ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A woman who police say sold stones to rioters in Benton Harbor last year and used the money to pay her cable television bill has pleaded no contest to inciting a riot. Yuolanda Taylor, 32, entered the plea Monday in Berrien County Trial Court. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes. She faces up to 10 years in prison. Look at it this way, Yuolonda. You won't have to pay for cable when you're inside.
Taylor was free on bond ahead of a Nov. 15 sentencing, The Herald-Palladium reported. The southwest Michigan city of Benton Harbor was devastated by two nights of rioting sparked by the death of a black motorcyclist during a high-speed police chase. Twenty-one houses, many vacant, were destroyed.
Police said Taylor toted rocks through a riot-wracked neighborhood the night of June 16, 2003, and sold small rocks for $1 each and bigger ones for $5. Prosecutors said the rocks were thrown at police. Rocks here! Get ya rocks here!
Taylor told police she collected about $70 selling rocks, but quit when she got hit by one herself. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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Big media corporations are aligned with Islamic terrorists, so I don't see why this kind of business relationship cannot operate on a smaller scale.
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Ms. Taylor's behavior is outrageous. So is the behavior of the entire community of Benton Harbor--St. Joseph, both black and white. These two cities still look like the Jim Crow days. Benton Harbor is black ghetto and St. Joseph is determinedly white. Racism runs rampant on both sides.
From listening to the comments of my relatives who lived there, I gather that Benton Harbor got the short end of the stick; when black families moved in the blockbuster realtors ("You better get out! The n---s are coming!") followed, the schools were allowed to rot, and white businesses fled, taking jobs with them.
I cringed whenever I heard my great aunt's sincerely expressed fears of "those black people." And it appears that the folks in Benton Harbor are determined to live down to the worst expectations of their white neighbors in St. Joe.
When my cousin in St. Joe died last year, a middle class black family tried to buy his house at the auction. They were the high bid. Instead of accepting the bid, the realtor called a recess, and when they started the bidding again, suprise surprise, the realtor came up with $5000 more to buy the house himself. He then sold it to a white family.
When my elderly cousin from MIlwaukee, who had handled the estate on behalf of the family, told me this, I told her it was outrageous. She looked at me blankly and said, "Well, we have to think of the neighbors."
No, anon et al, nothing in Benton Harbor-St. Joe is funny.
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a middle class black family tried to buy his house at the auction. They were the high bid. Instead of accepting the bid, the realtor called a recess, and when they started the bidding again, suprise surprise, the realtor came up with $5000 more to buy the house himself. He then sold it to a white family.
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You're missing the point of the incident. We need to know whether she had basic service or anotehr package. $70 is an outrageous charge - unless she needed to pay a surcharge to restart the service.... maybe there was a late fee involved
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Any reader who has enjoyed sci-fi flick War of the Worlds will doubtless sympathise with the inhabitants of the Romanian village who legged it en masse when confronted with multicoloured lights in the night sky. Every man, woman and child from the eastern hamlet of Cristinesti took to the hills after convincing themselves that they were about to be invaded by aliens. Local Costel Roman told Romanian daily Adevarul: "Everybody was out on the streets and wondering what to do if the aliens landed. We believed we were seeing UFOs and some old legends from around here about clocks stopping, animals going crazy and a previous UFO landing in the area suddenly came to our minds. We were terrified."
May I suggest www.ready.gov. And some plastic sheeting and duct tape.
Mercifully, the authorities decided to do a quick police investigation before deploying a flying wing bearing nuclear weapons.
Er, is Romania a nuclear power? I never knew...
This proved a good move, since the lights were quickly identified as disco illuminations from the nearby town of Herta. The officers eventually persuaded villagers that the greatest threat they faced was from dodgy eastern European drum'n'bass and that they should return to their homes. Costel Roman summed up the general feeling of relief when he said: "We were so happy when we heard we had escaped an alien invasion."
"But a little bit melancholy, too...I for one was prepared to welcome our new alien overlords."
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Here is some private video from the event proving the country folk weren't quite as delusional as you may think.
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Mercifully, the authorities decided to do a quick police investigation before deploying a flying wing bearing nuclear weapons.
What the hell is Romania doing with a nuke-armed stealth bomber?
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Anytime I find myself in a situation where I could use a good aerial platform with nuclear standoff capability, I go to my neighborhood Rent-a-Nuke dealer. They have everything from 2KT to 20MT, although the selection isn't as good on weekends and holidays. You must be 21 with a major credit card.
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What the hell is Romania doing with a nuke-armed stealth bomber?
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I don't know what's scarier, the disco or the aliens.
Oh, well. At least none of these Romanians mistook their dicks for chicken necks and cut them off while their dogs were hanging around like the other day.
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