Car rims so coveted, some people will even kill for them

chron.com ^ | 4-18-10 | Mike Tolson

[Tijeras_Slim]

Sorry we gave you the wheel Quanell, isn’t there anything thugs won’t F-up?

[Tijeras_Slim]

But naturally they won’t describe “which” people.

Look for Amish buggies with stylin' rims...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Back in the 1920s, the partners identified their target customer base as the chauffeurs of Chicago. There is a business school study waiting for someone...

[Fresh Wind]

[willyd]

Quanell X is an expert at blaming anything but the person who pulled the trigger, unless of course the person that pulled the trigger was a home owner protecting their property.

He was on the news awhile back attacking a Middle Eastern convenience store owner for selling the items to make a crack pipe in a particular neighborhood (not actual crack pipes). The whole time, gang members (who actually sell the crack to the community) were in the back ground flashing gang signs so they could be on tv. I think the ridiculousness of it all was lost on Quannel. This guy can’t be taken seriously unless you work for the Houston Chronicle.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is it just me, or does it seem that since the civil rights movement, the black community has gotten increasingly out of control? It seems that more and more, the ghetto element has gone mainstream. There was always a criminal element in the black community, and all communities, but, since the ‘60s, the whole ghetto bling element, the baby mama culture, has taken over entire cities, or so it seems.

[xp38]

criminals tend to be lazy

[sodpoodle]

Not so long ago.....correction...one half century ago...there was an adolescent craze called *drag racing*. Speed and style were the macho *chick magnets* in souped up, tricke out, old clunkers. Yes...there was violence and street rowdies had confrontations...so be careful in assigning exclusivity to bad behavior.

[Paladin2]

"Is it just me, or does it seem that since the civil rights movement, the black community has gotten increasingly out of control?"

Where you an adult at the end of the 60's? /rhet

[chris37]

The most worthless and obnoxious culture on the face of this earth and for all of time.

[Hoffer Rand]

“The police will never admit it, but if they want to catch young black men with guns, they'll stop a car with elbows and Vogues because they know the young men will have guns,” Quanell X said.

Well, yeah. And when my BIL got picked up for DUI, he complained bitterly that it was entrapment, because the cop was hanging out a couple blocks from the only bar in town at 2 am.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Quanell and his associates are the children and grandchildren of LBJ.

[CSM]

“of course he had that car painted a fresh blue-green and finished off with elbows and white-walled Vogues, the only tire worthy of pairing with such expensive rims.”

Yet my bet is that he did not have health insurance. So glad that as I walk to work daily, he is able to afford rims and tires that would have paid for 2 years worth of health insurance. I guess I’ll keep walking to work so I can pick up the tab.

Oh, wait, that makes me a racist.

[rocket002]

You are correct about the lack of zoning here - you can have a very nice $500K house surrounded by billboards, pawn shops, liquor stores, and strip clubs. The key is to buy in areas outside the city limits that are master planned, zoned, and have little chance of being annexed - Sugar Land and The Woodlands come to mind.

[tje]

Cypress and Hockley should be fine.. stay outside the beltway...

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Forgive me if you misunderstood.

The point is that barbarians like baubles.

[calex59]

You forgot the most obvious choice: Theft.

[Repeat Offender]

I contemplated it, but since the rims were stolen from him I figured I'd add some other options.

However, as I was typing this response it could be the "rightful" owner was just taking them back and left a word of advice.....

[rightly_dividing]

Some parts of Houston are probably not all that safe, but it’s the same with any large city.

Agreed, we are leaving a city, not as large as Houston, but with the same problems.

Houston seems to be thriving despite the big city syndrome and the economic downturn.

[Esther Ruth]

Driving through the city early 70s, remember asking/axing my dad why they fuss over their cars and dress them all up - he said because they don't have a house to dress up and fuss over.