Beer Truck AttackedBy Shelley Walcott

MILWAUKEE – A bizarre scene at the corner of 27th and Wells Friday afternoon:Dozens of beer cans were scattered across the busy north side intersection. It was the result of beer delivery man Anthony Teague’s encounter with a stranger.Teague was making his weekly beer delivery to a convenience store when a man with a metal pipe came up to him and ordered Teague to stop making the delivery. The man said the beer was “poisoning” his neighborhood.”He told my helper to get the beer back in the truck or he’s going to come back with 10 guys and tear the beer up,” Teague said.Teague went ahead and started unloading the stacks of beer. And that’s when the suspect started smashing cans with his metal pip.While Teague was distracted by the suspect, a crowd of 75 to 100 people started looting his truck, running off with cans of beer.And as that was all happening, the suspect took a seat on the corner, and waited for police to arrive.Teague started talking to him, “I was talking to him and I said, ‘I understand where you’re coming from, that you feel we’re poisoning your neighborhood, but this was the wrong way to go about it. So he waited for the cops to come and arrest him. And they arrested him and took him away.”The 32-year-old suspect is in police custody.No one was hurt during this afternoon’s incident.