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Brock Thiessen at Exclaim reports on the anti-emo backlash said to be sweeping through Mexico:
According to Daniel Hernandez, who's been covering the anti-emo riots on his blog Intersections, the violence began March 7, when an estimated 800 young people poured into the Mexican city of Queretaro's main plaza "hunting" for emo kids to pummel. Then the following weekend similar violence occurred in Mexico City at the Glorieta de Insurgents, a central gathering space for emos. Hernandez also reports that several anti-emo riots have now also spread to various other Mexican cities.Link (via Jesse Walker at Reason, thanks Coop!) Discuss
Via the Austin American Statesmen, several postings on Mexican social-networking sites, primarily organising spot for these "emo hunts," have been dug up and translated. One states: "I HATE EMOS!!! They are not even people, they are so stupid, they cry over meaningless things… My school is infested with them, I want to kill them all!"
Another says: "We've never seen all the urban tribes unite against one single tribe before… Emos, their way of thinking is for crap, if you are so depressed please do us all a favour and kill yourselves!"
125 Responses to "Anti-emo pogroms rage throughout Mexico"
jgriffiths says:
I agree that this news story does kind of scream slow news day / moral panic.
As did the original mods/rockers news story.
agoodsandwich says:
no. This has to be a joke, right? In poor taste, but a joke, still.
scottfree says:
Also, little do the attackers know, but not only will an emo kid save humanity from giant terrifying monsters in his robot powered by his mothers love, but he will then afterwards turn us all into tang. And he will still be miserable.
SamL says:
Just a little warmup for this years Punch an Emo Day.
klobouk says:
Oh, snap.
Emo Godwin.
OM says:
…Actually, it goes much further than chulo kids ganging up to beat up the emos. In the San Antonio strip clubs, this has actually spread to the dancers! After reading this, I spoke with a couple of friends down in SA who are dancers, and they readily admitted that for the past several months:
"Every tejano, rock & roll and/or hip-hop dancer has been ganging up on the goth chicks and chasing them away. It's not that we're really against them, but their depressing music and their fucked-up lifestyle. We're here to make money and have fun, not make everyone feel sad and depressed and suicidal and all that shit! They want to be like that, let them open their own club! Call it the Body Bag or something like that! Jeesus!"
Guess I'd better call down to Perfect 10 San Antonio and tell my DJ buddies to erase all that Bauhaus I loaded on the hard drives before I went into the hospital…:P
BadKittyM says:
@ #85. Choking oneself is hardly 'new.' I am 44 years old – when I was in elementary school (5th grade, to be exact), I was shown how to do this while in class. There was a group of us kids sitting by the movie screen, as we had just finished watching one of those silly school-sponsored filmstrips…and they were taking turns leaning back, and cutting off the blood flow to the brain via placing one's hands about one's neck (thumbs touching larynx) and squeezing. I myself tried it a few times. Makes you dizzy, makes your hearing start to fade into a "rushing" sound, your vision starts to fade around the edges and your heart beat seems very, very loud.
In short…new? Not remotely. The difference is back then, nobody found it remarkable that I ever saw or heard of, and it certainly never rated coverage in any sort of media outlet. Our teacher certainly didn't say a thing, though we were not hiding and she saw what we were doing. Kids will try anything, provided they see another kid doing it first and it looks interesting. Wondering what the consequences might be, is not usually even a second, let alone first thought.
In regards to the whole Emo thing, I have no answer. I can't imagine having so much dislike for another group of fellow humans, based off nothing that affects me personally in any way, shape or form. Oh, wait…that kinda covers most of humanity's negative history, doesn't it? Irrational hatred, blind condemnation, physical attacks. It can be dangerous to be seen as both "Other" and especially in conjunction with appearing weak. It brings forth the worst in human nature, alas.
jgriffiths says:
This is an ongoing story, but sickeningly relevant –
Antinous says:
My friend's brother died of auto-erotic asphyxia circa 1973.
el_beardo says:
Gee, thanks, Myspace! Now the entire WORLD looks like a horrible, girl-ish, mutant spawn of The Munsters! Damn internets… whatever happened to Geographical Isolation?!
jahknow says:
Now, I finally know how to pronounce emo in Spanish: "ém-mo" (and the plural is los ém-mos).
doktor tchock says:
oh, morrissey, what have ye bred.
Trent Hawkins says:
#71 – wow, hold on there. Homophobia in Metal culture? You'd think that the tight pants and studded leather would be a dead giveaway.
Maybe you mean Nordic Metal?
Calvin Lawson says:
I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself.
OM says:
"oh, morrissey, what have ye bred."
…If the reports are any indication, it takes Girlfriend In A Coma and makes it a case of life imitates art! :-)
Kieran O'Neill says:
@ Mindysan: Yeah, I'm still a bit confused as to the distinction between "emo" and "goth".
One clue might come from a guy a I know from South London who was into the scene in the 80′s: "Where I grew up, the goffs used to sit outside the school gates and frow bricks at people."
I see emo (and late 90′s/21st century goth) as being the watered down version of the 80s stuff. Hence the death rock resurgence in the last few years, and the late nineties "cybergoth" branching into the hard house/dance scene.
It amazes me that the subculture has survived this long, far better than most – I guess it represents something fairly primal/archetypal, and is intrinsically anachronistic, where most other subcultures are tied to circumstances, be they temporal, social, political or some combination of these.
Emo is just what happened when the marketing/song writing departments from the big record companies got hold of it.
That all said, I still tend to enjoy hanging out in "trad" goth clubs, myself…
Meh. I'm a little tipsy, and have spent way too much time in dark clubs thinking about this when I should have been having fun. Don't mind me.
mindysan33 says:
#65- DCFC is considered emo? I thought they were… er…like… um… indie rock, or the new adult indie rock… or something? They seem pretty good, actually. I liked SDRE first album, the one that was on Sub-pop. At some point we just got to get over these labels, and just like what we like, but that's just me. I'm drawing a blank on the others. My emo cred is shot- I'll never be cool… thank god for Mindy cred, though (see Homestar Runner for that- teen girl squad… the valentines one- 7? or 9?)!
#66- "Oh yeah Oh no, it doesn't have to be so
Forces of the creative mind are unstoppable!"
#72- Goth is now apparently passe while Emo is not, at least that's what I gather. The music is also different, and I get the sense that most Emo kids are not into philosophical theory and romantic writers like many of the goths I used to hang with. It comes off to me as really being a created youth subculture, but perhaps that's just my old lady crotchiness kicking in. Perhaps I'm wrong? Like I said I don't know much about the emo kids running around these days. I'm unhip and out of the loop.
eti says:
Gotta hate someone, I guess.
"First they came for the emos…"
jgriffiths says:
Tolerance, what a wonderful thing!
Tenn says:
At the end of my freshman year, I was leaning on my locker talking to my best friend, and I looked up at commotion (commotion that was more than the usual commotion, I mean) and saw an emo boy, hauling ass, down Main Hall.
A jock running after him. Slip-on skull print Vans hitting the industrial tile floor, followed by thudding tennis shoes. Emo boy wars with his summer coat of tight jeans and studded belt impeding his movement, thin chest heaving under a skin-tight shirt. Half-bangs obscure his vision, eyes rimed by traditional Emo markings.
And the hunting call of the jock.
He caught him, grabbed his shoulder- spun him around and swept him up in what must have been a bonecrushing hug.
It was surreal, because the boy hugged him back tightly before being set down like a child and walking away. Not that it hadn't started out surreal.
Wickedashtray says:
My 17 yr old is into "scene" looks (he despises the term "Emo"). For 99% of these kids its simply a fashion and music thing and has nothing to do with romanticising depression and suicide. I also laugh when he (my son) gets posts on his myspace site when he's accused of being a "homo". The kid has 16 pages FULL of nothing but hot chicks who want to hook up with him.
He's gotten more girls at 17 than I've had in my entire life. Dammit.
anthony says:
I'm too late again, but here goes:
I'm 37 so "emo" for me has to do with splinter groups rom the Dischord DC hardcore scene in the Eighties (Rites of Spring in particular). And even back then everyone hated the term, even the "emocore" kids.
Cutters and the like are not popular at all as far as I can tell. People love to put down emos at the school where I teach. I can't tell where the animosity comes from, but basically if you are emo that means you are too sensetive, too emotionally fragile, and worthy of nothing but contempt. Hide, ye poets, artists, and vegans!
markfrei says:
Why am I still giggling? Oh well…
Anyhow Morrissey has an unexpected Mexican cult following:
And Morrissey has nothing to do with Emo anyhow – the original Rites of Spring version or its pop sell out mutant off spring.
Oh yeah – read Cannetti. That book rocks!
gATO says:
#75 Heh… you're right, I forgot Rob Halford ;)
but seriously… that emo-bashing "riot" in México D.F. was surreal, but the one in Queretaro, which I saw before this one, was a bit, ehm, darker:
A mob circling one guy, chanting "he wants to cry!", and the guy @1:05 saying that it bothers him that they "look more like girls than boys"… yay, tolerance! Funny, i bet that most of those mobbers would crap their pants if they were confronted by a gang of hip-hoppers, heh!
gATO says:
#86: yes, sure.
translation of the video @78:
Reporter: This is how dozens of young people intended to finish off a group of kids in Plaza de Armas, Queretaro
Reporter: The aggressors congregated there with a sole purpose: to expel the so-called "Emos".
Reporter: Days before, through the Internet, a call was made to rescue Plaza de Armas. An "anti-Emo" movement requested to end with a group of kids who gathered there; kids who are characterized, amongst other things, for dressing in black and covering their faces with bangs.
(crowd chanting "he wants to cry! he wants to cry!")
Reporter: The call was succesful, hundreds of people were about to lynch the Emos.
Kid in trenchcoat: They don't bother me, the Emos, in and by themselves… what bothers me is that they take a spot for them, that they want to have the square just for themselves, so to speak… it also bothers me that they look more like girls than boys.
