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Teen girls assault two women in Carbondale
Glenwood Springs Post Independent ^ | 2/4/09 | Pete Fowler

Posted on 02/04/2009 11:32:10 AM PST by GSWarrior

CARBONDALE, Colorado — She traveled the world alone and had never been assaulted by anyone until Thursday in Carbondale.

She lived there for about 2 1/2 years because she loved the town and thought it was safe. Now, she feels uncomfortable even walking to work to teach at one of Carbondale’s schools.

“It’s chiefly the emotional component to all of this,” she said. “I can handle the physical injury. I can handle getting new credit cards and a driver’s license, but the fact that I don’t feel comfortable walking to school. I feel like such an idiot. I reveled living in this town for years.”

This 26-year-old woman and a 24-year-old female friend were attacked Thursday around 8 p.m. by three teenage girls. They were walking toward downtown by Second Street and Maroon Drive.

The woman asked that her real name not be used for the story and will be referred to as Jane.

She and her friend heard the sound of running footsteps behind them. They turned around and saw three high-school aged girls. Their faces weren’t covered.

No one said anything. Jane and her friend kind of brushed it off and continued walking. They even laughed at themselves for feeling a little uncomfortable because they were in Carbondale, after all. Carbondale seems like a safer place than Chicago, where Jane is from, or places around the world she’s visited by herself, including developing countries, she said.

“We kind of joked to each other that it feels like we’re being followed by a gang,” she said. “But we kind of laughed because — oh — we’re in Carbondale.”

Less than a minute later, Jane heard running footsteps again, started to turn around and got punched in the side of the head. She remembers seeing the girls wearing bandannas pulled up to just under their eyes. She doesn’t remember hearing anyone say anything. At one point two girls were on top of her.

“At that point things get a little jumbled in my head because I was hit so many times,” she said.

Jane said she suffered a serious black eye, pain and bruising with a total of around five or six different marks on her face. She said her friend suffered similar physical injuries. In the past, Jane had suffered a head injury that caused her to go into a coma, she said, and each blow could have been tremendously damaging. But the worst injuries from Thursday’s assault were emotional.

As the assault ended after probably less than a minute, Jane and her friend saw the girls heading to a car that had a number of guys in it. They got the license plate and vehicle description and called the police.

Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling said officers located the suspected vehicle soon after in the City Market parking lot. Three of four teenagers in the car received citations, and a total of seven teenagers had received citations within one or a few days as officers completed interviews and investigation. The suspect teenagers ranged from 13-17 and lived in Carbondale and Glenwood Springs. They were all cited with aggravated assault. The three girls also received robbery charges.

Jane said Carbondale police response was “amazing.”

She believes the girls maybe were trying to prove something to their friends. She didn’t know the girls or why they were targeted. It’s awkward, Jane said, when friends and people who see her bruises, hear the story and inevitably ask and she has to answer that, yes, the attackers were Hispanic. Jane and her friend are white.

“I don’t know how race plays into this,” Jane said. “I hate to think that. … I think it’s possible.”

Schilling said he does not believe the attack was racially motivated, and the crime seemed like one of opportunity for financial gain.

Jane said the attackers didn’t demand money, and they only took one of the two purses. She said it’s ironic that the attackers probably didn’t know she is working for a master’s degree in bilingual education. She also just booked her tickets to Mexico to practice Spanish and start a special education program for abused children.

“You probably didn’t think about how this action could result in a teacher contemplating leaving her beloved students and school, because she is so disgusted by what could occur just blocks from her own home,” Jane said to her attackers in a guest commentary.

One of the toughest parts of the assault is trying to explain to young students why people would want to hurt their teacher.

She said she probably will stay in Carbondale because she’s stubborn, she’s already starting to feel better and has an amazing network of friends. They’ve equipped her with pepper spray and suggested self-defense classes. She’s still nursing her eye and some swelling and soreness in her head.


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KEYWORDS: carbondale; crime; hatecrime; messicants; teenagers
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To: pabianice

I’ve been being irritated by that lately myself. White males.


21 posted on 02/04/2009 11:44:06 AM PST by ichabod1 (Change is not a destination, Hope is not a strategy)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
She said it’s ironic that the attackers probably didn’t know she is working for a master’s degree in bilingual education. She also just booked her tickets to Mexico to practice Spanish and start a special education program for abused children...

It's ironic that she's going to be in a position to influence young people...and thinks that the perps cared about her career, one way or another.

