Potentially fatal “knockout” game targeting strangers may be spreading

Potentially fatal “knockout” game targeting strangers may be spreading. “…teens participating in this game [which] involves randomly targeting passersby, with the ultimate goal being to knock them out with one punch as they walk by.” So if you live in an area where there’s a lot of “teenagers”, be on your guard, just like Barry’s typical white grandmother.

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  • This is why I carry a Glock 30 and oddly, I've never been successfully robbed.
    With "successful" being the operative word there. :)

    • Somalia came to my part of America, Minnesota. We even have Somalis who are born in Minnesota, heading to the parents homeland as Jihadis. For many, assimilation is not in the agenda. BTW, Paul Wellstone had more then a little something to do with bringing them to Minnesota. Thanks Paul.

  • Now I don't know from experience, but I've heard that one of the best places to play the knock out game is at the front door of newspapers buildings or whereever the employees come and go. My understanding is that are a lot of real fun targets there...just sayin.

    • your comment is not funny or amusing in the least. Trying to knock someone out could easily be charged as attempted murder. Fun targets? If your Mother was attacked in the knockout game, would you say she is a 'fun target"?

      • You must be new... Which is totally fine. There is an misunderstanding. He did not mean that in the way you thought.

      • In replying to my own comment, I didn.t know that Navyvet was being sarcastic, if he was. This knockout game story had me so angry I coudn't really tell, but why be sarcastic at all about such a terrible thing going on. I only think of how devastating it is for someone or a loved one to be injured one of these thugs.

        • Look once again at the page header. Note the part that says something like "If we didn't laugh, we'd cry." Gotta grab all the chuckles you can in these most interesting times. Easier to do when you check your sensitivities at the i-Door. Sensibilities can get in the way, too.

        • Yes, Odin. We use a lot of sarcasm here. Both Navy and DHM are actually good guys. Not sure DHM was using "miss oden" as an insult, it's possible he truly thought you were a female type person. That first post of yours seemed a bit "sensitive" (and I admit I was stereotyping on that but) that's why I thought you were a female type person at first. I would tell you to take a breath and just breathe, but I think you already did. (and this story ticks me off too, just so you know.)

      • Don't be an air sick bag in this site, miss odin. If sarcasm always goads you out of the damp darkness, leave the dim part of dimwit behind.

        • ok I think I get it, people laugh at shit on this site. I really didn't get it as I'm new here. You could gotten the message to me without the insults. This is why a prefer face to face discussions so people like you have to look someone in the eye when insulting them, and risk getting yourself knocked out in doing so. On the internet, it;s just to easy for people like Harrymelon to insult someone while hiding in their own damp darkness.

        • If that was sarcasm , I didn't know that because it is not easy to tell with online comments. Don't insult or presume to tell me what I can or cannot be or say on this or any site. Damp darkness? This knockout game is very serious and I was responding in what I thought was an appropriate way. Maybe I responded incorrectly, but you sound like a typical internet coward who talks big online but I'm sure you would never call me"Miss Odin" to my face. Harrymelon, you sound like nothing but a trolling asshole and all I can say to you is to go fuck yourself

          • You're playing tough guy with someone you don't know.
            Maybe when you come and start posting on a new site, you should watch how people interact before you go shooting your mouth off. You could end up getting hurt when you challenge people you don't know.

      • They're not looking for a challenge. They're looking for someone easy to hurt, that won't be able to defend themselves.

  • Are you all seers or what? Every single point in the thread so far is touched on here, the first link in a quick search for "knockout game victim armed"

    http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/black-mob-picks-the-wrong-guy/

    Just skimming 3 or 4 articles (there are pages of them) the thing that jumped out at me was a line like "prevalent in other parts of the country" that I read as where cc is illegal or people don't normally defend themselves. Guy in the link was in Conn. and had a knife.

  • More ghetto antics I see, just wait until one of these thugs mess with the wrong person and get ventilated.

      • >> he’ll be the next Trayvon. <<

        That's for damn sure. If one of these knock-out players does get ventilated I'd bet a month's salary the person who did the ventilating gets charged because he/she shot a unarmed asswipe.

        The gene pool sure needs chlorine.

        • I think you are exactly right. One of these piece of sh*t kids is going to get themselves blown away by someone rightfully defending themselves. then all the mommas gonna be crying about how their poor innocent baby did nothin' wrong. Then there will be protesters demanding the person who defended themselves be tried and put in prison, and Jesse Jackson and Sharpton will be at the front screaming about this. Why don't those frauds speak out about this "knockout game" now?

  • It'll be pretty tough for them to knock me out, since I don't walk down the street. Punching an F-250 isn't going to score them points.