Man attacks with hatchet, gun in Mass. gay bar

[joeybee12]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11146480/

Police investigating incident as a possible hate crime; 3 people injured

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - A teenager armed with a hatchet and handgun opened fire inside a gay bar early Thursday, wounding at least three people in what police are investigating as a hate crime.

A bartender at Puzzle Lounge told The Associated Press that the young man, dressed all in black, ordered a drink and asked if Puzzles was a gay bar. He finished his drink shortly after midnight, ordered another, then started attacking people, the bartender said. Three were hospitalized Thursday.

Police were searching for Jacob D. Robida, 18, Police Capt. Richard Spirlet said.

[President Kerry]

1. If that's true, put him away and throw away the key. n/t

[napi21]

2. OK, what am I missing here? 18, and ordering drinks?

I remember when Buffalo had a law where you could legally drink 3.2 beer, but that was when I was a teenager, and I thought they changed that!

What's the deal with Mass?

[joeybee12]

4. Don't know Mass laws--age limits vary by state...when I was 18

I could drink in MAss and Conn. Conn. has since bumped it back up to 21.

[napi21]

6. I thought they all changed a number of years ago because the

Feds said if they didn't comply with the 21 rule, they'd get NO highway funds.

And I also have to ask, what was with the hatchett? That idiot must be a real piece of work!

[ToolTex]

10. The bartender checked his ID which said he was 23!

You should watch the video of the barkeep being debriefed. It is chilling.

[arcane1]

3. acting out his self-loathing, I'm sure

he'll have plenty of time to think about it, locked in a cell with other men

what an ass-hole

[mitchtv]

13. asshole is what he'll be

when he lands in Winthrop or whatever. Bubba's ho

[dusmcj]

5. the kicker: perp graduate of "junior police academy"

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/02/02/gay.shooting/index.html

Robida is a graduate of New Bedford's junior police academy, a program intended to build social skills, self-esteem and self-confidence in children 12 to 14, police said.

Gotta love that Connected & Under Control lifestyle. That training program really had an Impact. I guess he learned about Natural Law there and became Confident and Firm.

[1620rock]

7. Ha! I hope some jailhouse Buba boars him a new one! n/t

[xchrom]

8. a terrorist. committing the kind of acts

that keep ''minorities'' in their place -- i.e. more worried about staying alive than anything else.

[cboy4]

9. This suspect is either gay and angry about being gay or

he's a right wing fundamentalist christian Bush-supporter.

No matter, it goes to show if you're gay, you ALWAYS have to watch your back.....even inside gay bars and clubs.

[ToolTex]

11. Gay bashing is always about killing the queer within,

in my experience. Certainly tells more about the basher than the victim.

[kweerwolf]

12. Considering that Mass. is debating the marriage issue now ...

... I'm not surprised that whack jobs like this come out of the woodwork.

No doubt he's got some homophobic minister or right-wing parents (or both) who have got him all stirred up about "those gays" and now he's trying to make Daddy and Rev. Billy Bob proud of him by killing some queers.

What a shame that cretins like this manage to remember how to breath. ... And likewise to the pieces of shit who taught him to hate.

[joeybee12]

14. An update...the police found Nazi paraphernalia in the suspect's home

You know, Bush-Cheney bumper stickers and the like.

Actually, I think they meant GERMAN Nazi stuff.

[shawmut]

15. He has a myspace account

http://www.myspace.com/jakejekyll

[joeybee12]

16. I'm afraid to click on that!

Is it creepy?

[cboy4]

17. Ummm, yea, it's a little freaky

But, the the D.A. will have some interesting evidence if this goes to trial....oh and some of the comments from "friends:"

"why'd you do it, you know I love you," bla bla bla :puke:

This dude is so stupid, he'll probably admit the attacks on his little web page. Awww, how cute.

[gator_in_Ontario]

18. Oh it is creepy all right

if you can get down to "sexi icon" though...that is quite interesting. Is that his idea of himself? Or his desires? hmmm...