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Lost Illinois man murdered when he asks for directions in Coconut Grove
Sun Sentinel ^ | July 31 2006 | Marlene Naanes

Posted on 07/31/2006 9:49:08 AM PDT by Fawn

Authorities were searching Monday for a man who witnesses said shot and killed an Illinois tourist who was asking for directions.

After dropping his son off at a shopping mall, Ronald Gentile, 54, pulled over in the Coconut Grove area Saturday afternoon, police said. Witnesses reported seeing Gentile roll down the window on his rented white Chevrolet Cobalt. A man dressed in black then apparently approached the vehicle, robbed and shot Gentile.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: bringinmore; crime; diversity; floriduh; illinois; miami; uncivilizedpeople; urbananimals
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To: calljack
Get back in your car,find a bridge, get across the river and ask somebody over there, now git outta here"

Cross the bridge into Camden NJ and your're as good as dead. If you think Philly is bad, go see Camden, NJ.
21 posted on 07/31/2006 10:02:25 AM PDT by yobid (Islam is a disease and its death is the cure - deus clypus meus)
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To: jaydubya2
Clark Griswald : "Excuse me, holmes? What it is, bro? ... "

"Honey, we can't close our eyes to the plight of the cities. Kids, are you noticing all this plight? Yeah, this'll just make us appreciate what we have." *gunshot*

"Roll em up....."

22 posted on 07/31/2006 10:02:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jaydubya2

Honky Lips... ;-)


23 posted on 07/31/2006 10:03:11 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Individual Rights in NJ
Dearborn? LOL

I'll keep that in mind the next time I visit Ford World HQ.

24 posted on 07/31/2006 10:04:29 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

A friend of mine just got back from a couple of days at Greenfield Village/Ford Museum last week. She said at one point they were out driving and ended up in Detroit. She said, "My God, it's like a different country!"


25 posted on 07/31/2006 10:06:46 AM PDT by day10 (Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
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To: ameribbean expat

It's time to stop killing our people. We must set a timetable
for unilateral withdrawl.
I'd like to see a survey of the most unliveable
cities in the United states because of crime.
Those crime ridden areas continue to flourish
because we treat them as victims just as the U.N.
perpetuates terrorism.


26 posted on 07/31/2006 10:07:01 AM PDT by ChiMark
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To: Fawn

When I have rented from Avis, I got a great little GPS unit that you can push a button, and talk to an actual human being who will help you. Fabulous investment for the extra 9 bucks a day, IMHO.

Recently in Phoenix I rented from Alamo which had the most useless POS GPS system..You had to key everything in-not easy when you are going high speed on a crowded freeway, and for addresses in Gilbert, it basically couldn't find them.

The POS GPS from Alamo was definitely not user friendly.


27 posted on 07/31/2006 10:07:26 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: Fawn

Boy, if I didn't live in Florida, I wouldn't go there on vacation. I don't think they like tourists there.


28 posted on 07/31/2006 10:09:11 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: calljack
Back in the early 70's while looking for gas I got lost off the south side of Chicago late at night.

There was nothing open and I was getting down to where I was going to run out somewhere. So I eased into a closed for the night gas station and parked in with the rest of the beaters awaiting service, and then spent the rest of the night laying low (literally lol)

RW
29 posted on 07/31/2006 10:09:26 AM PDT by RunningWolf (2-1 Cav 1975)
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To: calljack

Reminds me of when I went to Philadelphia, on the way to the airport, I went down a major street to get some azo standard for my daughter from drug store. We went in the drug store and there was a plaque for a police officer killed there. The streets were littered with papers and plastic bags. We went in McDonalds across from Walgreen's and one of the customers told us to get out of there pretty fast. We left post haste.


30 posted on 07/31/2006 10:09:46 AM PDT by mel
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To: MediaMole
"There's nothing quite like getting lost in a strange city, recognizing an area, then realizing that it was familiar because it was featured on the TV show "Cops."

LOL. Best one all day. Bad boy, bad boy.

31 posted on 07/31/2006 10:10:16 AM PDT by blam
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To: AppyPappy

"We should pull out of Miami"

Now THAT's a darned funny post FRiend.


32 posted on 07/31/2006 10:11:29 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: 1rudeboy

A friend of mine who is a truck driver said there are parts of Michigan that are like a whole other country.

He said that he saw signs on the drinking fountains in restaurants that said "This water is for drinking only" so that people wouldn't do their ablutions (ritual washing of various body parts that precedes prayer times) in them.


33 posted on 07/31/2006 10:12:08 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: calljack

Im from Chicago. IF you're white and get off one of the expressways, eg The Dan Ryan and wander off, then stop and ask for directions you're dead...I mean dead.


34 posted on 07/31/2006 10:13:11 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Thank you again Jimmy Carter.)
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To: dfwgator

Who do I look like? Christopher Columbo?


35 posted on 07/31/2006 10:13:46 AM PDT by billygoatgruff
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To: ameribbean expat

My brother lives in Coconut Grove, so I have been there to visit several times and I can tell you from personal experiance that the mall is in a very upscale part of the neighborhood.


36 posted on 07/31/2006 10:14:14 AM PDT by Boiler Plate (Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
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To: Fawn
YUP... sounds like the cops might blame the victim at least verbally.

Talk about Little Tehran

37 posted on 07/31/2006 10:14:57 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: mel
We went in the drug store and there was a plaque for a police officer killed there.

I know exactly where you were. 20 years ago that was a nice middle-class neighborhood. Now all the filthy babies/victims of the Great Society have driven out the good people and turned that part of Philly into Detroit. If you happen to be melanin-challenged, you are subject to robbery and/or summary execution for your crime.

38 posted on 07/31/2006 10:15:42 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Liberals are the Mongol herds destroying America from within.)
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To: Hatteras

"... I wonder if these guys know The Commodores."


39 posted on 07/31/2006 10:15:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: weeder; kjo
in that region of the country, it could be more difficult as the people could be a mix of various people groups (there are no races, or subspecies, of humanity)?

Seems reasonable. The media does not always hide the people group status of suspected criminals.

40 posted on 07/31/2006 10:19:35 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( http://www.answersingenesis.org)
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