Reporter: Fortunately, the intervention of some young people and the police prevented a fatal ending.
Man in blue shirt: We make a kind request to these kids' parents, to be more aware of their activities…
Reporter: It was anounced that in the coming weekends, security will be tightened in downtown Queretaro, in response to a new call against Emos.
(Reporter signs off)
Takuan says:
patient lad. I'd have had his nose off in one bite.
dculberson says:
@mindysan33: You won all kinds'a Mindycred with that Gogol Bordello quote. First one I've ever seen dropped anywhere, other than between me and my wife. ("Monkeys clapping…")
Takuan says:
like my makeup?
Gorrika says:
I hope to god that the next war isn't fought with missiles and guns–it should be fought with eyeliner and tears.
xxxxxx says:
newscaster: it happend again this weekend, a call to attack emos, only this time they defended themselves. lets watch the story.
reporter: the appointment was at 3 in the afternoon, teenagers who identify themselves as 'emos' gathered to represent and defend their lifestyle.
Carlos A. Soto: they have received various aggressive threats from other groups online.
Rodrigo: we received threats on the internet claiming they would lynch us.
reporter: the threats were made by another group of youths calling themselves "punks" (or punketos in spanish) and they arrived at the scene chanting. The emos responded by throwing bottles at the Punks and Police officers. The punks responded by charging the emos and fighting broke out.
police: we have groups of different cultures clashing, we intervened and prevented more aggression against each other.
reporter: 2 hours later another confrontation began among the girls of the groups. boys later joined yielding belts as weapons.
punk kid: we are fighting against the emos (among other groups which i cant translate) because they are stealing our style.
reporter: the police responded again, sending in 150 security forces who seperated the groups. later, like some kind of joke or a scene from a surrealist film, a group of singing hare krishna emerged between the groups and helped to dissipate the anger.
greenshinobi says:
Let people be who they are for f*** sake. If they aren't hurting anyone, let them be.
Those who get annoyed and even hate others for being different has the real issue.
Humans are a great species yeah?
mindysan33 says:
@#91- DCulberson, you just tripled your Mindycred for getting that! What an amazing band! I'm all about me some Gogol Bordello lately. I'm always quoting songs. I already have a song (well, song related- it's a Woody Guthrie quote on Mermaid Avenue) for my thesis! And my senior paper was named after a KMFDM song. And a paper I wrote about the holocaust was named after a joy division song. I can't help myself.
As for corporate music that so much music becomes:
"I'm gathering new generation
That's gonna stand up to it
To this karaoke dictatorship
Where posers and models with guitars
Boogie to the shit for beats
I make a better rock revolution
Alone with my dick!"
jgriffiths says:
Brilliant, thanks.
Now feel more disturbed about it than I did before hand however.
The intervention of 'some young people' is the only vaguely positive note I can draw out of it, I'm always impressed when people stand up to a group that size (or that openly dangerous).
Takuan says:
jeez, my copy of Crowds and Powers sat on the shelf for a coupla decades anyway. Guess I'll haul it out again……
oooh, table of contents looks tasty.. thanks Mr. Free.
didn't they make a movie of this:
emo_kidd90 says:
This is seriously stupid. I'm not afraid to admit I'm emo. But I don't cut myself, yeah I suffer of great depression and death crosses my mind but I find ways to feel better NOT EVERY SINGLE EMO IN THIS PLANET THINKS OF SIMPLY KILLING THEM SELVES. I write my feelings because I know my pen and notebook will never judge me. And wtf??? its stupid how people can be soo heartless and hurt emos. We are the way we are because we have gone through a lot, and yeah everyone struggles through life but not everyone is strong.
After I found out how most Mexicans attack EMOS I refuse to go down there to visit my family. I don't want to deal with dumb ignorant people. this is the way I like to be, i express my self in a way no one will ever understand so don't even bother trying. well if you have any questions or concerns email me
or use my email to search for me on myspace. I do not accept people who judge me for who I am.
by the way I have a job sooo don't be stupid and think that emos are useless. Before you judge some check you self.. AND NO ONE IS PERFECT SO MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HELP US GET OUT OF HERE.
Kieran O'Neill says:
Tak-kun, you are remarkably full of it with the image links tonight. ;)
Loose_Change says:
After years of reading BB I finally register because of this thread. So hi.
On to business:
Has anyone seen much about what the government plans to do to keep this from escalating? It may be my imagination running away with me here, but I don't think that The Warriors, in all its infinite awesomeness as a movie, is all that great a scenario to have in real life. Social tribes fighting between themselves. So enough of the social spectrum has rallied support against emo's today. What about tomorrow? Then we're going to take out the punk rockers? Mexico should stop the ball before it gets rolling.
And don't forget about the US. You know how we just love to embrace subcultures.
Takuan says:
winning smile,ne?
absimiliard says:
Awesome! Emo-kids get beat up in Mexico?? Totally awesome!
Anyone know the immigration laws for Mexico? I won't have to climb over some border fence will I?
-abs (who's actually pretty non-violent in non-hypothetical situations.)
Lodi says:
I knew that emo kids were bullied by their non-emo peers. But I laughed at them anyway.
Now, whenever some emo is beaten it is to my shame.
How can I not think that the total and unanimous internet derision of Emo has attached to its constituents a "risk-free target" sign that is all the enticement pleasure-seeking bullies need to justify physical battery.
jgriffiths says:
First they came for the Emo's, and I did not speak out – because I was not an Emo.
Then they came for the gays, and I did not speak out – because I was not homosexual.
Then they came for the liberals, and I did not speak out – because I was of a vaguely central, wishy washy political disposition.
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.
dredgeyourshit says:
I thought Latin Americans loved Morrissey? How much more emo can you get?
Anyway, thats awesome that the Hare Krishnas showed up. Where was Ray Cappo?
giantnegro says:
Maybe this will spur a renewed interest in the Austin punk group the "Fuckemos". It's a reference to a club and not a style, but they're awesome anyway.
DreadLetterDay says:
I don't understand why we're not all coming together to fight coming g-emo-cide in Mexico.
Mexico = IC X EMO
Coincidence? I think not.
Zeitgeist ahoy.
lilbacon3 says:
Has anybody taken into consideration the fact that "emo" no longer exists in its true form? These kids are modern-day SCENESTERS! Emo music died around the time everybody was freaking out because the computers of the world weren't going to be able to handle the change from "99″ to "00." …FUPA!
absimiliard says:
"g-emo-cide" Sweet. Wish I'd thought of that.
bodieman says:
How do you say Quadrophenia in Spanish?
scottfree says:
First they came for the emos, and I said nothing because I was not an emo.
jonathanpeterson says:
Cutters are funny, but mikesum's news report is funnier, even if I am 42. It was right up there with a woman at a party telling me all about the teen jelly bracelet sex code (OMIGOD!).
DreadLetterDay says:
Emocaplypse Now
billtheburger says:
i reckon you'd be depressed if you'd spent years with Rod Hull's hand up your rear only for him to fall off the roof in a tragic arial adjusting accident.
Ooops sorry i thought this was about EMU
DreadLetterDay says:
-that p, obviously. gah.
redsquid says:
oh boy- here we go-
#11 posted by mindysan33… I'm a dumb American who knows no Spanish…
-This comment annoys me. Are they dumb Mexicans because they don't speak english?
#94 Has anyone seen much about what the government plans to do to keep this from escalating?
-Oh please great gubermint- save us from ourselves!
#76 etc.- Ah yes- the great Gogol Bordello! If only those Mexican kids had some gypsies to beat on…
Kids are more scene conscious than ever! That is sad. Why don't we realize earlier that our labels are our limits? As disenfrachised youth they reach out for identity and community and end up pigeon holing themselves. Now I'm on the backside of thirty and I can go from Skrewdriver to Steely Dan to Bubba Sparxxx to Merle Haggard on the same evening with no appologies. As Jello said "A hairstyle's not a lifestyle, imagine Sid Vicious at 35."
GRCurley says:
Maybe I'm getting old, but I really don't get how a report about kids getting beat on for how they look or their music or their depressed attitude becomes funny.
Yeah, the music and the attitude annoy the crap out of me, but was every Mutant on here a cool kid who never got picked on? Gimme a break.
xochi says:
This is Machismo at work.
It's been going on for a while and many groups have called for the lynching of emos in Mexico. This is a homophobic issue.
jonathanpeterson says:
I love youtube related videos:
Go, go Emo Rangers
mindysan33 says:
#96- Ah, come on, don't be annoyed! It was a joke… ha, ha? And at my own expense, too. And sort of mocking the whole "Americans are dumb crowd" (I have a prof who is one- always bitching about no one having any language skills outside there native one here). I mean, years of German, and I know hardly any (spreche sie deutch… sehr kleine deutch). So, I'm pretty dumb, at least when it comes to languages. I can mock my own country, can't I? Jello quotes are always outstanding, and that is right on the money! I agree- outside appearances meaning nothing, right? Did I make that point somewhere in this mega long thread? If not, I should have. Yay Jello, for whom there is always room. Skrewdriver? Really? Just curious. And what's wrong with Gogol Bordello? They are pretty much a good time, if you ask me, while having a good poltical slant as well. And I'm not sure if kids are really more scenesterish, or if it just seems like it from our post-30 vantage point. Could be both. One does not preclude the other.
