SFist: Ross Saving The Day -- Vigilantes In The Backstory

guest

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:25:40 -0800

#13, you've misunderstood my point. I sure will continue to blame HUD and Newsom, esp when the Mayor holds his photo-op press conferences in the housing projects, while residents there peek out of their windows wondering what the hell he's doing.

guest

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:05:11 -0800

Transmission troubles?-- call WH-AAMCO, WH-AAMCO... that's WH-AAMCO. 't just might keep you outa jail.

guest

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:08:32 -0800

#9 - the person you refer to pointed out that Newsom and HUD are *NOT* to blame for the assholes who live in HUD and grow up with such fathers as their role models. Read more carefully what you refer to next time.

guest

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:49:35 -0800

Im getting licensed to pepperspray this weekend.

RinconHillSF

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:26:49 -0800

The new Jodie Foster movie looks pretty entertaining. When the cops are too understaffed or the DA's office only prosecutes sure things, the citizens go commando - yikes. That sure won't help quell the violence in our streets. However, I worry that talk of gun bans (thank goodness a judge overturned the handgun initiative passed last year) advertise San Francisco's law-abiding citizens as easy, defenseless targets for criminals. Criminals are looking for the easy targets - low probabilities that they'll get caught or hurt in the process of taking your wallet/purse. If we do have a gun ban, doesn't that advertise our City as being the easiest target in the area? Something to think about...

rita

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:33:13 -0800

Guest[2]: A crucial adjective to leave out, true! Corrected in the text. Thanks!

guest

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:10:01 -0800

Anybody that gives a shit and tries to help fight crime in San Francisco is a hero to me. The police are heroes, Newsom and HUD, as that person pointed out, not so much...

Able Dart

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:58:01 -0800

Guess Ross ain't that much of a hero after all. http://p209.ezboard.com/fabledartsbathroomwallfrm21.showMessage?topicID=3177.topic

J

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:49:57 -0800

ROLE MODELS... The violence and "opression" will never end without good role models. You can blam Fong, you can blame HUD, you can blame Gavin. None of them are at fault and there is nothing they can do until the youth in these areas have respectable role models to pattern their lives after. I think the city has some mentoring programs, and maybe this is the way to go to help the youth of the projects. Give them the exposure and the skills and tools to make something of themselves. It's not just the boys, either. The girls need role models, too. They need to learn how to respect themselves and others. If the community at-large can't manage to put something like this together, then maybe the city could put some resources to it.

suckafree

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:37:52 -0800

holy shit! somebody call the producers of law and order! i can't say i feel any sympothy for the dead punk check out the story about the same deal shooting here from one of the chronicle columnists that happen to drive by right when the cops showed up: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/09/12/notes091207.DTL

guest

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:01:49 -0800

another example of the deadly pro-automobile agenda afflicting our city.

haplito

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:44:56 -0800

It's like I always say: Don't rob a teenager wearing a gold chain at gunpoint unless you want his cokehead father breaking your pelvis to bits. Anyhow, I wouldn't exactly call this vigilantism. It's more like revenge. And incoherent, inarticulate rage. And being coked up. And poor. And abjectly indifferent to the turns of your life, because the hand you've been dealt is such that nothing much matters. I feel sad for these people. Must've been one hell of a gold chain.

sangfroid826

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:32:20 -0800

Recent cinematic efforts indicate that it makes all the difference.

guest

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:20:18 -0800

Correction: They're being charged with ATTEMPTED MURDER! It does make a difference, you know.

guest

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:12:34 -0800

i love heartwarming stories about father-son bonding