Posted on 08/24/2009 7:49:00 PM PDT by 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.
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You wouldn’t smile either if all your teeth had been kicked out by your little sister...
I didn’t see that at first on my laptop. Looks like two guns are pointing where they shouldn’t and he is thinking his hands might offer some protection.
A game of “pick-up basketball” gone awry.
See my answer at 35. I actually wrote that before I saw your comment. This actually does look like some of my family on my father’s side. Way back up in the woods and hills.
parsy, who remembers having to go drag his cousins out of the woods where they hiding when they heard the car coming
Gotta be East Texas folks, I recognize the hound dog.
Who was the brain dead idiot who stood still long enough to click the shutter for that photo. I’ll bet the sheriff counted at least 27 bullet holes in him when these... these... these... er, when they saw the finished photo...
Our wimmen’ll kick yer ass!
April Lexington wrote:
Who wants to bet on the ethnicity?
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I’m with you April. Let me just say that family fueds of the type described here — and the “Hatfields & McCoys” of historic infamy — went out DECADES ago down in the South. With a few exceptions, all us “bumpkins, “rednecks” and “hillbilly’s” are pretty well behaved now, at least by comparison. So, y’all Yankee folks poke fun at “us-uns.” But I don’t think it was our “brand” that started that riot. Sounds more like an urban affair to me....
LOL, I’m really a relative of the Hatfield!! But some people cannot take a joke!!!
It ain’t the Hatfields. This was the Arkansas freeper meeting of 2000, when Gore tried to steal the election. We were all riled up. We decided to get a group picture. Then we hit the moonshine. Fired off a few rounds. Sicced ‘Ol Blue onto a couple of raccoons, and had a feast.
parsy, who says those were the days
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Then I will talk to either parsy or his handler...
video from news station
http://www.cbs42.com/content/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoid=13332
Even used Clorox as a weapon
Nope...this is the first I've heard of this. I'll have to look on the map to find Marion.
I think they are born with a gun in their hands...don’t need no stinkin gun safety...
no 3 legged dog, but one 3 legged kid in the picture..
One thing we can be assured of, the people 100 - 150 years ago were real and rugged and knew how to deal with any situation.
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