#101- Glad I'm not the only one. "Back in my day… we made do with manic panic that we got once a year when going to the big city, walking both ways up hills… and we liked it, we loved it… we had to order our London After Midnight cassette tapes from them mail order catalogs! And make mixed tapes. And shop at thrift stores. None of this intertubes nonsense… These kids today, got it too easy!!!" Yeah, I see lots of this being 80′s nostalgia too. I was just wondering the other day why all the freshman (well, not all, but some) at my university looked as if they just stepped out of a John Hughes film. Isn't there a Mike Watt song about that kind of nostalgia- but about the 70s? didn't Eddie Vedder sing in it? I really never dug the newer "goth" music that some places started playing back when we still went out. It's like it's… not spontaneous or something? People are trying to sound like somebody else instead of… I don't want to say doing their own thing… I don't know. I'm bad at well defined scenes, being part of them. I was never able to get it right, and I never just wanted to hang out with one sort of people, who ever they were. I think this has to do with the scene I hung out in when I was a teenager- it was full of just odd balls with all sorts of taste in music/culture/politics/religion/sexual orientation/etc. I like variety, and talking to people who are different from me. Trad goth clubs were always fun, though. Those were the days!!!
Anyway- one day I'll write a book that has a grand unified theory of all this stuff, and I'll call it "My supertheory of supereverything" and everyone will hate it and Eugene Hutz will either sue me or think it's great. Give me another 20 years or so, when it's all irrelevant anyway… ;-P
vjinterkosmos says:
What'd be the point of bashing emos anyhow? Personally I find emo kids extremely entertaining. The more they whine the harder I has lulz.
… I must say the rags are cool though.
absimiliard says:
Hey GRCurley,
It's partly because some of us were beaten up in school. By making a joke of it we can defuse how we might react if we seriously thought about it.
And since I would happily drop 10 grand a piece to have two of the kids who beat me up every day in 10th grade assassinated when I let myself get worked up about stuff like that I try not to get worked up about it.
Thankfully I don't normally have 20 kilobucks laying around, and thankfully I don't usually think about my childhood at all. I suppose I should probably be grateful that my father died when I was young and that seems to have traumatized me enough that most of childhood is a blank slate, but I don't think I will since I really wish I could remember what his face looked like.
Basically, I laugh because the only two choices are laugh or cry. I'm tired of crying.
DreadLetterDay says:
@#61 That's what I'm trying to get at man, we've got to get these kids out of their miserable situation.
How can we, freaks and geeks of yore, slouch idly by as our barely pubescent brethren are cast down by the physically able, socially adjusted oppressors?
Have we forgotten our pain so soon?
*lights candle, just to watch it burn*
But seriously folks, make up is bad.
Did you see the hair on the other side? Goodness me.
Takuan says:
mods versus rockers, throw in some Latin fascism
jahknow says:
As Mexico goes, so goes the nation.
eigengrau says:
This is so ridiculous I thought it must've been the Onion at first. Sure, I think guys wearing girl jeans and who own hair straighteners are kind of odd, but I can't imagine widespread violence based on little more than clothing.
Is there something more at play here – do the emos violate some kind of cultural norm? I could imagine they wouldn't sit particularly well with the male machismo types, but still, I just don't get it.
scottfree says:
Bizarre. Why would you give them something else to cry about?
mindysan33 says:
#82- I'm curious actually- in your opinion, what is a true form of a scene anyway? Any scene, not just emo? When does it cross that line from being an authentic artistic expression to being just another youth culture sold at hot topic or target that all the scenesters are into? Can we define a scene as more than just a local community? Does it become an "Imagined community" that crosses national boundaries? Or does it need to be a fact to face particpatory experience to be a real scene? I'm not saying you're wrong, but how do you think we should define these things in the first place. What about punk? When did that end- when it got big in England- what about the LA and DC scenes, or Boston, or Belgrade, or Paris? Are they not punk because they came after the Sex Pistols and the Clash? What about Gogol Bordello? Are they not punk? Isn't much of this about self-definition more than anything else? It also seems to me that much of this is defined looking backwards, after the fact- "Oh, THAT was goth, or THAT was punk…" I'm just curious how others define this stuff. I have my own theories, really.
BTW- I'm amazed at how long and how contentious this thread is. We can really talk about some emo can't we?
Stolia says:
@ 22 & 33 – Mindysan33 & Gert1033 –
When I was 18 I was given a mixed CD of unquestionably emo music – Death Cab for Cutie (album – We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes), Sunny Day Real Estate, Hefner, Denali, American Analog Set, Kind of Like Spitting, The Good Life….
That was 6 years ago. This music was pretty okay – the current stuff going around, as far as I can tell, is terrible. I think it's really sad that music is secondary, and now "emo" means the clothes and attitude.
Also –
Has anyone mentioned yet that CUTTING is "in"??? Teenagers, many of those who declare themselves emo, at least, are cutting themselves like it's in vogue.
See the wikipedia article on "self-harm":
This emo stuff is way beyond anything I ever experienced in high school. I remember autoerotic asphyxiation (no time to spellcheck, sorry) but this is much more out there.
clifford says:
Is this the "Disco Sucks" for a new generation? I say more power to you. Rock forth!
EH says:
Outsiders are always sacrificed for group solidarity.
trueblue2 says:
I can't say I'm surprised by this. Like others said it's the same as past generations. Emo kids are definitely the target of harassment to be sure. For example, I did a quick search on Facebook and found 412 groups whose title either involves "death to emo" or specifically wishes emo kids were dead. I have worked with teens who are both the aggressors and targets of such attitudes and wouldn't say it's uncommon.
I don't understand why anyone thinks this is funny, minus the Hare Krishnas showing up. That kinda came out of nowhere. (Oh yeah, and why are cutters funny, 58? There is nothing funny about self-harm, and I think it's terrible that it's become "fashionable.")
65 and 68 – I think you guys are thinking of the "choking game." It's the most popular with middle schoolers but happens with high schoolers too. Two kids I've worked were injured attempting to play this "game" at school. How this is something that caught on with kids is beyond me.
acb says:
Could this be the Night of the Broken Glasses? (Do Mexican emo kids wear those?)
jgriffiths says:
That video's pretty disturbing, I know I had (and I can see in the comments that quite a few people did as well) a 'haha that's pretty funny … no … wait … that's pretty terrible … no it's really terrible … the world is pretty fucked up' moment, this second video represents the zenith of this, as did the article I posted.
Any chance of a full translation of the video?
darue says:
oh shit! HERE COMES EVERYBODY! RUN LIKE HELL!
Self-defense against ad-hoc mobs is done how exactly?
clifford says:
Oh nevermind, now after watching the video I realize its just way a terrible way overboard reaction to a youth culture that is absolutely harmless.
phillamb168 says:
Great, thanks emo kids, you brought back the Hare Krishnas.
Rick. says:
I don't condone violence against anyone. Still, this gives me the giggles.
mellowknees says:
I can't help but think this is just the same as goth kids getting spit on and beaten up when I was in high school…except it's more organized.
Too bad people don't see that targetted violence against any group is only going to end with more violence. Way of the human world, I guess, which is really unfortunate. There are crappy people everywhere.
mindysan33 says:
Damn it, Takuan beat me to it! But right on the $$ as always.
Is it just me, or does the whole world just keep missing the point of "alternative communities" or whatever we want to box it up as (counter-cultures, sub-cultures, hippies, punks, goths, emos, mods, rockers, Str8 edgers, skinheads, oi boys, glam kids, beats, flappers… you get my point- are they discreet historical events, or are they an interconnected phenomenon? Opinions?)? "Look at me, I dress a certain way- I'm soooo different, don't hate me for being different, cause everyday is halloween, ya know- look, someone who is different from me- I'm gonna go beat the crap out of them now, cause anyone who is not like me sucks- cause they aren't like me!". Huh? I think I'm just sick of boxes, even self imposed ones to some extent. I think these are some of the issues I'm interested in looking at in my academic work, anyhow- self-definition vs. outsider definition, that sort of nonsense.
Blah… I'm just avoiding homework now.
mindysan33 says:
Holy crap, the Hare Krishna's at the end were great! Anyone know what is being said by the newscasters? I'm a dumb American who knows no Spanish…
DreadLetterDay says:
Auto-erotic asphyxiation in high school?
Which high school was this? Do a high percentage of those who indulged in the practise all those years ago still reside in the vicinity?
Oh, and, err, of course, are they mostly female and hot?
*prays to the God of the geek-perve*
Takuan says:
Who were they?
I'm One
Every year is the same
And I feel it again,
I'm a loser – no chance to win.
Leaves start falling,
Come down is calling,
Loneliness starts sinking in.
But I'm one.
I am one.
And I can see
That this is me,
And I will be,
You'll all see
I'm the one.
Where do you get
Those blue blue jeans?
Faded patched secret so tight.
Where do you get
That walk oh so lean?
Your shoes and your shirts
All just right.
But I'm one etc.
I got a Gibson
Without a case
But I can't get that even tanned look on my face.
Ill fitting clothes
I blend in the crowd,
Fingers so clumsy
Voice too loud.
But I'm one.
gATO says:
#83, you say: "Quadrophenia"
although, knowing the way they translate movie titles around here, I'm willing to bet that they called it something like "Salvaje Juventud en Ruedas"
("Wild Youth on Wheels")
Hunty says:
"Anti-Emo Riot" is totally gonna be the name of my new Emo band. It's brimming with emo-irony!
@#67: "the Night of Broken Glasses" is full of win. Terrible, terrible win. :)
scottfree says:
have you ever tried shopping for jeans that actually fit? Women's jeans fit way nicer; you just have to sew in a crotch.
mutantcarrot says:
Hmm. Well I went to an elementary school populated mostly by hispanics and they weren't too fond of the emo scene either. I can't say I'm not surprised that it's this much of a problem.
