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Police: Man shot, killed as he urinated off Wilkinsburg porch
WPXI ^ | September 19, 2012

Posted on 09/19/2012 4:56:01 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

WILKINSBURG, Pa. — Police are investigating an unusual shooting in Wilkinsburg late Tuesday night.

Investigators said the victim was playing dominos with friends on a porch of a home around 11 p.m. when he decided to urinate over a side railing.

According to witnesses, someone below the porch could be heard yelling, "Yo, yo!" Moments later police said several shots were fired striking 35-year-old Roosevelt Robinson, of Wilkinsburg.

Robinson was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.

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To: MamaTexan

Here we go:

“How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.”

—Edward Abbey


21 posted on 09/19/2012 6:01:04 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: servo1969
Wilkinsburg is a suburb of Pittsburgh, a very hilly area. There are places where you can commit suicide by jumping out a basement window. I kid you not.

The locals call Wilkinsburg "We'll-kill-yinz-burg" as it is not considered a very desirable area. My cousin and his wife were going to grad school at Pitt and managed to rent an apartment with about twice the space for less money just two blocks away from Braddock Street which is the eastern boundary between Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg. Such is its reputation even in the areas of the burb considered relatively safe.

22 posted on 09/19/2012 6:28:32 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman
There are places where you can commit suicide by jumping out a basement window.

When I was a kid I had a job cutting grass for a local real estate developer. When they sent us to one particular house they described the lot as "you can stand at the edge of the front yard and take a p*ss on the roof". Always counted my fingers and toes when we wrapped-up there.


23 posted on 09/19/2012 6:32:07 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Urination infuriation...


24 posted on 09/19/2012 6:44:28 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: palmer

Maybe The cop thought that guy was holding a really “Big gun” .


25 posted on 09/19/2012 6:48:33 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Men who will not suffer to self govern, will suffer under the governance of lesser men.)
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To: Bon mots

“He really managed to pi$$ off that guy.”

The saying I’ve heard is “I’d rather be pi$$ed off than pi$$ed on.” Apparently the guy downstairs was both.


26 posted on 09/19/2012 6:52:59 AM PDT by Gil4 (Progressives - Trying to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand since 1848)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Never bring a ____ to a gunfight?


27 posted on 09/19/2012 6:53:49 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Gil4

Sometimes fortune and fate work together to make sure that the paths of two nasty people cross one another, thereby sparing us and the rest of society the unpleasant prospect of encountering them.

The shooter will likely be caught and sent to prison.
The filthy pi$$ freak goes to the big urinal in the sky.

The shallow end of the gene pool effervesces with happiness.


28 posted on 09/19/2012 7:07:12 AM PDT by Bon mots (When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...)
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To: Gil4

This is my pistol,
This is my gun,
This one’s for shooting,
This one’s for urinating off the balcony onto armed folks below...


29 posted on 09/19/2012 7:11:51 AM PDT by Bon mots (When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...)
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To: MamaTexan

Some people don’t like getting pissed on.


30 posted on 09/19/2012 7:27:47 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
LOL! And you're probably still talking about some of the better areas, right?

I have to go to Pittsburgh on business a couple of time per year. My appointments are all within walking distance of downtown, so I take the commuter bus from a local shopping center.

It is $4.50 and back each way which, as you know, hardly pays for parking downtown. The first time I took it, I was really, really nervous and got a 6:30 a.m. bus for an 8:30 a.m. appointment figuring there was no way in hell the bus could meet their scheduled hour or so travel time to downtown with Pittsburgh rush hour traffic being what it is.

To my pleasant surprise, it actually has a great on-time schedule due to traveling most of the distance on special busways which, I am told, were once trolley line rights of way.

If you think Wilkinsburg is a run down third world town from the eye level on the streets, you should see it from the mini-canyons which the busses travel through! I've seen back alleys in Bangkok which were better kept and where urinating and even pooping in the streets is considered normal.

31 posted on 09/19/2012 7:57:19 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Joe 6-pack; servo1969
"What kind of porch are we talking about that someone can be below it? I must have a different idea of what ‘porch’ means."

In a lot of urban areas, "porch" and "balcony" are used interchangeably.

My front porch is about 10 feet off the ground.

It's not in an urban area.

Yes, I've urinated off of it.

32 posted on 09/19/2012 7:57:38 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Vigilanteman

Wilkinsburg was once an important town to the Westinghouse empire. The air brake facility was in nearby Swissvale snd the rest of it was just over the hill in East Pittsburgh. Westinghouse employee Dr. Frank Conrad virtually invented the radio industry, broadcasting from his garage in Wilkinsburg.

Today it is more like a very hilly Detroit. The very first serious gang problems in the Pittsburgh area 25 years ago were centered in Wilkinsburg and in McKees Rocks (hometown of Ohio Gov. Kasich)

Besides, any Pittsburgher can tell you that all the really good public urination is happening on the South Side.


33 posted on 09/19/2012 8:03:03 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: layman

Police are gonna pee on the lineup and see who says “yo”?


34 posted on 09/19/2012 8:07:22 AM PDT by jughandle
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Besides, any Pittsburgher can tell you that all the really good public urination is happening on the South Side.

Too many bars. Too few bathrooms.

There was a story in our local fishwrap a couple of years ago with a rather humorous article on how the local fuzz was having a field day issuing citations on the southside on a Saturday night, including one to three women squatting together.

Maybe the boy mayor told them to cool it because it was cutting in on his drink tax revenue. But it sounded more productive for raising revenue than parking in an alley with a radar gun at the bottom of a long hill.

35 posted on 09/19/2012 8:18:50 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Old” Whizz story.

AN aide ran up to LBJ and said MLK just peed in the snow on the front lawn.
LBJ said, no problem it will go away.
Aide: “But it is in Lady Birds hand writing”.


36 posted on 09/19/2012 8:30:45 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

we pee off the porches out here in rural TN all the time

when it’s really cold and windy it’s a bit of a challenge but we do it on dares

nobody under my brick porches except maybe a cat ..and they run

or a groundhog or possum


37 posted on 09/19/2012 8:41:13 AM PDT by wardaddy (this is a perfect window for Netanyahu to bomb Iran..I hereby give my go ahead..thanks Muzzie idiots)
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To: Vigilanteman

Actually the #1 complaint of people who actually live on the South Side is drunks from Carson Street using their yards as a toilet.


38 posted on 09/19/2012 9:08:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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