In Memphis. Redbirds game suspended and locked down. Prayers for a swift resolution.

He’s in custody now

(09-07-2022 09:16 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  He’s in custody now

That’s good news.

Think they finally caught him somewhere down on Raines Rd.

What a week. It’d be nice for the Tigers to hang about 50 on Navy on Saturday for a little good news around town

Living in Philly with a daughter who lives 1 mile from campus this has been a stressful few days. She’s safe. My thoughts and prayers are with the families affected by the tragedies of this week. I miss the Memphis of my youth.

(09-07-2022 10:06 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  Living in Philly with a daughter who lives 1 mile from campus this has been a stressful few days. She’s safe. My thoughts and prayers are with the families affected by the tragedies of this week. I miss the Memphis of my youth.

It’s long gone.

(09-07-2022 10:09 PM)2021 Tiger Football!! Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 10:06 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  Living in Philly with a daughter who lives 1 mile from campus this has been a stressful few days. She’s safe. My thoughts and prayers are with the families affected by the tragedies of this week. I miss the Memphis of my youth.

It’s long gone.

I’ve been gone for 15 years. I can see a time when FedEx says “clean it up or we’re going to [Little Rock/Dallas/Atlanta] for the safety of our employees.”

At that point, Memphis becomes a non-entity.

lived in Memphis most of my life until 8 years ago. I think most people in Memphis get immune to the day in and day out of what really goes on in the city and don't figure it that big of deal.

once you live away from the violence for a time and then see it on the news that it's Memphis, you shake your head and wonder why would someone want to continue to live there? the city was once a great town. great places to eat, sports and concerts ect. now, not so much. the city's reputation outside of Memphis is very poor at best.

we still pull for the Tigers and Grizz and have even gone to some away games here in Florida. I am pretty sure I would never choose to live there again.

(09-07-2022 11:47 PM)TigerinFL Wrote:  lived in Memphis most of my life until 8 years ago. I think most people in Memphis get immune to the day in and day out of what really goes on in the city and don't figure it that big of deal.

once you live away from the violence for a time and then see it on the news that it's Memphis, you shake your head and wonder why would someone want to continue to live there? the city was once a great town. great places to eat, sports and concerts ect. now, not so much. the city's reputation outside of Memphis is very poor at best.

we still pull for the Tigers and Grizz and have even gone to some away games here in Florida. I am pretty sure I would never choose to live there again.

You seem to be calling me a fool for continuing to live in Memphis. But I think it’s foolish for someone in Florida to believe what you read in the news actually substitutes for everyday life here. Or it’s just a form of confirmation bias - interpreting what you see and hear about Memphis in a way that confirms your decision to move away.

I’ve lived here most of 50 years and the past was not the good ole days you speak of. I’m glad I wasn’t old enough to experience the late 1960s and the riots, MLK assasination, tanks patrolling streets and Time Magazine calling Memphis a “backwater river town”. I am, however, old enough to remember the Peabody boarded up in the late ‘70s, nothing to do downtown, the area around Beale being a deserted wasteland, major employers like Harvester and Firestone abandoning the city, and TV5 preempting a whole evening of programming around 1980 to hold a town hall meeting on the Memphis “crime crisis”. I’ve had only two acquaintances who I’ve known to be victims of violent crime (one kidnapping, one assault) and that was in the early 1990s. Around that same time some dudes were killed execution style in the apartment complex I lived in, a lady was stabbed by her estranged husband in the department store where I worked, and a girl my age attending MSU was randomly shot driving down an East Memphis street I drove on almost daily.

There are just as many great places to eat here now as ever before, although they may be different places. And what past era do you think that sports in Memphis were so much better than now? Back when the Tiger football team rarely had winning seasons or went 32 years between bowls? When we didn’t have an NBA team, much less a contender with a legit superstar?

As far as Memphis’s reputation, it’s funny how quickly people come out of the woodwork to call us a hellhole when something bad happens here. But somebody sets off a bomb in Nashville, massacres cops in Dallas, shoots up a nightclub in Orlando or opens fire on a concert in Vegas and people don’t tend to blame that on the city where it happened.

Have a feeling that in a way the two incidents intertwine.

Think it's entirely possible that today's -$#@ looked at the events from earlier this week and thought to himself that he could be more infamous. That he wanted a name for himself . Thus the reasoning for streaming his attacks.

Think they should put them both in a cell with just one bed. Then walk away and pay no attention to any sound coming from the cell.

Possible they are related.

