It's not there anymore, but if you visited the Drudgereport sometime in the last 24 hours or so you probably recognize the picture to the right of Curtis Michael Allgier. Allgier is the freakishly-tattooed white-supremacist skinhead who escaped police custody yesterday in Salt Lake City while visiting the University of Utah's Orthopedic Center for an MRI.

Allgier somehow managed to wrest the gun from the 60 year-old corrections officer accompanying him to the hospital, shot him dead, and then led police on a high-speed chase through the city, eventually ending at an Arby's.

Stop for a minute and think about how you'd react if you were sitting there eating a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich at 8:25 in the morning and this monster comes tearing into the parking lot in a blue SUV and hops out with a loaded gun. What would you do?

If you're Eric Fullerton, you run outside and body slam the tattooed maniac, despite the fact he's eight inches taller and twenty-two years younger than you. You heard that right. Fullerton, a 59 year-old military veteran, tackled the 27 year-old Allgiers in the parking lot and wrestled the gun away from him, sustaining a neck wound in the process that required several stitches.

After returning to the Arby's from the hospital, Fullerton ran into reporters desperate to hear from the hero, but he brushed aside the praise with the kind of modesty we see too little of these days:

"I don't feel like I'm a hero," he said. "I don't know why I did it, I just did what I had to do."

Fullerton drove off, saying he was going back to work.

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