think Anthony and Travis did the right thing. At least Bogue didn't wind up with his throat slashed...

The '08 jokes apply equally to Bakersfield.

 How can anyone respect some guy who pounds on a woman or a child -- anyone who's smaller?  It's notable that these "big" guys don't pick on people bigger than they are.  Why?  Because they have yellow streaks down their backs that can't be scrubbed off with metal mesh scrubbers and bleach.  Because they are cowards.  Because they don't have the courage of ants or cockroaches.  Because they are stupid.  Because they are lazy.  Because they are afraid.  Because they're afraid of what?  Females.  That's what.  Scared of girls.  Scared right out of their paltry helpings of wits.  Scaredy-cats.   That's why they need to get put into general population of prison.  So they can learn what it's like to be pounded on by somebody bigger and better. 

The truth will "out."  Justice will prevail.  How could any self-respecting person stand by and do nothing while a woman was being beaten possibly to death?

There is a fine line between saving someone and vigilante justice. I can't say from the information that has been released if that line was crossed in this case, but that is probably the motivation for the arrests and investigation. The question that needs to be answered is did these guys just do what was needed to save the woman and prevent harm to themselves or did they cross the line into vigilantism and continued to beat the attacker after he was subdued. Right now, there's not enough information to answer that question.

For all you whiners, consider this. Frequently the cops have to use force to subdue a suspect. That is allowed by law, just like what these two guys did. But when the cops use excessive force, they get fired and or charged with a crime. If these guys would have stopped once the guy was subdued, they would be fine. But they went overboard. They got what they deserved.

I hope a lawyer in town offers to represent the two guys who got arrested for protecting the woman. The lawyer could argue that the men were acting in a heat of passion because they were so disturbed by the attack, which would probably reduce the charges.

OB,

Since the guy got knocked out, they clearly went overboard.

I think the real question is, was he knocked out intentionaly? Did the good samaritans do it with malice? I dont think they did.

Thats why we have a justice system where the lawyer will prove them innocent because there wasnt any malice behind there attack :)

hot, these guys WILL get lawyers, at the taxpayers expense. They are called Public Pretenders. (Oops, I meant defenders).

And anselma, the news reports said they used a stick to beat him. That's called assault with a deadly weapon.