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| 100 angry youth go on rampage at Memphis shopping center |
| 2014-09-09 |
| One arrest was made. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 I spent some time there working for a tech company quite a few years ago. Loved the place (or most of it). Try to get back there every couple years for a visit (although the Rendezvous isn't as good as I remember it used to be). Neely's Interstate is still there (and great) and the Peabody/Beale St. is still pretty cool. They have cleaned up the downtown quite a bit (takes a bit of the fun out of it, though). I do notice a big middle-class shift across the border into Southaven, Nesbit and Horn Lake areas in MS. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-09-09 21:49 |
| #14 It's a lot like New Orleans, Ship. With only some minor differences, they are practically identical cousins. |
| Posted by: Lowspark 2014-09-09 18:25 |
| #13 Sounds like NOLA LowSpark. Is it the river effect? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-09-09 17:26 |
| #12 Now the rainman gave me two cures Then he said, “Jump right in” The one was Texas medicine The other was just railroad gin An’ like a fool I mixed them An’ it strangled up my mind An’ now people just get uglier An’ I have no sense of time Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-09-09 16:56 |
| #11 Memphis is a strange town with regard to the "nice" parts. One can be in a nice neighborhood with $3-500,000 homes. Walk two streets over and be in a slum. It's like someone took a shotgun, fired at a map of the city and said, "this is where the nice neighborhoods will be." More accuratly the nice parts within the city proper are where wagons were circled and people refused to allow the blight to completely sweep through. I used to own a house across Poplar Ave. from this Kroger. It is a nice neighborhood as mentioned above. U of Memphis college students, young married couples starting out and older/retired professionals. Go across Poplar and you're in the hood. Some parts are safer than others but nowhere in Memphis is truly safe. The criminal element is highly mobile both on foot and vehicle born. Much ado about nothing. It's only a little workplace violence. |
| Posted by: Lowspark 2014-09-09 16:40 |
| #10 "angry youth"?? "feral yoof" is a far more accurate term. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-09-09 15:41 |
| #9 Obama has a big family, these are all his sons. Also a number of daughters can be seen in the video. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-09-09 14:46 |
| #8 The attacks happened in a relatively nice area of Memphis. Lots of college students and upper middle-class families. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-09-09 14:00 |
| #7 Need to check the water for Naegleria germs. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-09-09 12:52 |
| #6 The arrest? was it of a pale bystander taking videos? |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2014-09-09 10:57 |
| #5 not again.... dunno what the solution is. very difficult |
| Posted by: anon1 2014-09-09 10:32 |
| #4 Long past time for a whiff of grapeshot |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-09-09 09:45 |
| #3 Obama has a big family, these are all his sons. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-09-09 09:25 |
| #2 I blame Obama and Holder. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-09 08:42 |
| #1 So, were there any physical or social traits these youths had in common? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-09-09 07:48 |