Posted on 10/27/2006 7:18:40 PM PDT by teldon30
Police issued a warning today for all area business owners of foreign descent after another west Mobile home was robbed at gunpoint and its occupants held hostage and forced to lie on the floor. Three men forced their way into a home of a foreign born Mobile business owner in the 1000 block of Regal Drive around 8 p.m. Thursday, according to Mobile police.
The men ransacked the house and took an undisclosed amount of cash and other property, police spokesman Officer John Young said in a news release. No one was injured in Thursday's invasion, and the men fled in an unknown direction, Young said.
A similar incident happened Sunday night when three armed, masked men forced their way into a Wesley Court home during a party celebrating the end of Ramadan and held 13 people hostage while they stole money and jewelry, police said.
"All area business owners of foreign descent should exercise extreme caution in their travels and be very aware of their surroundings at all times, noticing any suspicious activities or people in and around their homes and businesses," police said today in a news release.
I'm guessing, from the reference to Ramalamadingdong, that it is mooselimbs who are being targeted and not all non-Americans.
Thank you, Johnny Cash:
Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on Cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a-round.
So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.
The first day I got me a fu-el pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's Mobile home.
Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.
The trans-a-mission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song.
Now the headlights was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.
The back end looked kinda funny too,
But we put it together and when we got thru,
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."
So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.
Yeah, but...
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a-round.
(Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on...
Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?
Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56
'57, '58' 59' automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
'68, '69, '70 automobile.
A bit of whimsy of a Friday night, esp since the Cards just won the Series in LESS THAN seven games for the first time since 1944...
....With a Flash out outta Fordham, they knocked in runs and scored 'em
....The Gas House Gang was full of fight and nerve...
Well, heck I know the tune, so I'll let all the DE-TROIT fans sing it among themselves.
And, St. Louis, tomorrow morning, will not have seen fires and general vandalism as DEE-TROIT saw in 1984 (how Orwellian of them, eh?).
This was the owner of a couple jewelery stores in the area. In the first robbery, the perps were described as having an African accent (not African-American).
Some said Jamaican....weird stuff.
Yup. That's what I meant to say. Jamaican, I just couldn't think of that for some reason.
So? In this case, what seems to have happened is a bunch of thugs broke into a generally innocent family's house and stole from them, considering since they happened to be Muslim that they were fair game or society would be as offended. From what was reported, the blame is firmly on the thugs.
Your attitude is pretty disgusting (opinion, of course).
"a bunch of thugs broke into a generally innocent family's house"
My comment concerned the deliberately distorted reporting, extending not to the issue you raise.
"Your attitude is pretty disgusting"
See my note just above. That said, my attitude is that about one-tenth of the Sahara should be set aside as a mooselimb reservation, and open season declared outside it.
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