Anonymous says:
i'm from mexico i live in tijuana and similar actions will supposedly take place march 7th, emails are being send to unite people against "emos", i truly don´t understand any of this nonsense. hearing the "punk" guy talking about stealing their ideology (i don´t know what ideology) makes me wonder if it´s that really the reason or just a justification for a violent act against someone that they don´t know, but was always "teach" to hate for no reason but the way they look. Who cares if they wanna become sterile, who cares how they dress, or if they paint their hair pink; it´s that reason enough to beat someone?, of course not we all know that but it´s just a glim's of our decadent society or what ever… this guys should be uniting against things that are way more important and that are happening in this country, but their bubble is far from bursting and from letting them see that this fight it´s way far from being an important issue wort getting to jail for or sending someone to the hospital.
just another thing
#28 this happens before spring brake
and in the queretaro thing the guys beating up the "emos" where "normal" if there is such a thing.
besos. adios
Pliskin5146 says:
The mexicans know how to do it
ive been beating up emos for the past 2 years and ive gotten nowhere… NOWHERE!!!!!
well done my little taco country
Trnck says:
I find this kinda funny but… Anti-Emo demonstration? You can dislike them but not to hate them… It's like Hitler sweeping the "inferior" races.
Anonymous says:
Since I'm guessing these hunts are for emo-boys only, it's all about their subverting of the traditional sense of masculinity. I guess a generation of young men are so repressed from machismo that they're attracted to emo-boys and therefore must destroy them. It would be funny if it weren't so goddamn sad.
Milo Minderbender says:
Kids in high school have to have some reason to be beat up. If it isn't one thing it'll be another.
Los Hari Krishnas!
scottfree says:
Am I the only one who thinks kids will be kids?
I remember living with two teenagers for a while not too long ago, and it blew my mind how serious they took these things. Its puzzling how very narrow their spectrum of acceptable behaviour was. Its the problem with any scene, and it ends around the time you find a proper job.
I think the irony is only last year there was full scale rebellion in Oaxaca after the government went ape shit on civilians, and kids in the city can only et upset over music and clothes. I suppose it isn't irony, but tragedy. Still, I would bet anything the whole anti emo/I'm emo! bit will blow over fairly quickly.
Ceronomus says:
Put two people on a plant and they will become friends. Put three people on a planet and they will choose a leader. Put four people on a planet and they will have someone to hate.
The concept of beating people up for their choices in fashion and/or music is rather sad. But then again, so is attacking people for their race, religion, or sexual preference.
Really, attacking people in general is rather sad.
slywy says:
The interesting thing is that the Chinese are having a similar reaction to Tibetans — the "Why aren't you satisfied to be like us?" syndrome. The expectation of conformity as not just the norm, but the required norm, has always disturbed me.
Tenn says:
Sure kids will be kids, but kids need to have enough restraint not to take belts and prepare to beat the life out of another person.
When you have massive groups of teenagers fighting like this, there are problems. They are problems that need to be addressed. My school is more violent and drug filled by the year- the school is taking a definite turn for the worse.
I don't care if my fellow peers want to be stupid. They can face the consequences for that stupidity. Else, they'll continue in that vein forever.
I've been slammed into the wall during a fight that took spontaneous combustion place in the hallway at school because somebody pulled colors. The same because someone said something someone else didn't like. At the age these people are, that's leaving the realm of 'childhood fights' and 'possible felony'. Yes, in another thread you'll hear me saying that teens make bad decisions- but that doesn't mean those decisions don't have consequences. And when their actions are this planned, there's a problem.
Jake0748 says:
Women's jeans don't have crotches?
balexander667 says:
what ever happened to the good ole' fashioned punks vs. skinheads, I mean come on at least their girl pants had dead kennedy patches on them.
Glossolalia Black says:
It's like the screeds against my "art fag" friends back in the 80′s. Same shit, different day. Both subcultures include makeup-wearing men, so I'm thinking that it's mostly indicative of a misogyny that hasn't gone away at least since then.
"It's all just a little bit of history repeating…"
Rodriguez says:
Those of you who weren't blessed by Quetzacoatl with the holy gift of Spanish skills really are missing out on quite a bit of the fun. Here are some highlights:
*The cop saying that the kids were fighting because they "belonged to different cults, or beliefs, something like that."
*The "punk" kid saying that they wanted to beat up the emos because "they are stealing our style"
*The fact that it wasn't the police action that dissipated the crowd, but the Hare Krishna's chanting.
God, I miss Latin America. Sometimes.
MarlboroTestMonkey7 says:
In our more enlightened Panama, there are only anti Elmo pogroms.
eigengrau says:
@ Scottfree -
I can't say I have ever tried on women's jeans, but I think I'd have a hard time – I'm 6'4″.
Gert1033 says:
So maybe in my thirty-something state I'm past the point of commenting, but this just seems odd-in that rising up against emo is like rising up against McDonalds or Colgate. For the most part, didn't emo start out being co-opted? Is there really a difference between (insert current hot emo band here) and the Pussycat Dolls? It's not like punk, for example, where its origination occurred wherein individuals actually represented an aesthetic the rest of society shunned/didn't understand/found disturbing.
I'm pretty sure anyone's grandmother, upon hearing virtually any emo song, would instantly think of any number of bad TV promos, multiple commercials, etc. And upon looking at one of these individuals, might, at best, consider them a bit fey.
Am I wrong?
scottfree says:
I highly recommend Elias Canettis Crowds and Power, although I believe it is out of print in English. The only unifying identity of the mob here is /not emo/. Not being emo has sublated all other aspects of their identities, and so it is interesting that they attack their very raison d'etre, that which defines them as members of a mob.
scottfree says:
The problem is boredom. Find work.
Mister N says:
When the journalist ask one of the punks about the reason of their attack against the emos, the answer was: "because they're copying our style".
Insecurity about their own identity, that they had to "defend" it.
The newscaster said that when the Harry Krishna's got there , the tension reduced between the two groups.
LucasSheehan says:
I find this very sad. (no emo intended)
Historically young people and people in general separate naturally in to groups of like minded individuals, for safety, support and general fun. However this focused and somewhat organized aggression towards other groups and at such a young age make me worry that lessons of the past have been forgotten and/or poorly taught in Mexico.
Bullies ganging up on the weak or different always happens and likely always will but organizing 800 people in a common goal is far more than an extreme example its flat out war against another group. For nothing more than a perceived difference. Bummer.
Michael Brutsch says:
12,000 years ago, all mankind lived in perfect harmony. They were all "emo". Then, somewhere, a terrible mutation sprang up, and a dangerous, irrational, violent human was born. Natural selection allowed this human to have many children, whose numbers grew until they could band together, and wipe out the "emos". This continued, and thus began "civilization". They continue to rule today, mostly because the emos, who continue to be born, are too afraid of their insane neighbors to do anything about it. Just be quiet, hope you don't get noticed.
patricio says:
I've worked in the Mexican news business for the past five years.
Last week was easter, so most people were on vacation.
People on vacation = less news.
Ridiculous overexagerated news stories = SLOW NEWS DAY.
I can just hear the debates going on all over the country last week:
"Is there anything interesting today?"
"Well there are these kids… called Emus or something… some of them got into a fight with some Punks… remember punks? from when we were young in the 70s?"
"Oh yeah… we can sell that…"
mikesum32 says:
Do you really think I care
what you eat or what you wear ?
Qozmiq says:
Anti-Emo Graffiti in Munich
anthropomorphictoast says:
Funny they don't target goths en masse. I guess they're afraid of being verbally emasculated or something. :P (And yes there IS a difference. Emo is the bastard child of goth, even though both parties will virulently say to the contrary. Which makes sense because we're subcultural relatives. :D)
But yeah, this is pretty pathetic and jumps right back to the old "OMG SOMETHING DIFFERENT, LET'S KILL IT!" shtick. We really are no more civilized than animals sometimes.
h3llc4t says:
Something about the constant use of the term "the emos" just grates on me incessantly.
Really, the term just needs to die.
death_worm says:
On emo not being a real scene "because it's so commercialized": It's not like punk rock didn't eventually become commercialized. I mean, heck, Malcolm McLaren organized the Sex Pistols so he could sell more clothes. As for exhibits B,C and D: Blink 182, Good Charlotte, and Green Day. And yeah, mopey high schoolers are annoying, but they don't really deserve to be beaten up for it.
Tenn says:
Do all those kids have jobs?
Do they have the reasoning skills to not sit and text in a job? Not from what I've seen.
I'm not going to go out and beat the homeless or the fashionless. I've held a job. How are you going to get those kids to get jobs and stop being bored and act mature?
Probably will never happen.
I still think there need to be some sort of critical thinking, getting to work with groups camps or something. Or consequences for people that try to beat the life out of others because they're different. It's the only way for some folk to learn. Including youngTenn.
pepsi_max2k says:
what… the hell?!? is this a weird kind of joke? a few chavs taking out some emos i can understand, but whole riots? and punks vs emos? lines of riot police? and then the buddhists turn up and that's where it got far too surreal for me… have they all completely lost it over there?
mindysan33 says:
Oh…. so much thanks for the translations. And see… I told you guys Hare Krishna's were awesome!!!
Also being in the thirty something state, I have to say that your not past the point of commenting! These aren't just "youth cultures"- that's just the way they are marketed… it's something you do in your "indiscreet" youth, that way people like Jello Biafra can be categorized as being childish, when he is a smart social critic (but he's just an aging rocker, right?). That's an interesting point about the difference between Punk and Emo. The views of punk at the time were pretty harsh- Sex Pistols couldn't play in the UK at all for a while. I don't know much about emo, but it seems much less about social commentary as an aesthetic/artistic choice then punk was- but I'm unclear if this was always the case (was Sunny Day Real Estate Emo- I seem to remember them having that designation?). I think that sub-cultures are now being actively co-opted, and maybe even created, much earlier (as soon as they became "named" and spread to wide audiences) and being stripped of any originality and social commentary context in the process by the major labels, hot topics, etc- probably intentionally so. It's become about the thing that counter-cultures have often been about.
Elias Canettis Crowds and Power- is it similar to Laclau's "On Populist Reasons" or is it more about the psychology of crowds?
