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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parsy the dead ring tailed...........
Great Pic. I think they are the Hatfields.
Apparently the only things you know about Alabama come from TV. Banjo? Steel guitar, maybe...or two turn tables and a microphone.
I was just kiddin’ around.
I meant no disrespect.
None taken. As a California boy who spent 15 years in the south due to military assignments, I like to make folks aware that the stereotypes of the south aren't quite right. Some are close, but they are usually only half of the story. Cheers.
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