Especially when they happen at the upscale suburban mall. Note that the reported number of participants jumps from 100 to 300 in the updates! Kudos to Triangle Town Center for taking the focus off “Gang problems” in Durham and Chapel Hill. Almost 300 kids fighting in a mall and no guns were pulled? Awesmomeness! This was a proper, old-fashioned, gang fight! Well, they should just board-up the place before the white flight drives all the upscale retail and leaves a “dead mall“, like South Hills, or Northgate; the kind of mall that just prays for 300 kids to come to the mall, even if they wind up stabbing each other in the buttocks. Go-Go Raleigh!
Earlier reports that the riot was started by disenchanted Connells fans protesting the absence of George Huntley at Saturday’s downtown performance were quickly discredited.
“Earlier reports that the riot was started by disenchanted Connells fans protesting the absence of George Huntley at Saturday’s downtown performance were quickly discredited.”
Ouch! I can’t believe you went there….
I agree; the level of violence, at least as it’s been reported so far, makes this sound more like Sharks versus Jets. The News and Observer recently enabled comments on their Web site, so if you read the news items related to this there, you get a big dose of crazy racism to go with. I’m not sure what the point of a comments section on an “objective” news item is, other than to give AM talk radio listeners another outlet to spew in.
I recall late-Eighties rumors of impending high school brawls that would spread across Raleigh. “Giant fight at Broughton tomorrow at 3PM!” And the news would have inevitably spread to the teachers and school security in time to prevent the melee, or the rumors were untrue at the start and there be a bunch of kids sitting on car hoods, waiting for nothing to happen. I’d love to see a visual representation of the text message traffic that led to this brawl and a timeline of the response by the security guards at the mall. What were they thinking to allow 75 kids to congregate in a food court, much less 300? And it is shocking that this didn’t make front page news. They had to save space for the “Raleigh is #1 on a bunch of lists” article and not offend Mssrs Abercrombie and Fitch?
Bradly Cooper was not there thus the N&O did not feel it important enough.
Apparently, my comment for “Sign of the Times” didnt fit the site’s political model, so I’ll just say in response to “Gang Fights”, I think the government should step in a care for these children, maybe pay them to stay in school and ever after.
David, your comment to “Sign of the Times” was received but was blank. Resubmit. Was your comment about the record National deficit?
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