Jackson Jambalaya

Thank goodness he wasn't shot.

If blacks were not responsible for the crime, please tell me who was?

That the white kid was at a black boy's house only serves to give the perps cover. It's no doubt easier for two black thugs (probably teens themselves) to lurk about and hide behind trees in a black homeowner's yard. No?

I live on Melbourne and heard five shots Friday afternoon. Never saw any police so forgot about it (getting more frequent these days). I learned yesterday that one of those bullets went into my neighbor's house. They called the cops who came out and measured the trajectory. The conclusion was it had to come from a certain home on North State Street - a home wherein lives a JPD cop.

That"s SOFO!

I'm not brave enough to be out in the Fondren area at 2 a.m.

No doubt all of these crimes are the result of our leaders not jacking up our taxes to fully fund MAEP. According to Democrat Dorsey crime victims have no one to blame for crime but themselves because public schools are getting shorted. Y'all need to either bend over and accept crime or fork over your dollars to the House Donkeycrats.

The Bugle is not going to appreciate this thread.

having a 17yo male who goes to belhaven and fondren to visit or stay with friends, and knowing they find excuses to go out after midnight ('well we were hungry/thirsty and since it was so late didnt want to wake up his parents'), this both scares me and infuriates me. sure, we live madison so i am madco-centric, but if i still lived in jackson, i wd feel the same way about the current and long-standing crime wave there. thanks for posting this, we will now have a new rule on the subject...

This was nothing but a set-up. The white boys need to find a new set of friends. These criminals just so happened to be hiding behind the house at 0200 hours.
Someone knew that these kids were going to go to the store, and then come back to this residence. And this person who knew notified these criminals of this, so that they could hide behind the residence, waiting for the victims to arrive back at the residence.
As I said, these kids need to be making new friends ( black or white )and ditch the old ones.

Crime exists in Fondren. Those of us who live here don't deny it, but there are ways to avoid being a target. For one, don't go traipsing around at 2 a.m. with bags of goods...even in your own front yard. You're sort of asking to get mugged. Also, why did this kid have over $100 in cash on him just to go hang out at a friend's house? Sketchy. I'm not saying that this kid being mugged isn't terrible, I'm just saying it probably could have been avoided if he'd used a little common sense.

11:59
my thought too.
one of those kids in the house got on his cell as soon as the white kid announced 'i'll buy, i got $150 in tips tonight' or whatever. 'yo marvin, want to split an easy $150?'...

From the Mom of the teenager: He had a lot of cash from working all day, and yes, it was stupid and he knows better from now on. At least lock it in the glove box.

I'm afraid one of the kids inside did set him up, but all names were given to JPD, for whatever that is worth.

He will not be going to Fondren again after dark.

Glad all that was lost was just a little cash.......could have been so much worse.

pot deal gone bad:

hey dude, can you hook me up with a bag for $100?

no problem, just swing by my house late tonight. me and my buddies will hook you up.

dad! you wont believe what just happened! you know that money you gave me for my birthday? i, uh, just got robbed!! waaaah!

Wrong, at least in this case.

I would not set foot in Fondren after dark period, and honestly, there are parts of it I would not set foot in during the day. It's too bad I feel this way, but I am not alone. It's just not a safe area anymore, and everyone knows it. It has been overrun with people who have no regard for the law and certainly no regard for other people or their property. Thank goodness this young man lived to tell his story. He's very lucky he wasn't killed on the spot.

I have a friend (single female w/young child who lives there and she gets very defensive every time I point out incidents like this and express concern for their safety. There's a level of denial amongst the Fondren hipsters that is really something to behold. And I LMAO every time I see one of those Delta Bravos wearing a knit ski cap when it's 90 freakin' degrees.

The Bugle is getting seriously agitated...

Once we get the new arena built all of these problems in Jackson will go away.

Didn't they ban the Toecutter from the Yana house for the same thing?

What mother celebrates the fact that her teenager goes to the hood area of town (anything west of State St in Fondren area) to spend the night with blacks? What an airhead. Instead of running your child up the flagpole of diversity, how about thinking of ways to get him into adulthood, alive.

