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Old 03-20-2006, 07:57 PM   #10
MaggieL
in the Hour of Scampering
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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D) Shoot him with *your* gun, *then* take his.

Carefully. Criminals frequently have crappy or poorly maintained weapons they know little about operating.

When a news photog was taking pictures of Gwennie and me for a forthcoming "Philadelphia Weekly" article, we got into a conversation about the drug dealers down in Philly who frequently shoot bystanders while trying to eliminate of competition.

For example, in the recent trial for the murder of Faheem Thomas-Childs, the evidence showed five shots fired by the Broaster gang, and Johnson and Spady (who were convicted of murdering the boy) fired *42*...and *nobody* hit who they were shooting at.

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Originally Posted by Philly Inquirer
Prosecutors now say two rival North Philadelphia gangs had not one, but two raging gun battles over two days in February 2004, in which none of more than 90 bullets fired hit its intended target.
The photog said that once, while covering a court beat, he'd asked a dealer why they seem to have *so* much "collateral damage". The answer was: "We're all high and nobody knows how to shoot."
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