Man Beaten By 5 Others

WLNS.com ^ | 5/24/2010

[Altura Ct.]

A Lansing man is recovering after being jumped by five men in his own backyard. It happened Saturday night on the 5200 block of Sunrose. The victim lives in a house that backs up to a basketball court. Police say five men were playing ball on that court and cursing. When a neighbor told them to watch their language, they jumped over a fence and beat him up. The victim was treated at a local hospital and is expected to be OK. The men who beat him ran off. If you have any information on this crime, call Crimestoppers at 517 483-stop

[Altura Ct.]

The Amish are at it again. Much better decription of what happened at LSJ.com but we can't post it here.

"My husband just went to the fence and asked him very respectfully, 'This is a family neighborhood here, can you cut the language?' " she said. "He didn't even get it out of his mouth, and this guy jumped the fence."

Then, she said, about five others from the basketball court jumped the fence into their backyard, where moments before the couple had been grilling chicken. Ruble said she was pushed to the ground.

As others on the basketball court cheered them on, the men beat and kicked her husband until he was nearly unconscious, she said.

[Cicero]

Probably some of Obama’s basketball buddies.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Sounds like a a typical black and white case of urban black on white, although there is no info in the article to enable drawing a conclusion.

[Lurker]

The situation would have ended rather differently at my home.

The first a**hole wouldn't have made it over the fence before he found a few smoking holes in his chest.

[Nea Wood]

The Amish are at it again.

Was the victim also "Amish," or is it going to be declared "NOT a hate crime," any minute?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

The obvious lesson to be learned from this to have a round already chambred before asking scumbags to keep it down.

[Gasshog]

Say man! This aint no residental area...this is a neighborhood!!

[OldMissileer]

Blue collar part of town near Martin Luther King Blvd and a not so nice section of town.

It is an older part of town because the street lights are of the very old style that were installed before I was born there over 50 years ago.

[Robbin]

EXactly, you have to carry EVERYWHERE, even your own yard...

[teeman8r]

cooking chicken?!?!

that’s racist.

teeman

[magslinger]

ping

[absolootezer0]

Blue collar part of town near Martin Luther King Blvd and a not so nice section of town.

not so nice? my grandparents built a house there about 30 years ago, its a nice, quiet little subdivision. i stayed there most of last summer, and have friends over there.
i went to school with alot of the kids of the people that still live there (i knew the kids of both the rubles and dibeans)

there's a bunch of cops that live in that area too. i'd like to know why they don't do anything about keeping an eye on that park.

[nagdt]

Comment section of that website is buzzing, but a family memeber of the man beaten said, the dad was offended by the use of the N word and F word and just asked the b-ball players to tone it down because there were kids around. Unfortunately the man was not flashing a gun while talking to these punks. Violence is all they understand.

Answer to this problem: Take down the hoops.

[scoobysnak71]

Thats when the wife shoulda gone in and got the gun and started shooting. Mine would have.

But, well, it’s just more LIBERAL on LIBERAL violence. (yawn) Nothing to look at here folks. They all voted for the Michigan Liberal machine and voted for oBaMa. Everybody just go home and turn on NPR.

[Bon mots]

Civil War II is coming.
It’s already here, but only one side is fighting... so far...

[OldMissileer]

I did not mean it was THE not so nice part. I meant the MLK Blvd area a few blocks away was not the best place.

Sunrose is in a nice, well kept area with nice homes.

Never meant to insult them as it was not my intention.

[exit82]

Take down the hoops is right. A few neighbors with a reciprocating saw should leave the poles on the ground.

Other neighbors should find out who did this and get the police to act. Otherwise everyone is the NEXT target of these hoodlums.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“The victim lives in a house that backs up to a basketball court.”

I hope he got a heck of a deal.

[grellis]

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

And since our idiot mayor made a political appointment to fill the vacant Lansing Police Chief seat, things like this are going to happen a lot more frequently. Szymanski is too busy supporting gay "rights" to get any actual policing done. That's why the south side is in the mess it's in.

[absolootezer0]

i’m pretty sure they’ve been there for at least 20 years.