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notyou posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 2:51:49 pm» quote
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I've gotten two warning against women being slashes in the face by gang initiates tonight.
As follows:
"As you two know, during the day, I manage public housing projects in Times Square.
I received a memo at work stating that gang activity is continuing with violent initiations tonight, October 31st, and will be targeting 30 young women. Legitimate sources have confirmed this, and stabbings began last night.
One of my coworkers just got a call, in her neighborhood- 3 girls faces were slashed around noon today on 125th st.
4 women in Brooklyn were stabbed last night...."
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"hey all
i just want everyone to be aware that today and tonight there is some sort of bloods/folk nation initiation thing going down. they are particularly having girls target females on the street. they run up and slash the person's face or stab them.
this started yesterday and there have been multiple stabbings in the bronx and harlem. its supposed to continue more so tonight.
the police precinct chief here in the bronx thinks that it will be city wide (at leats in the areas that have bloods) and worse tonight, with retaliations also happening.
i don't want to rumor monger (but this is happening up here), however, tonight everyone just be aware of what is going on and be safe."
Is anyone else getting these emails about gang initiation tonight? (6381 views)
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Colonial Wburg posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 2:53:43 pm» quote
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Hi: I received this from what I consider a very reliable source so I am sending it on to those of you that I email on a regular basis. Please watch for it and be careful. Love, Karen
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
Hi All, checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus. I checked Snopes (URL above:), and it is for real.
Get this E-mail message sent around to your contacts ASAP.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS!
You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message with an attachment entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,' or 'POSTCARD FROM A FAMILY MEMBER,' regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list. This is the reason why you need to let all your contacts know about this. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it.
If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even though sent to you by a friend, do not open it! Shut down your computer immediately.
This is the worst virus announced by CNN. It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
COPY THIS, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US
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9 y.o. virgin posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 3:03:37 pm» quote
- who done what now, billy
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brooklyn_ael posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 3:03:46 pm» quote
- Someone actually did get slashed/mugged about a week ago on olive and metropolitan. I have no idea if it was related though.
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Colonial Wburg posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 3:03:51 pm» quote
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Hi All -
I think you all know that I don't send out hoaxes and don't do the reactionary thing and send out anything that crosses my path. This one, however, is a friend of a friend and I've given it enough credibility in my mind that I'm writing it up and sending it out to all of you.
My friend's friend was dating a guy from Afghanistan up until a month ago. She had a date with him around 9/6 and was stood up. She was understandably upset and went to his home to find it completely emptied. On 9/10, she received a letter from her boyfriend explaining that he wished he could tell her why he had left and that he was sorry it had to be like that. The part worth mentioning is that he BEGGED her not to get on any commercial airlines on 9/11 and to not to go any malls on Halloween. As soon as everything happened on the 11th, she called the FBI and has since turned over the letter.
This is not an email that I've received and decided to pass on. This came from a phone conversation with a long-time friend of mine last night.
I may be wrong, and I hope I am. However, with one of his warnings being correct and devastating, I'm not willing to take the chance on the second and wanted to make sure that people I cared about had the same information that I did.
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666 SKULLS posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 3:34:02 pm» quote
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starchild posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 3:09:00 pm
Its quite real. Some of my students are in this gang and slashings have already happened today. A Trinitario just posted above folks. Believe the hype and take care of your people.
is it caketown?
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Iamtryingtothink posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 3:49:31 pm» quote
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have you heard? now they are fucking with the candy?!
shocking [thefolklorist.com]
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eliz posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 4:08:32 pm» quote
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caketown posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 2:55:11 pm
my students have been talking about this all day. they also assert that seven girls were raped last night and that is also part of it. basically my point is that anyone who believes this is a moron.
i dont understand why you wouldnt believe your kids who most likely know a lot more about it than anyone else would
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Colonial Wburg posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 4:13:37 pm» quote
- LOL ELIZ YOU FUCKING DUMMY
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MakersMarkII posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 4:16:29 pm» quote
- every 5th can of pepsi has an AIDS laced al-quaida bomb in it. watch out, yo.
