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Police: Former heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick killed in Jamaica
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Posted on 10/28/2006 11:17:40 AM PDT by malamute
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boxing; gapingheadwound; trevorberbick
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To: malamute
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posted on
10/28/2006 6:52:12 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
To: Musket
Some good advice I got... "Stay out of the mountains mahn. Especially at night."
22
posted on
10/28/2006 7:00:31 PM PDT
by
Barnacle
(Where's the fence?... Where's the fence?!)
To: Barnacle
Yeah, we were young and stupid. Luckily we didn't get hurt. Had a few close calls though.
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posted on
10/28/2006 7:02:47 PM PDT
by
Musket
(The last major culture shift took about 2 years 1968-69 -- so why is this one taking so long?)
To: Musket
Yeah, we were young and stupid. Luckily we didn't get hurt. Had a few close calls though. One guy I knew got kidnapped. They took him to one of those shanty towns and were having a feast with his money while he laid tied-up in a hut. Luckily, he escaped and got back.
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posted on
10/28/2006 7:18:43 PM PDT
by
Barnacle
(Where's the fence?... Where's the fence?!)
To: Barnacle
Yikes! That doesn't sound like too much fun. The best thing I can say about my 2 month "vacation" there is it taught me to never leave the U.S. again.
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posted on
10/28/2006 7:30:13 PM PDT
by
Musket
(The last major culture shift took about 2 years 1968-69 -- so why is this one taking so long?)
To: malamute
Not surprising. They have over 1400 murders a year in Kingston alone.
To: malamute
Some background
From Texas A&M Battalion:
Berbick was deported from the United States to his native Jamaica in December after the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service determined he illegally re-entered the country after being deported to Canada in 1997.
Berbick, 48, was deported after breaking the conditions of his 1994 parole and serving 15 months of a four-year sentence for rape, theft and misdemeanor assault in Florida.
Berbick, who beat Muhammad Ali in 1981 and won the heavyweight crown in 1985 on a decision over Pinklon Thomas, was convicted of assault in 1991 for holding a gun to his former business manager's head and accusing her of stealing $40,000.
A year later, he was convicted of raping a family baby sitter. The same year, he was convicted of second-degree grand theft for forging his ex-wife's signature to get a $95,000 mortgage on a house in Miramar, Fla.
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posted on
10/28/2006 7:40:52 PM PDT
by
Capt. Tom
(Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
To: Barnacle
Jamaica is a nice place if you never leave the confines of a resort. As soon as you leave, watch out!It's like that for YEARS, unfortunately.
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posted on
10/28/2006 8:29:35 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: John Lenin
Kingston had a radio show the last time that I was there called something like "gun deaths" in which they would rattle off the names of police lured into traps the night before, hatcheted to death, all so that the thugs could then get their pistols (guns are illegal for everyone but the cops there, so the criminals attack the cops to get the guns).
Tourists seldom see the real Jamaica.
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posted on
10/28/2006 8:37:58 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
Tourists seldom see the real Jamaica.
If you don't travel with a local or stay with the cab driver your life will be in danger. It's like Escape From New York after dark anywhere in Jamaica.
To: Tall_Texan
It looks like fours this time.
Red Auerbach
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posted on
10/29/2006 4:45:14 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: John Lenin
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posted on
10/29/2006 4:47:34 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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