Had my first experience with Brasilian robbers tonight

[MOBIUS]

And yet I notıce a dıstınct lack of fırearms ın everyone's storıes...

And I notice 'victim' written all over your forehead...

[KrazyHorse]

albie

Why don't you move out of your **** armpit of a neighborhood, you ****ing moron?

[MOBIUS]

No. Don't really need one sınce I lıve ın the cıty although had I owned one, I wouldn't have gotten robbed because I would have been drıvıng home from work. My car probably would have been broken ınto though, just lıke people broke ınto my house twıce, once whıle I was ın the house.

Philly sounds worse than a 3rd world warzone...

[KrazyHorse]

I have no sympathy for this moron.

He chooses to live somewhere that his weakness is constantly taken advantage of.

[Al B. Sure!]

Philly sounds worse than a 3rd world warzone...

Well, you ever heard of the MOVE incident?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101850527-141842,00.html

The afternoon was sultry, and along the deserted block of neat brick row houses in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia, an ominous calm had descended. Suddenly the thwack of rotors broke the silence. A blue-and-white Pennsylvania State Police helicopter arced in low over the roof-line. It made several passes over the street, then hovered 60 ft. above the two-story home at 6221 Osage Avenue.
In the helicopter cabin, Lieut. Frank Powell, chief of Philadelphia's bomb- disposal unit, hefted a canvas satchel holding two 1-lb. tubes filled with a water-based gel explosive. After lighting its 45-sec. fuse, Powell leaned out of the helicopter bay and dropped the device on the roof. His target: a fortified, bunker-like cubicle about 6 ft. square and 8 ft. high.

All was quiet for the next half-minute or so. Huddled on rooftops and in the doorways of nearby row houses, flak-jacketed police officers put their hands over their ears. Then there was an orange flash and a powerful explosion that sent wood, metal and a cloud of dust flying into the air. Said a resident of adjacent Pine Street: "The blast didn't just shake the windows, it shook our entire house."

From behind police lines, residents of Osage Avenue, who had been evacuated the previous evening, watched in disbelief as a column of thick black smoke rose from the rooftop. Minutes later flames appeared, mere flickers at first, then a mountain of orange. The fire raged unchecked as officials delayed responding so the flames (they later said) would burn through the roof and drop the bunker. Then they planned to drop tear gas through the opening. Just so, they hoped to flush out the occupants of the house, a bizarre radical cult known as Move.

But the strategic fire soon became a phantasmagoric inferno. Half an hour after the explosion, firemen finally moved to control the blaze. There was a rattle of gunfire in or around the Move compound, and according to some reports, the police returned it. Ordered back out of range, fire fighters watched as the flames spread first to adjacent houses, then down the street.

On Pine Street, Barbara Johnson, wife of Philadelphia Daily News Staff Writer Tyree Johnson, viewed the blaze from her front porch. "You could see the flames, 20, 30 feet above the rooftops, reaching over like blazing fingers, igniting houses first on Osage, then adjacent houses on Pine. Soon a solid wave of flame was sweeping down the street."

Suddenly a naked child dashed from the flaming wreckage near the Move headquarters. A team of policemen charged in pursuit. "They grabbed him by the shoulders and just carried him off," says Johnson. "His feet kept paddling, like he was walking on air." The terrified child was probably Birdie Africa, 13, who with Ramona Africa, 30, was one of the two known survivors from the Move compound.

As firemen in black-and-yellow gear crept on their arms and knees along the sidewalk, hoses coiling behind them, police in blue jumpsuits ran from doorway to doorway and, as some observers claimed, paused to return gunfire from the Move house with an array of shotguns and automatic weapons. Cameraman Pete Kane of Channel 10, a local CBS affiliate, watched the action from an upper story window just 100 yds. from Move's headquarters. "Debris was flying everywhere," he says. "Entire trees were exploding in fire." As night fell, the flames tinged the Philadelphia horizon red. Finally, at 11:47 p.m., even < as houses continued to burn, the fire department declared the blaze under control.

