Marine stops rape by screaming

[DeanC]

Marine’s scream halts rape
By JOE MOLLICA and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN

Posted: 1:28 AM, September 29, 2011

A Marine vet who served five years in Iraq and Afghanistan saved a woman from a would-be rapist in Queens yesterday morning -- scaring him off with a jarhead scream.

Brian Teichman was dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at her babysitter near the Cross Island Parkway and 148th Street in Whitestone at around 9 a.m. when he spotted the hulking man force his victim over a guardrail and into a deserted, wooded area.

“It was 100 percent instinct as a Marine that the situation didn’t look right,” said Teichman. “I looked down and I saw him straddling her and he had his hand over her mouth and he was trying to rip her shirt off.

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[ComradeBurg]

In space no one can hear you scream... unless it is the battle cry of the United States Marines!

The jarhead scream has untold power.

[samginko]

You can't graduate from the boot camp without perfecting your war cry.

Also, no one is allowed to call the Marines jarhead, except the squids.

[Stradawhovious]

It would have been better if the headline read "Marine stops rape by decapitation"

But either way, good on this guy for stepping up to the plate.

[David]

No one "needs" a full-power assault scream. They should be banned before someone gets hurt.