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Feuding families cause riot of about 150 in Ala
Yahoo News ^ | August 24, 2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: familyfeud; fracism; racism; racists; riot; shalowgenepool
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To: Osage Orange

Don’t read my number 100 over there. You’ll really get mad. But its all true. I swear! And this has nothing to do with that Oklahoma girl. Or her crazy relatives. Or the way she totally wrecked my life. The multiple stab wounds she inflicted. It has nothing to do with that. I swear.

parsy, who still bears the scars


61 posted on 08/24/2009 8:40:08 PM PDT by parsifal (Dare I mention the term common sense? Book of Vinnie - Chapter 58 Verse 1 (The Boomer Bible))
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To: Jeff Chandler

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

Thats a good one, they need lessons on riots...sounds more like a family picnic


62 posted on 08/24/2009 8:40:29 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

Three legged kid! That was priceless!

parsy, who is ROTFLMAO


63 posted on 08/24/2009 8:41:02 PM PDT by parsifal (Dare I mention the term common sense? Book of Vinnie - Chapter 58 Verse 1 (The Boomer Bible))
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To: parsifal

Parsy...still channeling some road-killed coon, I see.


64 posted on 08/24/2009 8:42:26 PM PDT by Osage Orange (A community organizer cannot bitch when communities organize..... - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: RummyChick; glock rocks; Brad's Gramma; SouthTexas
Oh my goodness!!! The chief of police is T Pusser Buford per your video link...
65 posted on 08/24/2009 8:45:41 PM PDT by tubebender (My tag line was last seen crossing the border into Oregon on highway 395 with 2 mangy dogs...)
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To: April Lexington
Marion, Alabama


66 posted on 08/24/2009 8:46:17 PM PDT by blam
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To: American Constitutionalist

Wish I owned the 5 gun’s in the picture........


67 posted on 08/24/2009 8:46:31 PM PDT by Osage Orange (A community organizer cannot bitch when communities organize..... - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: RummyChick

When the Clorox starts flying it’s getting ugly.


68 posted on 08/24/2009 8:46:56 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: blam

JUST AS I THOUGHT! Those wild and crazy Amish are simply out of control!!!!


69 posted on 08/24/2009 8:47:30 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: patriot preacher

70 posted on 08/24/2009 8:47:38 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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To: parsifal

To parsy who can hold his own in any debate, read a few today and got scared off...:O)


71 posted on 08/24/2009 8:48:16 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Jeff Chandler

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

That cracked me up.


72 posted on 08/24/2009 8:51:26 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: org.whodat

LOL. I have both Hatfield and McCoy relatives.


73 posted on 08/24/2009 8:53:48 PM PDT by miele man
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To: miele man
It's amazing how thin skinned people are that are not from the hills.
74 posted on 08/24/2009 8:56:02 PM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: Osage Orange

I, uh, answered your post with the true story of what happened.

parsy, the pure and sweet


75 posted on 08/24/2009 9:00:36 PM PDT by parsifal (Dare I mention the term common sense? Book of Vinnie - Chapter 58 Verse 1 (The Boomer Bible))
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To: goat granny

Whew, they were all over me, weren’t they? Hey, I learned a few things, and maybe some others did, too.

parsy, who got worn out


76 posted on 08/24/2009 9:02:33 PM PDT by parsifal (Dare I mention the term common sense? Book of Vinnie - Chapter 58 Verse 1 (The Boomer Bible))
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To: org.whodat

They jus hafta learn to pay it no never mind! (:^)


77 posted on 08/24/2009 9:13:31 PM PDT by miele man
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To: miele man

http://www.wvculture.org/hiStory/crime/hatfieldmccoy01.html


78 posted on 08/24/2009 9:20:04 PM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: tubebender

Nope, ain’t none of my kin, they’re all down on the coast.

Or used to be anyway.


79 posted on 08/24/2009 9:26:36 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: SouthTexas
To tell you the truth when I saw that old picture I was positive I saw Jed, Granny, Jetro and Daisymae in there...
80 posted on 08/24/2009 9:37:47 PM PDT by tubebender (My tag line was last seen crossing the border into Oregon on highway 395 with 2 mangy dogs...)
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