Posted on 07/27/2011 2:00:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A family trying to do some good work was shot overnight in Oakland.
Oakland police responded to a shooting in the 1000 block of 47th at 12:33 a.m. and found at least two shooting victims inside a van.
Police said a man and a woman were with their two young children and were handing out food to the homeless when they were shot. Police said the family had just pulled to the side of the road when an unknown suspect pulled up alongside them and opened fire on their van.
The family lives in East Oakland and often handed out food at night. People who know the family said most of the time the father went alone on these kind of trips, but last night he had his wife and two children with him.
Police said the woman's injuries were considered minor, but the man suffered a life threatening wound and remains in critical condition at an area hospital Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcbayarea.com ...
Build a man a fire and he will be warm until it goes out. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm the rest of his life.
Yup, my buddies Mssrs. Smith and Wesson.
Nice story on diversity. I passed this on to several.
Police said a man and a woman were with their two young children and were handing out food to the homeless when they were shot. Police said the family had just pulled to the side of the road when an unknown suspect pulled up alongside them and opened fire on their van.
Yes. just like every other rescue mission.
Oh wait. We have centuries of evidence that Christian outreach just like this actually does reach some of the people when nothing else on the face of the earth does.
The Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago, for example.
Does it work on every lost derelict? No.
But it absolutely reaches some of them.
Of interest
exactly!
I can almost hear them now.... Hot Dang that dudes handing out free food! now I can spend my last $20 on crack instead!
News organizations are afraid of getting sued if they report that someone committed a crime. That’s why they always say someone is a “suspect” or “person of interest” or that a crime “allegedly” happened.
I hate to hear that someone is dead, and someone “allegedly” shot someone. They aren’t “allegedly” dead, they are actually dead, but to avoid lawsuits, news people qualify everything they say about a crime.
There is a program called the the Midnight Run to feed the homeless.
I used to do it in NYC in the 90’s
nothing fihshy about this at all.
bump the thugs article
Did you take your young children with you as you traversed the slums and ghettos in the dark of night?
Of course not. You are no idiot. Unlike these parents....
Reminds me of the guy who would hang out with bears. They eventually ate him and his girlfriend.
“Read the article before you post.”
Holier than thou much?
Nope, no sale. Others agree. Bye.
No, I had to do it as part of community service requirement to graduate.
I am a big guy, and all of my friends. We were 5 big guys and loved it.
We used to dress all the homeless in the wackiest stuff we could find and had contests who could mismatch the bums the best with crazy clothes.
We also snuck booze to the bums too along with the beans and lentils.
I think it’s funny when a criminal is killed in the commission of a crime, and they still call him a “suspect.” Guess they’re not sure he’s dead at the scene, then ...
Thanks for the links. I’d never heard of this guy. Good stuff.
Sheep and goats......
“when were you hungry Lord?”
And Jesus replies, “as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me .... away ...I never knew you!”
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