(My word verification is 'subenics'. I think that's a variation of ebonics.)

I've had my car broken into twice in one week on Hartfield and my home broken into so many times when I lived on Oxford Ave. I had to move out without any notice.

Thank goodness that the young man only lost money and wasn't shot. Hopefully it will be money well spent teaching him that he is not bullet proof.

"What mother celebrates the fact that her teenager goes to the hood area of town (anything west of State St in Fondren area) to spend the night with blacks? What an airhead."

From the Mom: Who said I was celebrating? This young man he visited in Fondren had just moved there two weeks ago, and has spent the night at our house, also. I was making the point that I don't care what color these thugs were that robbed him, it was WRONG.

My car was broken into twice in one week while parked on Hartfield and my home was broken into at Oxford Ave. so many times I moved out without any notice.

JPD never did anything--the last few times they even asked me if I wanted to waste time filling out another report.

"No sir...thanks for answering the phone though."

Yeah, there's crime in Fondren, but people who live here aren't delusional. I live AND work in Fondren. I rarely ever leave the neighborhood, and not one single time, have I ever had an incident (knock on wood).

I can say the same about most of the neighbors I know.

All of that to say that crime is the exception, not the rule.

Any crime is a crime problem, but I don't have to walk out of my front door wearing a flack jacket with a pistol in each hand. People who are scared to go out in Fondren must have miserable lives.

I live AND work in Fondren.

Hmmmmmm

Sorry, I think I must have gotten Mad Max and the Fondren Follies confused........

The Bugle is getting seriously agitated...

DonnerKay is already flummoxed that her good crime issue didn't generate a tsunami of comments online while the pissy Bugletorial about how JPD officers advise citizens to get armed generated many comments from the 7 lone sentries still commenting there.

There was a Bugle crime issue? Didn't see it out in the 'burbs.

Well, actually, didn't look for it.

Remember when WC Don's was at the back of Fondren on the railroad tracks off West Street behind the gas station? And every white kid in town between 14 and 17 snuck in to drink and listen to punk rock? Ah the good ole days....

The DMZ has been moving east ever since then.

Mom:

you don't care what color the armed robbers are? as if they would be white at that hour in that location. two white guys walking around there would be mincmeat in minutes.

you also suspect one of the black kids in the house was involved (probably instigated it). well if your son's friend is friends with people like that, DO YOU NOT SEE A PROBLEM?

glad your boy wasnt hurt or killed, but you cant have your kumbaya and eat it too (or something like that). think for god's sake, and tell your husband to man up, pull the plug on that nonsense.

I was prepared to read the nonsense about 'boys of all races commit these crimes' and 'What difference does it make what race the boys were?' Well, you sort out the common denominators and tell ME.

Any white parent who sends a teenager into the hood to spend the night ought not be surprised at the outcome. Some of you 'thanked God' the boy wasn't shot or killed. I'll take it a notch higher and 'thank God' the child was not a sixteen year old girl sent to spend the night in the hood so the parents would feel good about their approach to diversity.

You fart around in a snake infested bog hoping to spot which one might be poisonous and you got nobody to blame but yourself when your leg swells up and has to be amputated.

Every teenaged boy in Jackson needs to watch this video. Maybe they'll be a little less stupid about real life: http://theberrics.com/aberrican-me/ross-capicchioni-part-1.html

This could happen anywhere.

Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Interns
are in flight back to the Historic Fondren District
as these comments are being posted.

None of this would have happened if only the parents of these kids would have reminded them to remember o chain up the Vespa.

KF, please let us know when/where the candle light "vigil " will be about this latest Mississippi "Hate Crime" ?

I have a friend who lives in New Castle area of Madison whose car was burglarized. I guess crime there doesn't count.

The overt and implied racial remarks on this thread are very disturbing and once again show that it isn't crime the suburbanites fear but black people.

The overt and implied racial remarks on this thread are very disturbing ...

