Ervin Brittnacher is loved and missed by family and friends. To learn more, here is a media report that tells you how spunky and loved, he is. This was
From three years prior to missing. Since this media report, he has suffered with Azheimer's and dementia.
From the NYPost:
An armed intruder apparently high on bath salts proved to be poor competition for a 79-year-old retired cowboy who defended his home with a “good old” karate chop.
Smith, seemingly disoriented and speaking incoherently, barged into the farmhouse early Monday morning looking for his girlfriend.
“I didn’t know whether to be scared or feel sorry for him,” said Brittnacher, who knocked the intruder off his feet with a swift “chop” to his throat.
The elderly man then punched Smith right below his ribs, a place the Brittnacher says when struck makes you not able to “think good for a good while.”
“And all of a sudden, he decided he didn’t want to do this anymore,” Brittnacher, a member of the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, added.
Once Smith calmed down, Brittnacher let him walk around the farmhouse, adorned with photographs of the 79-year-old’s former bull riding days and guns Brittnacher uses to ward off coyotes.
Ervin Brittnacher, a member of the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, is a former bull rider.
Police who arrested Smith on the scene said they were surprised by how well Brittnacher handled the situation.
“He was so calm,” League City Police Department Sgt. Tamara Spencer told the Daily News. “He said to me, ‘You know, I used to own a nightclub, and I know it’s not a good idea to talk to a man with a gun, so I just took it from him.”
“He’s something,” Spencer added. “They don’t make them like that anymore.”
Smith, who is currently being held at Galveston County Jail on $40,000 bond, was nabbed on charges of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit assault.
Spencer said that while they would need to toxicology tests to confirm, Smith “displayed all the signs” of being high on bath salts.
“He was talking in fifty different directions,” she explained. “At one point while I was patting him down, he said, “That’s my dad’s eyeball in my pocket right?”
Mark Brittnacher, the elderly man’s son, says he’s surprised his father didn’t do any more damage.
“I figured he would hurt him worse,” Mark told KHOU, adding that his dad is “not someone to mess with.”
“Nicest man you’d ever want to meet. Do anything for you. But you don’t want to cross him, push him around. He ain’t going to put up with that.”
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