Teens Run Wild During Florida State Fair's First Friday

Tampa Bay Timess ^ | ebruary 10, 2014 | Jessica Vander Velde

[Iron Munro]

YOOTS RUNNING WILD

Holder's People running amok again.

Police have tried to minimize and cover up the annual black rioting at the Fair but it has finally become so pervasive it is now out in the open.

When 200 depties cannot contain the rampage you know there are more than "150 to 200 teens running wild".

Photo is of Andrew Joseph III, the one who was ejected from the Fair and subsequently run over while walking across the nearby interstate highway.

[Ken H]

The story in the lower left part of the paper...

The irony meter just went 'TILT!'

[bgill]

There’s the problem. Don’t babysit them, arrest them. Have a few paddy wagons at the gates and start filling them up. If they get into fights inside it, too bad. After booking and spraying them with de-licer, call their parents but don’t let them out. Have a night judge immediately give them all 6 months in juvie and another 6 months of community service. Give them $5000 fines for damages and jail their parents if the fine isn’t paid in 10 days. Next year, don’t let them out of school and don’t give them free admission. This behavior should have been nipped in the bud years ago.

[rstrahan]

Notice what organizations that were asked to help stem the violence.

No consequences, no stopping the violent actions, and there does not appear to be any consequences.

[technically right]

Yeah, I figured as much. Just deputize about 2,000 good ole boys and issue them baseball bats, pepper spray and cuffs. Problem solved.

[AppyPappy]

If he is so smart, why was he crossing an interstate?

[Izzy Dunne]

Right now, there are no plans to do anything differently,

And everybody knows it.

[Sherman Logan]

He was killed attempting to cross I-4 three hours later.

Trying to spin the death as somehow a consequence of the ejection is a really big stretch.

[bigheadfred]

If he is so smart, why was he crossing an interstate?

to get to the "other side"

looks like he made it

[workerbee]

"Teens", huh?

The phenomenon is so common, deputies even have a term for it: They call it "wilding."

There should be another term for it: "prison time."

[Navy Patriot]

Those wacky Amish yutes again!

Such high spirits, ya gotta love 'em.

[workerbee]

Before next year's fair, the agency plans to coordinate with community groups, including Tampa's Pastors on Patrol, the NAACP and the Sheriff's Black Advisory Council to get the word out that such behavior is unacceptable — like Tampa does before the Gasparilla parade.

*smack forehead* Well, there ya go! It's OUR fault for not telling these poor sweet "teens" that it's UNACCEPTABLE to behave like wild animals!

[DaveA37]

“Hillsborough teens”.....

Am I allowed to guess the race of these teens or would that be racist?

[Navy Patriot]

looks like he made it

LOL, thanks Fred, made my day!

[NRA1995]

Whips and red-hot irons for all of them. Time for a lil cruel and unusual punishment, making an example.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is a karambit. Imagine having one of these in either hand during a "wilding" event. You are charged by a group of "yoots" (of indeterminate race, of course), intent on pummeling and grievously injuring you along with stealing from your beaten body.

Snicker-snack with vorpal blades.

[Mouton]

“Deputies probably would have arrested more people, Previtera said, but they often had to disengage for their own safety.”

I think interlaced fire from a few M-60s would help their safety quite a bit.

[MrB]

“Hey Margaret! Let’s go to the State Fair. It says here they’re letting a local school out for the day and admission is FREE!”

[jimjohn]