(09-07-2022 11:47 PM)TigerinFL Wrote:  lived in Memphis most of my life until 8 years ago. I think most people in Memphis get immune to the day in and day out of what really goes on in the city and don't figure it that big of deal.

once you live away from the violence for a time and then see it on the news that it's Memphis, you shake your head and wonder why would someone want to continue to live there? the city was once a great town. great places to eat, sports and concerts ect. now, not so much. the city's reputation outside of Memphis is very poor at best.

we still pull for the Tigers and Grizz and have even gone to some away games here in Florida. I am pretty sure I would never choose to live there again.

(09-08-2022 01:02 AM)CRM114 Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 11:47 PM)TigerinFL Wrote:  lived in Memphis most of my life until 8 years ago. I think most people in Memphis get immune to the day in and day out of what really goes on in the city and don't figure it that big of deal.

once you live away from the violence for a time and then see it on the news that it's Memphis, you shake your head and wonder why would someone want to continue to live there? the city was once a great town. great places to eat, sports and concerts ect. now, not so much. the city's reputation outside of Memphis is very poor at best.

we still pull for the Tigers and Grizz and have even gone to some away games here in Florida. I am pretty sure I would never choose to live there again.

You seem to be calling me a fool for continuing to live in Memphis. But I think it’s foolish for someone in Florida to believe what you read in the news actually substitutes for everyday life here. Or it’s just a form of confirmation bias - interpreting what you see and hear about Memphis in a way that confirms your decision to move away.

I’ve lived here most of 50 years and the past was not the good ole days you speak of. I’m glad I wasn’t old enough to experience the late 1960s and the riots, MLK assasination, tanks patrolling streets and Time Magazine calling Memphis a “backwater river town”. I am, however, old enough to remember the Peabody boarded up in the late ‘70s, nothing to do downtown, the area around Beale being a deserted wasteland, major employers like Harvester and Firestone abandoning the city, and TV5 preempting a whole evening of programming around 1980 to hold a town hall meeting on the Memphis “crime crisis”. I’ve had only two acquaintances who I’ve known to be victims of violent crime (one kidnapping, one assault) and that was in the early 1990s. Around that same time some dudes were killed execution style in the apartment complex I lived in, a lady was stabbed by her estranged husband in the department store where I worked, and a girl my age attending MSU was randomly shot driving down an East Memphis street I drove on almost daily.

There are just as many great places to eat here now as ever before, although they may be different places. And what past era do you think that sports in Memphis were so much better than now? Back when the Tiger football team rarely had winning seasons or went 32 years between bowls? When we didn’t have an NBA team, much less a contender with a legit superstar?

As far as Memphis’s reputation, it’s funny how quickly people come out of the woodwork to call us a hellhole when something bad happens here. But somebody sets off a bomb in Nashville, massacres cops in Dallas, shoots up a nightclub in Orlando or opens fire on a concert in Vegas and people don’t tend to blame that on the city where it happened.

Nah it’s a hell hole.

(09-07-2022 10:14 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 10:09 PM)2021 Tiger Football!! Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 10:06 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  Living in Philly with a daughter who lives 1 mile from campus this has been a stressful few days. She’s safe. My thoughts and prayers are with the families affected by the tragedies of this week. I miss the Memphis of my youth.

It’s long gone.

I’ve been gone for 15 years. I can see a time when FedEx says “clean it up or we’re going to [Little Rock/Dallas/Atlanta] for the safety of our employees.”

At that point, Memphis becomes a non-entity.

Two out of three of those cities have more total murders than Memphis. I not gonna defend Memphis crime, it is appalling. But most U.S. large cities crime rates are off the chain crazy.

(09-08-2022 01:02 AM)CRM114 Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 11:47 PM)TigerinFL Wrote:  lived in Memphis most of my life until 8 years ago. I think most people in Memphis get immune to the day in and day out of what really goes on in the city and don't figure it that big of deal.

once you live away from the violence for a time and then see it on the news that it's Memphis, you shake your head and wonder why would someone want to continue to live there? the city was once a great town. great places to eat, sports and concerts ect. now, not so much. the city's reputation outside of Memphis is very poor at best.

we still pull for the Tigers and Grizz and have even gone to some away games here in Florida. I am pretty sure I would never choose to live there again.

You seem to be calling me a fool for continuing to live in Memphis. But I think it’s foolish for someone in Florida to believe what you read in the news actually substitutes for everyday life here. Or it’s just a form of confirmation bias - interpreting what you see and hear about Memphis in a way that confirms your decision to move away.

