It's always someone else's fault.

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  1. Uncle Albert

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    That bus driver shoulda stopped my baby before society turned him into a violent delinquent piece of shit!

    :sob:

    Yeah? And is the police department going to pay his legal fees if he intervenes and one of the darling little cherubs is injured? Can't win either way. What's important to remember is that it's not bad parenting or a culture averse to disciplining the little shits that is at issue here. It's that the 64 year old bus driver was incapable of the ninja wizardry necessary to pull three teenagers apart without hurting them or himself. His fault!

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  2. Dinner

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  3. RickDeckard

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    Who are you attributing words to the effect of those in the OP to? If anyone is complaining it is the victim of the assault, not the perpetrator or his parents.
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  4. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Your mom. :finger:

    I know that, but regardless of the speaker, the first thing out of their fucking mouth should not be faulting a geriatric bus driver for failing to force some dumb shit teenagers to act like human beings. Not the second through tenth thing, either.
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  5. Ten Lubak

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    If the bus driver intervenes he probably gets called a child beater and gets sued by those punks parents. Probably loses his job too because it contravenes what the handbook says. I agree, it's a no win for the guy.

    3 on 1 and kicking the kid while he's down, what a bunch of tough guys. Fucking losers. :dayton:
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  6. RickDeckard

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    So, you made it up so you could fuel your own outrage. Congratulations.
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  7. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Never claimed it was a direct quote. Fairly obvious to anyone with a pulse that I made that up. :dayton:

    Now, do you or do you not blame an aging bus driver for what a bunch of teenage punks do to each other?
  8. Dinner

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    Of course our own cops here in San Diego are a fucking cluster fuck of incompetence.

    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...e-four-days-in-jail-cell-awarded-4-1-million/

    That's a college student who goes to UCSD who got arrested as part of a "4/20" celebration but after arresting him the cops forget they locked him in a room, handcuffed... FOR FOUR FUCKING DAYS. He was not given food or water despite shouting all the time for help and in the end he survived by drinking his own urine.
  9. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    I hereby decree that from now on everything is Uncle Albert's fault. :bergman:
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  10. RickDeckard

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    It isn't a direct quote, an indirect quote or any other type of quote. It's a lie, since nobody said anything remotely like it.

    I don't blame the bus driver, but this is more misrepresentation. The incident was an assault with three older kids pounding one younger one, not a fight between equally irascable "punks" doing things to "each other".
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  11. Uncle Albert

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    I woulda thought you could go longer, but I guess the piss drinking is in line with the "rule of threes" for survival. That doesn't explain why he was covered in his own shit when they found him, though.

    :yuck:
  12. Uncle Albert

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    That's big of you, considering there's nothing to blame him for.
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    Well, you asked, amidst all of the other rubbish you posted to confuse everyone about what happened.
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  14. oldfella1962

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    If only that bus driver would have used a leather jacket!
    He could have stopped these fine young kids from "acting a fool."

    BTW to the family of the three older kids, this wasn't a beating, just a "fight."

    Why you wanna get these kids in trouble over a schoolyard scrap?
    Boy will be boys.
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    It's Booooshes fault.
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    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    This is why I have no moral inhibitions (only legal) against putting a bullet through the melon of young savage animals who will in time turn into older, stronger, meaner animals. Fuck after school programs, church leaders having a round-table discussion with neighborhood thugs, "think tank" seminars on how to turn "our" bored youth around. Fuck having to play victim because some people have no respect for human life. If all they understand is violence, give it to them tenfold buffet style.

    If that driver were to pull over, calmly empty a weapon into these animals heads then continue driving, he'd have more fans than fucking Justin Bieber. :thinking:
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    Well, what kind of society do we want?

    Do we want one where people say "none of my business," back off, and leave things to the authorities?

    Or do we want one where people are empowered to intervene?
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    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Since everyone gets butt-hurt when the authorities go all Rambo/Robocop anyway, can civilians who have a vested interest in their neighborhoods do much worse? If the Zimmerman trial proved that by god a jury of your peers just might see things your way when it comes to self defense, I don't see how citizens handling business when they see fit will diminish.

    That said statistically certain demographic groups commit proportionally off-the-scale violent acts, and that will complicate matters. If we play it on the level and all violent criminals are treated the same (regardless of ethnic group) the liberals will shit kittens.

    If you give certain groups a pass because of political pressure they will be empowered and commit an even larger percentage of the violent crime.

    Thank goodness I live in Georgia: black, white, hispanic, etc. you get all violent in public expect to get shot and get zero mercy. I think that's very fair.
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    On other forums I have noticed the right wingers are making a lot of hay about the kid who got beat up being white and the three kids who beat him up being black.
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    Kind of like how a bunch of left-wingers made a big deal out of a half-hispanic with a white name shooting a black in self defense. :diacanu:
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    Many, many people still doubt it was in self defense. More likely he stalked him and attacked him.
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  23. oldfella1962

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    Because most of us "right wingers" expect this. We know how the world works.
    White kid on a bus full of blacks rarely ends well.

    Funny though reverse the races and it would have been a vicious racist hate crime/attempted murder. Every black leader would be pissing themselves with joy over the opportunity to get their 15 minutes of fame organizing the outrage. As it stands now it's kids being kids, business as usual.

    This isn't a sitcom where little Tommy comes home with a black eye and a ripped shirt, while pipe smoking dad calmly explains how Tommy should stand up to the bully and explain to him how his actions are harmful and foolish.

    This is the jungle, baby!

    :facts:
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    Yeah, a 64 year old man against a bunch of teenage thugs. That will go well.

    That's why I carry a gun. I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'.
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    ^ Last week, I was on the top deck of the bus in Vegas. 8, 19 year old black kids got on.

    They didn't beat me up, I didn't shoot them, we actually had a great laugh together.

    If your a jungle cat, you don't need to be scared of the jungle baby! ;)


    *That was for Old Fella, not maud.
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    fixed
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    Many, many idiots believing it doesn't make it true. :facts:
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    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Dude, you really should do standup comedy! If Trayvon would have been white, it would have barely made the local news. If Zim were black and of course Trayvon black, again it would have barely made the local news.

    Left wingers only have so much outrage to go around - they need it for what's important.
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    This could have been prevented if the bus driver were armed. He could have shot those three punks while screaming, "This is for Trayvon!" No jury would have convicted him.
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    And then you two come along and prove my point wonderfully. :clap: Bravo. :diacanu:
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