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RipVanWinkle
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Another Student Shot
#7474805 - 10/01/07 05:41 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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So a student at The University of Memphis was shot last night. We didn't have class today due to it.
The victim was a black football player, and from what I've heard it wasn't just some random shooting, he just gave someone a reason to shoot him so they did. I feel bad for the dude, but at the same time there are so many people murdered in Memphis every day that they stopped reporting all of them. I don't guess this one's any different than the rest besides the fact that this one happened at the campus. Its a shame...
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Alion



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that sucks
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: Alion]
#7474825 - 10/01/07 05:48 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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what happened to just kicking the shit out of each other and thats it
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God Memphis is shit.
It's like a petri dish for scum. Like any major metropolis, it has it's crackheads, but it's also in the south, so somewhere along the line the crackheads started breeding with their cousins and boom, the 'niiine-oh-uuun' was born.
I mean some parts are nice, but for the most part it's seriously nasty bad.
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RandalFlagg
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Memphis sounds like such a godforsaken shithole ghetto.
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RipVanWinkle
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7474861 - 10/01/07 05:57 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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RandalFlagg said: Memphis sounds like such a godforsaken shithole ghetto.
It is. I'm fortunate enough to live in the county adjacent to memphis, out in the country. The people aren't violent out here, but there are definitely some "Yew shore dew gotta purdy mouf!" type folks out here. And driving in memphis.... fuuuuuck! Memphis drivers are worse than any other big city I've been in!
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7474862 - 10/01/07 05:57 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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it is.
*shudder*
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RandalFlagg
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Is it worse than Detroit? Shit..it can't be worse than Detroit.
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RipVanWinkle
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Have you ever lived in Memphrica?
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I get this feeling that shootings happen at colleges a lot more than we think, but because of the VT tragedy, a lot more light gets shed on them now.
That said, a friend of mine was robbed at gun point the other day. Granted, this wasn't on campus... but it was close.
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: Gumby]
#7474883 - 10/01/07 06:02 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well, given where you live are you surprised?
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: Gumby]
#7474895 - 10/01/07 06:05 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just had four friends that go to UNF, as they were leaving campus they sparked up a blunt. Apparently this guy smelled it and decided 4 high white kids were an easy target. He followed them to their destination, got out and put a chrome colt .45 in their drivers window and said, "Give me all your wallets and all your drugs or ill shoot every last one of you "
That was like 6 miles from campus. I'm glad I moved away from Jacksonville, I live out west now. It's the same way there, the police have tried to make great strides in making reporting murders anonymous because as it was reported only 35% of the murders were even being phoned in, even after the bodies were laying in the streets for some time. This is all in fear of the Northside and Westside gangs. Shit where I lived at the beach which is the nicest area, there was sounds of automatic gunfire quite frequently.
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RipVanWinkle
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: Gumby]
#7474912 - 10/01/07 06:09 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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A friend of my dad's was driving down a fairly busy road in Memphis about a month ago with his windows down at 11 PM and came to a stoplight. He stopped and looked out his right window at something, and when he turned back around there was a man standing next to his car swinging a knife in through the window at his neck. He blocked it with his hand and drove off but it cut down to the bone.
Another man that he worked with was executed in his home about 6 months ago, tied to a chair and shot through the back of the head. And this was in a "good" neighborhood.
My grandparents used to live right near the University of Memphis campus and would get phone calls from the police station almost weekly informing them of known gang related killings in their immediate area.
It's a pretty fuckin scary place... "13th Most Dangerous City in the US"
I hate this place...
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7474914 - 10/01/07 06:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well, I've been here for a year and that hasn't happened to anyone that I've talked to. A few of my friends have been told "give me all your money, I have a gun/knife," but when they never showed it my friends told them to fuck off and walked away.
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: Gumby]
#7474932 - 10/01/07 06:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Call me a racist but I'm so damn glad that I don't live around black people. I can walk around my neighborhood at 4 in the morning and nothing will happen to me.
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7474947 - 10/01/07 06:18 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ok, racist.
I have a buddy that comes from a town that is all hispanic people. You and I are probably more likely to get stabbed and robbed there than here. He won't even walk the streets after 12 because of all the gang activity.
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: Gumby]
#7474952 - 10/01/07 06:20 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've heard that Hispanic gang activity is bad.
Well, it's hard not to be racist when my city is 25% black yet they account for 95% of the homicides. Whenever there is a shooting...guess where it happens? It ain't in the white neighborhoods.
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7474957 - 10/01/07 06:22 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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The store owner in my town (mind you we only have one store) was just shot in the head about a week ago as well as a woman that works there. I'm black and I'm scared of these crazy black folks now. The fact that people just kill now to live up to this "thug" mentality is sickening.
RIP to that football player though, that sucks.
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7474961 - 10/01/07 06:23 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I may be a bit racist at time, I admit it. I don't WANT to be racist, but I'm forced to be by the experiences I've had around here. Every time I drive into Memphis I feel like I'm goin on a safari into the wild concrete jungles of Memphrica.
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Re: Another Student Shot [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7474969 - 10/01/07 06:25 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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RandalFlagg said: I've heard that Hispanic gang activity is bad.
Well, it's hard not to be racist when my city is 25% black yet they account for 95% of the homicides. Whenever there is a shooting...guess where it happen? It ain't in the white neighborhoods.
I hear ya man. I'm sure alot of my college friends were the same way until they met me. It's a shame really.
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