Field Hockey @ La Salle Abandoned Due to Nearby Gunfire

[billikenfan05]

 

[Lord Elrond]

WTF is wrong with people? Glad everyone is safe

[brianstl]

Welcome to the Lou

[CenHudDude]

24 minutes ago, brianstl said:

Welcome to the Lou

This was in Philly.

[DeSmetBilliken]

24 minutes ago, brianstl said:

Welcome to the Lou

Game was in Philadelphia 

[billikenfan05]

1 minute ago, DeSmetBilliken said:

Game was in Philadelphia 

Philoudelphia 

[brianstl]

2 minutes ago, CenHudDude said:

This was in Philly.

 

2 minutes ago, DeSmetBilliken said:

Game was in Philadelphia 

Noted.  

[billikenbill]

Players and coaches weren’t armed? 

[Lord Elrond]

Stu said that they were playing at Temple’s field because of issues at LaSalle’s field. SLU isn’t sticking around, they are leaving for their next game Sunday in New Haven, CT vs Sacred Heart. Apparently no plans to restart or replay the game.

[Taj79]

North Philly.  Typical.

[Lord Elrond]

I tried to find the ESPN+ feed of the game, but apparently ESPN already took it down

[Pistol]

7 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:

I tried to find the ESPN+ feed of the game, but apparently ESPN already took it down

Same. I was going to try to pull the clip straight from the broadcast but it's gone. I guess it's evidence now.

[wgstl]

I hate myself for laughing at what I laughed at. 

[billikenfan05]

1 hour ago, Lord Elrond said:

Stu said that they were playing at Temple’s field because of issues at LaSalle’s field. SLU isn’t sticking around, they are leaving for their next game Sunday in New Haven, CT vs Sacred Heart. Apparently no plans to restart or replay the game.

I hope if they are playing Sunday that it's the school that said they weren't and the players insisted on playing.

[OkieBilliken]

I know I am in a bad mood because MBB can’t stay healthy in a freaking fun practice and our women’s soccer spent the entire offseason building team chemistry and don’t appear to have any of it offensively,  but how the hell do you have a mass attempted shooting outside of your facility where everyone is traumatized and players and officials have to run for their lives and then the home team gets to put up a W.   If LaSalle had any dignity they would have forfeited.  But then they chose to live in that sh#thole so I’d guess they have none.   

[Lord Elrond]

6 minutes ago, OkieBilliken said:

I know I am in a bad mood because MBB can’t stay healthy in a freaking fun practice and our women’s soccer spent the entire offseason building team chemistry and don’t appear to have any of it offensively,  but how the hell do you have a mass attempted shooting outside of your facility where everyone is traumatized and players and officials have to run for their lives and then the home team gets to put up a W.   If LaSalle had any dignity they would have forfeited.  But then they chose to live in a that sh#thole so I’d guess they have none.   

There were 50+ shots I heard on that clip from X that Zac posted. Sounds more like a pitched battle going on. The only thing on the SLU website writeup was that the match was halted due to a “disturbance”. LaSalle still hasn’t posted a writeup of the game. I think I would call the A10 office and say that the match should be a forfeit because LaSalle failed to provide a safe place for the match to be played at if I were Chris May.

[Speyburn]

8 hours ago, Pistol said:

Same. I was going to try to pull the clip straight from the broadcast but it's gone. I guess it's evidence now.

Field hockey match erupts in gunfire as shooters send St. Louis University and La Salle players scrambling for cover | Daily Mail Online

[billikenfan05]

 

[Old guy]

A significant number of casualties caused by gang gunfighting are non involved people, including children. Once a bullet is fired from a gun and misses its intended target, it just keeps on going until it hits something whether it is a wall or a person. And, by the way, guns just facilitate violence but are not essential to it. People can kill one another using any number of other weapons including baseball bats, knives, rocks, and even screwdrivers.

Schools simply cannot provide safe places to play sports if they are located in really rough areas of a city.

 

[Speyburn]

44 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:

 

 

[Lord Elrond]

The thing about gangbangers is that they are lousy shots. If they were good marksmen, their bullets would go where they are aimed, which is usually another gangbanger. With them being lousy shots, the bullets go all over the place, which is usually innocent bystanders. 
 

Also hate to mention it, but that sheet metal shed some people ran into is not bulletproof. Depending on the size of the pistol used and how far away it was, it might be effective, it might not.  Not a great area for experimenting.  The M14’s they gave us in the navy for use in ship self defense would have gone right through those walls and maybe out the other side. Fortunately 7.62mm rifle rounds are not the weapon of choice for gangs.

[Pistol]

https://x.com/MidtownMadPod/status/1840045086924488924 - Sensitive tweet that won't embed, but this video is another angle of the incident. The sound is really what elevates this one.

This is the second tweet of the thread.

[Lord Elrond]

Looks like X took down that video. Elan Musk strikes again

[billikenfan05]

40 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:

Looks like X took down that video. Elan Musk strikes again

It’s still up. 

[billikenfan05]