Violence in Philly

[lostinbeta]

Ok, well I posted a thread a while ago about the 15 year old who killed a mother in front of her 3 kids and husband by throwing a 20lb chunk of ice off an overpass through their windshield.


Now I am going to share some gun violence from around my area.


1) Thursday, January 2, 2003: Two teenagers were shot in the student parking lot at my old high school (glad I graduated last year). They were students of the school, but they were there for some reason. It is suspected that it was a drug transaction gone bad. Both kids were in critical condition at the hospital. I have no clue on the follow up on that. I can't find an article online for it either, it was just on the local news.


2) Saturday, January 18, 2003 (today): At the Super Fresh Food Market in my area, (across the street from my best friend, a few blocks from my girlfriend, and 3 miles from me) a 33 year old woman was shot 4 times in the chest by her ex boyfriend. He then drove away and was later found in a burning car with a gunshot wound in the head. The gun was laying beside him.

http://kyw.com/news/local_story_018190138.html


Don't you just love it here!!!!!!!!!!!!! :geek:


:trout:

I needed that trout smacking to knock some sense into me. :hangover:

:(

[Aislin]

stop scaring me lost
that one with the ice is just awful.

[Makaveli]

3 miles away? thats nothing, last week a dude commited suicide on my floor cuz he was gonna get killed by these drug dealers...and they kill you sloooowlyy....so he jumped from like the 21st floor ......

i've seen 2 people being stabbed to death and 1 person being mugged.....have heard gun shots...never seen anyone being shot but my building is ****ed.....my neighborhood is ****ed

oh did i mention i got stabbed 2? oh well.......

oh yea and at my school there were shootings a couple of month ago and 3 were injured 1 killed, they have cameras EVERYWHERE now......bathrooms and everything........

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by Aislin
stop scaring me lost
that one with the ice is just awful.

Hey Aislin, if you want to read more on that as well, check up these links...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/01/06/ice.kill.ap/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/01/09/ice.death.ap/index.html



And Phil: I am anti-violence, but when it comes to needing it to live, I am all for it. I just have to get a gun license ;)

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by Makaveli
3 miles away? thats nothing, last week a dude commited suicide on my floor cuz he was gonna get killed by these drug dealers...and they kill you sloooowlyy....so he jumped from like the 21st floor ......

i've seen 2 people being stabbed to death and 1 person being mugged.....have heard gun shots...never seen anyone being shot but my building is ****ed.....my neighborhood is ****ed

oh did i mention i got stabbed 2? oh well.......


Sounds like something from TV....lol. Is that true? I really never considered canada a dangerous place.

As for 3 miles away, sure it isn't close to me, but people close to me live right there, and can see the store from their house. And 2 of my sisters showed up there less than a minute after it happened. I would hate to think what might have happened had my sister not forgot her sunglasses and had to come back inside before they left.

[Makaveli]

who sez you need a license? ...........:eye:

yea some areas in canada are really messed up.........i liv in the T.O 4th largest city in north america!! and we all know bigger cities have more crime......

[Aislin]

down with phillidelphia!

your country sucks guys. Canada is way better.

[lostinbeta]

The law ;)


If I have to shoot someone to save my life, I am not going to jail for using an illegal gun.


As for my country sucking. Yes, it can, depending where you live.


I love the suburbs... it is great there.

[senocular]

oh yeah? OH YEAH???


well, here....
HERE.... there's....
there was some snow and-and a car slid off the road! They had to call the tow truck and EVERYTHING

:sigh: its too crazy here. Good thing Im packin'

[Makaveli]

....no you won't........you must learn the art of evidence elimation!! ;)

lmao sen.....you cheered me up with that remark....thank you =)

[Aislin]

okay dude, you must live in like, upside down toronto bad part or something

cause nothing bad has hapenned in my city since that guy killed that lady in front of the boat-shaped building and then slit his wrists and ran up and down the halls of the apartments inside.

[lostinbeta]

lol guys, you crack me up.... but back to the original topic...


anyone else have thoughts on this?

[Aislin]

i'm not kidding about the crazy man, he was like an important guy, and he ran around screaming with his wrists cut after murdering a lady

[Makaveli]

yup...my area is ghetto for real.....messed up ****, it was worse like 5-6 years ago tho...cooled down big time but **** is happening again

[Aislin]

uh good.

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by Makaveli
yup...my area is ghetto for real.....messed up ****, it was worse like 5-6 years ago tho...cooled down big time but **** is happening again


::speaks like a parent::

It is all that rap music stuff.



LOL.

