Feud Between Two Alabama Families Turns Into Full-Scale Riot

Foxnews.com ^ | 8/25/09

[DogBarkTree]

MARION, Ala. — Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats.

Eight people were arrested, and at least four were hurt, Trooper John Reese said. Two were taken to hospitals. The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK.

The two- or three-year-old feud apparently prompted a fight earlier in the day at a high school, after a window was shot out of a home Sunday night. Then, "all hell broke loose" later in the day, said Sgt. Carlton Hogue of the Perry County Sheriff's Department.

"It was a full-scale riot is what it was," said Tony Long, mayor of the town of 3,300 about 85 miles west of Montgomery.

Hogue said the rioters were "throwing jack irons, throwing tire irons, anything they could get their hands on." Some people carried baseball bats and brooms.

[DogBarkTree]

Never bring a broom to a bat fight.

[AppyPappy]

Amazingly, these families did not have names.

[Dumpster Baby]

Amazingly, these families did not have names.

The Amish are a Plain People.

[madison10]

This thread is useless without photos. :)

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Amazingly, these families did not have names.

Maybe that's the cause of the feud. Without proper names, they get referred to as "the dorks with the brooms" and "the jerks with the bricks" or something.

[everlast]

ROTFLOL

[BenLurkin]

Hatfields?

McCoys?

[JRochelle]

LOL, I would have suspected the amish too, but then they generally have no need for tire irons.

:)

[johniegrad]

Amazingly, these families did not have names.

The riot started over a dispute on a basketball court.

[RoadKingSE]

Was one a them famblies name Hatfield?

[Just another Joe]

The Amish are a Plain People.

Thank you for the first laugh of the day.

[Repeal The 17th]

amateurs...
everybody knows that tire irons ain’t no good for hurling...

[BenLurkin]

"Those arrested are Charles Sawyer, George Sawyer, Littenger Moore, Joseph Moore Curtis Moore and a juvenile. They were jailed in Marion Monday afternoon. The jailer said he had no information on the detainees’ ages or addresses."

"Marion Chief of Police Tony Buford, left, talks strategy with officers from various departments Monday morning in Marion where about 150 people took to the streets after a weekend of tension between two of the largest families in the city."

Source: http://www.selmatimesjournal.com/news/2009/aug/24/investigation-continues-marions-melee/

[johniegrad]

Hatfields? McCoys?

Latisha?

Jameel?

[Repeal The 17th]

“...The town’s police chief was
hit in the head with a crowbar
but was OK...”
-
Dang

[TSgt]

More detail from AP sources...

We’re doing an investigation to see what we come up with,” Buford said in a news conference just hours after the melee on Martin Luther King Memorial Street.

Cynthia Walker, a member of one family involved in the incident, said the tension developed after three men allegedly jumped on her son after a basketball game during the weekend. “He needs to get from over there,” Walker said of her son. “He was on the wrong turf.” One of the men who allegedly threatened Walker’s son had three teardrop tattoos under his eyes. Said Walker, “He told me he’d put two more under there, one for my son and one for the other boy. He said he’ll show them what those tattoos are all about.”

[AppyPappy]

Maybe we can get Mutual of Omaha to mediate.

[TSgt]

Notice the DA's name! Folks, you can't make this stuff up!

District Attorney Michael Jackson said he and members of the Marion Police Department have leveled charges against those arrested.

[BenLurkin]

Charles?

George?

Joseph?

[johniegrad]

Maybe we can get Mutual of Omaha to mediate.

Sounds like a situation Marlon Perkins and "Jim" would be comfortable in. Just like all those expeditions they used to do in Africa.