Car passenger beaten to death by mob

Xaccers · 21-06-2007, 13:44

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6224538.stm

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An angry Texas crowd has beaten and killed a 40-year-old car passenger after a driver injured a young girl near the site of a busy local festival.
Police said the driver of the car had stopped to check on the health of the girl, said to be aged three or four.

It happened in a car park, the driver was going slowly, they stopped to check on the girl who only had minor injuries, and a crowd beat the passenger to death.

Words fail me.

**Damien** · 21-06-2007, 13:46

I can only hope the people are haunted till the end of their lifes by their horrible horrible act. The mob mindset is one of the worst things about mankind.

bopdude · 21-06-2007, 13:50

Although this is murder, and murder is murder, it does say that the beating could have been from 'as little' as 2 people, lets not jump on the mob thing, or are we gonna be as guilty as 'the mob'

And no, I'm not saying that this is a lesser crime, or isn't as brutal, it's just not been proved to be a huge bloodfest of a mob.

icestar2 · 21-06-2007, 13:59

It a sad thing to see. The guy stops to check on the girl and gets killed for his trouble. Whoever attacked him should be hunted down and given a sentence they deserve.

Sirpingalot · 21-06-2007, 14:04

I'm not quite sure what to say.

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It's just terrible.

Osem · 21-06-2007, 14:09

Very odd - could there have been a racial motive? The victim appears to be hispanic and it was a primarily afrocaribbean festival. Seems an awful overreaction to what was a minor event.

alferret · 21-06-2007, 20:13

Only in America

**Paul** · 21-06-2007, 20:18

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Originally Posted by alferret

Only in America

I think you will find that such stupidity is not just limited to America.

Osem · 21-06-2007, 20:21

Correct - wasn't that long ago that a paediatrician was beaten up by a mob in this country who thought he was a paedophile FGS!

alferret · 21-06-2007, 20:26

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Originally Posted by Paul M

I think you will find that such stupidity is not just limited to America.

Well for the moment this kind of stupidity AFAIK hasnt happened in the UK, maybe it has happened in other countries and I have not read it in the international pages of the Times, but as were only few years behind the yanks it wont be long before its common place here in the UK, hopefully not though (fingers crossed)

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Originally Posted by Osem

Correct - wasn't that long ago that a paediatrician was beaten up by a mob in this country who thought he was a paedophile FGS!

Bit of a difference being a passenger in a car or a suspected peado though.

Xaccers · 21-06-2007, 20:31

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Originally Posted by alferret

Bit of a difference being a passenger in a car or a suspected peado though.

No there isn't, neither had done anything wrong (although in the case of the Paediatrician, her house was graffitied, don't remember one getting attacked).
I am aware of two innocent families who were driven out of their homes because of anti-paedophile mobs, and several car owners who's cars were torched, oh and nearly all of Portsmouth's paedophiles going underground so the police no longer knew where they were, all thanks to the Paulsgrove riots.
Nice one guys.

A group of gurkhas also kicked a 13 year old boy to death in a bar because he and his mates got lippy.
Who out of the group actually killed the boy was undetermined, so they all got off scott free.

alferret · 21-06-2007, 20:42

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

No there isn't, neither had done anything wrong (although in the case of the Paediatrician, her house was graffitied, don't remember one getting attacked).
I am aware of two innocent families who were driven out of their homes because of anti-paedophile mobs, and several car owners who's cars were torched, oh and nearly all of Portsmouth's paedophiles going underground so the police no longer knew where they were, all thanks to the Paulsgrove riots.
Nice one guys.

A group of gurkhas also kicked a 13 year old boy to death in a bar because he and his mates got lippy.
Who out of the group actually killed the boy was undetermined, so they all got off scott free.

I stand corrected about it not happening in the UK....

But I still think there is a difference between a passenger in a car and a peado.

For there to be a mob after a peado then something must have been said or done for people to single out this person, to accuse them of being a peadophile and then doing what they did, but is someone who got out of the PASSENGER SIDE OF THE CAR not the driver who was the one who hit the little girl, and they beat this person to death for caring enough to take the time to look at the child, well as i said ONLY IN AMERICA, the holier than thou country that really needs to take a long hard look at itself.

JMO

punky · 21-06-2007, 20:46

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Originally Posted by alferret

Well for the moment this kind of stupidity AFAIK hasnt happened in the UK, maybe it has happened in other countries and I have not read it in the international pages of the Times, but as were only few years behind the yanks it wont be long before its common place here in the UK, hopefully not though (fingers crossed)

Yeah, because every fight in the UK is always one-on-one

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Bit of a difference being a passenger in a car or a suspected peado though.

That would be a great comfort to the victim, i'm sure.

Osem · 21-06-2007, 21:00

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Originally Posted by alferret

I stand corrected about it not happening in the UK....

But I still think there is a difference between a passenger in a car and a peado.

For there to be a mob after a peado then something must have been said or done for people to single out this person, to accuse them of being a peadophile and then doing what they did, but is someone who got out of the PASSENGER SIDE OF THE CAR not the driver who was the one who hit the little girl, and they beat this person to death for caring enough to take the time to look at the child, well as i said ONLY IN AMERICA, the holier than thou country that really needs to take a long hard look at itself.

JMO

They attacked the entirely innocent paediatrician because they were too ignorant to know what a paediatrician is and confused the word with the term paedophile! Ironic that people who claim to have the interests of children at heart should do such a thing don't you think?

Xaccers · 21-06-2007, 21:01

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Originally Posted by alferret

For there to be a mob after a peado then something must have been said or done for people to single out this person, to accuse them of being a peadophile and then doing what they did

You want to know how little it takes???
All it takes is to kick out a tenant who hadn't paid rent for 3 months, and his ******* gf and her drug addict joyriding loser kids!
That's all it effing well takes!!
27 incidents I had against my home because in revenge he spread rumours!
Windows broken, fence ripped down, car torched, my sister's car torched, replacement car smashed up with a brick, house broken into countless times, I used to walk around in my home with a dumbell bar incase they tried anything while I was home.
Calling someone a paedo is a way of justifying their attacks and rallying others to join in, just to make someone's life hell!
No one cares if the person is or isn't a paedo, it just lets them take out their agression on someone.
Are you saying what was done to me was justified because of that sick act of revenge????
I was lucky, I managed to get away, if I hadn't then I'd probably not be here right now, either beaten or burnt to death in my own home.