madshark wrote:
Hey S**tbird, where is the r****m? The victim, Mr. Noble, and the perpetrator were both black. Even so, I am sure it is some white guy's fault, somewhere.
Too bad this did not happen in Texas. Here, we are allowed to protext our lives with deadly force.
You are so mad, Madshark, that you (and others) did not recognize the sarcasm in the title. Quite obviously seabird (did you need to "egg" his name, perpetrator that you are? ha) saw the same thing you did, and the fact both were black was his point in it's being "pure r****m"...both black and the point being both were "perpetrator" and "victim" at the same time.
Near fifty years ago when I taught in rural northwestern Illinois one of my colleagues suffered a series of car eggings. Finally my car also got the treatment. As it happened a neighbor witnessed my egging and thought he recognized the perpetrator--Bob, the son of one of the junior high teachers. I don't recall exactly whether I reported the perpetrator to the parent or the principal, but it turned out the mischief was done by another kid who resembled Bob. Now, mind you, Bob was quite capable of the mischief himself--one of those "outlaw" classes that come along every 4 years or so it seems.
Coincidentally, sixty years ago my own high school class, which apparently also was one of those "outlaw" classes, had an incident in which four of my classmates painted the hall as a highway with signs making fun of two or three of the teachers. They were expelled and a big deal made of it. Dum-dumb that I was, 7 years later I did a related more generalized i***tic "prank" at the U-W Madison campus (where I was a grad student yet) without realizing at the time I was more or less doing the same thing.
One of the expelled "perpetrators" from my high school class is now a church pastor and despite the fact the four vandals didn't graduate with us, our class of '55 considers them one of us at class reunions. The accused egger of my car and his 2 brothers who were later involved in a vandalism incident of another sort are dear to me, for their mother became one of my closest friends in life subsequent to my false accusation of her son.
What is my point? Not too sure about that, just that the egging brought back memories. Perhaps we free Americans are all somewhat outlaws at the same time that we are also the most law abiding people on earth...both independent and conforming at the same time. Just too bad that some of us go mad like sharks, Madshark, over small things like skin color, eggs, pranks...not that there shouldn't be accountability...but gunning at people? Let's not go all extreme...in prankings or in retaliations or in politics.
By the way, is everyone familiar with the toilet paper prank universal in small town America? Only in America.