Another shooting by a star football player...
- Thread starter Fletch Fletcher
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Hattiesburg is not that dangerous, but 38th Street is not the best place to have football players living. Especially if they carry guns. These guys better be kicked off the team. Southern sucks anyway, I doubt they will win many games if they play anyway.
I lived on 36th for a while. It was a quick 10 minute walk to Joseph Greene (USM's McCool Hall ... but far, far worse). Actually, it's a pretty convenient area to live for students.Coach33 said:
Not all apartments on 38th are that bad. I also used to live there in a place called point-o-woods (porno woods for locals) and it was ok but not too safe. Some of the newer complexes around there are ok but that area is slowly declining. As a football coach, I would keep my team in the gated communities or on campus. Actually, I would keep my team in the same dorm on campus.
...if I recall correctly, the football players were moved from on-campus for reasons I can't recall this past year. I believe USM's options are limited to those apartments that cost as much as the most expensive on-campus accomodations (according to NCAA regulations), and the gated apartments cost much more than on-campus rent.</p>
One more on 37th around a year old or newer. The total number of units is about 40 - 50 in my estimation. It could have been one of those. The article doesn't say.Coach33 said:
I've never was concerned about my safety in that area either. All I was focused on was school and work though. Actually, I'm more concerned about my safety in my house than I was when I was living over there. Different strokes, I guess.
Very nice city in most parts, but you get around campus and some of the areas where students live and you can get caught up in places that you don't want to be. I lived there for 21 years and most places I went were just fine. 38th Street around Mugshots and the cleaners was not the best part of town. My car for broken into after the hurricane. Of course, after the hurricane people from the coast and New Orleans decided to move their crime infested lives up to Hattiesburg. The place has never been the same since.
....given will be because it wasn't on campus this time. Without all the facts I can't comment much further, but I wonder if this was an even a "self-defense" situation or just an idiot with no business carrying a gun in the first place who fired it in the air for ***** and giggles.</p>
<span class="storybody">According to Barlett, both Quinton Wesley and Michael Brown ran to their vehicles and took their guns out and shot them in the air in an attempt to scare Divine and his friends.</span>
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ArrowDawg said:
if one possesses a firearm on educational property, its a felony. that's what Brown was charged and convicted of.
if one discharges a firearm in certain prohibited locations, like a municipality, its a misdemeanor. that's what Fletcher is currently charged with.
BIG difference.
Why the hell are guns legal in the first place if you can't ever shoot them in the air to scare a few thugs now and then??? It's getting more and more like communist china up in this hole minute after minute hour after hour. All I know is that a day that does not require my AK is a good day.