Pieface says:
I hate anyone wearing tapered jeans. Emo, Punk, Hipster whatever! NUTS HANG FOR A REASON. Come on man… really do you need to walk around with your dick stuff in your ass crack
archcvd says:
That newsanchor is *hot*.
mindysan33 says:
I think we have a new theory of history!!! Congratulations. When is this ground breaking thesis going to be complete! ;-)
Awesome. I can so see that conversation going down in any news room anywhere.
xx_emo_luvrrr_xx says:
okay well first thing, emo stands for EMOtionaly disturbed, most REAL emos, that actually have brain issues, cut themselves before they hear about cutting from anyone else. The one's who hear about it from other people, are usually called "posers" who just want attention, but that's why we do it in the first place, because we crave attention because it makes us feel better, like someone actually cares about us. See emos are NOT ALL homosexuals, a large population of us are bi or gay or lesbian, but a lot of people are heterosexual. So emo's don't just cry over stupid shit, a lot of us acctually DO have problems. It is unhealthy to be emo, SO WE NEED HELP, NOT PEOPLE WANTING TO KILL US FOR BEING MENTALLY ILL!!!!! 'm trd f ll ths whnng frm stpd btchs wh r lk:
"I HATE EMOS!!! They are not even people, they are so stupid, they cry over meaningless things… My school is infested with them, I want to kill them all!â€
"We've never seen all the urban tribes unite against one single tribe before… Emos, their way of thinking is for crap, if you are so depressed please do us all a favour and kill yourselves!â€
They don't know the half of it, Hitler hated the Jews and we had the Halocaust, it might sound stupid but we must be aware that history DOES repeatitself and this COULD happen, The Jews didn't believe it and look what happenend to 9 million of them…
mikesum32 says:
BTW, if you are wondering what emo is check this link out.
And if you're over, say, 40, look at this one instead.
figment88 says:
While this certainly seems to be organized violence against a particular group, it does not seem like the scale of the violence rises to a "pogrom."
jgriffiths says:
From my own (limited) personal experience, I have noticed the 'emo' culture being a lot more encompassing than any youth movements when I was in school.
When I was in secondary school (pre-6th form, start of high school in American terms I think?), we had punks, grunge kids, skaters, goths, jocks (though we didn't call them that), chavs and everything in between.
I'm 19, this was only 3 years ago.
And yet now, when I see kids (and I have friends still in sixth form at my old school), apart from very few exceptions, they're either emo kids or chavs. It really is that cut and dry.
Anyone in the UK, go to Crewe (I've seen from first hand experience) or Mold (I've been told by friends) and you will see huge groups of chavs and emos wandering around town, all huddled together in their separate tribes.
Kids these days eh?
scottfree says:
Very different from Laclau; Crowds and Power is basically a survey of the common elements of a mob, and yes, mob psychology, specifically in opposition to Freud's Mass Psychology and Civilization and Its Discontents.
Also a very pleasant read. More literary than theoretical, and I believe Canetti won the Nobel Prize for his efforts.
gATO says:
I went through a lot of "phases" in my life, which involved dabbling in several subcultures, including both Metal and Goth, and I gotta say, I find Emo-hating somewhat disturbing… I understand making fun of it, it is as fair a target as any other human expression, but hating, truly hating people for being whiny and wearing makeup? What should be despised is the fascism, machismo and homophobia inherent in Metal culture. I understand that these metalheads are mostly teenagers, but sadly, not all of them outgrow those ideas, certainly not in Latin America.
Jamie Sue says:
I'm confused… where does goth end and emo begin?


text:
By Matt Welch
Times West Virginian
It was business as usual for Fairmont Senior (9-2) as the Polar Bears hosted Keyser (7-4) at East-West Stadium Friday night.
The Polar Bears were able to ride a strong first half to a 49-28 victory over the Golden Tornado in the first round of the Class AA playoffs.
Fairmont Senior, no stranger to fast starts, jumped out to a 42-0 lead before Keyser would score its first points of the game late in the second quarter.
"The way we played the last four weeks, the way they practiced the last four weeks, everything offensively has been clicking," Fairmont Senior coach J.L. Abbott said of his team.
The clicking Abbott was referring to could've been the clicking of points on the scoreboard.
Austin Norman and Neil Scherich got things going early, and the Polar Bears never looked back.
After senior Luke Hrapchak put Fairmont Senior on the board first with a 13-yard rumble, Norman threw four first-half touchdown passess to put the Polar Bears on top, 42-8 at the break.
Two of those passes were to Scherich for scores.
"He played like an animal," Hrapchak said of the senior wide receiver. "I know he can do it."
Keyser, which was without its top running back Danny Fife, couldn't seem to get things going on the ground in the first half.
While some large bursts were there, the Fairmont Senior defense seemed to stifle anything and everything coming their way.
"We just didn't come out and play," Keyser coach Sean Biser said of his team's first-half performance. "By the time our kids decided it was time to play, we were already down so much. They were just blitzing. We tried to get outside early on and we turned the ball over and missed our play-action passes. They just crowded the box on us."
The defense, led by Hrapchak in the middle, allowed 140 yards of total offense in the first half to Fairmont Senior's 378.
Norman completed 11 of his 14 first-half passes for 223 yards and the four scores. Scherich caught four of those balls for 107 yards and two scores.
Keyser didn't have an answer for either of them.
"That kid was money," Biser said of Norman's play. "He was putting it on the money and to their credit, they were making plays."
The second half saw the Polar Bears slow things down after they lost Norman on a play in the third quarter.
The senior quarterback was hit in the backfield and was taken from the field via ambulance with an ankle injury.
Norman finished with 253 yards on 12-of-15 passing and four touchdowns to go along with 29 yards on the ground and another score.
Keyser would find some strength, though, in the second half.
After being held on seven plays from inside the 10-yard line, Keyser was finally able to pound the ball in with Coleten Rodeheaver from the one-yard mark, cutting the Polar Bears lead to 27.
The Golden Tornado would then snag an interception and take the ball 88 yards on the ensuing drive before capping it off with a 17-yard scamper from quarterback Cody Eversole to bring the game within a slight reach.
The clock would not be their friend, however.
Despite the loss of their quarterback, and a push by the Keyser offense, Fairmont Senior hung on for a 21-point victory.
Scherich added 163 yards on the ground to go along with his 107 receiving yards. He scored three total touchdowns.
"This has been a first for me. It's just been getting better," Scherich said of his performance. "We needed it, so I guess I rose to that level."
With the win, the Polar Bears will advance to play Bridgeport, which made short work of Roane County, on the road next week in the second round of the playoffs.
Bridgeport beat Fairmont Senior, 37-14, back in the fifth week of the season, but coach Abbott believes his boys can take game two.
"We've just got to come to work next week. Celebrate this and let it go. Come back Monday and go to work," Abbott said.
And it's back to business as usual.
Email Matt Welch at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow on Twitter @MattWelch_TWV.
Fairmont Senior 49, Keyser 28
Records: FSHS (9-2), KHS (7-4)
FSHS — Luke Hrapchak 13 yard run (Conversion failed)
FSHS — Neil Scherich 27 yard catch from Austin Norman (Luke Hrapchak run good)
FSHS — Neil Scherich 18 yard catch from Austin Norman (Dakota Mouser kick)
FSHS — Ryder Skarzinski 10 yard catch from Austin Norman (Dakota Mouser kick)
FSHS — Nick Davisson 42 yard catch from Austin Norman (Dakota Mouser kick)
FSHS — Austin Norman 15 yard run (Dakota Mouser kick)
KHS — Cody Eversole 12 yard run (Cody Eversole run good)
KHS — Garrett Crites 16 yard run (Dustin Lucas from Cody Eversole good)
FSHS — Neil Scherich 80 yard run (Dakota Mouser kick)
KHS — Colteon Rodeheaver 1 yard run (Conversion failed)
KHS — Cody Eversole 17 yard run (Conversion failed)
RUSHING — FSHS: Neil Scherich 8-163 and TD, Austin Norman 6-29 and TD, Luke Hrapchak 11-84 and TD, Ryder Skarzinski 3- (-1),; KHS: Cody Eversole 21-135 and 2 TD, Blake Ravenscroft 8-123, Dustin Lucas 3-3, Garrett Crites 7-62, Colten Rodeheaver 3-10 and TD
PASSING — FSHS: Austin Norman 12-15-0 253 yards and 4 TD, Dominic Smith 1-3-0 0 yards, Neil Scherich 0-1-1 0 yards; KHS: Cody Eversole 3-15-1 23 yards
RECEIVING — FSHS: Neil Scherich 4-107 and 2 TD, Nick Davisson 4-123 and TD, Ryder Skarzinski 1-10 and TD, Luke Hrapchak 1-9, Malik Boddy 1-4; KHS: Garrett Crites 1-0, Hunter Kasmier 2-23

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Meet Lucky (the dog pictured to the right).
In reality, nobody is quite sure what Lucky's real name is. Waterford-East Lyme Animal Control Officer Robert Yuchniuk gave him that name because he is lucky to be alive.
On Friday morning, workers found Lucky, a pit bull, tied to a tree at the in Quaker Hill. He had a serious skin allergy from fleas, to the point he had scratched most of the hair off the lower part of his body.
Yuchniuk brought Lucky to the , and is actively searching for Lucky's owner. Meanwhile, he managed to get money donated from friends off of his Facebook page for Lucky to get his skin allergy treated at Goodfriends Veterinary Hospital in East Lyme.
Lucky, once he recovers, will be back the animal shelter. Go down and check him out, maybe make him part of your family. And if you do know his owner, call Yuchniuk at 860-442-9451 (it is the police line, ask for animal control).


text:
With one week remaining in the regular season, the Valdosta State Blazers appear to be safely in the playoffs.
The second-to-last region football rankings were released on Monday, and the Blazers remained No. 2 in the Super Region 2 rankings.
The top six teams from the four super regions make up the 24-team Division II playoffs. Since the Blazers (8-1 overall, 8-1 in Division II) are No. 2 with one game left, it's unlikely that a loss in their final game against West Alabama would knock them outside of the top six.
