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[NNN0LHI]

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Wounded in Florida Neighborhood; Victims Say Families Feuded Over Teen Dating

CRESCENT CITY, Fla. (AP) - Members of neighboring families shot at each other, wounding six people, as part of a long-running feud that victims said peaked when a girl from one family began dating a boy from the other one.
Six people ages 14 to 22 were taken to hospitals Sunday for treatment of gunshot wounds. Two remained hospitalized Monday, one in serious condition.

Baldemar Riojas, 46, was charged with six counts of aggravated battery with a firearm. He was freed on $15,000 bail.

Members of the Soliz and Ortiz families say their feud with the neighboring Riojas family has simmered for more than a year and became more heated when Riojas' teenage daughter started dating Miguel Soliz, 15, who was among the wounded.

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Didn't Jeb Bush just sign a law that allows for people to begin shooting outside ones home if they feel the least bit threatened by someone? And why does AP report these people as being "wounded" when they get shot but they report our soldiers as getting "hurt" when they get shot in Iraq? Is AP trying to be funny.

[rodeodance]

1. terrible, terrible!! neighbors shooting neighbors. Guns and more

guns!!

[BrainRants]

2. It's the Florida "Culture of life"

I believe you're correct, Chimpie's brother signed the "shoot first, ask questions later" bill.

Good things he's erring on the side of life.

[thoughtanarchist]

3. Break out the Shakespeare and "west side story" quotes!!!

[despairing optimist]

18. Sinkhole Story, since it's in Florida

[slackmaster]

4. Life imitates the Jerry Springer Show

With live ammunition.

What a bunch of assholes. I say let the "adults" kill each other off.

Didn't Jeb Bush just sign a law that allows for people to begin shooting outside ones home if they feel the least bit threatened by someone?...

No, that's not what the new law says.

[Wickerman]

5. Damn, this would make a great play

or movie, I'm thinking Olivia Hussey for the female lead



But what if we used edged weapons instead of guns?

[flamingyouth]

8. BWAHAHAHAHA

:rofl:

[slackmaster]

10. Or better than edged weapons...

Lawn darts at 20 paces.

[Wickerman]

14. getting kinda cocky with those Jarts

since we are out of the Gungeon, eh?

:D


That's what we need, I think, a movie about Jarts!

[TahitiNut]

13. GMTA. I was gonna say something about the Montagues and Capulets.

:shrug: Verona, Florida, huh? :silly:

[Dudley_DUright]

21. We actually do have a Lake Verona here in FL

http://www.htn.net/avonpk/Lakes/Verona_air.htm

It is near Avon Park, south of Orlando (but no where near Lake City which is quite a bit north).

[tblue37]

33. No, no, no--

Clare Danes as lead--maybe Leonardo di Caprio as her boyfriend. And guns, yes, guns!

[geomon666]

6. Hey man it's the Kill Bill in full effect.

Good job Jebby.

[LiberallyInclined]

7. it's spring- and romance is in the air...

aaahhh...young love(sigh)...

[NNN0LHI]

15. It can be deadly

I had a couple of birds doing the wild thing while in flight crash right into my picture window the other day. Killed them both dead. I swear. Hauled their lascivious asses out to the garbage this morning.

Don

[Solly Mack]

9. If I was him I'd claim I felt threatened

because of the long standing feud .....besides, isn't that how Florida lawmakers want it to work?

if you feel threatened, you're justified in shooting...isn't that how the thinking goes?

Golly, they are going to apply this equally and fairly to everyone aren't they?...or just apply it to those "special" cases...

[Tyrone Slothrop]

23. I think you have to prove that you were threatened with deadly force

That's how most common law works.

The new FL law is mainly about retreat, as I understand it.

Most states have laws that say that you cannot act in self-defense if you have some sort of option of retreat. I believe the new FL law says that you do not have to retreat; if threatened with deadly force, you may respond with deadly force. If threatened with non-lethal force, you may respond with non-lethal force.

[carnie_sf]

11. Romeo and Juliet n/r

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[Catt03]

17. Yoo Hoo

Florida here.

Not ALL of us are "crazy ass human waste'.

Now the governor, OK. Please put the blame where it belongs; on Jeb Bush and the right wing legislature he has ensconced in Tallahassee.

Your apology is accepted. :cry:

[LisaL]

16. Talk about your Romeo and Juliet.

[wakeme2008]

19. You know their attorney's going to quote Jebbie's new law

:(

[Baclava]

20. I remember that movie

[Akoto]

22. I'm so glad ...

... That I'll be moving out of this state within the next couple of months. It's nothing like the place I grew up in anymore, and what's more, we have to be lorded over by *'s brother. Oy.

[yellowcanine]

24. The feud in Huckleberry Finn heated up when a boy from one family ran off

a girl from the other family. Truth is stranger than fiction.

[raysr]

25. "Guess Who"

"Guns, Guns, Guns"!.

[ZR2]

26. Yep, that gun just decided

to go on a shooting rampage all on it's own....

[maveric]

27. Remember the cartoon where Bugs Bunny was sawing FLA from the

rest of the US?
Sorry FL DUers! It aint your fault but the Sunshine State has become a circus of stupidity, intolerance, corruption and redneck justice.

[DS1]

28. Too bad trash like this aren't better shots.

If people need to be shootin at each other over shit like this, they can damn well go right ahead and do so IMO.

[NNN0LHI]

29. Some of those who got shot were kids n/t

[Redstone]

30. Guns, guns, we need more guns in this country!

These people's names might indicate that they're immigrants, but they've sure learned how to settle an argument the American Way, haven't they?

Redstone

[slackmaster]

31. They haven't learned the REAL American way to settle disputes

Sue the bastards.

[Redstone]

32. Good point.

I guess they're just traditionalists and haven't stepped up to the modern ways yest.

Redstone

[NNN0LHI]

34. Actually our Civil Law system...

...was designed to prevent people from resorting to violence to settle disputes. At one time disputes were settled by two people stepping off 20 paces and then they began shooting at one another.

Don