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Iamtryingtothink posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 4:29:31 pm» quote
- Babysitter Cooks Infant [www.snopes.com]
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thefirstthing posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 7:29:03 pm» quote
- I got some facebook message saying that..uh hope its not real
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aroundthewayboy posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 8:17:34 pm» quote
- the only slashing tonight is gonna be when Eliz shivs some old dominican lady who asks her what time it is.
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stainedandlit posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 8:37:06 pm» quote
- my best friend in san fran just IM'd me and told me not to get my face slashed tonight
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MakersMarkII posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 8:39:13 pm» quote
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"U GOT SLASHED!!"
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annihilaters posted this on October 31st, 2008 @ 9:11:32 pm» quote
- I picked a good year to have a toy gun as part of my costume.
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goldsoundz posted this on November 1st, 2008 @ 8:41:52 am» quote
- You guys must not watch the Wire or the Shield or you'd know that gangs and cops mostly have a truce until a white girl gets killed.
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lila_engel posted this on November 1st, 2008 @ 6:09:00 pm» quote
- this seeped into work last night. waitresses were all, "i'm afraid to go hooooooome."
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lila_engel posted this on November 1st, 2008 @ 6:23:51 pm» quote
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me: "uh- why wouldn't it be on the news? we have the news on in the bar. they're showing the parade. if ladies were getting shot (our version was shooting not slashing) it would be on the news."
them: "I KNOW FOR A FACT it's true. my cousin emailed me."
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sweetwillis posted this on November 1st, 2008 @ 6:24:57 pm» quote
- my friend came and got me from the bar around the corner because i was paranoid about crazy people doing crazy things.
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Idontbelong posted this on November 1st, 2008 @ 10:16:59 pm» quote
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NSFMoms, or The Death Toll: Two men dead in three shootings and four stabbings across the city
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goldsoundz posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:53:29 am» quote
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ben posted this on November 1st, 2008 @ 8:46:10 pm
ahem...
"public housing projects in Times Square."
I actually know a girl who posted this and does in fact manage public housing projects up around there.
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goldsoundz posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 10:17:12 am» quote
- Though, it doesn't mean she wasn't gullible in this case.
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goldsoundz posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 10:18:32 am» quote
- Thomas, have you ever seen Death Wish?
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goldsoundz posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 10:24:29 am» quote
- The main point of the movie is that Bronson starts off as a weepy liberal until his wife and daughter are raped and murdered.
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thomas posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 12:50:56 pm» quote
- that's funny because I left staten island because of the rampant cocaine/pills/drugs/crime that all of my friends are still involved in there. It's funny because I did all that cocaine when I was 16-18 and now I see 25-30 year old adults in williamsburg who are sniffing 95% baby laxative thinking they are getting "high". And I laugh about it because.... I know better.
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thomas posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 12:56:08 pm» quote
- And I feel less safe in some parts of staten island than I do in a lot of places in brooklyn & manhattan where most of you gentrifiers dwell. My point is this : Irrational panic and fear isn't going to help, the only thing that is going to help anyone in avoiding a situation is awareness and knowing your environment. I really can't say that I feel bad for the scrawny white kid who gets mugged stumbling home drunk through bushwick at 4 AM fumbling with his iphone trying to booty call some girl.
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Lindsay Lohandjob posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 12:58:58 pm» quote
- why does his race matter
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sheepdip posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 1:32:27 pm» quote
- Thomas, you're such a dick sometimes! just because someone is an unaware shmuck doesn't mean you shouldn't feel bad for them being mugged. you've had a gun pointed at you at some juncture in your life, right? that shit sucks. being scared and made to feel unsafe sucks and is stupid and it sucks even when shitty people are put in shitty positions because they're PEOPLE first and foremost. where's your empathy at, homeboy?
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Lindsay Lohandjob posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 1:34:15 pm» quote
- seriously thomas sometimes i really just want to shake you. you use your "peace love" peace-symbol flash when it's convenient (so that you can evade questioning and refuse accountability) but mostly you're an agry dick who should probably try a therapeutic method other than weed to deal with your shit
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Lindsay Lohandjob posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 1:47:30 pm» quote
- yeah and i acknowledge that and go to therapy 2x a week. you could benefit from a large dose of self-awareness.