Albany State remained No. 1 in the Super Region 2 rankings with a 12-7 win over Fort Valley State. The Golden Rams (10-0, 9-0) finished the regular season as the only unbeaten team in the region. They likely locked up the No. 1 seed, which means a first-round bye and homefield advantage throughout the regional playoffs.
VSU stayed at No. 2 with its 31-13 win over West Georgia. VSU will certainly lock up the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye with a win at West Alabama on Thursday. Even if the Blazers lose, there's still a chance that they'll remain at No. 2. VSU owns the head-to-head advantage over Wingate and North Alabama, the teams ranked right behind the Blazers. It would be hard for those teams to jump VSU, even if both of them win their final games and VSU loses.
Wingate (7-2, 7-2) moved up one spot to No. 3 after Catawba lost. North Alabama (8-2, 8-2) also moved up one spot to No. 4 after coming back from a 23-3 deficit to beat West Alabama 24-23.
Delta State (7-3, 7-2) was the weekend's biggest winner. The Statesmen jumped from No. 8 to No. 5 after coming back from an 18-0 deficit to beat Ouachita Baptist 33-27.
Morehouse (8-2, 8-2) rounds out the top six. The Maroon Tigers finished the season with a 13-3 win over Lane.
If the rankings hold, Fort Valley State (8-2, 8-2) would be the first team out of the playoffs at No. 7. The Wildcats need help to get in. Their regular season is over, after losing to Albany State.
Catawba was the biggest loser of the weekend. The Indians fell from No. 3 to No. 8 after losing to Tusculum, 54-44.
Mars Hill (5-5, 5-4) is No. 9 and Henderson State (6-4, 6-3) is No. 10.
If the playoffs started today, Albany State and VSU would receive first-round byes. Morehouse would play at Wingate, with the winner advancing to face VSU in the second round. Delta State would visit UNA, with the winner traveling to Albany State in the second round.
Super Region 2 Rankings (11/8)
1. Albany State (10-0 overall, 9-0 Division II); season over
2. Valdosta State (8-1, 8-1); at West Alabama (Thursday)
3. Wingate (7-2, 7-2); at Newberry
4. North Alabama (8-2, 8-2); at Harding
5. Delta State (7-3, 7-2); at Lambuth
6. Morehouse (8-2, 8-2); season over
7. Fort Valley State (8-2, 7-2); season over
8. Catawba (6-3, 6-3) at Lenoir-Rhyne
9. Mars Hill (5-5, 5-4); vs. Brevard
10. Henderson State (6-4, 6-3); vs. West Georgia


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Los Angeles City Council member Josè Huizar was given a sobriety test after being involved in a traffic accident Thursday evening in Boyle Heights, and a spokesman from his office said that the councilman was not found to be under the influence.
Three vehicles were involved in the accident, which occurred at the intersection of Boyle Avenue and First Street, near Huizar's home in Boyle Heights, the council member's director of communications, Rick Coca, told Eagle Rock Patch.
"The Councilmember was given a breathlizer test, which registered a zero," Coca said.
The accident occurred at 6:45 p.m., according to Norma Eisenman, an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department's media relations section, who was quoted by City News Service. One of the vehicles in the crash was registered in Huizar's name, Eisenman said, adding that details of the accident were not immediately available.
According to the KTLA5 television channel, however, the accident occurred at around 8 p.m.
Coca said the three-vehicle crash was a minor one and that Huizar is "glad that nobody was seriously injured.''
The first report of the accident came at 10:28 p.m. in a Twitter message by Alice Walton, a reporter for the 89.3 KPCC radio station. The LAPD, said Walton in her message, told her that "one person was picked up for possible DUI" and that one person was injured.
Less than a minute later, Walton sent another Twitter message: "A spokesman for the councilman denies it was a DUI; calls the collision a minor traffic accident."


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The search continues for the weapon believed to be used in a rash of armed robberies in the Riverhead area.
Southampton Police Det. Sgt. Lisa Costa set up operations on the bank of the Peconic River, near McDonald's in Riverside, on Wednesday morning, along with members of the Riverhead Police dive unit, the Southampton Bay constable, the Suffolk County Sherriff's Department, and the Suffolk County Police dive team.
Costa said despite the search, nothing believed to be related to the crimes has yet been recovered.
Riverhead police said Lt. David Lessard was organizing the Riverhead dive team at the scene.
A similar search was held last week, when police converged upon the Peconic to search for a weapon -- after a rash of armed robberies in recent weeks, Southampton Town police made three arrests.
Southampton Town detectives arrested three Riverhead residents in connection with the Valero Gas Station Robbery and charged them with robbery in the first degree, a felony -- Larry M. Moore, 17, Erick C. Darden, 19, and Arnell Nash, 21.
On Halloween night, at 8:37 p.m., Southampton Town Police, Riverhead K-9 units, a Suffolk County Sherriff K-9 unit, and New York State Troopers responded to a robbery in progress occurring at the Valero Gas Station & Convenience Store on Route 24 in Riverside.
Police said three men dressed in dark clothing, wearing masks, and displaying guns entered the convenience store, hit the clerk several times, and then stole approximately $270 in cash from the register.
The subjects fled the scene before the police arrived.
In recent weeks, Southampton Town Police have collaborated efforts with Riverhead Police, Suffolk County Police, Southold Police, the East End Drug Task Force, and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department after a series of similar robberies.
On Oct. 20 at 9:30 p.m., two masked men armed with handguns robbed the Spirit Halloween Store on Route 58; on Nov. 7 at 6 p.m., three masked men robbed Barth's Pharmacy in Riverhead; and on Nov. 19, three masked gunmen robbed a Mattituck gas station.
Riverhead police said they were investigating a connection between all the robberies.
Last Wednesday, the Southampton Town Police dive team spent several hours in the murky waters of the Peconic River near the traffic cirlcle in Riverhead looking for proceeds of the crime and possibly an involved weapon, with no success.
Police said further attempts will be made in the upcoming days to recover the items. It was not immediately clear if the three men charged are being investigated for the other armed robberies.
The armed armed robberies are still under active investigation and updates will be made as they evolve. Anyone with information on the violent crimes is encouraged to contact Southampton Town Police Detectives at 631-728-2230.


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Faculty FAQ's
Why should I encourage students to make use of the UTC Writing Center?
If you assign writing in your course--whether a short summary or abstract or longer papers--your students will benefit from having an audience beyond the class and/or you. During the process of reading a text to a live audience, student writers often self-edit and revise for content. Further, simply having one more person respond to a text can help a writer better imagine how an intended audience may receive the piece.
Will the consultants write the papers for the students?
Our consultants are trained in peer response; therefore, they use strategies to ensure that student writers retain ownership of their texts. In fact, consultants encourage writers to read their own papers aloud, make their own notes for revision, etc. Rather than correct or edit papers, our consultants share with writers editing and proofreading strategies and ask questions for clarification. In fact, because our consultants are students, human beings who are fallible, we emphasize our roles as audiences, rather than experts. Therefore, rather than simply answer a question about citation format, our consultants will show writers where and how to locate the answers to such questions: in one of our many style guides or writers' resources.
Should I send students to the center/require that they meet with a consultant?
Often, students feel punished or singled out (embarrassed) when professors send them to writing centers or other consultation services. Consequently, these students tend to come to sessions unmotivated and disengaged, answering in response to a consultant's prompt about what they would like to work on, "I don't know. I'm here because my professor sent me here." Students in classes where professors encourage all of their students to make use of the center will come to think of seeking out peer feedback as a natural part of academic life. Thus, if throughout the semester you have repeatedly reminded your students of the UTC Writing Center, when you feel especially compelled to encourage a specific student to make use of our services, that student is more likely to feel positive about your recommendation.
Extra Credit: Some professors like to give extra credit to students who participate in tutoring sessions. To ensure that these sessions are interactive, we require student writers to complete a Consultation Session Self-Assessments form, which they may give their professors. This form is designed to help student writers reflect upon their attempts to actively participate in and get the most out of sessions. Because self reflection helps writers grow, we prefer to have the student, rather than the consultant, fill out any session reports.
What types of presentations does the Writing Center staff offer?
- In-Class Presentations Describing our Services: During the first 4 weeks of each semester, our staff will give brief (5-10 minute) presentations, in which we announce our services and hours, handout bookmarks/brochures, invite students to make use of our services, and answer any questions students may have about the center.
- In-Center Presentations: During the first 6 weeks of the semester, professors may reserve a block of time (usually 10-15 minutes) on our appointment book for an in-center visit. During this visit, our staff will show students our resources, explain what goes on during consultation sessions, hand out brochures with our hours and phone number, and invite students to sign up for an appointment.
- Writing Process/Peer Review Facilitation: Throughout the semester, our staff will gladly work with professors to design assignments and peer review sheets, and we will come to classes to help lead students in peer review.
How do I request one of these presentations?
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Yancey Richardson opened her eponymous gallery in 1995 to exhibit critically recognized emerging photographers and influential established mid-career artists. Since then, she has curated over 80 group and solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 30 art fairs, including the Armory Show - Modern, the AIPAD Photography Show, Pulse and Paris Photo. Richardson served as vice president of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) for 12 years and has been an active supporter of organizations such as the Public Art Fund, the Kitchen and the International Center of Photography. She is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and in 2006 the Aperture Foundation honored her for her contribution to the field of photography at its annual benefit and auction. Richardson received a M.A in art history from Southern Methodist University and was awarded the Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Curatorial and Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1979.


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Editor's note: All information listed is public and comes from the Northfield Police Department. Locations represented are approximate addresses and are not exact.
Feb. 1
1:21 p.m.—Police were called to the 800 block of Washington St. S. on a threats report.
11:47 p.m.—Police responded to the 100 block of Viking Terrace on reports of drug-related activity in the area.
