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Old 10-31-2016, 09:34 AM
 
Location: PNW, CPSouth, JacksonHole, Southampton
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Well, first, there was the shooting, Video released of Jackson block party shooting, and then there was the stampede. The shooter (Jackson Police release video of shooting suspect | WJTV News 12) managed to send six people to the hospital, this year. Previous years' fraternity block parties, if my memory serves me correctly, had more impressive body counts. Or were those pool parties? (Ryan Henderson Murder: Jackson State Football Players Beat Student Before Shooting Him, Victim's Mother Alleges | Huffington Post

Dowager Soybean Empress called with the details, last night. Apparently, quite a few people were injured in the stampede, with frantic people running all over the neighborhood, trying to get into houses, to avoid the gunfire. If someone has links to the footage of that, please post them! I'm looking for the total number of people who were trampled in the stampede (Soybean Empress says, "a BUNCH"), but that seems to have been omitted from online reports.

JSU Homecoming Weekend totally energizes the City of Jackson(Jackson State University celebrates homecoming | WJTV News 12), with successful alums pouring into the town, for a weekend of tailgating, and honoring their wonderful football heroes (Jackson State alumni react to Carolyn Meyers' resignation - MSNewsNow.com - Jackson, MS). They bring propane tanks in their posh RVs, and you can see turkeys being deep-fried, in impromptu parking lots, along such elegant thoroughfares as State Street. Marching bands and beautiful girls abound, during Jackson's most special weekend of the year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMXO2NE2ag

So, the mood was festive, despite the resignation of Jackson State's flawlessly-coiffed President, Doctor Carolyn Meyers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RdR2vkI4Ys). It's not as if it were HER FAULT, that 37-or-so-million-Dollars has been spent or misplaced or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxEZIPxNQE But the mood of uncertainty caused by the resignation, may have added to the tensions leading to the shooting.

Things were going so well, on the school's beautiful campus, with its brick sidewalks, and then, this shooting and stampede had to happen. At this rate, the Brazilians may never come back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4RlIfayZ1g

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Old 10-31-2016, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Madison, MS
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You don't live in Mississippi and you're not funny
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Old 11-03-2016, 01:29 PM
 
Location: PNW, CPSouth, JacksonHole, Southampton
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You don't live in Mississippi and you're not funny
Why thank you, my special Heart-O'-Palm! I don't know what I'd do, without your timely reminders regarding my place of residence. Otherwise, I might forget that I live in Oregon. You seem to pop-in, whenever there's a holiday of some sort. I'm touched that you take the time to drop by tell me that I'm not funny. I know that trick-or-treaters thronged your house (surely, your whole neighborhood loves you, and your house is a favorite stop for tots and parents alike), and so feel honored that you'd work me into your busy Halloween schedule (and Winter Holidays schedule, and Thanksgiving schedule, and Easter schedule...).

You provide a valuable service. You know how all the vile traitors, who've built their careers selling-out and exploiting the American People, have been lining-up to tell us what a bad man Donald Trump is? Without them, I wouldn't have been so SURE Donald is the best Candidate. I mean, if all the biggest creeps who've ever slithered around Washington hate him, how could I fail to love him? Unwittingly, those people have endorsed Donald, by attempting to damn him.

And that's your place in my universe, Special Pumpkin. Your messages amount to little endorsements. After I hear from you, I'm SURE that, to use words from 'The Help', I'm smart, kind, and important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H50llsHm3k Thank you, ye Sparkly Snugglebunny, for taking the time to brighten my day!

And now, for news regarding the 2016 Jackson State Homecoming Fraternity Block Party Massacre & Stampede. They've FOUND the (alleged) Shooter!

Those pics taken during the Massacre, made his derriere look kinda wide, and his shoulders look kinda narrow. But actually, he's pretty cute. His eyebrows are quite nice. And I commend his choice of SQUARE Cubic Zirconia, rather than the usual round ones, for his ears. They look much more masculine: Man wanted in weekend block party shooting turns himself in - MSNewsNow.com - Jackson, MS
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Old 11-04-2016, 11:59 PM
 
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It wasn't a massacre, as you describe it. Yes, people were shot, but no one died.
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