Posted on 04/17/2009 6:50:36 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police believe that sidewalk chalk may have promoted a shooting on Thursday that left one man injured and another in jail.
The shooting occurred at about 4 p.m. in front of a home on Sestos Drive, located on the city's south side.
According to police, four children were using chalk to draw on a sidewalk when Jeffrey McDowell, 59, came out of his home and told them to stop,
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When chaulk is outlawed...
Only outlaws...
...will have chalk.
I never know what kind of trouble you
ll get into when you use chalk.
Ban it. Do it for the children!
I’d have gone out an joined the fun. What a grouch he was.
This could all be fixed with a good community organizer.
I guess it depends on what they were writing....
chalk one up for the bad guys???
The chalk was the root cause of this shooting and we all know how liberals love to look for the root causes.
Good point
We had an experience recently where some young men wrote some unacceptable things about our daughter in front of our house. It was innocent - they did not realize how what they wrote could be interpreted by people of an older generation, our neighbors, in particular. We sat them down and explained the importance of protecting a young lady’s reputation....
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