Feb. 2
9:50 a.m.—Police responded to a juvenile complaint on the 1100 block of Hwy. 3 S.
2:19 p.m.—Police were called to the 100 block of 5th St. W. following a shoplifting incident.
Feb. 3
7:41 a.m.—Police responded to a property damage/vandalism call on the 1900 block of McKinley Dr.
10:39 a.m.—Police responded to a traffic accident involving at least one injury on the 500 block of Woodley St. W.
4:35 p.m.—Police responded to a domestic call on the 300 block of Viking Terrace.
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By Luke Meredith
The Associated Press
AMES, Iowa — The matchup of the year in Big 12 appears to be just a little over a week away, when sixth-ranked Kansas State travels to face No. 5 West Virginia.
To make the showdown a reality, West Virginia needs to win this week at Texas Tech. And the unbeaten Wildcats (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) need to beat Iowa State, which isn't the pushover it used to be.
Just ask Oklahoma State about that.
Kansas State emerged as a serious threat to the win the league title after it beat preseason favorite Oklahoma in Norman and crushed rival Kansas 56-16 last week. While it's tempting to look ahead to their matchup against the Mountaineers, the Wildcats know that overlooking Iowa State (4-1, 1-1) is a terrible idea.
The Cowboys were the last top 10 team to visit Ames, and their loss here last November ruined their national title hopes.
"They offer a challenge to virtually anybody they play. Certainly they will for us," Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said of the Cyclones.
That might all be true. But the Wildcats have looked about as strong as anyone in the country so far.
Collin Klein has been the kind of quarterback Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads would love to have for his run-based spread attack. Klein is completing 67 percent of his passes with seven touchdowns against just a pair of picks. On the ground, Klein has 405 yards and seven more TDs.
Kansas State certainly has other weapons, most notably star tailback John Hubert, who is second in the Big 12 with 527 yards rushing and eight TDs. But the key is stopping Klein, which has proven difficult.
"Klein is a very big man," Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads said. "He's a very smart football player. He's a very strong football player."
It's no surprise that Kansas State is also among the best defensive teams in the Big 12.
Many might not have guessed that the Cyclones are right behind the Wildcats.
Iowa State is third in the league at just 15.8 points allowed per game, a total nearly identical to the second-ranked Wildcats. The Cyclones will be facing an unbeaten opponent for the fifth game in a row, and yet they haven't given up more than 24 points in any game this season.
"They are a very experienced defense, very disciplined. They know how to execute what they are in, and how to make tackles," Klein said.
Iowa State's offense hasn't been anything special this season. But the Cyclones subbed out turnover-prone quarterback Steele Jantz for sophomore Jared Barnett last week, and Barnett responded with three touchdown passes to Josh Lenz in a 37-23 win at TCU.
The Cyclones need Barnett to give them productive and largely mistake-free play to have a shot against the Wildcats.
"He's got to do his job. He's got to do his job well, and that's the consistency you're talking about," Rhoads said of Barnett.
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The missing 12-year-old girl, last seen in Lakewood, has been found, news sources reported Friday.
Cleveland police haven't shared many of the details, but Raina Bennett was reunited with her mother at around 3 a.m. Friday.
The Cleveland girl's mother was worried about her after she went missing Dec. 30, following an argument.
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Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff
Welcome to The Not-So Private Parts where technology & privacy collide
The term "Crackberry" seems silly today — and not just because consumers OD'ed on Blackberry and moved on to iDealers. The term arose in an earlier "aughts" time when Blackberry dominated the smartphone market and lawyers and execs were nearly the only ones who had them, due to their need to be able to respond to email immediately. Things have changed. Now we all need to be able to respond to email immediately. And to tweet. And to instantly share our photos on Facebook. We're all addicted to technology now, and not just to the Blackberry. We're "addicted" to our iPhones, and Facebook, and Twitter, and Android, and Pinterest, and iPads, and Word with Friends, and fill-in-the-blank-with-your-digital-dope-of-choice.
The sudden and dramatic advent of social-media-enabling technologies into our lives seems to be causing some mid-digital-life crises. Not only has Silicon Valley developed a guilty conscience about addicting us to screens, we the users are starting to question how technology is changing us: making us fat, making us unhealthy, making us depressed, making us lonely, making us narcissistic, and making us waste time worrying about whether it's making us fat, unhealthy, depressed, narcissistic and/or lonely. That's leading some users to consider abandoning the whole enterprise. My colleague Haydn Shaughnessy gave up his smartphone last year. Now, inspired by the example of former Facebooker Katherine Losse, he's considering giving up Facebook.
I am writing with some words of caution. I used to say that "if you're not on Facebook, it's possible you don't actually exist." I think it's time to update that, courtesy of Slashdot: Facebook abstainers will be labeled suspicious.
Slashdot flagged a German news story in which an expert noted that mass murderers Anders Breivik and James Holmes both lacked much of a social media presence, leading to the conclusion, in Slashdot's phrasing, that "not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer."
That's a tad extreme, but I'm seeing the suggestion more and more often that a missing Facebook account raises red flags. After a woman found out via Facebook that a man who'd 'poked' her in real life had a long term girlfriend, she turned to digital manners advice givers Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe of Slate to ask whether she should tell the girlfriend. They said she should and then went on a digression about transparent romances in the age of Facebook:
Farhad: I think we've mentioned it before that if you are going out with someone and they don't have a Facebook profile, you should be suspicious.
Emily: Wait a minute. You may have mentioned that.
Farhad: I think I've recommended that. You know why, though? Imagine if this guy didn't have a Facebook profile. That's why. You should be suspicious of someone who is not making your relationship known publicly on a site like Facebook. I'm going to go on record with that.
Emily: I'm fine with people not having a Facebook page if they don't want one. However, I think you're right. If you're of a certain age and you meet someone who you are about to go to bed with, and that person doesn't have a Facebook page, you may be getting a false name. It could be some kind of red flag.
via Transcript: Facebook stalker: Should I tell a cheating guy's girlfriend that we hooked up? – Slate Magazine.
It's not just love seekers who worry about what the lack of a Facebook account means. Anecdotally, I've heard both job seekers and employers wonder aloud about what it means if a job candidate doesn't have a Facebook account. Does it mean they deactivated it because it was full of red flags? Are they hiding something?
The idea that a Facebook resister is a potential mass murderer, flaky employee, and/or person who struggles with fidelity is obviously flawed. There are people who choose not to be Facebookers for myriad non-psychopathic reasons: because they find it too addictive, or because they hold their privacy dear, or because they don't actually want to know what their old high school buddies are up to. My own boyfriend isn't on Facebook and I don't hold it against him (too much).
But it does seem that increasingly, it's expected that everyone is on Facebook in some capacity, and that a negative assumption is starting to arise about those who reject the Big Blue Giant's siren call. Continuing to navigate life without having this digital form of identification may be like trying to get into a bar without a driver's license.
Case in point: Katherine Losse, the ex-Facebook employee that quit the company and the social network after cashing in her stock options, and who inspired my colleague to consider UnFacebooking, couldn't stay off Facebookfor long. She wound up opening a new account.
"You can't get away from it. It's everything. It's everywhere," she told the Washington Post. "The moment we're in now is about trying to deal with all this technology rather than rejecting it, because obviously we can't reject it entirely."
Well, you can, but it might lead to your being rejected down the line too.
* Updated August 7 to include some reasons why a person might choose not to be on Facebook, beyond being too busy planning commando attacks.
* Another update: Haydn responds (and critiques)!
* And another update: A follow-up story from me, "You Don't Need A Facebook Account To Be Considered 'Normal' (But It Helps)"
Read more:
What Facebook Hands Over To The Police When A User Is Suspected Of Murder
Using Twitter To Identify Psychopaths
Is Facebook Making You Lonely? Don't Be Stupid
Yes, because if someone doesn't use Facebook they're clearly just too old. Or maybe you're too young, and frankly, naive enough to give away your life's information to a company that has no interest in protecting your privacy, because you've grown up thinking it's ok to do so. You are the product and you're being sold.
Is it only me that doesn't put their relationship status on Facebook on the basis that I don't want to be sold ads based on my girlfriend?
Those 6 billion poor are not living "just fine", by and large. If you were to adopt their lifestyle for a week you would agree. A sizable percentage lack or are short of basic necessities like food and water. The vast majority live under corrupt, ineffective governments or dictatorships. Obviously, this does not relate to their Facebook usage, but they are definitely not living "just fine".
I don't use the Relationship Status option either. My relationship is between my girlfriend, my *actual* friends, and myself… not my 1200+ social networking connections. FB, for me, is a great tool for communication and information sharing. I don't like to share much personal information on the site, nor do I like gossip.
Best comment. Faghead Manjuice is right about himself.
" This is coming from the point of view of a 19 year old college student at a top 20 university"
Milx, people might actually start taking your comments seriously when you get to the point in your life where you realize that throwing in the " I'm from a top 20 university" means absolutely nothing.
You're a baby and you grew up with the Social Network fad beginning by the time you hit high school. You're entrenched in it to the point where you cannot see that interactions can exist outside of FB.
Milx's logic: IF you do not use FB, then you will USUALLY become more socially isolated (if you are not already).
It sounds to me like mommy and daddy just wasted a 100 g's on their little princess but to no avail to send them to the Ivy. Enjoy your apps Mr Engineer
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" This is coming from the point of view of a 19 year old college student at a top 20 university"
Milx, people might actually start taking your comments seriously when you get to the point in your life where you realize that throwing in the " I'm from a top 20 university" means absolutely nothing.
You're a baby and you grew up with the Social Network fad beginning by the time you hit high school. You're entrenched in it to the point where you cannot see that interactions can exist outside of FB.
Milx's logic: IF you do not use FB, then you will USUALLY become more socially isolated (if you are not already).
