Posted on 10/19/2007 8:52:31 AM PDT by enough_idiocy
Nooses Found Hanging Inside N.J. Home Depot Hate Speech Inexplicably Takes Over Tri-State Area
Reporting Sean Hennessey PASSAIC, N.J. (CBS) ― A spree of disturbing crimes is spreading hatred and fear around the region.
Many people are wondering when it will end.
The latest act of hate took place in a busy home improvement store.
Three nooses were captured on a cell phone hanging in the aisle of the hardware department inside a Home Depot on Thursday.
Terrance Baker is a Home Depot vendor who was helping a customer when he looked up and couldn't believe his eyes.
"I look up and I saw white and black ropes hanging up there," Baker said.
"I was very surprised, very surprised because I ain't seen nothing like that since I left Alabama."
(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...
Second, it's not inexplicable.
Third, stop giving it attention and watch it fade away.
I am still waiting to see the security tape of the professor that had one on his door. The police have had it now over a week.
Since no one has been hanged, I would say these incidents are just speech. Ugly speech, but nevertheless speech.
Seems to me that the jury is still out on whether these are acts of hate or acts of self-serving hoax.
Nice to see the MSM jumping to conclusions before the facts are in, as usual.
WTF? I’m presuming it is Muslim sympathsizers doing this...?
Don’t most stores have surveillance cameras running 24/7?
Oh wait, this is Home Depot, where you can just walk out of the store with anything you want and they won’t try to stop you.
I'm guessing Nov 1st, as Halloween will have ended...
It’s the Jooooooooooooooooooooz!
The MSM jumping to conclusions? NO WAY! NEVER - they are always 100% fair, balanced, and free from the influence of emotion, opinion, and pre-mature conclusions! (/insane sarcasm off)
Good Lord. I don’t think I’ve ever read a more hysterical article.
Somewhere, a bunch of teenagers are laughing their heads off.
“pre-mature” as in “before something or someone reaches the level of maturity”? Boy, you got that right!
Coincidently, Hillary! plans to announce tough new hate crime bill. /s?
Who knows? It’s also possible that they are simply revolts against political correctness. The perps might simply be trying to get a rise out of the political correctness police. And they are rewarded every time.
As a fisherman who can tie Allbright(wire to mono) and Bimini Twist knots in high seas all I can say is doing three in a home depot aisle ain’t such a big deal.
do these people realize a LASSO was typically used for lynchings not a noose? (that is hollywood)
For some reason these events remind me of this
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1470091.html
There have been a number of these in the area...where the event takes place...the News Whores show up trumpeting how racist everyone is...then when the hoax is discovered...there is a single story about the hoax...with nothing in the electronic media.
I say this sounds contrived.
The Home Depot nooses are perfectly explainable - employees who couldn’t make it on their peon salaries were preparing for mass suicide.
A spree of disturbing crimes is spreading hatred and fear around the region.
How is this a "spree?" It is one of what, a couple?, of isolated incidents. That does not a spree make.
Secondly, how are these "crimes?" Let's call them what they are: pranks. Jokes. Highly un-funny, sure, but nothing more. And the only people they seem to be "disturbing" are the self-righteous posers in the media.
Spreading "hatred and fear?" Not likely. More like yawns. Is anyone really sitting terrified in his living room because some teenage punks hung a noose in a hardware store?
And is this epidemic of hate flooding the entire "region?" I doubt it. It is likely limited to the one of two locales where it occurred, and if the media would shut up about them, they would vanish into well-earned oblivion.
Many people are wondering when it will end.
Name one. Frankly, the only thing I'm wondering about is when the media will start acting responsibly, instead of marketing this sensationalist garbage to gullible consumers.
The latest act of hate took place in a busy home improvement store.
This "act of hate" got a few giggles from the pranksters as they raced down the aisle before the security guard could catch them. Let's not make this into a Reichstag fire, okay?
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