Meatball sandwich horseplay leads to two deaths

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BY KIMBALL PERRY

Family betrayal, patience and a glob of spit all led to Ruben Jordan being tried for murder Thursday and his son ready to testify against him.

Jordan, 38, is accused of shooting Vernon Davis to death on Oct. 31, 2008, in Over-the-Rhine.

Two weeks before that, Davis and Brian Austin were fooling around with Jordan's 16-year-old son, Kareem "Little Red" Gilbert.

The horseplay got out of control and an angry Austin hit Gilbert in the head with a meatball sandwich. Gilbert, now angry himself, then shot and killed Austin as Davis ran off.

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[xchrom]

1. recommend

[xchrom]

2. now why would somebody unrec this, i wonder? nt

[emilyg]

11. I got it back to +1

[SpiralHawk]

3. When meatball subs are outlawed, then only outlaws will have meatball subs

- Citizens for Meatball Justice

[DBoon]

6. never bring a meatball sub to a gun fight

You'll have my meatball sub when you pull it from my cold dead Parmesan-encrusted hand

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. One should never, EVER engage in horseplay with a meatball sub!

Responsible owners of meatball subs, like you obviously are, know this. The risks are just too great, and the potential for calamity is always there.

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. WTF is wrong with people?

[old mark]

5. Human beings are fucking crazy...nt

[Tsiyu]

8. I asked myself the same thing about you last night

Aafter your response in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x207523#207814

I'll be taking a long break from this place because of it....

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. I apologize if I caused you distress.

I do take exception to your characterization that I was dancing on anyone's grave. I expressed no delight in the passing of this man and I expressed my heartfelt sympathy for his friends and family. You might want to reflect a bit on your efforts to get others that only know this man as Neil Boortz's longtime producer to venerate and glorify his life choices. I stand by my comments even though you are offended by them.

Cheers!

[hfojvt]

10. people say things that others find offensive or horrible

but the initial act of saying does not lead to multiple deaths. No blood was spilled in the making of this post.

But words do have consequences. This quote, for example, is meant to glorify the rich and to denigrate the poor.

"The bum sitting on a heating grate, smelling like a wharf, is there by choice. He is there because of the sum total of the choices he made in his life. This truism is absolutely the hardest thing for some people to accept, especially those who consider themselves to be victims of something or another -- victims of discrimination, bad luck, the system, capitalism, whatever. After all, nobody really wants to accept the blame for his position in life. Now when it is so much easier to point and say, "Look! He did this to me!" than it is to look into a mirror and say, "You S.O.B.! You did this to me!" -- "

That is from "The Terrible Truth about Liberals" by Neil Boortz p. 44.

If those ideas are harmful to society, then it is not a good thing to be part of the process by which they are propagated. True, I have worked for Phillip Morris, but I only helped to make expensive pudding snacks, I didn't work in the marketing department pushing the message that cigarettes don't cause cancer or some such.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Another meat-related death ...

(cf SNL's "ex-Police" skit)

[WinkyDink]

13. What we need is more guns.

[name not needed]

14. I say we need more meatball subs.