It sounds to me like mommy and daddy just wasted a 100 g's on their little princess but to no avail to send them to the Ivy. Enjoy your apps Mr Engineer
There are 2,267,233,742 with internet in the world. Google is your friend. SO majority of people DONT have facebook and your counterpoint falls flatout. herpderp.
To refer to facebook as an "essential" part of Life is really kind of sad. Yes, it is a large part of many people's lives. Guess what though, it doesn't need to be! it wasn't an "essential" part of anyone's life pre-myspace, if you wanted to see what your friends were up to, you'd call them up and they'd call up other friends and they would call up others and you would all meet up somewhere and hang out and INTERACT PHYSICALLY with one another.
Also pointing out the fact that you are coming from the point of view of a 19yo is about as pointless as anything. You were born into technology. You are practically Borg. You have no history of life BEFORE the internet. Only Vague memories of phones with cords on them and Cellular phones you could kill a horse with. This is coming from a 35yo Network Administrator, who, btw, does have a facebook page but thinks updating my status every 15minutes is just plain retarded. I have managed to reconnect with a few friends from my past, but mostly I use it for the fact that it has a single signon function for many pages that I visit regularly. I, in fact, have NEVER updated a status on my Facebrik page.. even once.
Simply put, pull your head out of the facebook cloud and actually go an interact with people! "soanso is now doing something retarded!" is not interaction.. Try Shaking someone's hand, or talking to them without using your thumbs. you may find it pretty rewarding!


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District 26 schools ranked highest in the city in Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott's 2012 progress reports for elementary and middle schools across the five boroughs.
Seven of the district's schools located in Bayside, Douglaston and Little Neck received 'A' grades, while another seven were given 'B' grades.
The chancellor's report included grades for 1,193 schools serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Grades were awarded based on student progress, performance and attendance as well as feedback from parents, students and teachers.
District 26 was ranked the highest in Queens and the borough was the best performing in the city.
"Our elementary and middle schools build on the foundation of early learning to set our students on a path for college and career readiness," Walcott said.
Jeannette Segal, Community District Education Council 26's chairwoman, said the board was proud of the students in its schools.
"We are very proud of the children in our district and the hard work the students, parents, teachers and principals put into keeping our district on top," she said. "In these hard economic times where school administrators look to the parents for help to purchase books and programs to educate our children, it is critical for the education community to work together for continued success."
In the report, 'A' grades were given to Bayside's P.S. 41, P.S. 46, P.S. 159, P.S. 205 and P.S. 213 as well as Oakland Gardens' P.S. 203 and Little Neck's P.S. 221.
Seven schools received 'B' grades, including Bayside's P.S. 31, P.S. 162, M.S. 67, M.S. 74 and M.S. 158 as well as Little Neck's P.S. 94 and Douglaston's P.S. 98.
In nearby District 25, Bayside's P.S. 130 earned an 'A,' while Bell Academy received a 'B' and Bay Terrace's P.S. 169 was given a 'C.'
The progress reports for elementary and middle schools compare schools to one another to determine grade, rather than set target scores that are use for high school reports.
Walcott said he would release the progress reports for city high schools in late October. Drop by Bayside-Douglaston Patch at that time to find out how Bayside High School, Francis Lewis High School and Benjamin N. Cardozo High School scored.
District 26 covers Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck, Fresh Meadows, Bellerose, Floral Park, Queens Village and Oakland Gardens.
To download the entire progress report for elementary and middle schools, visit the city Department of Education's website.


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East County schools nab top tech honors
Date: May 4, 2009
by: The Observer Staff
Two East County schools nabbed top overall honors at the state Technology Student Association Conference this weekend.
Falling behind Southeast High School, Lakewood Ranch High's team won second place Overall High School honors.
Haile Middle School finished in third place for Overall Middle School.
These awards are cumulative awards that represent superior performance for all categories entered.
The Manatee County School District was also represented by Buffalo Creek, Braden River, Harlee, Johnson, Lincoln, Nolan and Sugg middle schools, and Braden River and Manatee high schools. Competing in a total of 74 events, Manatee's students took home 86 top three finishes and a total of more than 607 top 10 student finishes.
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Tiny Tim, a 2-year-old Chihuahua, has gone missing from his foster home.
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Traverse City Record-Eagle
---- — TRAVERSE CITY — A Grawn man who already is facing stalking charges is accused of breaking into the home of the female victim and attempting to take her dog.
Larry Joe Butcher, 67, was arraigned this week on felony first-degree home invasion and aggravated stalking charges. He could face up to 20 years if convicted.
Butcher was arrested Saturday outside the 47-year-old victim's Long Lake Township house.
Police reports state the victim heard her dog bark and noticed her garage door was wide open. She then saw Butcher carrying her dog to a van parked outside her house.
Butcher gave the dog back and drove away when the woman confronted him. Authorities found him outside Addiction Treatment Services in Traverse City, where he must give daily portable Breathalyzer tests under court conditions imposed in another stalking case involving the same female victim.
The victim told investigators in February she received numerous harassing phone calls from Butcher and he made unwelcome visits to her workplace.
Grand Traverse County Prosecutor Bob Cooney said the case led to misdemeanor stalking and malicious use of telecommunications charges. That case is in 86th District Court.
"She has a personal protection order as result of prior contact with him," he said.
Police reports state when Butcher was arrested Saturday he told investigators he was disoriented and unaware he was at the victim's residence when he saw a dog running loose.
"Butcher stated since he loves animals, he felt sorry for the dog, pulled into the driveway, picked it up and was waiting for its owner," the report states.
The victim told investigators the only way Butcher could end up with the dog was by entering her house or opening her door.
Butcher was being held in Grand Traverse County Jail on a $100,000 cash surety bond.


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The Daily Item
About two weeks ago I was on a local ESPN radio show to discuss boys basketball since I'm the beat writer here at The Daily Item.
While on the show I was asked about both Lewisburg and Loyalsock, and who would win a matchup between them since their first game was coming up.
Honestly, I had no idea who to pick.
Loyalsock is consistently good year in and year out thanks to Ron Insinger's coaching, and they have an extremely talented team with Kyle Datres and Roger Wilson, among others.
Lewisburg is one of the best teams in Division-II of the Heartland Athletic Conference and all of District 4. So I was leaning towards Lewisburg a bit.
Well, I got my answer on Tuesday as to which team would win: Loyalsock.
Guess my gut was wrong with that one.
I've seen Lewisburg (10-1, 4-1) play a handful of games so far this year and they're a very solid all-around team. I watched Loyalsock (9-2, 5-0) face Shikellamy earlier this season and Wilson was a huge force for the Lancers that night and he was Tuesday with a team-high 24 points.
What cost Lewisburg on Tuesday at Loyalsock was a seven-point third quarter; the Lancers countered with 22 to take a 50-32 lead.
Going into the half, the Green Dragons were down only three points, 18-15. From trailing by three to trailing by 18 in a matter of just eight minutes can get a lot of teams to hang their heads and give up, but anyone that's seen the Green Dragons know that's not how they play.
Instead, Lewisburg responded with a 23-point fourth quarter to make a valiant comeback, falling short by just nine points. Twice the Dragons cut that deficit down to seven.
Earlier this season after beating Troy, I asked Lewisburg coach John Vaji how great it is that it seems anyone on his team can seem to step up on any given night, and he said it was a nice luxury to have and hopefully it stayed that way throughout the season.
Tuesday's loss was another example of that.
Any area basketball fan knows how great of a player Travis Conrad is. The senior — who was a selected to The Daily Item Preseason All-Star team this year — is one of the top scorers in the area in total points (188) and points per game (17.1). On Tuesday, the Lancers held Conrad to just nine. Instead, it was Erich Kline who stepped up for Lewisburg, scoring a team-high 22 points and pulling nine boards while Sam Allen added 10 points.
The HAC-II title the past two years has gone to either the Lancers or Green Dragons, and there's no reason to think one of them won't win it again this year.
Tuesday's loss was the first time the road team failed to win in the teams' past seven matchups, and it sets up a huge rematch Feb. 9 at Lewisburg. You know the Green Dragons will want to avenge that loss on their home court.
Danville proved how good it was on Tuesday night, as well. While the Green Dragons and Lancers played for HAC-II dominance, Danville separated itself from Shikellamy in the HAC-I race with a 51-27 rout of the Braves.
Shikellamy (6-6, 4-2) actually tied the game at 21-all midway through the third quarter after trailing by as many as seven in the first half. But the Ironmen's offense lit up and outscored the Braves 30-6 down the stretch, ending the game on a 13-0 run and holding Shikellamy to just three fourth-quarter points.
Danville (9-2, 6-0) seems to be the type of program that, despite annual losses to graduation, keeps churning out successful teams.
Danville lost talented all-state selection Andrew Andreychik to graduation last year, but looking at the team this season you wouldn't really guess they lost such a pivotal piece.
"With Danville, we seem to always have athletes, just reloading every year," Danville senior guard Bret Berg said after Tuesday's win against Shikellamy. "Not only Andrew, but we replaced Ross (Litz) and Dave (Vitunac) rebounding (wise) with Scotty (Heeter) and (Robbie) Koons and they're doing a great job. Koz (Zach Kozick) is doing a great job running the place where Andrew was and we're just pretty much picking up where we left off (last season)."
Danville last year rattled off a school-record 23 consecutive wins as it claimed the District 4 Class AAA title, 62-36, over Shikellamy. The Ironmen lost in the second round of the PIAA tournament to Holy Ghost Prep, and while it's still too early to see how this Danville squad will stack up to last season, Danville is clicking and playing together as a unit.
The success is also in large part thanks to the talent that Danville has.
"(I'm) not really surprised (with the success); I thought we had a core group that was pretty good coming back," Ironmen coach Lenny Smith said. "We're still trying to develop the bench a little bit. If we can get the bench going — and we have some capable players on the bench — it'll be pretty nice."
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