North Tampa rioting in 6 to 8 months!

[gofaster]

I can tell you right now, I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of the homes in that area had more than 1 firearm in them.

[lazs2]

gofaster... the homes won't be looted/burned.  it will be the downtown areas where there is nothing to protect your property but the...... government.

lazs

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Ever notice how riots usually occur in locations where the local law enforcement isnt very accepting of armed citizens?

Silly comparison. Riots occurr in urban areas. The correlation is to the number of people, not their access to firearms. If a riot happens in rural South Dakota it's called a fistfight.

[gofaster]

Won't be downtown either.  That part of town has strip malls and black neighborhoods.  If there's looting, it'll be the local Target and Wal-Mart, discount clothing stores, tire shops, self-storage warehouses, and her dance studio.

That's assuming, of course, the rioters don't drive the 5 miles up the road to hit the white neighborhoods and golf-course homes.

[Eagler]

they wouldn't get far - this isn't miami or LA, too many good ole boys

US41 to 30th st
Fletcher to Skipper Rd - throw in the todd for good measure

best thing that could happen to that area is for it to be burned down

don't know what happened, in 77 when I was "studying" at USF it was nothing but college kids in cheap apts/food joints

moved back in 83 and had to kick in my SA whenever had to run calls after dark up there..heck the zombies didnt make it outside until after dark, guess they were just waking up from the crackrock nite b4

[gofaster]

Yeah, the only store in that area worth a hoot is Z-doc's Nissan 240/260/280/300ZX repair depot.  And maybe the McDonald's.

[Bodhi]

Originally posted by gofaster
And the Lightning are in the play-offs.  Of course, in NHL hockey just about every team goes into the play-offs.

I hardly call 16 of 30 teams the entire league...  learn the sport before you critisize it.

[lazs2]

well... it still doesn't seem fair..... the government should use tax money to subsidize riots in rural areas..

We allways get left out of the fun.

lazs

[Yeager]

those kids might have been playing a game of "Dodge the Car".

That would be my preferred defense in similar situation.

OH MY COD!

[storch]

Eagler said "this isn't miami or L.A."  In 1980  black "business man" Arthur McDuffie was shot and killed by Miami Police attempting to flee arrest.

 the Policemen involved in the shooting 4 white 1 black were all found innocent by a mixed race jury.  

the verdict touched off three days of rioting, looting and burning (in the black community).  That area (liberty city, model city & brownsville) has never rebounded.  many national companies that provided jobs in the area never returned after the fires.  

when a group of thugs attempted to cross the railroad tracks over to where we lived and continue the festivities they were persuaded to turn around and burn eastward by concerned neigbors.  from as far south as okeechobee road (US 27) to NW 135th street roughly along the "border"  were citizens of all races, hanging out at the corners armed, trading stories and watching.  

no homes or businesses were damaged west of NW 27th Avenue a clear ten blocks away from the line dividing where on the east side you have a predominantly underpriviledged black neighborhood divided by a warehouse and industrial district from a mixed white/hispanic/black lower middle class neighborhood where i grew up and lived in at the time.  

as a side note many decent black folk in the afflicted areas took white citizens that were caught in the initial rush and physically kept them from being killed by the thugs.  I can't recall the number of innocents that were dragged from their vehicles and brutally murdered that day.  their only crime was they were not black.  the elderly grandparents of a friend were beaten beyond recognition and dragged through the streets in a scene reminiscent of "blackhawk down".  

good ol' boys ain't the only ones that will step up to the plate come defense time eagler.

[gofaster]

The pot is starting to boil.

Wilkins has rejected assertions that the case against Porter has been influenced by racial issues - Porter is white, and Wilkins' family is black.

Her message was lost on Linda Edwards, a Tampa woman who drove to the Orient Road Jail on Wednesday morning after seeing TV reports that Porter was jailed.

When Porter was released, Edwards ran up to her and began yelling. Porter kept her head down and eyes averted. She did not respond.

``I came down here to get some answers, and I wanted her to know that I am one black woman who is very angry, and there are thousands of others just like me,'' Edwards said.

Inmates also yelled at Porter as she went through the booking process, said Latrease Milton, 24, of Tampa, who bailed out of jail on a marijuana possession charge about the same time Porter was in the booking area.

``It's about time you showed up here,'' Milton quoted the other inmates saying.

[lazs2]

"latresse"?  LOL..

dam it! we never have any good riots here.    Riot zombies are pretty good.. they move quickly and in packs but are easily scattered..... bad side is that they can use primitive tools like clubs and have discovered fire.. they are also very noisy...

plus side is that you don't have to hit em in the head to disable em.   Any good torso shot will disable em and scatter those around the stricken zombie.  

Oh well... maybe if we get a basketball team.

lazs

[SunKing]

Originally posted by lazs2
We never have any good riots here in Dixon.

lazs

your cattle stampedes don't count?

[lazs2]

No.. cattle have value.

lazs