One Punch Changes Tri-State Man's Life Forever

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Updated: 11/14/2012 12:20 pm
A Union Township man said his life has been forever changed after one punch.

Police said a man randomly attacked Donald Cahill at Rong Tan's Bistro and Lounge around 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 30.

He was rushed to the hospital with a broken neck."It's absolute torture and it involved putting my head in traction and which involved drilling into my skull on both sides, while you're awake mind you and then hanging 40 pounds of weights off of your head," said Cahill.

The blow knocked the 42-year-old man unconscious.

"The best way they describe it just one of these big haymaker punches and came up and just out of blue just punched me in the back of the neck, right where the skull meets the neck," according to Cahill.Cahill was on his way to the bathroom when the attack happened.   He had to spend two weeks in the hospital after emergency surgery on a broken neck.

Police said the attack was unprovoked.

There are no leads on the suspect, but Cahill says the man had tattoos on his right forearm and some facial hair.

If you have any information, you're asked to call Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040.

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bcatz - 11/16/2012 12:42 PM
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You should know, you're the star!

Lee62 - 11/16/2012 12:10 PM
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It's the Sybil Show!

dazed - 11/15/2012 11:38 AM
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bcatz- rosey's 9:47 comment. im not hollering, im just sayin. some people are afraid of their own shadow. you cant live like that. get out and have fun. some of the most fun i ever had was dangerous. now, to walk through over the rhine at 2:00 am? nah.... i like to have fun, but im not suicidal. LOL got to agree with your 4:29 comment.

bcatz - 11/14/2012 4:29 PM
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rosey red, sometimes good things happen in the dark.

bcatz - 11/14/2012 4:27 PM
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dazed, I can only speak for myself. I agreed with rosey red because it seems like I was the only one who knew what he meant. I'm not afraid to go out at night. Who compared going out, with over the rhine?, I missed that part. I see nothing wrong with going to a bar. Quit hollering at me :)

rosey red - 11/14/2012 2:28 PM
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Bad things happen in the dark!

dazed - 11/14/2012 1:43 PM
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i think rosey or bcatz just dont think people should go to bars, period. is that it? comparing any "night life" establishment to over the rhine is ridiculous. i dont know where you guys live, but to fear going out at night is crazy. if thats the case you need to move.

TheFacts - 11/14/2012 10:48 AM
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bcatz believe me I get it. By saying if he would have been home in bed it wouldn't have happened IS blaming the victim. How about this. Maybe if the CRIMINAL was home in bed, this wouldn't have happened. The VICTIM did absolutely nothing wrong and had every right to be where ever they wanted without fear of being attacked. Yes that even applies to being in a bar.

rosey red - 11/14/2012 9:47 AM
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Thank you bcatz- it is like somebody walking around in Over the Rhine at 2 am and complain because somebody robbed them and beat then up.

bcatz - 11/14/2012 9:42 AM
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TheFacts- Let me explain, again, for those of you who still don't get what rosey was saying. He didn't mean the victim didn't have the right to be in the bar at 1:30 in the morning. He meant he,rosey red, wouldn't have been in the bar at 1:30 in the morning. I believe that's what he was trying to say. I don't think rosey meant it was the victims fault because he was there. I think he meant he, rosey, wouldn't have been there, therefore it wouldn't have happened to him. That's what I got out of his post.
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