Feuding families cause riot in Marion, Alabama
About 4% of the population of Marion rioted over a family feud. 4% of a town belongs to one or another family? Let’s think about the evolutionary implications for a “tight-knit” community.
EEeeeeewwww. EEEEeeeewww. Ok, on further reflection, let’s not.
AND, Michael Jackson is seeming less freakish by the day.
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Associated Press Monday, August 24, 2009
MARION, Ala. – Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats. The town’s police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK.
The two- or three-year-old feud apparently prompted a fight earlier in the day at a high school, after a window was shot out of a home Sunday night. Then, “all hell broke loose” later in the day, said Sgt. Carlton Hogue of the Perry County Sheriff’s Department.
“It was a full-scale riot is what it was,” said Tony Long, mayor of the town of 3,300 about 85 miles west of Montgomery.
