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2014-09-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-

100 angry youth go on rampage at Memphis shopping center

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-09 00:36|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 So, were there any physical or social traits these youths had in common?

Posted by ed in texas 2014-09-09 07:48|| 2014-09-09 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 I blame Obama and Holder.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-09 08:42|| 2014-09-09 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama has a big family, these are all his sons.

Posted by AlanC 2014-09-09 09:25|| 2014-09-09 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Long past time for a whiff of grapeshot

Posted by DarthVader 2014-09-09 09:45|| 2014-09-09 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 not again.... dunno what the solution is. very difficult

Posted by anon1 2014-09-09 10:32|| 2014-09-09 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 The arrest? was it of a pale bystander taking videos?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2014-09-09 10:57|| 2014-09-09 10:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Need to check the water for Naegleria germs.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-09-09 12:52|| 2014-09-09 12:52|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-09 14:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-09 14:46|| Front Page Top

#10 "angry youth"?? "feral yoof" is a far more accurate term.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-09-09 15:41|| 2014-09-09 15:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-09 16:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-09 16:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Sounds like NOLA LowSpark. Is it the river effect?

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-09 17:26|| 2014-09-09 17:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-09 18:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-09 21:49|| Front Page Top

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