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Pregnant Teen Attacked by Strangers on Packed Seattle Bus
http://abcnews.go.com/US/pregnant-teen-attacked-packed-seattle-bus/story?id=12414910 ^ | Dec 17, 2010 | EMILY FRIEDMAN

Posted on 12/17/2010 10:51:10 AM PST by Wile E Coyote Genius

A busload of people did nothing to stop a pack of teen girls from beating a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend despite pleas from the victims that she was carrying a baby. The behavior was caught on the bus' surveillance camera and later helped police in Seattle locate the five attackers.

"I'm shocked," said Sgt. John Urquhart of the King County Sheriff's Department. "The video is shocking to look at.

"The ferocity, the intensity, the unprovoked nature" is shocking, he said. "But what shocks me most is that these girls thought they could do this on a crowded bus with adults and do it with impunity."

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: attack; bus; hatecrime; moralabsolutes; pregnantteen; seattle; transportation
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To: Wile E Coyote Genius

The perps thought they could “Get ova on da cracka”


41 posted on 12/17/2010 11:38:17 AM PST by Lazamataz (Only 19 days of Democrat fascism left!)
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To: G Larry
What percent of bus riders are confident, proactive people?

That's a good point.

One reason I'll never again be a city-dweller is that it hinders self-reliance and all that follows from it. (Jefferson was right: The best hope for preserving a free people lies outside the city limits.)
42 posted on 12/17/2010 11:39:59 AM PST by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: TexGuy

The less virtuous a people, the greater the need for laws.

A great truth that needs repeating ...
________

My thought exactly.

Colonel, USAFR


43 posted on 12/17/2010 11:40:03 AM PST by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: Frantzie
The Lakin bashers are typical drooling idiots watching TV’s 24x7 propaganda, ball games and dreaming that Prince AL Waleed’s Fox News is their savior.

Thank GOD for Prince Al Waleed! He gives me Fox News to watch! I love watching TV all day and night, and I even record ball games to play them while I sleep.

Television will save America, especially things that Prince Al Waleed creates for us!

44 posted on 12/17/2010 11:40:38 AM PST by Lazamataz (Only 19 days of Democrat fascism left!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Clearly a hate crime because the victim is singled out for no discernable reason. Everybody has earbuds in now days. The MP3 player was used to draw the victim into the confrontation, thereby “justifying” the violence against her. It's bullcrap, and if people don't wake up and stand up we will all pay the price.
45 posted on 12/17/2010 11:41:32 AM PST by John.Galt2012 (I'll take Liberty and you can keep the "Change"!)
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To: Lazamataz

You are a good little sheep.


46 posted on 12/17/2010 11:42:10 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: Frantzie
It's much more than that. I have been effective at getting formerly-politically-involved conservative friends over, so we can all watch TV and create a small shrine to Prince Al Waleed, who is truly the best man in the world.

Join us, friend. We have popcorn. Kettle-cooked.

47 posted on 12/17/2010 11:44:28 AM PST by Lazamataz (Only 19 days of Democrat fascism left!)
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To: Wile E Coyote Genius
I have long ago vowed NEVER to ride on a Seattle Metro Bus. If an incident happens, and they often do, the drivers are instructed not to get involved. Just to let the beating happen and let Seattle police handle the incident. A few weeks ago a ruffian was caught on camera harassing other riders, and then picking one out followed the gentleman off the bus, where he was beaten unconscious for no reason. The driver at no time got involved. Just let it all happen. It was a ruble video to watch. There are other incidents as well.

Even waiting for a Seattle bus can turn deadly.

Man charged in attack on stranger at a bus stop

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2013612289_man_charged_for_allegedly_atta.html

A Seattle man who allegedly stabbed a stranger in a random attack last month has been charged with first-degree assault.

Tarvel Moyer, 38, was arrested on Nov. 24 for the attack in Des Moines. He is being held at the King County Jail in lieu of $750,000 bail.

