Breaking News: Body Found Hanging From Tree

Moloch

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:22 PM
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Breaking News: Body Found Hanging From Tree

Source: Fox 6 Birmingham

BESSEMER, Ala (WBRC-TV, MyFoxAl.com) --- Police found a body hanging from a tree near interstate 59 south close to the Academy Drive Exit. Bessemer Police are on the scene.

Read more: http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=2748766&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

We shouldn't be at all surprised that this sort of thing is STILL happening in Alabama.

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Little Wing

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:24 PM
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1. Alabama

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AlCzervik

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:24 PM
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2. wow, a little north of where i live there was a teen found hanging in a park

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/137543.html

it's still being investigated.

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shanti

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:48 PM
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15. yes, i know this one well

my son's girlfriend was friends with the boy. there's more to this story than meets the eye, and the media is not telling nor the folsom police. remember, his father was a CO. i'll say no more.

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AlCzervik

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:59 PM
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17. no kidding? I'm keeping my eye on that and the Shaken baby case, there is more

there i think. Something is off with the parents, especially the father.

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kath

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Fri Mar-23-07 04:54 PM
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21. Pardon my brain-deaded-ness. CO?

Commanding Officer in the military? Or???

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eyesroll

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:24 PM
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3. What? Suicide? It happens everywhere.

(I know what you're getting at, but since all the article included was one paragraph, including nothing about the demographic identity of the body or the circumstances surrounding its appearance, unless you've got other information, assuming a lynching is a bit premature.)

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greyl

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:25 PM
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4. That's horrible. But, it was a white male.

On the right side of the page:

A commercial driver reported the body of a white male hanging from a tree off interstate 59 in Besseme...

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Moloch

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:38 PM
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13. I'll bet you a dollar the driver was either Jewish or

gay.

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unpossibles

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:25 PM
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5. I wonder why the Sons of the Confederacy aren't making a big stink about this?

You know, how it damages their heritage and all... what's that? Oh. They're the prime suspects? Move along....

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Syrinx

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Fri Mar-23-07 04:06 PM
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20. suspects in a suicide?

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hlthe2b

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:26 PM
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6. don't jump to conclusions.... could be a suicide...

Edited on Fri Mar-23-07 12:31 PM by hlthe2b

When I was a teen, a group of us came across the grusome sight of a man hanging in an apartment complex as we walked to school. Police were already on the scene, but we did catch the aftermath. It was a sad case of suicide in an individual who had apparently been severely depressed.

I know, it is Alabama and (for some) there is a tendency to assume the worst, but let's let the story come out.

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greyl

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:27 PM
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7. "Bessemer Police Department says investigators are “leaning toward” suicide as the cause of death. "

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mr_hat

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:29 PM
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8. Hangman reported to have silver, gold and way with sister.

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acmavm

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:31 PM
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9. Sheesh, talk about a little premature slandering. Why would

you automatically think that it was a lynching?

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greyl

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:57 PM
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16. I think the possibility of a lynching probably popped into most of our minds immediately.

Birmingham, Alabama, body hanging from a tree.
The key is to withhold judgement until looking into the facts. (Facts like those at the link on the right side of the OP's link. ;) )

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jobycom

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:31 PM
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10. If you have some inside knowledge of what happened, I'm sure the cops would want to know.

Otherwise, it seems silly (meaning, it seems bigotted as shit) to blame a state for a death you know nothing about when deaths happen pretty much everywhere there are people.

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melody

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:32 PM
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11. Why did you assume it was anything but a suicide?

Because it happened in Alabama?

The largest chapter of the Klan is in Indiana.

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SayWhatYo

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:33 PM
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12. _ _ _ _ _ _

Edited on Fri Mar-23-07 12:34 PM by SayWhatYo

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Why do you assume it was racially motivated? I think it even said the guy was white... Then again, I suppose all hangings are done by white racists... just like all rapes are done by black men, right?

Yeap, same type of thinking. Stupid either way.

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Psephos

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Fri Mar-23-07 12:48 PM
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14. Why feed the freepers with a post demonstrating reverse bigotry?

Prejudice is, by definition, pre-judging based on a stereotype rather than the facts. Regardless of who's the target.

Peace.

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Moloch

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Fri Mar-23-07 01:03 PM
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18. I make that assumption after living in Alabama for 5 years.

Also because the last recorded lynching occured in Mobile.

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LoZoccolo

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Fri Mar-23-07 01:07 PM
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19. No, you make that assumption because...

...you don't know.

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Lithos

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Fri Mar-23-07 10:26 PM
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22. Locking

Extremely inflammatory and stereotypical innuendo, especially given none of the facts of the story suggested such a thing.

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