Overweight Teens Threaten Boys with Gun after Losing Pickup B-Ball Game
Ferndale Police are investigating an altercation that resulted in threats with a handgun between younger boys and older teens.
After two boys, 7 and 13, beat two overweight older teens in a pickup basketball game Monday at Harding Park, an altercation ensued that resulted in threats with a handgun, Ferndale Police said.
Police received a report about 5:30 p.m., from a 7- and 13-year-old, that they were assaulted with a handgun, Ferndale Lt. Detective Williams Wilson said.
"The boys said they had just won a basketball game against two older boys, about 17 and 18 years old, in Harding Park," Wilson said. "After the game the two groups had a verbal altercation and exchanged obscenities."
Wilson said the younger boys started walking on Wolcott Street when the older boys, described as both 6 feet tall, black and 300 pounds, pulled up in a car -- possibly a 2003 or 2004 light blue Mercury Grand Marquis, Wilson said.
"(The passenger) held a black and silver handgun out of the passenger side window and stated, 'What do you think now?'" Wilson said. The younger boys reported the person with the gun was wearing a red shirt and khaki shorts.
Wilson said the vehicle then traveled south on Wolcott then west on Woodward Heights. The driver was wearing a black and white Nike shirt and black shorts, the younger boys reported.
Ferndale Police are investing these allegations. Anybody with information should phone 248-541-3650.
pandamans
11:55 am on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Maybe because we're trying to find somebody with a physical description?
pandamans
12:21 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_%28publishing%29#Elements_of_an_article
Overweight was only used once in the body of the article. It was then clarified further with an approximate weight of 300 lbs. It was used in the headline probably to draw in readers. You should refer back to your headline when writing a news article, with clarification in the body.
amberto
12:05 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
fatties with guns are a serious problem in ferndale. somebody alert the authorities.
maximumkilt
12:41 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
if race was used as a descriptor would it be racist?
pandamans
12:55 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
oh great. now all of our comments are gonna be taken out of context.
Mark Blackwell
1:06 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Please. Take down the basketball hoops. All of them.
Let the kids play indoors, or put the hoops behind locked gates.
T. Scott Galloway
2:28 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
I think the story within a story is the fact that a 7 and a 13 year old could beat a 17 and a 18 year old at basketball. How does that happen?
In light of renewed concerns by residents about the basketball hoops at the GKCC, I have asked the city manager and our recreation director to evaluate our policy and implementation of that policy regarding basketball hoops.
Greg Pawlica
3:27 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
I see a several comments about weight and race, and yet no one has commented on the obvious (to me)...that young adults (17 & 18 year-olds) are threatening kids (7 & 13 year-olds) with guns. Doesn't this alarm anyone? It does me! Just another reason why we need stricter gun control laws. Sad...just sad!
IMHOferndale
4:34 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Also, does anyone question whether these tweens REALLY won that basketball match? sounds fishy.
IMHOferndale
5:08 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
These poor fat kids first have to deal with the indignity of losing to a couple of children, then they have to be insulted by the writer and headline writer. Offensive!
angelb
7:03 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
So, an 18 year old man more than 6 feet tall and over 300 pounds lumbers over to his equally grown 17 year old friend and says, "You know what would really make us look cool and impress the ladies? Playing basketball with random children." So they go to the park and play pickup with a SEVEN YEAR OLD and his 13 year old friend. This already sounds unlikely. Next, the 7 & 13 year old whoop some giant buttocks and humiliate said giants. Rather than getting violent, however, these angry giants just hover over the kiddos and yell obscenities. Later, though, they are overcome and haul their 6+ foot 300+ pound man bodies over to their car and track down the kids who bested them and flash a gun at them? Has anyone considered that said kiddos have active imaginations?
amberto
7:37 pm on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
an active RACIST imagination, amirite? why the gun-toting, fatties gotta be black?