But you're still here reading. Imagine that!

9:38

hilarious. would you rather have your car burglarized, or be held in a choke hold by one gentleman while another gentleman holds a gun to your chest? and i can imagine the quality of the conversation.

while you ponder that, rather than dwell on what you perceive as racism, read some statistical analyses on crimes, by race. do it for jackson, for miss., for u.s., whatever. oh wait, we don't spend enough on education...

i am in fondren nearly daily, and never fear blacks in the post office or grocery or rainbow etc. i have black employees and friends i love and who feel the exact same way i do about the thugs. i should say punks. they are embarrassed by this stuff.

but i will hand you this: i bet you can tie a hell of a bow-tie knot. i can't; or at least i dont think i can, i've never tried. be sure to stir a little extra diversity into your frappe latte cappuccino green tea in the morning to dispel the emotional trauma you have endured here tonight. or better yet, go to that street around 2am tonight and exercise your apologist ramblings there.

Crime is bad and criminals are bad whether they are black or white. Whether it's Dedmon and his gang or these thugs, it's the fact that we have young people who aren't being raised to be responsible adults that is the problem.
THAT'S what we ought to be discussing.
And, frankly, we can start with young people who are on the streets , for ANY reason, at 2am. I don't even understand businesses that put teens on that kind of work shift. It's asking for trouble.
If the boys were hungry, why wasn't there either food in the house or the adult going out to get it? Who doesn't know a bunch of teenage boys are always eating?
But, we see having children as a right rather than a responsibility so there will be excuses. There are always excuses starting with " I didn't know".

I'm sorry, but no good is going to come of 17 year olds leaving the house at 2:00 in the morning. As long as they are living in your house, you have the right to enforce some rules - take some responsibility, parents!

I'm confused by the last sentence - how were these boys "trying to do the right thing?"

I agree, Ally. These kids were ASKING to get mugged. When you or your mother get raped, we'll just say you were ASKING for it. Fair?

Only in the most incredible of circumstances is this not a setup. Now, take a walk a few blocks south and imagine what's going to be happening when a few tipsy patrons walk out of one of the myriad blues clubs on Farish at 2:00am.

The answer is...NOTHING! Because, as we all know, downtown is statistically the safest place in the state. But if they do get mugged, it's no big deal because being out at 2:00am, they're ASKING to be mugged.

Right, Ally?

It isn't just Fondren, unfortunately. The North Jackson area is quickly becoming the MOST dangerous part of Jackson. As I heard an elderly black minister say the other day, "A white boy killing a black man they call a hate crime. What do they call it when a black boy kills a black man? Isn't that hate, too?"

We have to get a grip on this crime situation. I'm so glad that the police responded so quickly. I dialed 911 the other night to report a vagrant and after about 35 rings, I hung up... Never got a call back...

If you read the Rez News you would think South Jackson and Downtown is invading the Rez.

Those yahoos have nothing really to talk about except 10 foot grass.

Minors in that part of Fondren have no supervision and are generally hostile. One cannot drive thru the area without encountering thugs who scream at cars. It will only get worse folks. Move.

I think many of you are deaf and blind to what white teenagers are " up to".
Unsupervised and/or overindulged, bored teenagers are a major part of the crime problem in any city. Crime is usually a young man's game.
Do y'all REALLY think that some of the infamous privileged white criminals like Frazier or Bell were problem free teens?
The difference is that a parent with enough resources can keep their kid out of the paper and out of the system when they commit juvenile crimes. And, the kids are a bit smarter about what they can and can't get by doing. They'll steal from or damage the property of their parents' friends so if they get caught, Mom or Dad can just do restitution for them and make a big donation to their private school to keep them from being expelled.

Damn 9:24 ,
Thanks for opening our eyes !
That's it ! Control the few remaining White Kids
in Jackson, and the crime problem is solved.

9:24 are a idiot

"This could happen anywhere".

Right. But it doesn't.

How does a parent 'keep his kid out of the paper'? That's F*ing ridiculous!