I got an email about this earlier today, but now Instantman has the link. I’m not generally in favor of fisticuffs, but knowing Buzz, I’m sure that he had had more than he could reasonably take from this idiot.

Clowns like this, who go around impugning the honor of the men who walked on the Moon, and the men and women who sent them there, have freedom of speech, but it’s distressing that their wacko theories get press attention. Fox network should be ashamed of themselves for ever airing his tripe, and lending it any credence at all.

Unfortunately, the nutball will probably continue to try to press charges for assault. I hope that the Beverly Hills cops ignore him.

[Update at 2:34 PM PDT]

Over at sci.space.policy, Mark Whittington notes that it brings a whole new meaning to Ralph Kramden’s old lines from The Honeymooners, “One of these days, Alice, one of these days. I hope they like your little jokes on the Moon, because that’s where you’re gonna be going. Bang, Zoom!”

[Another update at 5 PM]

A couple of the folks at this forum (thanks to Alan Boyle for the link) have a great idea.

If the case goes to trial, Buzz should just claim that it’s all a hoax, and that it never actually happened. It’s not physically possible for a seventy-two-year-old man to deck a much younger man like that.

You say there’s video evidence? Faked in a sound studio, with an artificial fist…