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Teen raped on lawn at Keith Urban show, police say (Multiple Witnesses Did Nothing)
CNN via WFSB ^
| 07/30/2014
| Alan Duke
Posted on 07/31/2014 4:02:08 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A teenage girl was raped at the same Keith Urban show where 20 people got so drunk they were hospitalized, police said. The attack happened in front of a large crowd of other concertgoers on the lawn of the Xfinity Center, an outdoor amphitheater in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday night, a police statement said.
The rape ended when a woman in the crowd pushed the alleged attacker off the victim and he fled, police said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfsb.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: keithurban; massachusetts
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To: Kid Shelleen
Country music ain’t what it used to be - in the extreme!
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:05:28 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: Kid Shelleen
What is wrong with people?
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:05:30 PM PDT
by
exnavy
(Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed!)
To: Kid Shelleen
Put simply, this was a consensual act, not a sexual assault," Guess it depends on the age of the teenaged girl.
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:05:54 PM PDT
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:07:04 PM PDT
by
sagar
To: Starstruck
Guess it depends on the age of the teenaged girl. "Teenaged" includes eighteen and nineteen.
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:08:19 PM PDT
by
lightman
(O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
To: fwdude
There was a day if, and that’s a big if, if such a thing happened, the crowd would’ve eagerly intervened. The ‘do nothing’ part would’ve been when the cops asked if anyone say the murder occur.
To: WorkingClassFilth
Guarantee you they were all high on heroin. They have a major heroin supply/addiction problem in Mass.
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:10:48 PM PDT
by
mgist
(.)
To: Kid Shelleen
This is the end result of a society that continually tells kids to be passive, to not assert themselves, to not take a stand and be individually responsible for themselves and their communities. Its the same reason why mass groups of people sit passively when two or three terrorists hijack an airplane. If you ask them, they will say that the rape was wrong. But that does not trigger a response in their heads that they should stop it.
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:12:12 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: exnavy
“What is wrong with people?”
There are alpha people and beta people. Beta people generally will not act on their own ever, even if their own lives are in danger. They wait for leadership. Alpha people are leaders and don’t require any input from others to act on their principles or beliefs. I think alphas used to be much more common. I suspect our education system has beaten it out of them.
To: Kid Shelleen
Can’t possibly be true, Massachusetts is the most civilized place on Earth!!!
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:16:58 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:21:33 PM PDT
by
sopwith
(LIVE FREE OR DIE)
To: exnavy
I don’t think cultural passivity is the problem, compared to when, 20 years ago, 50 years ago ? There was no intervention in the crowd most likely because most people assumed it was a consensual act.
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:24:47 PM PDT
by
erlayman
To: sopwith
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:24:48 PM PDT
by
Mears
(thanks !)
To: Kid Shelleen
If this is a country performer (I don't know, I don't listen to it), ordinarily we would expect the audience to reflect the values of this genre which traditionally would be something Freepers might endorse.
I readily admit to knowing nothing about this but we're engaging in a liberal versus conservative culture and blaming these actions on the fact that this occurred in Mass.
Is this reasonable?
To: Kid Shelleen
It's sad that concerts aren't what they used to be. Time was you could have a fun tailgate beforehand, then go inside the venue and watch the show. Now, people throw beer cans in the toilets, dump trash everywhere, get wasted, start fights, injure themselves and others. I walk with a cane, and I've had people shove me aside because I was walking too slowly. At one concert, a woman took it upon herself to start dancing in front of wheelchair-bound concertgoers, blocking their view. Security at most shows is practically non-existent. And it doesn't matter what type of music — country, rock, rap, whatever — people act like savages.
I used to go to several concerts every year. This year, only one. I can't take the ignorant behavior of most attendees.
They probably all voted for Obama.
To: Kid Shelleen
At least Keith Urban thought it was “cool”.
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:39:48 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: Gen.Blather
The phenomenon is not new or recent.
Harlan Ellison wrote “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” in 1973.
And it wasn’t new then, either.
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:42:50 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: Kid Shelleen
We have an annual Country Concert here. Top performers, great music. However, I quit going, not because of the music but because of the crowd. Too much raunchy behavior. I don't know what's got into people. Even twenty years ago, when I first started going to that concert, this kind of behavior didn't exist. It was basically a bunch of nice people, having a good time and listening to the music. Not any longer, though.
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:45:54 PM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
(Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
To: Kid Shelleen
“woman in the crowd pushed the alleged attacker off the victim and he fled, police said.”
Somehow “consensual” and “he fled” just don’t seem to go together.
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posted on
07/31/2014 4:54:09 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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