Posted on 09/04/2009 7:38:55 AM PDT by Travis McGee
Thomas Fitzgerald never knew what hit him.
One minute he was riding home from his night-shift job and stopping his bike at Broad and South Streets to watch a mob scene that appeared to be getting out of control.
The next, he told a Philadelphia judge yesterday, he was waking up four days later from a medically induced coma, with his hearing impaired and his memory scrambled.
Two other witnesses yesterday helped piece together Fitzgerald's lost minutes as they described how, about 11:30 p.m. May 30, the 53-year-old bicyclist was set upon by eight young males, beaten, and left unconscious and in the middle of a violent seizure.
Rest of article at link.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
I stopped biking into the city a couple of years ago. This is why. When the Schuylkill River Trail is completed towards Reading, my biking will be exclusively north of Valley Forge.
I know if I am in a car being attacked I will close my eyes and hit the gas pedal!
Posted to the CW2 group, to raise awareness of the dangers of "flash mob" behavior. Be aware that your perfectly legal small "tea party" or similar gathering could be swarmed by violent criminals called over by "community organizers" in a matter of moments.
Good police work, note the upscale ordering by the 'alleged' thief. Article also has him on surveillance camera as part of the mob ransacking a convenience store earlier. Hope he likes prison food but this being Philadelphia, always a chance for sympathetic jury.
You were in Baltimordor.
It's simply stiff with goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description ...
Yep. Something like my M&P45 would fill the bill nicely.
What did we think would happen when we took morality out of the culture? Did we think good things would happen?
Animals.
Sounds like a perfect argument in favor of high capacity magazines to me.
Hand grenades ...
Keep your eyes open. Nail more thugs.
It isn’t just gangs of criminals. It is also gangs of anarchists. Expect them to organize a riot this way one day.
For now, they test the wires.
To have a “successful” riot, they only need to gather a crowd to mask their own actions. The respondants need only gather with “pillowcases” or dresses in Red to make it seem like a coordinated activity.
This sickens me, these animals deserve a bullet to the face
Which is why everyone I associate with carries. They try this crap here and there will be a dead flash mob.
law & order is hard to get when the people running the country/state/city aren’t law abiding themselves (and in Philly thats all 3)
This however wouldn't be:
Peace through superior firepower.
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Did they get the flash from AG Holder’s office directly,
or someone down the hall for plausible deniability?
May 30th. Did the president speak out on this matter? Did the national media cover the assault?
The “muslim youths” in France were using “flash mobbing” as a very effective tactic during the street fights and arson riots a couple years back. They can rally to an area with no police, do their descruction or violence, and then disperse into the night before enough police can arrive to stop them. Expect to see this more often as our own “urban youths” discover the power of this new tactic.
I have had a CCW for 5 years, and I don’t go into urban areas without my gun.
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