Y’all don’t mess with Bellamy and Mazzetti. Anybody in Houston, Texas, can tell you that—especially anybody on the wrong side of the law. You don’t mess with Bellamy and Mazzetti.
You've seen some of those cop shows on television where a couple of tough officers are teamed up. Well, those prime-time policemen are nothing compared to Bellamy and Mazzetti. They have no rivals in toughness.
For a while, Bellamy and Mazzetti were the best-kept secret in Houston, but not anymore. Their sudden celebrity relates to a recent incident on Uvalde Street, outside a restaurant called Pancho’s Mexican Buffet.
On the evening of last April 20th, three men were fighting out there, and police were summoned to break up the brawl. One of the three roughnecks fled, and two officers pursued him. That left a couple of husky brawlers at the scene and only one patrolman: Officer Jim Whitley.
Two to one, in favor of the bad guys.
Well, there was no hesitation in the street battle, no interruption in the fighting. But instead of slugging each other, the two ruffians suddenly turned on Officer Jim. Before the policeman could draw his gun, he was down and dazed, gasping from a blow to the stomach. At once, his world was an arena of pain.
The men continued striking Officer Jim with their fists, hitting him hard in the face, and then they started kicking him in the head. On the verge of unconsciousness, he cried out, "Oh God, please help me."
Well, God sent help. Somebody did.
Bellamy and Mazzetti.
The attackers had not seen Bellamy and Mazzetti striding up toward them until it was too late. One of the combatants had reached for the downed officer's gun. Bellamy jammed it back into its holster.
By now, some children had gathered on the sidewalk to watch. Mazzetti calmly ushered them into Pancho’s Restaurant, out of the way. What was going to happen to these two cop-beaters was no sight for a youngster.
Then, Bellamy and Mazzetti went to work on the brawlers. And I mean, they worked them over well. They were still punishing those fellas when reinforcements arrived. Officer Jim was rushed to the hospital, and the bad guys were relieved to be arrested and out of the clutches of Bellamy and Mazzetti.
Now, attempted capital murder of a police officer is a serious charge; a convicted offender can go to jail for a very long time. Yet, whatever the legal punishment, Bellamy and Mazzetti had something worse in mind.
Incidentally, they have since been honored by the Hundred Club of Houston. They were presented with framed certificates of honor and a couple of checks—five thousand dollars each—because, after all, they’d saved a policeman’s life.
"It was nothing," say Bellamy and Mazzetti. "Nothing any concerned citizen wouldn't have done."
But then, Bellamy and Mazzetti are not really police officers. Bellamy and Mazzetti are employees of Pancho’s Restaurant: Joy Bellamy and Gail Mazzetti—waitresses.
And now you know the rest of the story.
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