(November 22, 2014 at 6:00 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Just in case someone's thinking of jumping in to pass judgement on Aldrin's 'over-reaction', a little background.
The receiver of the smack in the mouth is Bart Sibrel, cab driver, conspiracy theorist and <ahem> "investigative journalist", who believes that all six Lunar landings were faked. His MO is to follow the astronauts around, usually shoving a bible in their faces and getting them to swear on it, and provoking them to retaliate so he can 'expose' them. In the above case, Sibrel had been following Aldrin and his granddaughter (iirc) around allthat afternoon, calling him a liar to his face and being a nuisance. Buzz asked him repeatedly to go away and leave them alone; Sibrel ignored him. He deserved everything he got - I'd have done the same and I've never been to the Moon. Well, except in the space sim Orbiter.
Wow, I'm impressed that you know (or have researched) about a dude who got punched in the face 10 years ago.