After Freeway Shootings, L.A. Wonders if It's Back to the Bad Old Days

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After Cluster of Freeway Shootings, L.A. Wonders if It's Back to the Bad Old Days

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A string of highway shootings since mid-March has left four people dead in Southern California and raised fears of a return to the bad old days of the 1980s, when the Los Angeles area gained a reputation for freeway gunplay.

Authorities have increased freeway patrols and considered installing recorders on roadside traffic cameras.

Five people have been shot in their cars in apparently unrelated - and definitely unsolved - attacks. In at least three cases, the shooters were in other cars.

Manny Padilla, a California Highway Patrol chief in Southern California, said the bloodshed may reflect frustration with gridlock.

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[okieinpain]

1. oh, that's ok. we here at du don't mind folks having a temper

tantrum. they just need some counseling, and they will be just peachy king.

[TahitiNut]

6. (lol!) That's "peachy keen" not "peachy king."

:rofl: Sometimes us oldsters get a kick out of the young 'uns. :silly:

[okieinpain]

8. actually, i use king. people always correct me but I like king.

thanks.

[donco6]

22. I don't even bother correcting this stuff anymore.

Had a young woman architect going over some building plans and she was presenting the "Color Palate". Didn't know the roof of my mouth came with optional shades!

[TahitiNut]

25. That's the dreaded homonym virus.

Spelling checkers are helpless before it. :silly:

[sandnsea]

15. What motivates that shit?

Please, do tell. Comparing a five year old knocking something off a desk to murder. Does it make you feel superior? What? :shrug:

[okieinpain]

16. hey it's just a temper tantrum, don't get your underpants in a

bunch. geez, next you'll want me to get the death penalty.

[sandnsea]

17. No, counselling

Remember? So, what motivates that shit?

[slackmaster]

24. It's primitive simian territoriality

Great apes, especially sexually mature males, will defend their territory aggressively even when it is not actually being attacked or when doing so works against their best interests.

Traffic snarls bring out the ape in some of us.

[KG]

2. remenber - guns don't kill people, um, what the fuck...

[donco6]

23. Yes, that's right.

After all, the guy coulda got knifed in his car just as easily.

Uh . . .

[Piperay]

3. I live in LA County and

I don't think it is so much frustration with gridlock as frustration with the whole rotten system and the ugly turn this country has taken. :-(

[TahitiNut]

7. Yep. Canaries in the stress mine ... giving others the shaft.

:shrug:

[lyonn]

27. People are definitely on edge everywhere

Just like the good old days, 1980's. Reaganomics remember. Don't know what you call Bush's blunderings. You name it he has screwed it up. It is truly hard to remember the Clinton era when people thought that it was so easy for America to come out of the economic disaster of Reagan/bush, since it certainly couldn't have been his doings, people were upbeat, crime down, more cops of the streets, POSITIVE was Clintons legacy. We all watch the news now and hear how the corps and their leaders are filthy rich, oil co. never had it so good and are not about to give us a price break on the gas. Sooo, we watch more tv showing how great we are doing while we have little money in our pockets. Credit cards getting hammered and now they are disallowing some of cc debt if filing bkcy. Oh, it's all good. People are putting off buying stuff or can't. Yet we are told all indicators say our economy is good and getting better. The market is spastic. Who can tell.

[Megahurtz]

4. LA?

It's down in Orange County now!:scared:

[slackmaster]

9. San Diego is getting worse and worse

We already had the meth-head Tank Guy incident here. Sooner or later there will be a full on Falling Down.

[onager]

13. Did you see the documentary about that guy?

"Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story" (2002)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317273/

Only an hour or so long, but really good. It ties the San Diego meth-head culture into the massive loss of jobs in the area, and goes thru a history of the Claremont suburb. It even brings up the roots of tweaking in WWII abuse of meth by bomber crews, etc.

One really ironic note: interviews with a minimum-wage security guard at the razed General Dynamics plant. He used to work there, for more than minimum wage...

[slackmaster]

21. I'd heard of the film but have not seen it

Sounds interesting. Thanks for the tip!

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. When Was The Last Time

you heard or seen two bicyclists getting into a shoot-out? :)

[Piperay]

10. "Gridlock"...

most of these shootings are occurring after midnight so these shooters are not stuck in gridlock.x(

[Toots]

11. If we had more guns would this stop happening?

If all of these people had guns would they have been shot? They certainly wouldn't have been shot if hardly anyone had guns...

[bemildred]

12. Wait until we have gas lines again.

Or even-odd rationing.
Then you'll see some shooting.

[Mizmoon]

14. Christ, I remember gas rationing and lines

and that was back when this area (NY) had half the population we have today. What a nightmare rationing would be now ...

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. What has Arnold said about this?

[Conservativesux]

19. "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations

..of the women".

-Conan the Barbarian

[bemildred]

20. My personal favorite Ahnuld quote.

:thumbsup:

[SemperEadem]

26. If he didn't read if from a script

it would never occur to him to say that extemporaneously.