[Moose4]

There are some odd things about this.

1) This happened on Friday night and only popped up in the news today. You'd think 200+ people throwing down with two dozen deputies--with guns drawn--would have made the news a little earlier than four days after the fact.

2) The high school involved is one of the regional sports powers around here, a large suburban high school. I don't know what the school's racial makeup is, but I know the area is predominantly white and middle-class, and has never seemed much like fertile ground for gangs like the Bloods.

3) If this story isn't exaggerated, then the situation could have been much, much worse.

}:-)4

[dighton]

However, Irmo High events are "a very safe environment," he said.

Apparently not.

[cav68]

I agree with you in substance about Irmo as I lived there about 15 years ago and it was an excelent area to raise children. If I recall Teacher of the year around 1985 or 86 came from Irmo. Something has gone wrong big time in this area. From whence I came it was a very calm middle class neighbor hood.

[Between the Lines]

There are some odd things about this. This happened on Friday night and only popped up in the news today.

I agree. When something simular happened in Rock Hill last year it was all over the news within hours. Though what happened in Rock Hill was not as serious at this seems to be, it was on the field. That might be the differance.