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Sentenced: Gerald McCants Can Lead His 78YO Father To A Cliff & Push Him Over

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A 78-year-old man in Texas is recovering after his son shoved him off a cliff Sunday, police say.

Gerald McCants, 49, left the family home in the morning and returned a short time later, beckoning his 78-year-old father to go with him to see a rattlesnake he’d found.

McCants drove the two of them a half-mile from their Austin home and stopped along the road, KVUE reported. Police said McCants lured his father to a cliff several yards from the road explaining that the snake was down below.
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When the man peeked over the edge of the cliff to see the snake, McCants shoved him off, police said, according to the Austin American-Statesman. He fell an estimated 40 feet and landed in dense brush, the outlet reported.

The man told police he heard McCants laughing as he fell, according to KXAN.

When medics arrived, they initially thought the man only had minor injuries, but after retrieving him declared a trauma alert and rushed him to an area hospital, Austin-Travis County EMS wrote in a Twitter post.
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McCants was arrested and charged with injury to an elderly person, the Statesman reported. His bail was set at $20,000.
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Babs said:
"McCants was arrested and charged with injury to an elderly person, the Statesman reported. His bail was set at $20,000."

Sounded more like attempted murder.
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People can perish by falling in their kitchen, or on a sidewalk!
Pushed? a 78 year old? 40 feet? Laughing?

The proffered and accepted invitation to travel some distance by car to view a common poisonous snake that is no threat to the household has me puzzled though...I don't think I could lure someone or be lured to go see a rattlesnake. Just odd.
 
Gerald McCants pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in a parish jail alongside a $300 fine following his arrest for a domestic incident in 2020. [1]

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In March 2020, the then 49-year-old Austin, Texas resident was initially arrested and charged with third-degree felony injury to an elderly person. According to the Austin Police Department arrest affidavit, McCants tricked his 78-year-old father into driving to a West Austin greenbelt under the guise of looking at a rattlesnake. Once they neared the edge, McCants shoved his father off a steep 40-foot cliff, laughing as he fell.

 
McCants drove the two of them a half-mile from their Austin home and stopped along the road, KVUE reported. Police said McCants lured his father to a cliff several yards from the road explaining that the snake was down below.

Uh huh... 78yo... balance a little off... climbed in the car... memory a little off...

Something says, "It's your time to go!"
 
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