Feuding families cause riot of about 150 in Ala

Yahoo News ^ | August 24, 2009

[rdl6989]

MARION, Ala. – Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats. Eight people were arrested, and at least four were hurt, Trooper John Reese said. Two were taken to hospitals. The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK.

The two- or three-year-old feud apparently prompted a fight earlier in the day at a high school, after a window was shot out of a home Sunday night. Then, "all hell broke loose" later in the day, said Sgt. Carlton Hogue of the Perry County Sheriff's Department.

"It was a full-scale riot is what it was," said Tony Long, mayor of the town of 3,300 about 85 miles west of Montgomery.

Hogue said the rioters were "throwing jack irons, throwing tire irons, anything they could get their hands on." Some people carried baseball bats and brooms.

[dread78645]

Darker. Much darker ...

[Vigilanteman]

As of the census of 2000, there were 3,511 people, 1,184 households, and 819 families residing in the city. The population density was 331.8 people per square mile (128.1/km²). There were 1,418 housing units at an average density of 134.0/sq mi (51.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 62.46% Black or African American, 36.26% White, 0.26% Native American, 0.09% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.26% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. 0.97% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

72.4% of the county voted for Obama for president.

[rdl6989]

[coalman]

well,my brother married into that family,they are still uniquely hillbilly,then again my family had several famous feuds in scotland long ago,,,so their kids had no choice but to turn out a little feisty.

[Enterprise]

Oh Susannha
Don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With my tire iron on my knee

[tet68]

Yeah looks like she’d bite your kneecap off.
Like the little boy with the pistol too.
“Billyjoejimbob, he were a good lad.”

[rightinalabama]

Uhh.. As an Alabamian I think I can assure you that these feuders are NOT the Hatfields and the McCoys.

[John123]

but in Marion you just get swept to death with a broom.

It would be a very humiliating way to die... is this covered by the Geneva Convention? :)

[RummyChick]

more info:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090824/NEWS/908249949/1007?Title=Area-law-enforcement-responds-to-melee-in-Marion

“The mothers of 17-year-old Christopher Lewis and Timothy Moore, 15, said their sons were attacked by a group of 20 or so young men inside Sawyer Grocery following Sunday’s game”

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Do I hear banjo music?

[paul51]

That one guy on the right side looks like he has his revolver pointed at the little kids head

[American Constitutionalist]

Yeah... when these folks tell you to get off their land ( No Trespassing ) they meant it.

[RummyChick]

Well, the first picture in my mind was the Mccoys..but after I read the last article...I am tuning into a different vibe..one that may soon be something all of us are facing.

[John123]

Like the little boy with the pistol too.

Apparently those Hatfield and McCoy folks aren't familiar with gun safety... if you follow the line of sight of the boy's pistol... it is pointed to the dude on the right's privates...

[parsifal]

Don’t try to palm this picture off as the feuding families. I happened to attend this freeper meeting in Little Rcok, but I ain’t going to say which one is me.

parsy, who is shy.

[Jeff Chandler]

Quote from comments on the linked story:

>> 300 people riot and no one is injured? They suck at rioting. <<

[Jeff Chandler]

.I am tuning into a different vibe..

I got that vibe the moment I noticed the lack of photos and details.

[American Constitutionalist]

I was just using the picture ( The Hatfields ) as a example of American folklore of feuding families in the news story of the 2 feuding families in Alabama.
Whether the folklore is true or not about the Hatfields and the McCoys is for historians to work out.

[April Lexington]

Who wants to bet on the ethnicity?

[org.whodat]

Some of those are kind folk, you better back off!!!