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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:19 PM
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So how many cars get burnt in Detroit because of a stupid B-Ball game?
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drdtroit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:20 PM
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1. That's a hell of a comment!
Home many people will get knifed in Miami?
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:22 PM
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3. Depends if the Batista loyalist bastards are in the mood
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drdtroit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:30 PM
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7. Last time cars were burnt in the CITY:
1984, by a suburbanite! I think he was an insurgent! :-)
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:34 PM
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10. And it was over a baseball game, if I recall
Yes, he was a suburbanite, BTW. It happened the night the Tigers won the World Series.
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drdtroit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:42 PM
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15. You got it!
Gibson hit two monstrous home runs, a two run blast and then a tremendous three run upper deck shot to blow the game open. I was downtown in all the madness. At first it was fun and then started to quick escalate into a scary scene. We split before the serious, alcohol induced violence began.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:35 PM
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11. Why don't you guys get one from the junkyard and burn it?
That would be ultra cool.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:24 PM
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5. LOL
So they don't burn to celebrate?
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salib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:22 PM
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2. How many cheers will we hear in San Antonio?
Win or lose?
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:23 PM
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4. I haven't heard of rioting in the city proper
Edited on Mon Jun-06-05 10:37 PM by notadmblnd
since the 1967 riots. Now at some of the upscale college towns like Ann Arbor and East Lansing, that is another story.
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drdtroit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:28 PM
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6. 1967 riots:
and you're right about those crazy suburbanites!
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:32 PM
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9. sorry about the date, I was just a little girl
Edited on Mon Jun-06-05 10:37 PM by notadmblnd
but I do remember the curfews and all the cops. I corrected it, as I did with this post.
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drdtroit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:37 PM
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13. And the Huey helicopters!
I was a teen and my old man a firefighter in the middle of it. He couldn't get home for 6 days. We would make runs to the fire station and him bring clean clothes and other items.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:30 PM
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8. There is nothing left to burn in Detroit
It is the only city I have heard of that has a holiday dedicated to arson...google "Devil's Night."
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:36 PM
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12. Now there's another
unfair assessment of Detroit. The City of Detroit has not had a problem with Devils Night arson in quite a few years. Are there fires in the city? Is it possible for a fire to occur on Devils Night? Yes, but is the city ablaze annually? I think not!
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:59 AM
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16. Another Detroit success story - No 4th of July fireworks


See, the city does not have enough money to provide police protection to an event put on by a private foundation. You can't make this stuff up.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 11:13 AM
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18. The city council and the mayor
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 11:14 AM by notadmblnd
are playing a game of politics. City council wants to cut police and fire and the mayor says if that happens, the the city will not be safe for the fireworks because of the fear there will big outbreak of the blueflue (policeofficers protesting the cuts). But the mayor does not have the power to stop the fireworks and the city is going ahead with the plan to have them.

Have you learned nothing about the MSM and the lies and distortions yet?
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Tyrone Slothrop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 11:42 AM
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19. Carbondale, IL had to shut down Halloween several years ago
Because the students at SIU would start rioting on Halloween. Saw cop cars turned over one Halloween weekend when I was down there. Kids smashing through shops plate glass windows and looting, etc.

Eventually, the city and the university decided to enforce an additional school break over Halloween. Emptied the dorms and sent everyone home for a couple of days.

Don't know if they're still doing that or not.
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 10:40 PM
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14. About as many as were burned in Chicago when the Bulls won
Burned by suburbanites on Rush street, BTW. They also turned over a cop car that night.

Detroit's not the only city that does this shit. It is the only city that seems to get shit on by people who've never bothered to actually go there. I grew up there, lived there for 27 years and go back to visit several times of years. It's a great city full of amazingly talented people.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:02 AM
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17. Right On, Susan!!
:applause:
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