I’ve lived here most of 50 years and the past was not the good ole days you speak of. I’m glad I wasn’t old enough to experience the late 1960s and the riots, MLK assasination, tanks patrolling streets and Time Magazine calling Memphis a “backwater river town”. I am, however, old enough to remember the Peabody boarded up in the late ‘70s, nothing to do downtown, the area around Beale being a deserted wasteland, major employers like Harvester and Firestone abandoning the city, and TV5 preempting a whole evening of programming around 1980 to hold a town hall meeting on the Memphis “crime crisis”. I’ve had only two acquaintances who I’ve known to be victims of violent crime (one kidnapping, one assault) and that was in the early 1990s. Around that same time some dudes were killed execution style in the apartment complex I lived in, a lady was stabbed by her estranged husband in the department store where I worked, and a girl my age attending MSU was randomly shot driving down an East Memphis street I drove on almost daily.

There are just as many great places to eat here now as ever before, although they may be different places. And what past era do you think that sports in Memphis were so much better than now? Back when the Tiger football team rarely had winning seasons or went 32 years between bowls? When we didn’t have an NBA team, much less a contender with a legit superstar?

As far as Memphis’s reputation, it’s funny how quickly people come out of the woodwork to call us a hellhole when something bad happens here. But somebody sets off a bomb in Nashville, massacres cops in Dallas, shoots up a nightclub in Orlando or opens fire on a concert in Vegas and people don’t tend to blame that on the city where it happened.

I am a native Memphian who was 13 in 1968 and recall the assassination of Dr King. I don't recall, "tanks patrolling the streets".

And while downtown is nice in some areas I don't feel safe there after dark.

Sadly, the truth is Memphis is in the top 10 dangerous cities in America.

Memphis, Tennessee, has a murder rate of 28.5 per 100,000 as of 2018, the sixth-highest in the country. Memphis had 191 homicides in 2019, an increase from 18 in 2018 and 180 in 2017. There were just over 400 homicides in the state of Tennessee in 2019, meaning that almost one out of two homicides occurred in Memphis. About 90% of solved homicides showed that the victim and offender knew each other.

I believe last year there were over 300 murders just last year alone so it's getting worse.

(09-08-2022 03:13 AM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  Have a feeling that in a way the two incidents intertwine.

Think it's entirely possible that today's -$#@ looked at the events from earlier this week and thought to himself that he could be more infamous. That he wanted a name for himself . Thus the reasoning for streaming his attacks.

Think they should put them both in a cell with just one bed. Then walk away and pay no attention to any sound coming from the cell.

I don't get facepage.

Make a joke about gays; 30 day ban.

Live stream murderous shooting spree; cool.

"The city of Memphis is unsafe for black people and people in general"

(09-08-2022 03:13 AM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  Have a feeling that in a way the two incidents intertwine.

Think it's entirely possible that today's -$#@ looked at the events from earlier this week and thought to himself that he could be more infamous. That he wanted a name for himself . Thus the reasoning for streaming his attacks.

Think they should put them both in a cell with just one bed. Then walk away and pay no attention to any sound coming from the cell.

I've had that gut feeling as well. Not sure we will ever find out, but i'm willing to put money on it.

These two incidents are horrible PR for the city. It doesn't help matters at all.

(09-07-2022 10:14 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 10:09 PM)2021 Tiger Football!! Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 10:06 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  Living in Philly with a daughter who lives 1 mile from campus this has been a stressful few days. She’s safe. My thoughts and prayers are with the families affected by the tragedies of this week. I miss the Memphis of my youth.

It’s long gone.

I’ve been gone for 15 years. I can see a time when FedEx says “clean it up or we’re going to [Little Rock/Dallas/Atlanta] for the safety of our employees.”

At that point, Memphis becomes a non-entity.

It wont be Little Rock, it is just a mini version of Memphis...

(09-08-2022 07:47 AM)tigerlands Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 10:14 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 10:09 PM)2021 Tiger Football!! Wrote:  

(09-07-2022 10:06 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  Living in Philly with a daughter who lives 1 mile from campus this has been a stressful few days. She’s safe. My thoughts and prayers are with the families affected by the tragedies of this week. I miss the Memphis of my youth.

It’s long gone.

I’ve been gone for 15 years. I can see a time when FedEx says “clean it up or we’re going to [Little Rock/Dallas/Atlanta] for the safety of our employees.”

At that point, Memphis becomes a non-entity.

Two out of three of those cities have more total murders than Memphis. I not gonna defend Memphis crime, it is appalling. But most U.S. large cities crime rates are off the chain crazy.

Memphis was recently named the most dangerous city in America!

https://247wallst.com/special-report/202...city-2/11/