22 posted on 02/04/2009 11:45:09 AM PST by gogeo (Democrats want to support the troops by accusing them of war crimes.)
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To: Lee Heggy123
Look like a sheep and get eaten by wolves carry concealed. A good way to hunt wolves.

Hope you don't mind the slight modification!

23 posted on 02/04/2009 11:45:37 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: GSWarrior
Jane said Carbondale police response was “amazing.”

She believes the girls maybe were trying to prove something to their friends. She didn’t know the girls or why they were targeted. It’s awkward, Jane said, when friends and people who see her bruises, hear the story and inevitably ask and she has to answer that, yes, the attackers were Hispanic. Jane and her friend are white.

“I don’t know how race plays into this,” Jane said. “I hate to think that. … I think it’s possible.”

Schilling said he does not believe the attack was racially motivated, and the crime seemed like one of opportunity for financial gain.
Jane said the attackers didn’t demand money, and they only took one of the two purses. She said it’s ironic that the attackers probably didn’t know she is working for a master’s degree in bilingual education. She also just booked her tickets to Mexico to practice Spanish and start a special education program for abused children.




Everybody that is suprised please raise your hand . . .

. . . . . . . . . .

That's the response I usually get. Nothing.
24 posted on 02/04/2009 11:45:54 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: GSWarrior
She said it’s ironic that the attackers probably didn’t know she is working for a master’s degree in bilingual education.

What's ironic about it?

Hispanic gangs don't care about education.

Neither do any other gangs.

25 posted on 02/04/2009 11:47:21 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: gogeo

“But I’m PC ! Why would they hurt me ?”


26 posted on 02/04/2009 11:47:32 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: daku
learn to enjoy the beatings, at least you are providing teens with much needed exercise

Gang beatings also serve as valuable peer-bonding exercises!

27 posted on 02/04/2009 11:48:41 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: GSWarrior

Two liberal idiots. Hopefully they learned something from this.


28 posted on 02/04/2009 11:48:50 AM PST by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: GSWarrior
Jane said the attackers didn’t demand money, and they only took one of the two purses. She said it’s ironic that the attackers probably didn’t know she is working for a master’s degree in bilingual education. She also just booked her tickets to Mexico to practice Spanish and start a special education program for abused children.

Ah. A naive leftist was the victim.

29 posted on 02/04/2009 11:50:38 AM PST by mc6809e
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To: Palladin

>Ladies, you need concealed carry in your state.

I was thinking the same thing.
At that close range it’d be hard to miss, assuming you had enough wherewithal and surprise to act... but then again, a knife is MUCH easier to use under those circumstances as the dump of adrenaline will disrupt your fine motor-control.


30 posted on 02/04/2009 11:52:15 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Palladin

bttt

Gang initiation.


31 posted on 02/04/2009 11:56:35 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TChris; GSWarrior; neverdem

Liberals think that guns are dangerous.

Maybe , after this beating, she might become a conservative.

Or she may need several more beatings, first.

Lots of liberals in Carbondale.


32 posted on 02/04/2009 11:59:17 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuntB

Ping!

Know any more facts in this case, AuntB?


33 posted on 02/04/2009 11:59:52 AM PST by wolfcreek (There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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To: Nea Wood

What’s the old saying?

A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged...


34 posted on 02/04/2009 12:00:48 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (B.O. ? BOHICA!!!)
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To: Nea Wood
"Two liberal idiots. Hopefully they learned something from this."

You're dreaming. Liberals are incapable of learning anything. Your only hope is that they bought the Liberal schtick despite their better instincts.

35 posted on 02/04/2009 12:02:03 PM PST by YHAOS
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To: pabianice

And they always run away!

Talk about false advertising.


36 posted on 02/04/2009 12:04:22 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That’s the article summarized.


37 posted on 02/04/2009 12:05:10 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
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To: GSWarrior

There is a reason Mexico is a cesspool. As Vicente Fox proudly proclaimed “Mexico does not stop at the US border.”

We need to wake up and deport 100% of the criminal aliens, now.


38 posted on 02/04/2009 12:18:09 PM PST by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: GSWarrior

Yes, gang initiation.

And yes, also racist. They picked easy targets. White people walking down the street generally don’t think about kicking the holy sh1t out of someone, or think THEY are going to get pounded on.


39 posted on 02/04/2009 12:21:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Gang initiation, culture clash, dark side of diversity...


40 posted on 02/04/2009 12:22:57 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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