Posted on 05/24/2005 10:19:29 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan
"Y'all's"?!?! Why am I doubting this is quite how Hall actually phrased his statement to the Free Press?
She looks like a crack-addicted bag lady, who snuck into a resort.
these people have got the right to shoot up, snort, smoke etc to their brains are fried and they then fry others...its in the Constitution....
/sarcasm/
You are absolutely correct. To make it a little more clear, ask yourself why these four people would be together in a known drug-dealing area at 4:30 am on a Sunday morning:
1. Ward (at whose residence the shootings took place) was 19. He graduated last year; it wasn't his prom. He was shot three months ago as well.
2. Clark, 18. He lived across the river, which is in a different state. It wasn't his prom.
3. Dillon, 17. It was his prom, and he was on the football team; you can draw your own conclusions on what the general personality is of a member of the high school football team in a small town, and why he'd want to be in that part of town at 4:30 am Sunday morning with his date.
4. Poston, 17. She went to school in a different district outside of town. Obviously, she'd be with Dillon, since she was his date to his prom. But the prom wasn't anywhere near Ward's place, and neither of the two lived anywhere near Ward's place.
Occam's razor. They wanted to get crack, and instead they got lead. Oops.
There's quite a Michigan-W.Va. pipeline. A lot of the drugs coming into Wheeling, in the northern part of the state, are from Pontiac.
It's a regional thing. Don't even try to understand the speech of the average resident of the Huntington-Charleston area. My cousin's from Montgomery, W.Va., and I comprehend about half of what she's saying.
Or so I've heard that's why crime is going up in NE PA.
Doesn't make any difference whether or not they have a "right," they're doing it. So called drug enforcement isn't doing much about it. Stopping a car full of teenagers passing around a joint doesn't justify all of the money and loss of freedom we've given up to fight the war on drugs. There certainly hasn't been any slow down in the amount coming in to the country in spite of the occassionnal sensational drug bust. Maybe we just need to spend more money and appoint a Drug Czar.
***3. Dillon, 17. It was his prom, and he was on the football team; you can draw your own conclusions on what the general personality is of a member of the high school football team in a small town, and why he'd want to be in that part of town at 4:30 am Sunday morning with his date.
Just a little correction here. "That part of town" is not that bad. I lived less than a block from there in my first apartment. This small town has approximately 50,000 in it with the TRI-STATE area having approx. 150,000 or more within a 30 mile radius.
****It's a regional thing. Don't even try to understand the speech of the average resident of the Huntington-Charleston area. My cousin's from Montgomery, W.Va., and I comprehend about half of what she's saying.
Are y'all saying that we cain't talk? LOL! Geeez. Give it a break. Never heard a southerner talk? I hear them say y'all all the time. Are you not from this beautiful state with a screen name like mountineer?
**Are y'all saying that we cain't talk? LOL! Geeez. Give it a break. Never heard a southerner talk? I hear them say y'all all the time. Are you not from this beautiful state with a screen name like mountineer?
One addition. The press probably added the y'all to make West Virginian's look bad as they do on a consistent basis, along with hollywood, etc.
I agree. As for the southern W.Va. accent, I was just teasing all y'all a little. I kind of like it, even though I really do have to concentrate on understanding my cousin - and that's after she's lived in northern W.Va. near me for the past 20 years! My late father was from Kanawha County, and he worked hard to lose the drawl in order to work in radio.
***As for the southern W.Va. accent, I was just teasing all y'all a little. I kind of like it, even though I really do have to concentrate on understanding my cousin - and that's after she's lived in northern W.Va. near me for the past 20 years! My late father was from Kanawha County, and he worked hard to lose the drawl in order to work in radio.
It's okay. If you live in this state, you know how it is getting made fun of all the time. People tell me I have a southern accent and I deny, deny, deny. LOL. It's hard to lose that accent when you have lived here all your life.
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