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LanternWaste

(37,748 posts) Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:15 PM Jun 2013

Fox News Speculates Trayvon Martin Could Have Killed Someone With Skittles And Iced Tea

“I know everybody keeps sarcastically saying about he Skittles,” Burns said. “You could probably kill somebody with Skittles.”

“The thing is, yeah, you’re spinning a lot of hypotheticals,” Burns said. “And you could break a bottle of iced tea, right, with the jagged edge, and you could kill somebody with it.”

Last year, Fox and Friends host Geraldo Rivera sympathized with Zimmerman and prompted widespread protest over his remark that “I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.”

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/06/10/2131091/fox-news-speculates-trayvon-martin-could-have-killed-someone-with-skittles-and-iced-tea/

Idiots. Half-educated, sub-literate idiots.

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Fox News Speculates Trayvon Martin Could Have Killed Someone With Skittles And Iced Tea (Original Post) LanternWaste Jun 2013 OP

If you really wanted to kill someone, you'd have a gun. Scuba Jun 2013 #1

Maybe someone should tell those idiots RandiFan1290 Jun 2013 #2

Yeah, but he could have taken the can and, uh, uh, made a bong out of it. nt auburngrad82 Jun 2013 #3

Do non-alcoholic beverages even get sold or bottled in glass anymore? LanternWaste Jun 2013 #9

Yeah, I still see some bottles RandiFan1290 Jun 2013 #10

My favorite exboyfil Jun 2013 #15

And it wasn't tea but fruit drink. gvstn Jun 2013 #16

And those damned deadly skittles......... SummerSnow Jun 2013 #4

Well, his friends did call him Trayvon "Gangsta Macguyver" Martin, according to an unnamed Zimmerman alcibiades_mystery Jun 2013 #5

You beat me to it! 11 Bravo Jun 2013 #6

Poor Zimmerman. All he had was a paranoid mind & a loaded gun. pacalo Jun 2013 #7

"a bottle of iced tea...with the jagged edge" SwissTony Jun 2013 #8

Even a pretzel can be a deadly weapon in the right hands Xipe Totec Jun 2013 #11

I woul love to kill me some Fox News Skittles Jun 2013 #12

Skittles will kick your ass Cirque du So-What Jun 2013 #13

We do know that Skittles kicks ass. GeorgeGist Jun 2013 #14

ooooh boy. AsahinaKimi Jun 2013 #17

Oh, dear. You've just auto-signed-up for an automatic ass-kicking. Buns_of_Fire Jun 2013 #19

Great. Now Bloomberg will outlaw ice tea and Skittles in NYC. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2013 #18

you could kill somebody with a sock grok Jun 2013 #20

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. If you really wanted to kill someone, you'd have a gun.

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:19 PM

Jun 2013

There was only one guy there with a gun.

RandiFan1290

(6,245 posts)

2. Maybe someone should tell those idiots

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:22 PM

Jun 2013

It was a can

auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)

3. Yeah, but he could have taken the can and, uh, uh, made a bong out of it. nt

Reply to RandiFan1290 (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:25 PM

Jun 2013

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

9. Do non-alcoholic beverages even get sold or bottled in glass anymore?

Reply to RandiFan1290 (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:39 PM

Jun 2013

Do non-alcoholic beverages even get sold or bottled in glass anymore? I can't remember the last time I've had a soda or tea in anything other than plastic bottles.

RandiFan1290

(6,245 posts)

10. Yeah, I still see some bottles

Reply to LanternWaste (Reply #9)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:42 PM

Jun 2013

Starbucks coffee products come to mind. I don't buy them but I remember seeing the glass bottles.

exboyfil

(17,865 posts)

15. My favorite

Reply to LanternWaste (Reply #9)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 05:22 PM

Jun 2013

Yoo-hoo still comes in glass.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)

16. And it wasn't tea but fruit drink.

Reply to RandiFan1290 (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 05:26 PM

Jun 2013

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

4. And those damned deadly skittles.........

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:27 PM

Jun 2013

"taste the rainbow has never been scarier"

such bullshit knows no bounds.

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)

5. Well, his friends did call him Trayvon "Gangsta Macguyver" Martin, according to an unnamed Zimmerman

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:30 PM

Jun 2013

relative, so who knows?

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)

6. You beat me to it!

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:31 PM

Jun 2013

I was just getting ready to post the same story, but with a different link. Un-fucking-believable!

pacalo

(24,721 posts)

7. Poor Zimmerman. All he had was a paranoid mind & a loaded gun.

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:35 PM

Jun 2013

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)

8. "a bottle of iced tea...with the jagged edge"

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:39 PM

Jun 2013

Oh, yes. The preferred weapon of professional assassins for centuries.

I like it when we have professionals providing insight.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

11. Even a pretzel can be a deadly weapon in the right hands

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:50 PM

Jun 2013

Skittles

(153,199 posts)

12. I woul love to kill me some Fox News

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:51 PM

Jun 2013

Cirque du So-What

(25,988 posts)

13. Skittles will kick your ass

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:59 PM

Jun 2013

Just ask her.

GeorgeGist

(25,323 posts)

14. We do know that Skittles kicks ass.

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 05:07 PM

Jun 2013

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)

17. ooooh boy.

Reply to GeorgeGist (Reply #14)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 05:33 PM

Jun 2013

Now you've done it.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,197 posts)

19. Oh, dear. You've just auto-signed-up for an automatic ass-kicking.

Reply to GeorgeGist (Reply #14)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 05:41 PM

Jun 2013

Please adjust your schedule accordingly.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,369 posts)

18. Great. Now Bloomberg will outlaw ice tea and Skittles in NYC. nt

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 05:36 PM

Jun 2013

grok

(550 posts)

20. you could kill somebody with a sock

Reply to LanternWaste (Original post)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 10:05 AM

Jun 2013

with stuff in it like some rocks, keys, or even a full soda can. a full can would maintain it's structural shape even after you dinged somebody with it.

On the other hand, an Arizona can would have a hard time fitting in anything but a knee high sports sock. And Martin died with his socks on.

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