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Old 08-23-2007, 03:43 AM   #1
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'I'm Really Petrified to Even Walk Down the Street,

A week after the brutal slaying of three Newark, N.J., college students, the community is still in shock.
"I'm really petrified to even walk down the street," said Brianna Jolley, a friend of one of the victims.
Dashon Harvey was just 20 years old. The psychology major at Delaware State University was an aspiring model and described as fun-loving and respectful.
"I couldn't believe it, not my boy," said Harvey's father, James, recalling the night his son was killed. "Why? For what? Who did it? Why would they want to do that? I can't fathom that. I can't believe that," he said.
"I've got to buy him a suit for burial instead of his graduation and that's a shock to me."
Harvey and his friends Terrance Aerial, 18, and Iofemi Hightower, 20, were forced to kneel down and were shot execution style at a school playground. Aerial's sister Natasha, 19, was shot and stabbed, but survived the attack.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/LegalCenter/story?id=3474259
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Old 08-23-2007, 04:32 AM   #2
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And you point is?
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Old 08-23-2007, 07:50 AM   #3
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America is dying, duh!
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Old 08-23-2007, 08:17 AM   #4
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This kind of thing never happens in Korea? Or is it just never reported on the news?
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Old 08-23-2007, 08:41 AM   #5
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all the more reason why NJ could use a good tsunami, raging wildfire, hurricane... something. start over.
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Old 08-23-2007, 10:18 AM   #6
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When I lived in Philly, I made fun of NJ as much as the next person...but it's really not as bad as it's made out to be. It's just in a weird spot...the northern part is New York City's bitch, and the southern part is Philly's bitch. And Newark has really been moving up in the world recently, along with Jersey City.

I wish I could be in Belmar right now.
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Old 08-23-2007, 12:10 PM   #7
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In China, the city workers will deliberately run you over with their van if you sit in front of it.

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At the time, the municipal administrators had confiscated the device by which the old man weighs his collected materials. In order to it back, the old man sat down on the ground in front of the van. But as soon as he sat down, the municipal administrator started the car and drove forward. The old man was pushed for a short distance, before the wheels rolled over him. Then the van just went ahead.
Also, sometimes people use knives to brutally kill each other.

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A taxi driver was arrested early Thursday morning on suspicion of having murdered a Chinese woman, whose mutilated body was found dumped in a public graveyard in Pali on the outskirts of Taipei one day earlier.
The suspected murderer... cut open the woman's body from the heart down to the lower belly.
Or they'll just beat you to death with their own hands.

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The six were arrested for beating up Lan Chengzhang, a reporter with Beijing-based China Trade News, and a colleague.
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Old 08-23-2007, 12:21 PM   #8
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don't they steal organs too?
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Old 08-23-2007, 12:31 PM   #9
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Don't worry lj, your organ is safe.
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Old 08-23-2007, 12:43 PM   #10
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from you, maybe ya carpet muncher.
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Old 08-23-2007, 01:24 PM   #11
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Oh no - he dint - shit he did! lol
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Old 08-23-2007, 03:20 PM   #12
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Hell at least that'd constitute some action!
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Old 08-23-2007, 08:38 PM   #13
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There has been some trouble with petrified folks in Italy as well.
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Old 08-23-2007, 08:48 PM   #14
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How bout Hogwarts?
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Old 08-23-2007, 10:20 PM   #15
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The whole Terra Cotta Army is petrified.
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