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real_original posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 1:55:50 pm» quote
- thomas, you know when you stand for peace & love, that it should be all-encompassing, right? even for those who put themselves in a vulnerable position.
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fjørd posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 1:58:29 pm» quote
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thomas posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 12:56:08 pm
I really can't say that I feel bad for the scrawny white kid... with his iphone
self-loathing crystallized
thomas posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 1:44:10 pm
My empathy doesn't lie with those who choose to take what they've been given and throw it to waste
::sings::
~ASSUMMMMMMMMPTIONS~
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Lindsay Lohandjob posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:01:27 pm» quote
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fjørd posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 1:58:29 pm
::sings::
~ASSUMMMMMMMMPTIONS~
i heard this in my head as being sung to the tune of "tradition" from fiddler on the roof.
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baggies posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:02:01 pm» quote
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violence against random people is usually spurred by dumb desperate teens, not gangs. a good friend of mine was beaten to death with a metal baseball bat in nj. rumors were going around that it was part of gang initiations that targeted the south asian population of Newark (most of them being international students at NJIT), but that turned out to be untrue.
Courtesy: Star Ledger
WILLIAM KLEINKNECHT
March 3rd, 2005
NEW JERSEY: A young South Orange man pleaded guilty yesterday to the robbery and fatal beating of an pizza deliveryman who had just graduated with honors from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Phillip Pounds, 18, was in tears in Superior Court in Newark as he admitted using a baseball bat in the 2003 killing of Nabeel Siddiqui, a 24-year-old Pakistani immigrant whose parents spent their life saving to send him to college.
Turning to Asim Khan and Kalim Khan, two of Siddiqui's uncles sitting in the audience, Pounds said he never meant for the robbery plot by himself and three other teens to end in the student's death.
"I never intended the death of your family member," he said. "I am sorry for putting you through all that you are going through. I'm sorry. I'm just sorry."
Pounds pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter, robbery and other charges stemming from the Sept. 27, 2003, attack on the 5-foot-2, 110-pound victim on Haxtun Avenue in Orange.
In exchange for his guilty plea, Assistant Essex County Prosecutor Romesh Sukhdeo agreed to reduce a murder charge to aggravated manslaughter and recommend that Judge Betty Lester sentence him to no more than 25 years in prison. Lester set the sentencing for April 19.
In his plea, Pounds said he and the other teens called in a pizza order to Domino's about 9:30 p.m. and agreed that Pounds would hit the deliveryman with a baseball bat in the legs so they could take his car.
"I hit him with the bat," Pounds said when the judge asked him what happened after Siddiqui arrived.
"In what part of the body?" she asked.
"In the head," he answered.
"How many times did you hit him?"
"Once."
Pounds said he fled on foot after the robbery, and one of the other youths took Siddiqui's 1995 Nissan Altima.
Siddiqui lingered in a coma in the hospital for 10 days before dying, enough time for his mother to come from Pakistan and be outside his room.
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Lindsay Lohandjob posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:03:56 pm» quote
- not to belabor the point but thomas, can you see how your conception of who deserves violence is sort of fucked up? as in the above example, where it wasn't a "scrawny white boy" who got beaten, so therefore you might think the life has more value since you think "scrawny white boys" deserve it but a southeast asian does not?
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thomas posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:05:34 pm» quote
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roland you left out the "drunk staggering through bushwick at 4 AM" part of that sentence, which is pretty important considering it's something I'd never be doing.
Promoting Peace & Love does not discount one from pointing out the stupidity/ignorance of others. I can't be nice all the time.
it is what it is.
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ghobot posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:06:28 pm» quote
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Thomas justice is swift and incongruous.
Post has a story about a guy wearing a grim reaper costume slashing a guy defending his woman on the six train.
That lady diana that does your area is working to ban machetes in NYC because it has been reported to be a weapon of choice of some gang in the area. This is very far from the 70s and 80s.
