Tell me about it. In my city, some poor guy was being carjacked the other
day. He managed to get the gun away from the carjacker, but then the police
showed up and shot and killed the victim! The carjacker is in serious
condition, but he is feeling better.....




At 11:09 PM 12/6/01 -0200, you wrote:
>    Sorry to get into an off topic thread but "illiterate rather unorganized
>people" is not a privilege of Brazil only... Many people die everyday in the
>USA and everywhere in the World by dumb people commiting small crimes and
>carrying guns around. It is very dangerous to get into liquor stores at
>night, for example. Many people get killed because they were in the wrong
>place at the wrong time anywhere in the World !
>
>Best regards,
>Alexandre Guimaraes
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gerhard Fiedler"
>To:
>Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:33 PM
>Subject: Re: [OT]: Sir Peter Blake
>
>
>> At 10:29 12/07/2001 +1300, Jinx wrote:
>> >Inside info ?
>>
>> Not about Sir Blake, but about Brazil maybe. It's not unheard of that
>> rather unorganized and often illiterate people do some things that seem
>not
>> to follow common sense. It starts to make some sense when one considers
>the
>> circumstances these people often live in. So while I think that the
>> "conspiration theory" seems to have some merit, it is not impossible that
>> it was simply a not very well organized robbery attempt and they just
>> exchanged some shots while they tried to get away.
>>
>> ge
>>
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