[Aislin]

yeah, rap sucks though lost, you should know that. I hate rap, you hate rap, we all hate rap. Die rap, die.

[lostinbeta]

Mak likes rap. People like rap.


I hate rap, yes, but that is me. More people hate my kind of techno than hate rap....lol.

[Makaveli]

yea, i'm moving soon tho... =)

phil, lets just say hitting on a gangsters girl is not a good idea...but in my defence, DAM SHE WAS HOT!!!

yea cameras in washrooms....too much **** goes down there...few people got beat downs as well, drugs being used etc etc, it was like hangout for those guys not a washroom!! its like the "street corner" area lol....not so anymore and i see like 20 cops outside all the time now...but i'm moving soon so its all good, hope i don't die b4 i do or that wil suck

[Aislin]

i'm so glad lost is the same as me.

*sniff* it's so touching.


.... wanna break out the techno vinyls and 8-tracks?

[Makaveli]

Originally posted by lostinbeta
Mak likes rap. People like rap.


I hate rap, yes, but that is me. More people hate my kind of techno than hate rap....lol.

reason why you hate it is because you can't relate to it...

btw, sorry for abducting your thread :blush:

[senocular]

I blame it on rap.

I mean, where I live now, its mostly country listening red-necks. The most you get out of these guys (if that, they're pretty tame) is a drunken fist-fight. Get back to where I used to live, a little below baltimore and you have a whole new crowd. Tough mo-fos and they are cocky-*** posers who listen to rap... ptshaw.

The sniper shootings were around here too, only a couple of miles (if that) from where I work. I bet they listened to rap.


... and if not rap then its video games...
... and if not video games then TV...
... and if not TV games then its all the sex...
... and if not that, then its where they all merge - THE INTERNET...


... yeah maybe drugs fit in there somewhere too

[Aislin]

I hate rap cause rap bummy. all it is is
"Woot brother drive by sex yeah *** smooth sexy silky soft sex woot brother drive by dead holmes mo fo! whoa!"

[Aislin]

i agree with phil. monkeys and buttss

[lostinbeta]

LOL.


Mak: Maybe I should specify, sometimes I get into old school rap, but I hate gangsta rap. It is all about the same thing... cash money and hoes... frankly, I could give a damn.

[Aislin]

Beta rules


Oh, and sometimes I like Eminem. I have no idea why.

[Makaveli]

no aislin ur mistaken with hiphop.....i don't listen to that crap
the only person who did sex, money, drugs good IMHO was Biggie and all them people now copy him....its such bull**** what they claim rap is, you have to listen to underground **** to get real rap

good idea sen, lets blame RAP!!! and TV!!! and internet!! and drugs!! but not the parents or society......whatever =) ur so clever

off topic: anyone seen Bowling for Columbine?

[senocular]

Originally posted by Aislin
Oh, and sometimes I like Eminem. I have no idea why.

http://www.fadzter.com/smilies/hide.gif yeah... Ill have to admit, I sometimes enjoy the occasional eminem hit here and there (guilty pleasure) though Im more of a tool kind of guy myself

[Aislin]

mak daddy humped the hoe gangstas limosine windows glass boom whoa fruit punch time for da bambam whoa milkshakes


....I don't like rap.

[Aislin]

Yeah, eminem has some good stuff sometimes. Some of it's crap though. it's sort of a gamble.


Anyways, I'm going to bed. You people don't go to sleep, but I do.
TTYL everyone.


(Phil! I must've made a dent! we'll get our edge back!)

[SureShot]

wow - there is a lot of violence in the world

I feel very luck to live in Ontario Canada. I mean everywhere there is violence but around here it's nothing compared to You Lost or you Mak...

And as for Rap music - I love it. i think it's great.

I agree that the "money, hoes, bling bling, crystal" crap is over done and terrible... but Mak is right - when biggie would do it, it was amazing. I think it was his rhyme style. That's why I am a fan of Em and Tupac and 50 Cent, Jay Z, Nas and Method man - all have great Style - IMHO

[Alex]

well over here there really isnt much violence happening. as for arming my self, i have 3 bace ball bats ready to meet some one that breaks in.

and i hope they have a dentel plan.:trout:

[mdipi]

man lost...and now with the Playoffs today and all the ppl standing outside the Bucks hotel (go falcons now that Greenbay didnt beat the Jets and the Pats are out!)... well i live in a quiet farm town...so i doubt it....lol

and for rap....Eazy-E is my all time fave. but then pretty much anyone who was with Dre/The Row Records is sick...too bad Suge is back in prison...