Posted on 09/09/2008 10:48:18 AM PDT by Puppage
The Canadian guy was a Muzzie.
I wonder if this nut was, too.
They were two guys who looked like the people you want to cross the street to avoid, but they reacted and did the right thing while us two upstanding citizens were still trying to figure out what was happening.
And the girls were saved.
But don’t belittle yourself for not reacting soon enough. I’m not sure what I would have done either.
Huh? The Canadian attacker was Chinese, having gotten Canadian citzenship only 2 years earlier. It’s extremely unlikely that he was any sort of Muslim.
But see my other post, suggesting that this one may be a totally different brand of nut.
What, you thought cowardice was a uniquely canadian instutution? At least the Canadians actually stopped the guy from escaping. Those folks didn’t even do that...
And people wonder why Philadelphia is losing population while the burbs around there grow.
You have to use the term as Obama does. You see, when he says that we are our brother's keeper, he means that GOVERNMENT is your keeper and that government is the one who takes care of things like this. Don't bother yourself, just call the cops and hope that the maniac doesn't turn on you before the cops get there.
The guy who chopped of that poor kid's head on the Greyhound bus? IIRC, he was a member of a Christian church (can't remember the denomination).
“Roach described the attacker as “very dangerous”
Well, with that description being aired, he’ll be in custody
in no time!
“whipped out a double-claw hammer...” I almost expected a phrase like Assault Hammer with a dramatic statement like this. If this was in England, the media shills would already be pushing a hammer registration.
Sad days indeed, when hammers are outlawed, only outlaws will be carpenters
If they were from the ghetto, they were probably used to having to react quickly to violence. Most people who don’t have much experiance of violence are more prone to be temporarily paralysed with shock before they can do anything. Just different circumstances...
The first blow hurt and left a nice mark. I was prepared for the second and only got tagged. On his third try I grabbed the pipe, but grabbing it hurt so much that I couldn't maintain my grip and it fell.
He went to back me up against a platform girder but I grabbed him by the throat and spun his head into the girder - while he was stunned I tried to knock him unconscious against the girder but he managed to pull my hands off his neck after a few seconds and took off running.
At that point I was winded and weak and didn't follow very far.
I shouted for someone to stop him. No one moved and one guy laughed at me.
But thanks for the kind words, it could have been much, much worse.
That was one of the three really bad experiences I had on Chicago's South Side.
I had the same thought- growing up in a bad neighborhood, you probably get more chances to deal with violent situations.
It's how Israelis know to hit the ground when they hear gunfire or an explosion, while Americans tend to stand and stare with their jaw on the ground. Just practice.
Good point.
The Greyhound attacker seems to be a real mental health case, and last I heard everybody who’d ever dealt with him was shocked and said they’d never seen a hint of a problem with him. In his first court appearance he quietly begged the court “Please kill me”. He’d only come to Canada from China a couple of years earlier, and I really have wonder what had happened to him in China that might have damaged his mind. He’s now said to be cooperating fully with the professionals doing his court-ordered psychiatric assessment.
The worrisome thing in both cases is not so much the attacker, but the reaction of the many witnesses. In both cases, the other passengers could have stopped the attack much sooner, but didn’t (though in the case of the Greyhound attack, it might have been too late for the victim after the first few seconds).
I love living in a small town. I don’t miss being close to the city at all.
“The Canadian guy was a Muzzie.”
Actually he was of Chinese descent...maybe a convert....
Kitty Genovese
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