Kind of hard to carry but you do get respect.
Posted on 09/04/2009 7:38:55 AM PDT by Travis McGee
The gangs are getting bolder, and the authorities don’t do anything. I narrowly escaped a mugging less than a block from the square in downtown York, PA at 8:00AM on a Saturday morning, two weeks ago. I was being followed by two young men, with spanish accents and piercings, who were threatening to “smack the shit out of” me.
I fully understand what motivated Bernie Goetz.
And for those who don’t know, flash mobs use viral communication techniques, cellphones and texting to summon a crowd quickly to a “random” location sometimes under a “wacky” premise. Call 10 friends and tell them show up and have them call 10 friends...
6 degrees of separation could summon the entire world. Not everyone will attend but it is a way to get a “flash mob” present.
I’ll be surprised if by the time it comes to trial that the defense lawyers don’t have all of the suspects claiming they were so enraged by the racist things the victim(s) were saying that they just had to attack. It wouldn’t be the first time.
Hitting the gas pedal didn’t work out so well for a preacher in Georgia who was being attacked by two thugs...
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This tactic (without the violence) was being used in Boston in the early 70’s. * big guys would walk into a retail store, spread out so you couldn’t follow what all of them were doing. They would grab whatever they could, and be gone in 60 seconds. The cops called it “swarming”.
My thought as an urban cyclist is that he might have been at a stoplight and the mob was in the intersection. Yes the story says he stopped to watch but given that every intersection is probably a stoplight ...
If that is the case, then it is wrong place, wrong time and the guy is SOL. This is where situational awareness is paramount, and time is minimal. Could he have turned around and gotten away, could he have dropped the bike and run, should he have shucked the backpack and bike ...? No good answers except to avoid all dangers and then you are a mushroom.
Guaranteed that this "alleged perp's" Public Defender will try to make him guilty of failing to avoid the mob and all of these defensive moves while focusing on the fact that he cannot ID anyone.
Yep! Service to American justice...no incarceration or legal fees required! Just DEAD!
Didn’t seem to glean the victim’s race . . . is he white? Didn’t catch it . . . I’m guessing he’s white, otherwise they would have said he was black. Don’t want to upset the protected classes, do we?
Does anybody know?
I was walking, a few years ago, from South Street back to the center city area where my hotel was located. Before I realized it, I found myself at an intersection, near or at the scene of this current crime, and I suddenly realized - “this is not a safe place to be on foot by myself”. It wasn’t midnight, but it was after dark. There was a decidedly criminal feel to the neighborhood.
I managed to get out of there, quickly, without drawing attention to myself, but my pulse was racing a bit.
I’ve been googling around looking for a photo of Thomas Fitzgerald, but could not find one.
Philadelphia is in Pennsylvania, which is a "shall issue" CCW state.
Having the right to carry doesn't do a damn bit of good if you don't exercise it. You will NOT know the day and the hour when you will need to defend your life or your family.
That ‘flash mob’, bunch of white guys, right?
I love the tactic. An immediate method to update target lists at the COC, FSCC, and FDC, not to mentions targets of opportunity for lazing UAVs in the vicinity.
Kind of hard to carry but you do get respect.
“I’ve been googling around looking for a photo of Thomas Fitzgerald, but could not find one.”
Probably white . . . that’s why they’re not saying . . . otherwise, they’d ignore the bicyclist and think he was a drug dealer or deliverer. So, it was probably some poor white guy. Hate crime? Of course not. He’ll probably get sued for hitting their fists with his face. Just paybacks for the slave trade, ya’ know!
If the victim’s memory was scrambled, how does anyone know if he stopped to watch the violence? We have only the testimony of the mobsters. Why should we believe them?
The cyclist may merely have been in the area and found himself suddenly in the midst of the “flash” mob, and stopped for a moment to figure out the best way out the mob.
Perhaps that he was there, within reach of the mob, could be compared to being hit by lightening.
In another recent incident, which also occured in the liberal Democrat stronghold of Maryland, I was leaving a parking lot at an office complex when a group of hispanics with bad intentions made unmistakable threatening gestures toward me and my passengers. It was obvious that they didn’t like whites in their “territory”.
Yes, and we'll do it "Judge Roy Bean" style.
“U.S. Postal Inspector Robert Bankhead, who participated in the sting, said Lyde allegedly gave a false name and said he was authorized to accept packages for Fitzgerald, whom he said was an uncle.”
Lyde is the perp in custody. Fitzgerald is the victim, his credit cards were stolen. Lyde used them to order clothes from Neiman Marcus.
I don’t suppose Lyde has any white uncles. Black man biking home from work in the night.....this makes me sick.
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