According to Des Moines police, a woman was walking north in the 23000 block of Pacific Highway South toward the bus stop around 10 a.m. on Nov. 24 when Moyer approached her. Moyer mumbled something at the woman and then lunged at her, driving a knife into her chest. Moyer never said a word to his victim. He walked away after the attack.

48 posted on 12/17/2010 11:44:59 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: Wile E Coyote Genius
The next event regarding this will be the obligatory prosecutor twisting himself into a pretzel to avoid pressing hate crime charges. "Well, it looks like robbery or something was the motive".
49 posted on 12/17/2010 11:46:33 AM PST by Hacksaw (“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy” — H.L. Mencken)
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To: rahbert
"...Well break it down.
What would happen to a man who laid a beatdown on the girls?
Could you imagine the testimony? I don’t blame the adults for not stepping up, I blame the liberal establishment who would punish the adult for doing the right thing..."


Rahbert, you are 100% correct.
In this wacky Twilight Zone country in which we reside, an innocent bystander adult simply trying to HELP would probably be charged with a crime by some annoying Liberal.
A decent, good, and law-abiding person riding the bus to/from work simply doesn't wish to get their life jammed-up.

50 posted on 12/17/2010 11:49:34 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: rahbert

If it’s like Florida, you have to be 21 to purchase a handgun.

That said, if I were on the jury she’d go free no matter.


51 posted on 12/17/2010 11:52:55 AM PST by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: RobRoy

No doubt the parents in Kent wish that they could be parents on Mercer Is. Of course the difference is a
couple hundred more thou per year, and few of the
denizens of Kent make that kind of nut.


52 posted on 12/17/2010 11:55:55 AM PST by rahbert
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To: Wile E Coyote Genius

The Pastor of my church, who was an Army Ranger, (and he never tires of letting you know) - when he first moved to Seattle back in the mid 1990s was riding a Seattle bus through the city. A belligerent man was going up and down the aisle harassing passengers. When he approached my Pastor, he told the man to sit down and shut up. The man asked my Pastor, “Who the hell are you?”. My Pastor responded, “I am the Army Ranger that is going to make you sit down, or I am a Pastor. Which one do you want me to be?” The man sat down and behaved himself for the rest of the trip, getting off at the next stop.

I heard him tale that story in several sermons, and I never tire of it.


53 posted on 12/17/2010 11:56:08 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

I’d much rather see his pastoral side in that situation..


54 posted on 12/17/2010 11:58:22 AM PST by rahbert
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To: Wile E Coyote Genius

Without reading the article, would I be a bigot if I assumed that the assailants were Swedish?


55 posted on 12/17/2010 11:58:29 AM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
Age of consent in Washington is 16.

Oh, never mind.


56 posted on 12/17/2010 12:02:30 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Frantzie

>>Seattle is a liberal toilet.<<

Yep. And why I moved to Kentucky.


57 posted on 12/17/2010 12:03:59 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RitaOK
Of course these thugs and brats have carte blanche wherever Concealed Carry is not the right of the people to enact a citizen arrest. It stops cold where people are permitted to defend themselves and others.

WA State actually has one of the most liberal CCW laws on the books, and one of the oldest. We are a "shall issue" state. WA State is also an open carry state, even on public buses. The problem is that not enough people excercise that right, especially in the liberal outpost called Seattle.
58 posted on 12/17/2010 12:04:10 PM PST by rickomatic
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To: ladyjane

He should have been a better shot before trying something like that.


59 posted on 12/17/2010 12:04:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: RobRoy
"...Blocked out the faces? Here is the raw video.
You get to see it all from start to finish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN7NmbEyxM0&has_verified=1..."


That video apparently offended YouTube's delicate sensibilities.
Perhaps it didn't sit well with a certain YouTube demographic / constituency?
I saw the original video and it is pretty eye-opening.

60 posted on 12/17/2010 12:07:55 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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