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Cobb teen beaten at Six Flags quietly settles case for $35 million
WSB-TV ATLANTA ^ | 30 MARCH 2018 | BEN BRASCH

Posted on 03/31/2018 6:00:52 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Facebook COBB COUNTY, Ga. - The frights are supposed to end at Six Flags Over Georgia once you get off the rides.

That wasn’t the case for Joshua Martin on July 3, 2007.

The 19-year-old Marietta kid was with his brother and their friend just outside the park when several gang members descended upon them at a bus station 200 feet from the amusement park’s property line.

It was a flurry of brass-knuckled punches and kicks.

Martin had a shoe print embossed on his forehead when he was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital from Austell.

He was in a coma seven days and suffered severe brain injuries.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsbtv.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: crime; georgia; sixflags
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1 posted on 03/31/2018 6:00:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“gang of between 15 and 40 people roamed the park”

Amish?


2 posted on 03/31/2018 6:03:15 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Sad. Parks should be safe; the animals should be put down. Wonder what has become of them since they obviously weren’t.


3 posted on 03/31/2018 6:05:34 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Trump can't deliver and folds like a typical Republican, maybe he should be impeached.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Three of the four "gang members" (that's the nice word for them).

Look at the first dude. Notice the resemblance to Einstein?   /s
 

4 posted on 03/31/2018 6:07:17 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: dynachrome

Norwegian tree-hugging Druids!


5 posted on 03/31/2018 6:07:38 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

yeah, that’s the ticket!


6 posted on 03/31/2018 6:08:24 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Too bad no concealed carry was around .... the police were 10-20 minutes away if not on break.


7 posted on 03/31/2018 6:08:26 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Who will Obama claim as his son? All of them or just one?


8 posted on 03/31/2018 6:08:51 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: dynachrome

“Many seasonal employees gang members”. Yeah, I’m never going there again


9 posted on 03/31/2018 6:10:57 PM PDT by Josa
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To: dynachrome

Yep, with one of the perps named ‘DeAndre’, they surely must all be Amish. </sarc>


10 posted on 03/31/2018 6:13:13 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

If it was not on Six Flags’ property, why are they liable?


11 posted on 03/31/2018 6:14:41 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: dynachrome

Most likely: Willie Gray Franklin Jr., Brad McGail Johnson, DeAndre Evans and Claude Morey III.


12 posted on 03/31/2018 6:15:02 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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> “Many seasonal employees gang members”. Yeah, I’m never going there again <

Most probably a wise move. Take the family fishing instead. But what would happen if Six Flags tried to weed out suspected gang member employees/applicants? Al Sharpton would be down there in a New York minute. And then the lawsuits would start flying again.


13 posted on 03/31/2018 6:18:36 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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“If it was not on Six Flags’ property, why are they liable?”

Apparently park security was repeatedly notified about the gang but didn't remove them. A jury awarded the $35M, it was tossed on appeal, then reinstated by the state supreme court.

14 posted on 03/31/2018 6:21:38 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Didn’t you read that? There was a “security guard”. Oh, and he was an off duty “cop”. Just let the thugs run rampant, though. “Security” dude must’ve had his training in Broward County, FLA.


15 posted on 03/31/2018 6:21:52 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2020)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Look at the first dude. Notice the resemblance to Einstein?”

Not as much hair, otherwise a STRIKING RESEMBLANCE.


16 posted on 03/31/2018 6:24:53 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He was in a coma seven days and suffered severe brain injuries.


17 posted on 03/31/2018 6:32:21 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Odd. There was a time when Cobb County did not put up with criminal behavior. At least a few of the evil creeps were arrested.


18 posted on 03/31/2018 6:44:15 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

The po-leece was setting up a perimeter.


19 posted on 03/31/2018 6:45:40 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The neighborhood around 6 flags is very rough now, not wise to go there because of that and because you wait in line for everything. I refuse to wait in long lines to give someone my money. Maybe the management will try to clean up the place now but once that element sets in, it is usually fatal to the business in question.


20 posted on 03/31/2018 6:51:59 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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