Dads shot each other’s daughters in Florida road-rage gunfight

New York Post ^

[chuckee]

Two “crazy” dads have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly opening fire and hitting each other’s daughters in a terrifying road-rage gun battle in Florida, authorities said.

Strangers William Hale, 35, and Frank Allison, 43, shot at each other’s vehicles with semi-automatic handguns during a high-speed “cat and mouse” chase late Saturday — and were finally busted when they got out and started brawling on the highway, according to cops.

During the gun battle, Hale’s 5-year-old daughter was hit in the leg and Allison’s 14-year-old daughter was shot in the back, leaving her with a collapsed lung, Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said Monday.

“What’s scarier than one crazy driver with a gun? Two crazy drivers with a gun,” the shocked sheriff said.

“Thankfully, no one was killed in this incident, but it could have very easily turned out that way because two people were acting stupid and let their tempers get the best of them.

[Vaduz]

Feral is spreading faster than expected.

[stevio]

Yea, kind of like “Dumb & Dumber”.

[Tommy Revolts]

Notice that one of these guys looks much more intelligent than the other.

[know.your.why]

True - our “N....rs” are called “white trash” or “trailer trash”.

"Crackers." My understanding is the origin of that slur is derived from 18th century slave traders that used whip-cracks to drive slaves.

[gundog]

No. They cracked whips overhead when driving cattle through palmetto scrub.

[Impala64ssa]

Here, in Oklahoma, remember that everybody else also has a sidearm

Gotta take that same point of view in NYC, or anywhere for that matter. During the height of the Bernie Goetz fiasco a high ranking NYPD official anonymously told a NY Post reporter that they estimate as many as 2/3 of the population may be armed, legally or otherwise.

[Theophilus]

amen hurry em on their way

[Theophilus]

there ya go. speled the wrong word write.

[aquila48]

There’s a key difference between being called ‘white trash” vs “cracker”.

White trash is used by white people to refer to the lowest class of whites, whereas “cracker” is used by blacks as an insult to ALL whites.

There’s this other possible origin of the word cracker that I find more believable...

“Another possibility, which may be a modern folk etymology, supposes that the term derives from “soda cracker”, a type of light wheat biscuit which dates in the Southern US to at least the Civil War.[23] The idea has possibly been influenced by “whitebread”, a similar term for white people. “Soda cracker” and even “white soda cracker” have become extended versions of “cracker” as an epithet.[24]”