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UK: Father 'murdered trying to retrieve football'
Telegraph.com.uk ^ | 29/01/2008 | Lucy Cockcroft and John Steele

Posted on 01/29/2008 6:31:46 AM PST by yankeedame

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"...row erupted between Mr Martin, his wife Angie and other adults on the estate..."

"Estate" in Brit speak = "Housing project" in U.S.

1 posted on 01/29/2008 6:31:47 AM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame

At least he was not killed by a gun.


2 posted on 01/29/2008 6:33:14 AM PST by Brilliant
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Muslims?........just asking.......


3 posted on 01/29/2008 6:36:03 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: yankeedame

Celebrate diversity.


4 posted on 01/29/2008 6:36:07 AM PST by pabianice
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Not necessarily. Housing estates aren’t necessarily poor. This one sounds ‘a bit rough’ though, to say the least.


5 posted on 01/29/2008 6:37:38 AM PST by FostersExport
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Uh-Oh, the person with the Machete is going to be charged with possessing a knife with a blade longer than 4”.


6 posted on 01/29/2008 6:37:46 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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To: yankeedame

Where’s Waldo in this story?


7 posted on 01/29/2008 6:40:03 AM PST by Bertha Fanation
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Sounds like another example of decent people living among thugs. What do you want to bet the perp has a long record.


8 posted on 01/29/2008 6:40:29 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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"Don't tase hack me, bro!"
9 posted on 01/29/2008 6:40:33 AM PST by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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Oh yes coming to a multicultural and politically correct town near you where diversity is celebrated for the murderers, rapists, homosexuals and filth breeders of all kinds.


10 posted on 01/29/2008 6:40:37 AM PST by sasafras (Diversity indoctrination will be the end to America as we know it.)
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“A Metropolitan Police spokesman said detectives were keeping an open mind about the attack in Rutter Gardens, Mitcham.”

That’s Brit-speak for: “We are desperately trying to find a way to let the murderers go free and posthumously charge and convict the victim for the vile crime of defending his family”.


11 posted on 01/29/2008 6:47:54 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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And yet the liberals want to move that sort of element into the decent neighborhoods.

And when that happens, it’s not just the neighborhoods that go down the toilet. The schools do too.

Insanity.


12 posted on 01/29/2008 6:50:15 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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"Muslims?........just asking......."

Count on it. South west London has a large muslim population. There have been at least two "honor killings" in the area in the last two years, (a stoning to death and a butchering). Also, though there have been several arrests of adults in this case the media refuse to give their names. Celebrate diversity my friend.

13 posted on 01/29/2008 6:52:05 AM PST by houstonman58 ("When the Son of Man returns, where there by any faith left on earth, think ye"?)
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His own father had died in similar circumstances more than 20 years ago, neighbours said, when he was beaten to death outside a pub while defending the young Mr Martin.

Reminds me of that scene in Forest Gump. Lt. Dan was relating that all his fathers and grandfathers died in wars and of course they flashback to men dying in the Revolutionary, Civil, WWI etc. This kid now has a tradition and knows his time...20 years hence.

14 posted on 01/29/2008 6:52:43 AM PST by Malsua
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Very good post!!


15 posted on 01/29/2008 7:04:49 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

Not possible. Those knives are not legal to own.


16 posted on 01/29/2008 7:06:35 AM PST by Bear_Slayer (When liberty is outlawed only outlaws will have liberty.)
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Yeah, but God forbid if you have the dreaded gentrification. What's a few hacked up white males in the name of social justice?
17 posted on 01/29/2008 7:07:24 AM PST by thecabal
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A Metropolitan Police spokesman said detectives were keeping an open mind about the attack in Rutter Gardens, Mitcham.

I find this is important in life. Always keep an open mind about the hacking to death of a person in front of their family. I mean who are we to say?

18 posted on 01/29/2008 7:23:50 AM PST by beaversmom
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This is not a “housing project” in the American sense of the word, it is not a high rise apartment slum, it is a small “between the wars” housing development of semi-detached homes (duplexes)

The area is not particularly prosperous but it is not badly run down either, it is close to a large park and the general area typical of surburban South London.


19 posted on 01/29/2008 7:28:39 AM PST by Wil H
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"I find this is important in life. Always keep an open mind about the hacking to death of a person in front of their family. I mean who are we to say?"

Maybe, he didn't"CELEBRATE" diversity.

20 posted on 01/29/2008 7:32:19 AM PST by Jakarta ex-pat
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