MTBLover
06-20-07, 06:09 PM
This is some story (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070620/ap_on_re_us/crash_assault)!!!! Is this a great country, or what :eek:
Foo - All I can say is Holy Cow
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EJ123
06-20-07, 06:24 PM
That's horrible.
SingingSabre
06-20-07, 08:05 PM
That's horrible.
HigherGround
06-20-07, 09:03 PM
Appalling.
Cypress
06-20-07, 09:34 PM
That's horrible.
chrisvu05
06-20-07, 09:37 PM
That's horrible.
mob mentality is scary....
mob mentality is scary....
polara426sh
06-20-07, 09:38 PM
I read about this earlier today. It makes me sad.
Cypress
06-20-07, 09:42 PM
mob mentality is scary....
I love lamp.
I love lamp.
glenng
06-20-07, 09:59 PM
I love lamp.
God no, it smells like, like a used diaper... filled with... Indian food.
God no, it smells like, like a used diaper... filled with... Indian food.
TexasGuy
06-20-07, 10:01 PM
Haha. No wonder.
x136
06-20-07, 10:58 PM
Completely justified.
(I kid! I kid! Those people are screwed up in the head something fierce.)
(I kid! I kid! Those people are screwed up in the head something fierce.)
Serendipper
06-20-07, 11:50 PM
Haha. No wonder.
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This is tragic, and so is your usual flippant response.
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This is tragic, and so is your usual flippant response.
Serendipper
06-20-07, 11:53 PM
mob mentality is scary....
...and has nothing to do with race.
A mob is exactly that...a mob. Humans without social responsibility. After all, we hold the beast in check in the name of society. Once society becomes the beast, all bets are off.
...and has nothing to do with race.
A mob is exactly that...a mob. Humans without social responsibility. After all, we hold the beast in check in the name of society. Once society becomes the beast, all bets are off.
Siu Blue Wind
06-21-07, 12:17 AM
People are frikken nuts.
Viceroy
06-21-07, 01:13 AM
Wow... So Lord of the Flies COULD happen in real life!
ravenmore
06-21-07, 08:43 AM
My town - just flippin' great. Still thinking of moving here Cypress? ... :(
snowy
06-21-07, 08:59 AM
How sad. People never cease to amaze me. :(
Caspar_s
06-21-07, 04:47 PM
My dad nearly had that happen to him.
Back when Zimbabwe was still Rhodesia, he was an insurance agent. He used to drive all around the place checking on stores for insurance claims or policies. One evening, I am not sure he saw the actual accident or just saw the kid on the side of the road, anyway, he looked around and couldn't see anyone, so he picked him up and took him to the hospital. Of course, this being 1970's in Rhodesia, he had to take him to the black hospital. He walked in and told them to look after the kid. They took him into the surgery where they'd just finished working on someone, and put the kid down on the table. Without cleaning it. Nice blood soaked table.
So my dad, who seems to be a bit like me objects a bit and then staggers to the door and passes out in the hall. He comes to after a while with people just walking around him, finds out the kid has had his leg or arm set, picks him up and takes him back to the car and back to where the accident was.
There is now a huge crowd of rather angry people who are looking for the kid. He gets out with the kid (covered in blood and now with a cast on his arm or leg). They go nuts as he is trying to explain that it wasn't him who hit him. Luckily a madala hobbles up with his walking stick, and verified the story - he had been up on the hill under a tree, and had seen the accident, and then dad drive up and take the kid off, and had started walking down to let them know.
Back when Zimbabwe was still Rhodesia, he was an insurance agent. He used to drive all around the place checking on stores for insurance claims or policies. One evening, I am not sure he saw the actual accident or just saw the kid on the side of the road, anyway, he looked around and couldn't see anyone, so he picked him up and took him to the hospital. Of course, this being 1970's in Rhodesia, he had to take him to the black hospital. He walked in and told them to look after the kid. They took him into the surgery where they'd just finished working on someone, and put the kid down on the table. Without cleaning it. Nice blood soaked table.
So my dad, who seems to be a bit like me objects a bit and then staggers to the door and passes out in the hall. He comes to after a while with people just walking around him, finds out the kid has had his leg or arm set, picks him up and takes him back to the car and back to where the accident was.
There is now a huge crowd of rather angry people who are looking for the kid. He gets out with the kid (covered in blood and now with a cast on his arm or leg). They go nuts as he is trying to explain that it wasn't him who hit him. Luckily a madala hobbles up with his walking stick, and verified the story - he had been up on the hill under a tree, and had seen the accident, and then dad drive up and take the kid off, and had started walking down to let them know.
merider1
06-21-07, 04:57 PM
Yes, well, forget the mob mentality, and explain the sick mentality of this group: http://www.knbc.com/news/13544399/detail.html
I swear, I'm never reading the news again this made me so sick to my stomach. I hope that little 11-year-old recovers from the emotional scars he is bound to have for life. :(
I swear, I'm never reading the news again this made me so sick to my stomach. I hope that little 11-year-old recovers from the emotional scars he is bound to have for life. :(
Serendipper
06-21-07, 05:19 PM
My dad nearly had that happen to him.
Not that your article is purposely biased being set in Rhodesia, but this type of thing (mob attacks, vigilante justice) is an unfortunate fact of human history, no matter the location.
Especially when women and children are involved. People* feel the instinctive need to protect the herd, and will kill with impunity.
Fact.
*Actually all mammals behave this way.
Not that your article is purposely biased being set in Rhodesia, but this type of thing (mob attacks, vigilante justice) is an unfortunate fact of human history, no matter the location.
Especially when women and children are involved. People* feel the instinctive need to protect the herd, and will kill with impunity.
Fact.
*Actually all mammals behave this way.