In Move's headquarters, authorities found eleven bodies, four of them children. The fire had destroyed 53 houses and severely damaged eight others. It left some 240 people homeless. The financial cost: at least $8 million. The historic City of Brotherly Love was numb, the onlooking world aghast. In newspapers and on television, the story created a first-glance impression that Philadelphia police had launched a cruel military operation against an entire neighborhood.

[Krill]

What font is Alby using, and can we ban him for not dotting his is'?

[Al B. Sure!]

What font is Alby using, and can we ban him for not dotting his is'?

I wıll cross my T's but not dot my I's!

[KrazyHorse]

It's too bad the rest of the city didn't go up too.

[Al B. Sure!]

It's too bad the rest of the city didn't go up too.

The mayor was re-elected, belıeve ıt or not, after that. It was all race polıtıcs though wıth all the whites voting for the hardlıne former mayor and polıce commıssıoner Rızzo and all the Blacks votıng for Goode, even though he ordered the operatıon that led to all those houses beıng burned down in a predomınately Black neıghborhood.

[Asher]

I assume Toronto, beıng a large and almost Amerıcan-lıke cıty has a lot of crıme as well... but sınce the rapper Drake ıs from there and he's a rıch boy, ıt can't be Detroıt level crıme.

Wikipedia says Drake ıs from Forest Hıll, Toronto. Is that a rıch area, Asher?

I'm curıous. Drake talks about growıng up wıth a posıtıve upbrıngıng but I'm curıous ıf he was just mıddle class or actually rıch.

Forest Hill is the nicest area of Toronto. Mostly Jewish people in mansions.

Drake is half-Jewish, so...

And no, Toronto's crime rates are very, very low compared to any large American city.

Crime in Toronto has been relatively low for a very long period of time; the low crime rate in Toronto has resulted in the city having a reputation as one of the safer cities in North America. Recent Toronto Police Service statistics show that crime has been falling steadily in the city since 1998, a total drop of 33% for all crimes reported between the period of 1998–2008.[1]
For comparisons to various cities in North America, in 2007 for example, the homicide rate for the city of Toronto was 3.3 per 100,000 people, yet for Detroit (33.8), Atlanta (19.7), Chicago (15.5), San Francisco (12.3), Boston (10.3) and New York City (6.3) it was higher, while it was only marginally lower in Vancouver (3.1), San Jose (2.9) and Montreal (2.6). Toronto's robbery rate also ranks low, with 207.1 robberies per 100,000 people, compared to Detroit (675.1), Chicago (588.6), Los Angeles (348.5), Vancouver (266.2), New York City (265.9), Montreal (235.3) and San Diego (158.8).[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Toronto

[Asher]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hill,_Toronto

Forest Hill is an affluent neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Along with Rosedale, and The Bridle Path, it is one of Toronto’s three wealthiest neighbourhoods.

Here is what their schools look like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bishop_Strachan_School.JPG

[MOBIUS]

Why are the Americans such uncivilised animals - is it something in the water?

[Al B. Sure!]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hill,_Toronto



Here is what their schools look like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bi...han_School.JPG

Nıce job. They dıdn't teach you how to use /ımage tags ın your Comp Scı courses?

So Drake ıs a rıch boy. Interestıng.

[Al B. Sure!]

Why are the Americans such uncivilised animals - is it something in the water?

Well Amerıcans typıcally shower daıly and Europeans don't so, we get more contact wıth the water...

[KrazyHorse]

The mayor was re-elected, belıeve ıt or not, after that. It was all race polıtıcs though wıth all the whites voting for the hardlıne former mayor and polıce commıssıoner Rızzo and all the Blacks votıng for Goode, even though he ordered the operatıon that led to all those houses beıng burned down in a predomınately Black neıghborhood.

at douchebags who capitalize "black".