Posted on 08/25/2013 10:23:55 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Eighteen buildings destroyed, hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage done to state property and a massive law enforcement operation, the cause; someone didn't want to share their 'cup of noodles'. Sheriff's officials say the trouble all started at a central Florida juvenile detention facility when the losing team in a 'friendly' game of basketball refused to live up to their end of a bet. The losers apparently weren't willing to part with the agreed upon prize; their three 'cups of noodles'.
In the end, it would take about 150 law enforcement officials, including K-9 units, a SWAT team and air support to get the situation under control as other teens joined the melee. The staff also had to be evacuated from the compound as the chaos ensued. Investigators say no juveniles escaped during the riot thankfully, but seven teens did have to be taken to a nearby hospital with injuries ranging from a broken leg to cuts and a concussion. No staffers or law enforcement officials were injured.
Staff at the Avon Park Youth Academy are forbidden from using specialty equipment, including pepper spray, which would have allowed them to deal with the fight before it escalated, authorities said. The facility is a 144-bed, moderate-risk program for males in the juvenile justice system between the ages of 16 and 19 years old. Teens are taught job skills and receive mental health and substance abuse treatment, according to a spokeswoman from the Department of Juvenile Justice. One of the damaged buildings was the office that stored all of the teens juvenile records.
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My dad used to say that basketball was “football in short pants”.
Juvenile detention center and prison riots are much like incidents of black-on-white violence. The media cover them up because they don’t want people getting the right ideas.
LOL! Three cups are riot worthy.
So this wasn’t about the noodles, it was about Welshing on a bet?
The “teens are taught job skills...”? So beating the crap out of each other is “job skills”? All these programs should be stopped. Mainly, they create “jobs” for government “workers”. All you need is a big pile of construction concrete debris and sledgehammers. The Three S’s (Shower, Show up and Shut up) is all these criminals need to be taught.
“but I think things really changed after Muhammad Ali.”
I couldn’t agree more. It seemed to me that Ali was the first “super star” athlete to make obnoxious bragging about oneself “respectable” or even admirable. I’m in my 60’s now and I remember being turned off by his behavior when I was a kid.
Martin Luther King about Cassius X:
“When Cassius Clay joined the Black Muslims,” said Martin Luther King, “he became a champion of racial segregation and that is what we are fighting against.”
Avon Park isn’t exactly a nice town .
Lot of drug addicts in that town who can’t behave so I don’t expect their kids to behave much better
It’s a good thing this wasn’t over Skittles.
***infact he seems to be a man of pretty good character and reason....***
He was an ass. Back in his Cassius Clay days his big mouth got him in lots of trouble and no one liked him.
Then he became black muslim, came out against the Vietnam War, and all of a sudden the leftist newspapers did a complete rehabilitation job on him.
Best thing that happened to Clay/Ali was when Smokin Joe Frasier landed a punch to Ali’s face and scrambled his brains. Joe lost the fight but Ali was permanently punch drunk afterward.
Ali was the first legitimate sports star to employ the super conceited persona. The first super star to employ that persona, however, was pro wrestler Gorgeous George. Pro wrestling was popular programming when TVs started becoming commonplace in living rooms in the 50s, and George was the most despised villain because of his personality.
In this video Muhammad Ali discusses the influence Gorgeous George had on his persona...
Cassius Clay (aka Mohammed Ali) was a vile, repugnant racist thug.
He was a member of the Nation of Islam, back in it was run by an even loonier nut than Farrakhan. He was a draft-dodging anti-American piece of crap raised up by the media because he refused on racial grounds to aid his nation. He believed his only enemies were white Americans.
In an interview with Playboy, he described his deeply held beliefs on the need to keep racial mixing from taking place. He said that white men who try to carry on a relationship with black women should be killed, that black women who have relations with white men should be killed, that black men who go after white women should be killed.
You really think THIS is some kind of hero? The man was a racist, anti-American, self-aggrandizing thug that was hailed as a glorious icon by the U.S. media during a time when the liberals in this country wanted to incite racial conflict and undermine America’s war and cold war efforts.
It appears Midnight Basketball isn’t always what it is cracked up to be...
I’ve heard from certain leaders that if we invested in more programs like midnight basketball it would provide youths we things to do and bring down boredom crime. Of course, when instituted these programs never actually reduce crime, and me nor my friends have ever committed a crime just because we were bored. None the less, certain leaders keep swearing that these midnight basketball leagues will work, just send the check.
Careful where you point that Arugula...........
Grown as an edible herb in the Mediterranean area since Roman times, arugala was mentioned by various classical authors as an aphrodisiac,[11][12] most famously in a poem long ascribed to Virgil, Moretum, which contains the line: "et veneris revocans eruca morantuem" ("the arugula excites the sexual desire of drowsy people").[13] Some writers assert that for this reason during the Middle Ages it was forbidden to grow arugula in monasteries.[14] It was listed, however, in a decree by Charlemagne of 802 as one of the pot herbs suitable for growing in gardens.[15] Gillian Reilly, author of the Oxford Companion to Italian Food, states that because of its reputation as a sexual stimulant, it was "prudently mixed with lettuce, which was the opposite in effect"
Maybe that's why the lefties are big on arugula.
And a sprinkle of Quat to enhance the effect...
” he refused on racial grounds to aid his nation.”
I thought the reason he refused to join the Army was that Islam was a peaceful religion and by going to war he would be violating its teachings;)
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