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joeybee12

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Thu Apr 16, 2015, 05:03 PM Apr 2015

Panama City Beach Residents Worry About Safety After Alleged Gang Rape

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — The disturbing allegation that a woman was gang-raped by college students on a packed beach last month now has residents questioning just how out of control this tourism mecca has become.

It also has officials asking: Is spring break broken — and what can be done to fix it?

"We have gone to an era now of total violence and animalistic conduct," said Wes Pittman, a Panama City Beach resident for almost 40 years.

Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen was so distressed by the alleged assault, which was caught on cellphone video during broad daylight, that he called it one of the most "sickening things" he had ever seen.

"Within 10 feet of where this is happening, there is hundreds, hundreds of people standing there watching, looking, seeing, hearing what's going on," McKeithen said at a news conference last week.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/panama-city-beach-residents-worry-about-safety-after-alleged-gang-n342651

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Panama City Beach Residents Worry About Safety After Alleged Gang Rape (Original Post) joeybee12 Apr 2015 OP
It used to be just college kids getting drunk and having a blast but now... 951-Riverside Apr 2015 #1
 

951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)
1. It used to be just college kids getting drunk and having a blast but now...
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 05:23 PM
Apr 2015

You've got the absolute filth of society bringing in their violent synthetic "culture" fed to them by the likes of MTV/Viacom committing rapes, assaults, robberies, burglaries, driveby shootings, you name it.

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