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http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Stoughton-baby-shower-brawl-lands-3-men-teen-in-court/-/11971628/18119112/-/gm46oqz/-/index.htmlhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262022/Baby-shower-turns-200-person-brawl-ending-4-arrests.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Patrick Cardoso Lopes and Paulo Pires Depina, both, 24, as well as 22-year-old Aderito Lopes Deandrade, were released on $1,000 bail at their arraignment Monday.
The Brockton men face charges including disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a police officer.
The men had no comment outside court.
A 14-year-old boy was also arrested, but his name was not released.
Police responded to a function hall in Stoughton late Saturday and found as many as 200 people involved in the fight they say was sparked by uninvited guests. Police Sgt. Daniel McGowan called the scene a "nightmare."
I have no comment.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,615 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)wonder what kind of "Karma" this indicates?
buddybrown
(2 posts)Seems like every time I see a brawl, whether bus stop, or party, whatever on the news, its always blacks. Does anyone here other than me think this is racist?
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)it is going to make the news regardless of what race the participants are.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)You are as subtle as a hurricane with your moronic post.
Cheers!
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Are you talking about your post?
If so, then yes, your post sounds racist.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Warpy
(110,900 posts)What makes you think they're all black?
Portuguese people in southeastern Mass. were pretty unfussy about skin color. Chances are this Donnybrook represented the whole human rainbow.
Shame on you.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)I grew up a couple towns away.
meow2u3
(24,743 posts)Warpy
(110,900 posts)after the Irish, not that I'm assuming any of those folks are here illegally. It's just a demonstration of immigration patterns.
There are plenty of people from the Azores and from Portugal, itself, and they are united by language and customs with Brazilians and Cape Verdeans. That is why this mess likely had all colors of the rainbow, although the arrests, as usual, were mostly people of color.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)And frankly when I saw the article I assumed it was going to be a Portuguese party with the names and the high number of people in that town with Portuguese ancestory.
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)Journeyman
(15,001 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)aunts, female cousins, and grandmas, bearing Jello salad and rigatoni. Are men going to baby showers now? That's different.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,615 posts)for quite a while now.
Warpy
(110,900 posts)and send a prezzie plus regrets due to my very convenient ill health.
Well, unless I've been euchered into catering the food. Then I hide in the kitchen and leave early.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)According to the police spokesperson
tavernier
(12,322 posts)oh ... my bad...
siligut
(12,272 posts)tavernier
(12,322 posts)Or rather was before they rented it out to drunks and druggies.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)I wonder if this is a case of a social-hall rivalry of some sort?
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Yikes! Another reason to avoid baby showers like the plague.
union_maid
(3,502 posts)It used to be that the worst hazards were those stupid games they made you play. I see things have escalated quite a bit since then.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Have someone write down everything mom says as she opens her gifts. ( Without her knowing, of course. She should think the person is just jotting down which person gave which gift. )
When she's finished opening her presents, the person says, "Okay, now we will hear what Mom-to-be said the first time she and Dad-to-be got together for some monkey love."
There follows a reading of her responses:
"Isn't that cute!"
"Gosh. It's so tiny!"
"Aw. Look. It's got little bunnies on it!"
Silly, but good for a lot of cheap laughs. Let's hope it wasn't this game that started the whole brawl in Mass, though!
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,161 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)I have been to a few with men, though, and I think it's nice to have the dad and his friends there, as well as having more conversation and fewer silly games.
But fighting? You know when you bring various family members together, if some don't really get along, things can get uncomfortable. I wonder what brought this on.
CE5
(62 posts)That violence has been suppressed by notions of society until now. Our selfish tendacies are breaking through and violence is the result of our "me first" culture.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)but what were he guys doing there anyway? I've never been to a baby shower and don't really feel left out.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I'm surprised that any man would be invited who isnt more interested in the coming birth than whatever else they have going on.
Initech
(99,912 posts)HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)Initech
(99,912 posts)Ian David
(69,059 posts)TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)I'm hoping to drink punch and not get punched.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)"They needed to have plenty of guns around, maybe 5 or 10 assault rifles per person. Then everybody would be polite."