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Old 06-11-2016, 08:15 PM
 
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Statistics are often flawed, but anecdotes are completely worthless.
Wrong. This is life - it is unpredictable. We aren't statistics...we are people, God's craziest yet most amazing animal. What makes this forum worth reading - stats? long-winded reports from sociologists? Yes, those thing, but also people's experience in the urban world. They are not worthless...they mean something. They tell untold stories within the stories everyone knows. They also counter well-accepted notions. That last part you are uncomfortable with.
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Old 06-11-2016, 08:15 PM
 
Location: Etna, PA
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Wonder if this will make the news: there's about fifty teenage African American youth having a brawl right now on Carson St by double wide grille
The first rule of Fight Club is...

Sounds like I need to get back in the habit of carrying when I go to South Side, even when I plan on an early evening.
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Old 06-11-2016, 08:18 PM
 
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Kids from Lincoln Place and Greenfield with bald heads, combat boots, Metallica t shirts and swastika tattoos. If it looks and acts like a skin head....... I encountered anti semitism for the first time in Allderdice. A classmate was harassed during our 9th grade orientation. I stood up for the dude and asked the antisemite if he had the courage to harass me for my blackness. He did not respond.
I shouldn't say so, unfairly, but from Lincoln Place I wouldn't be surprised.

My cousins lived in Greenfield their entire lives. My aunt and uncle are still there. Are you SURE this type was from THERE? I had never seen that sub-culture in that neighborhood. I worked a second job there for quite a while between 2010 and 2012.
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Old 06-11-2016, 08:18 PM
 
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The first rule of Fight Club is...

Sounds like I need to get back in the habit of carrying when I go to South Side, even when I plan on an early evening.
I was just sitting here outside & having a nice drink heard yelling & screaming thinking wtf, & then a big hoard comes past fighting literally in the middle of the street. Quite entertaining from the sidelines actually; no carrying needed as they seemed quite content with just fighting each other.
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Old 06-11-2016, 08:20 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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I was just sitting here outside & having a nice drink heard yelling & screaming thinking wtf, & then a big hoard comes past fighting literally in the middle of the street. Quite entertaining from the sidelines actually; no carrying needed as they seemed quite content with just fighting each other.
Lucky for them they didn't move their fight into the street whilst I was delivering or else they'd have been subjected to me laying on the horn until they moved it back to the sidewalk.
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Old 06-11-2016, 08:20 PM
 
Location: Etna, PA
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I was just sitting here outside & having a nice drink heard yelling & screaming thinking wtf, & then a big hoard comes past fighting literally in the middle of the street. Quite entertaining from the sidelines actually; no carrying needed as they seemed quite content with just fighting each other.
Be bloody mindful when you head back to your car though!
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Old 06-11-2016, 08:23 PM
 
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Be bloody mindful when you head back to your car though!
The strange part was that there were cops there; but just slowly following the group down the street
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Old 06-11-2016, 08:24 PM
 
Location: Etna, PA
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The strange part was that there were cops there; but just slowly following the group down the street
Maybe waiting for backup?
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Old 06-11-2016, 08:28 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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I hope as many people as possible nearby were recording this brawl with their cell phones so as many of these juvenile delinquents as possible can be charged!

Also, no, these weekly street brawls shouldn't just be brushed off as "kids being kids" or "normal urban behavior". I've made some stupid decisions as a youth, but none of them would EVER involve making a personal vendetta very public to the point of invoking physical violence in the street.
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Old 06-11-2016, 08:30 PM
 
Location: Etna, PA
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Also, no, these weekly street brawls shouldn't just be brushed off as "kids being kids" or "normal urban behavior". I've made some stupid decisions as a youth, but none of them would EVER involve making a personal vendetta very public to the point of invoking physical violence in the street.
There's that "privilege" talking again

But seriously, its time to start arranging summer vacations at Shuman for these kids acting up like this in public - things are getting a bit out of hand.
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