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white_trash posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:08:43 pm» quote
- haha "46%"
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Lindsay Lohandjob posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:10:47 pm» quote
- hahaha god i give up. final point: i might have an angry persona on the board and in addition be a fairly tightly - wound person in general but at least i've never threatened to spit AIDS BLOOD at anyone. Goodbye thread!~!~!~!~
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Lindsay Lohandjob posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:12:45 pm» quote
- he feels like he's earned it since he lived around here when things were *really* dangerous and he knows that hipsters are doing really bad coke and this information allows him to be hip to the hipsters and eventually skim their women from their scrawny arms
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real_original posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:14:11 pm» quote
- pointing it out is one thing. being choosy about with whom you choose to empathize, especially if they don't exactly mesh with your ideals, does discount the whole "peace & love" angle you so love to tout. it's not about being a nice person. it's about being a good person. know the difference.
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thomas posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:22:07 pm» quote
- that this thread was created and all this shit is causing irrational fear & panic? That people instead of mistrusting every minority they see should just keep their eyes open and be more aware of what they are doing in the open world on the streets? That being a drunk fool and going through bad neighborhoods at 4 AM could get you in a bad situation?
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thomas posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:28:13 pm» quote
- What I'm saying is that we are all individuals and to an extent we are all responsible for our own safety. I'm not blaming anyone because it's fucked up that kids in shitty neighborhoods have nothing better to do than rob and terrorize people. Is it their choice to do that? yes. is it totally their fault? Some people have much fewer options than we
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666 SKULLS posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:34:34 pm» quote
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"Councilwoman Diana Reyna of Brooklyn is considering a bill to ban the sale of machetes, The NY Times reports. For those familiar with the recent gang activity in Brooklyn, the Williamsburg area especially, Reyna's desire to ban the weapon should come as no surprise. This year there have been a number of machete attacks, allegedly all gang-related.
For at least one gang, the Trinitarios, the machete is their weapon of choice — practically an identifying trademark — even showing them off on their YouTube videos. The Times reports that the local gang "has adopted the name — and evidently, the preferred weapon — of a revolutionary group that fought against Haiti during the Dominican Republic’s struggle for independence in 1844."
Currently machetes can be found at hardware stores, which stock them for gardening purposes — but New Yorkers can probably find another way to tend to their patches of green. As for the bigger problem, the rise of gang violence (with or without this particular weapon), Luis Garden Acosta, president of El Puente Williamsburg community development group, tells the paper that gangs are a growing concern amongst the organization, and they're currently discussing the problem with the 90th Precinct. He notes that the lure for kids to join gangs likely has to do with the "abrupt gentrification," saying, “From the perspective of a young person, this is a community that does not care for him or her. Out of that milieu, you have some young people who rebel.”"
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goldsoundz posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 2:38:40 pm» quote
- I can't imagine why the president of a Hispanic community development group might have an agenda.
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Berzerko posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:45:25 pm» quote
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He notes that the lure for kids to join gangs likely has to do with the "abrupt gentrification," saying, “From the perspective of a young person, this is a community that does not care for him or her. Out of that milieu, you have some young people who rebel.”"
what a horribly deceptive thing to say.
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white_trash posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 10:01:04 pm» quote
- yeah that was really fucking stupid
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9 y.o. virgin posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 10:11:42 pm» quote
- What the hell does Thomas know about ny in the 70s and 80s? From what he saw in movies? He wasn't even alive
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Lindsay Lohandjob posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 10:12:50 pm» quote
- hahahhhahahaha i'm sorry but that just made me laugh outloud really hard
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thomas posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 11:33:15 pm» quote
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9 y.o. virgin posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 10:11:42 pm
What the hell does Thomas know about ny in the 70s and 80s? From what he saw in movies? He wasn't even alive
let's see, my entire family is from NYC, everyone I work with is from the NYC area and the majority of them are 50 years or older... I know what NY was like in the 40's, 50's and 60's too
I've been told plenty of stories. I don't need to have been alive to know what it was like. I also don't need to have experienced that to realize the relative safety we enjoy today.
ROOTS.
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white_trash posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 11:34:21 pm» quote
- goddammit I was just about to go to bed
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9 y.o. virgin posted this on November 2nd, 2008 @ 11:47:17 pm» quote
- but any hipster dickbag has heard STORIES from people who lived here. I saw that shit firsthand but I'm still a hayseed, just like you
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