Let me get this straight....

[scheming daemons]

This man...



who is 28 years old and 250 pounds and was carrying this:




Feared for his very life from this teenager:



who was 17 years old and 140 pounds and was carrying this:





[font size=+2]Do I have that right?[/font]

[peacebird]

1. Well, thats what he claims anyhow.... K&R!

[liberal N proud]

2. Yep

[peacebird]

3. ...gasp! Maybe it wasn't THOSE skittles, *maybe* it was the much more threatening Tropical Flavors!

[KansDem]

4. You forgot the can of iced tea...

But that aside, you are correct...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

5. Lets don't rush to judment.

Let them present their Skittles defence.

[teddy51]

6. And reallity is Travon was a beautiful young man that lost his life by some over paranoid

"wanna bee" cop. This guy should no way in hell be able to hide behind this F***ed up law. Imagine how many family members, relatives, and friends that have lost this young man are feeling!

[arthritisR_US]

7. Yep, that's pretty accurate. But, you left

out that that "poor" 28 yr old man was suffering from teeny weeny syndrome... poor baby

[Dragonfli]

20. That last bit is the only reason he carried a gun, he never meant to use it, just

stroke it, it was premature ejaculation and not murder.

What many fail to see is this was no hate crime, it was a LOVE crime.

The rest was just an accidental prosthetic malfunction.
He loved that boy the only way he knew how....

[arthritisR_US]

24. You summed him up beautifully...lol. n/t

[bluedigger]

8. Well, when you put it like that...

It just doesn't make any sense, now, does it?

I heard the kid was tardy once.


See? Now it makes sense.

[LynneSin]

9. Not quite....

was also carrying this

[tech_smythe]

10. It was all that HFCS he had on him... remember he was armed with SODA too!!!

what a fucking bigot!
I hope this asshole gets tossed down the worst hole imaginable.

[Honeycombe8]

11. Wow. That really gets to the heart of things. Pictures ARE worth a thousand words. nt

[The Wielding Truth]

25. He was carrying Skittles while black. To this guy that is unforgivable.

[Revelyell]

12. +1

Thats what i think

[chieftain]

13. If you believe all that

then you could have been the police chief of Sanford Florida. But not much else.

[Kablooie]

14. And besides that he got out of his car to confront the young man who was minding his own business.

[Control-Z]

41. That's right. Because

he was afraid the kid would jump into his car and hurt him. Hurt him bad - with the skittles. He was afraid for his life. The fact that he had his gun proves how frightened he was. Would he have needed to carry that gun if the kid didn't scare him? No. He wouldn't. So it was not his fault. Anyone should be able to see that.

[freshwest]

15. You forgot the bottle of Arizona Tea. That's what made him a threat...

[GOPonziconz]

16. Skittles of Mass Distruction & Texas Tea no doubt!

[MrScorpio]

17. Them's the facts nt

[varelse]

18. Yes, essentially

although typically people who fear for their lives tend to put distance between themselves and the object of their fear. For some reason, the poor defenseless guy with the big gun did the opposite.

[Yooperman]

19. I wonder how the case would have been handled had it been a

250 lb black man shooting an unarmed skinny white kid?

For some reason I don't think they would have bought his story of self defense. Just sayin....


I hope he gets what is his due a lifetime behind bars....


YM

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. and if it were

any guy, who stalked and shot a woman because
she was too sexy
she was immoral
she wouldn't have sex with him
he gets off on killing women......

as happens everywhere, every day, since forever.....


it would be on the news, maybe, depending on certain variables in proportion to how blonde, pretty and young she were.

and after a week or less, it would be gone.
*pffft*

[WheelWalker]

40. Indeed.

[IndyJones]

21. Everytime I see that young man's photo, it makes me cry.

And yes, the OP certainly puts it in the right perspective. I'm waiting to hear the complete investigation, but those do seem to be pretty overwhelming facts presented in the OP.

[Snake Alchemist]

23. That is not a current picture of Trayvon though.

I thought he looked incredibly young when I saw that photo, but then I found out that was from a few years ago.

[Skittles]

27. how old could he have looked?

HE WAS 17 YEARS OLD

[Snake Alchemist]

28. No clue. I've seen some 17 yo kids who looked well into their 20's. nt

[krispos42]

42. It was also at night, wasn't it?

Not that I'm defending Zimmerman.



But personally I'm not too good at judging peoples' ages. Especially women. Many of them strive from age 13 to 40 trying to look 23.

Men at least have baldness to give some indication.

[LanternWaste]

29. Nor is Zimmerman's picture, yet I see no critiques to it being shown...

"That is not a current picture of Trayvon though..."

Nor is Zimmerman's picture, yet I see no critiques to it being shown...

[Skittles]

30. GET WITH THE PROGRAM, LW

all that matters is HOW SCARY TRAYVON LOOKED!!! You know, he may have LOOKED LIKE WAS IN HIS 20'S!!!!!

[Snake Alchemist]

33. Yeah, accuaracy in reporting needs to fly out the window as long as it's for the right reasons. nt

[Skittles]

38. a picure of him DEAD would have been the most accurate

[WheelWalker]

44. Indeed. Indeed, it would.

[LanternWaste]

35. I'd hazard that Fox news will appease many appetites soon

I'd hazard that Fox news will appease many of these appetites soon and post a CGI composite of what Trayvon would have looked like in his thirties...

[Snake Alchemist]

39. Could be. No cable at my house though. Netflix and the internet sustains us. nt

[Number23]

45. First time I have ever, EVER agreed with you. But you are right on the money

"Oh my God! He looked 19 and not 17!!!1one!! He could have learned alot of thieving and killing skills in those supposed 2 years!!one"

LORD, have mercy.

[Snake Alchemist]

32. I'd love to see a current picture of him. Maybe he's slimmed down? nt

[LanternWaste]

34. I imagine your consistency has merely been overlooked

I imagine your consistency has merely been overlooked, and that you were not holding two pictures with the same concern to two different standards of evidence prior to this being brought to your attention...

[Snake Alchemist]

37. I was unaware it was an older picture of Zimmerman. Sure looks like a 28 yo to me. Maybe even

older. But I was struck by how young the Trayvon photo looked.

[Skittles]

26. CORECT

now they are hiding under a paranoid gun nut's wet dream law

[white_wolf]

31. Come on, guys. Let's be reasonable.

Maybe he was deathly allergic to Skittles or iced tea... Seriously, this would be funny if it hadn't actually happened. Fearing for you life over a bag of Skittles.

[Uncle Joe]

36. Well you can choke someone to death using Skittles.

Thanks for the thread, scheming daemons.

P.S. It's amazing what you can find if you Google it.

[krispos42]

43. Essentially.

However, some weapons (most notably guns) don't depend too much on the physical size or strength of the person wielding them.

The fact that Tayvon was only 17 does not automatically render him inert. Remember, the under-25 set accounts for a disproportionally large amount of the total murders in the US.


The fact also remains, however, that Tayvon wasn't the doing the stalking. Assuming Zimmerman initiated the confrontation (which seems likely) then if Teyvon has wrestled the pistol from Zimmerman and turned the gun on him, Teyvon would be protected by the Stand-Your-Ground laws.

[Odin2005]

46. Paranoid psychotic racist POS lynches black kid. :-(

[K Gardner]

47. geez.. rec #155. no words.

[Kablooie]

48. In Florida apparently if you say you felt threatened you can kill legally.

According to Wikipedia:
"The Florida law has been used to excuse neighborhood brawls, bar fights, road rage, and even street gang violence."

A license to kill is offered to anyone that wants it.