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Bed-Stuy Granny clings to Life After grandson hits her in her head brick during Rock Throwing
New York Daily News ^ | December 16, 2011 | BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA & SARAH ARMAGHAN

Posted on 12/16/2011 6:53:07 PM PST by SMGFan

A grandmother was clinging to life in Brooklyn Thursday night after her grandson bashed her in the head with a brick during a fight in the middle of the street, fire and police sources said.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/bed-stuy-granny-clings-life-grandson-bashes-brick-article-1.992437#ixzz1gkvaso7h

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brick
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How do you go from throwing rocks ( rocks? Really?) to clocking her in the head with a brick? How well was granny really throwing?
1 posted on 12/16/2011 6:53:16 PM PST by SMGFan
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I had to venture into Bed-Stuy a few years ago to locate an accident witness for an insurance fraud investigation.

Frankly, I'm surprised I made it out of there without being bashed in the head with a brick...

2 posted on 12/16/2011 7:00:19 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Why are there rocks in the street?


3 posted on 12/16/2011 7:01:43 PM PST by Kipp
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To: Joe 6-pack

I’ve been stranded in the combat zone
I walked through Bedford Stuy alone


4 posted on 12/16/2011 7:07:27 PM PST by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: SMGFan

Merry Rock-throwing.


5 posted on 12/16/2011 7:10:15 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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must be a hard core, welfare, ebt, trash, commie, lazy reparations type obammie neighborhood.

the neighborhood with shot-spotter

6 posted on 12/16/2011 7:14:38 PM PST by BOOHA
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To: Joe 6-pack

It is time to put serial numbers on all bricks
and begin a brick registration process of all brick owners.


7 posted on 12/16/2011 7:14:59 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: SMGFan

8 posted on 12/16/2011 7:16:04 PM PST by I see my hands (The old sod ne'er shall be forgot.)
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To: BOOHA

“It’s a Family Affair”.?


9 posted on 12/16/2011 7:16:52 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: BOOHA

Bed-Sty is Harlem without the Apollo Theater or the A-Train.


10 posted on 12/16/2011 7:20:26 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: I see my hands

Ignatz?


11 posted on 12/16/2011 7:21:03 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: SMGFan

Merry Christmas Grandma!


12 posted on 12/16/2011 7:38:56 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SMGFan

It doesn’t say, but last I knew, Bed-Stuy was an all-black slum, worse than Harlem ever was.


13 posted on 12/16/2011 7:39:23 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I’m more shocked that it took 2 people to write this short article.


14 posted on 12/16/2011 7:40:32 PM PST by floridavoter2
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To: SMGFan

Hit me in the head with a brick and maybe that headline will make sense.


15 posted on 12/16/2011 7:42:59 PM PST by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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It’s so funny how they put the stock photo of the brick under the headline. Weird.


16 posted on 12/16/2011 8:06:54 PM PST by rake ("more rubble, less trouble" VD Hanson)
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To: SMGFan

“... lived on Monroe St. near Malcolm X Blvd.”

Or, how to say it is a black neighborhood, with saying so.


17 posted on 12/16/2011 8:11:27 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: SMGFan

Good song. Late ‘71 iirc.


18 posted on 12/16/2011 8:16:43 PM PST by bobby.223
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"Wot chew in fer?

"I kilt my gramma wit a brick. She wunt give me no mo mony."

"No wunner you kilt her."

19 posted on 12/16/2011 8:28:47 PM PST by holyscroller ( Without God, America is one nation under)
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Why are there rocks in the street?

So there's something to throw.

20 posted on 12/16/2011 8:32:53 PM PST by Hugin ("Most time a man'll tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear"--Open Range)
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