Prosthetic Arm Stolen by Kids
6:26A man claims a 15-year-old boy and his friend ripped off his prosthetic arm and escaped. The boy's father defuses his threat to confront them at the park before the caller reveals the prank.
Transcript
149 linesHello.
Hello, I'm trying to reach Phillips.
Uh yeah, that's this is Phillip.
Hey, how you doing?
What who's this?
Are you a Phillip uh is that who you are?
Yes, this is Phillip.
Okay, you is Derry is Derrick's your son?
Do you know what Darius?
Okay, calm down.
Yes.
Okay, my son.
Okay, calm down, first of all.
Is your son there is he there at the house right now?
Okay, that okay, that's not the issue.
What the issue W what what do you what do you need, sir?
My name is Burns, okay?
And I live two streets old from y'all.
Do your son play with a boy named Tim or Timmy?
Yep, they they they grew up together, they play ball together.
That that's where they are now.
They play ball right now.
What they playing ball at right now?
I need to know where they at.
Let me tell you something.
What you need to know where they at for and what you what you finna do.
What is the problem?
My that boy Darius and Pim come they they they was d walking up my street today and came over here.
I have a I have a prosthetic arm.
My right arm is prosthetic.
And they know hold hold hold hold on a second, hold on.
You say you got a prosthetic arm.
Yes, I do.
My right arm is a prosthetic arm.
And them boys came over.
Your boy and that boy Tim came over here and pulled my arm off of me and ran down the street with it.
Hold on a second.
Hold on a second.
Hold on a second.
I'm telling you that I don't know what I didn't know nothing about no basketball.
They didn't came and took my prosthetic arm off of me.
Okay, hold on a second.
Oh, hold on a second.
Let me tell you something.
That don't sound like what what something my son would do.
Okay.
I know exactly what they do and where they're going at all times.
And that's not something that they would do.
I'm sick of parents talking about what they kids will do and won't do.
You don't know what they do when they ain't with y'all.
I'm glad you told me that they at the park, because I'm gonna go right over here to this park now.
And if when I find them, I'm gonna whoop and get my d all back.
Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on a second.
Hold on.
Just hold everything.
Okay, hold on a second now, because you done said that you won't go do something that I know you don't really mean.
All right.
I mean exactly what I'm saying.
They got my d all.
How you think it feels?
Sir, sir, okay, look, let's try to keep this respectful, all right?
All right.
You say they got your arm, right?
How about this?
Say they got your arm when you go on to go get my boys, okay.
First of all, I will meet you at the park.
All right, I will meet you at the park, and we're gonna talk to the talk about this situation like like gentlemen, okay.
Ain't no ain't no need for me to go down there and start messing with youngsters, okay?
All right, that's what we're gonna do.
Tell the youngster the girl got my arm.
They got my arm, sir.
With all due respect, okay, you're talking about my son, and I know what he is capable of doing and what he's not gonna do.
And he don't disrespect don't older people like that, especially with somebody with it with an impairment or disablement or whatever you got.
I'm sorry about your arm.
I'm trying to help.
I'm at I'm trying, I'm gonna ask you a question.
Do you not think taking somebody's arm is disrespectful?
That's disrespectful to take a old man's arm and run down the street.
Disrespectful, but what it what is not, what is not disrespectful also is you telling me you're gonna go up there and whoop my son's and that's not gonna happen.
Okay, that's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna f son up as soon as I get over here to this park.
Okay, hold on a second, sir.
You gonna do what to my son?
I'm gonna f son up as soon as I get to this park and the same pivot that's with it.
Because they took my arm and they know they did it.
I'm gonna f Okay, look, let me tell you something.
You don't call me up disrespecting me and threatening my son.
Do you know who you're talking to?
I'll tell you what you do.
I tell you what you do.
And just read on my son wrong, okay?
Say his name wrong, okay?
Say it.
And then I'll I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna take your other arm, but I'm gonna beat it.
Hey, you know, you tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
I don't think don't think I can't whoop with this one arm, because I'm dead.
I whoop you and your son with this one arm.
I'll promise you that.
Okay, come on in the family.
I'm gonna
know what your life because you can't find your arm, you ain't got no sense, and you over here f with the wrong thing.
People's family, all right.
You don't know you don't know what happened to my arm.
You don't know how I lost my arm.
You don't know what happened.
You quiet?
You know, you don't know what happened to my arm.
Why is you crying?
Let me ask you something, Mr.
Sensitive.
What what's the f problem?
You don't know what you don't know how I lost the arm.
You don't know how I lost it.
I don't know how you lost your arm.
Really?
I don't give a f my arm.
I don't know who got your arm.
My son ain't got your arm.
No, you're sorry.
He don't.
He don't he don't have my arm.
Tommy, Tommy got my arm.
Who got your arm?
Tommy got it.
Tommy.
Tommy got it.
Tommy the one got the arm.
Yo, who the five, man?
Tommy, man.
Nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show, man.
Your son Darius, 15 year old, got me the prank phone call you.
God.
Oh my God.
Oh.
Yo, man.
Yo.
Yo, he called you Tony.
Tony on punishment.
I knew he wasn't gonna do nothing.
You don't punch it double time now.
Oh man, you alright?
Y'all something else.
Oh man.
Hey man, I gotta ask you, man.
What's the what's the baddest, and I mean the baddest radio show in the land.
The Steve Harvey morning show.
You already know, baby.