Here's how the story really played out:

13 year old airsofter writes a passage of unmitigated bullshit from his mom's basement.

13 year old airsofter masturbates like a spider monkey.

13 year old airsofter writes another passage of unmitigated bullshit.

13 year old airsofter masturbates like a spider monkey.

And so on...

huh?

While it certainly sounds like the author is full of shit when it comes to what he actually did and experienced, I do feel he did a pretty decent job of capturing what the event felt like for those caught up in the chaos.

BTW, reading that makes me want to pull out the credit card and lay in some extra supplies. Bulkfoods.com has some powdered eggs, cheddar cheese powder, tomato powder and TVP for pretty decent prices (and $5 shipping if you order $75 or more worth of stuff). I'm in decent shape on my grains and beans. But I could use some extra stuff to go into long term storage.

yup



he's full of shit imo
 

I lived in Burbank in '92. Worked at the Black Angus off of 5.

Not so much truth in the OP.




We were all watching the TV and tense, but everything seemed to be happening in 'the hood'...

Everything always happened in SC.



Worked with a lady whose husband was Beverly PD. They all got called in and worked roadblocks. Noone got in if they didn't live there. That's the way you do it.

I have to say though, it was the only time I've ever heard the Emergency Broadcast System come on and not be a test. Freaky stuff.



The waiting period back then was 15 days. No Walmarts in LA, they took Walmart to court to stop them. WM had just opened a store in Lancaster (high desert) in 90 or 91. First one in CA IIRC.



Bottom line - this isn't an indictment of society so much as a warning that certain parts of society were, are, and may always be, closer to uncivilized than others... take that how you want it, but there were no riots in Burbank or Beverly Hills.

The only people that would probably have some interesting stories to tell are the Korean store owners, but they zipped it pretty quick, probably out of fear of gang retaliation. As to the post riot repercussions, a complete turn around on gun control and a national demand for cell phones.

If I'm ever in a riot, chances are I'll be responding *to* the riot, with the Guard.



 

It's tough to find the waiting period history, but I found some dates. California had a 15 day waiting period for handguns starting in mid 70s. In 1990 it was extended to shotguns and rifles. Sometime between 94 and 97 it went to 10 days for all. So you are correct and I was thinking about the pre-1990 waiting periods.

Knowledge not earned is knowledge worth nothing.

Better you than me, Dave.



 


















 

Yup, the story is pretty much BS. The riots were very wide spread but concentrated mostly in or near the "bad" neighborhoods. The waiting period was 15 days for handguns but I think that it changed to 10 days sometime mid 90's and it was 1 day or same day for long guns and shotguns. I had purchased a shotgun and a rifle just a few years prior, 89' I believe, and walked out with them that same day.

I remember the verdict day vividly. I was on vacation from college that day, "lucky"!, and I kept hearing police cars racing down the back streets towards the college. It wasn’t just a couple cars but it seemed every single cop car Alhambra PD had was heading to the over pass and 710/Valley Blvd. A quick flip of the TV, and I was suddenly racing to my bedroom to load up everything I had at the time.

One of the first flash points of the 92 riots was at Cal State LA and after burning a few cop cars and a guard shack, the rioters tried marching down into Alhambra just across the 710 freeway. Well luckily, APD set up an armed blockade across most the main roads from East LA into Alhambra and sent them back. It must have sucked for all of the students that lived in Alhambra or Monterey Park, they could not get home that way anymore and had to traverse back through East LA in the middle of a riot.  

Also, if you happened to show up at a gun store during the middle of the riots, you might get a gun pointed at you. We took a drive to a gun store in Pasadena shortly after the riots ended and were surprised to see all of the front windows were shot out and boarded up. They told us of a very scary gun fight during the peak of the riots with a group of “homies” looking to stock up on stolen guns.

My best friend works down near Florence and Normandy. His business was only a couple blocks away. Luckily they cut the day short when the verdicts were announced and lucky that his business is inside an old brick firehouse. He and his dad would have been massacred if they would have been driving down those streets after 5pm.

The only real stories from the riot that even come close to this fable are from my Korean friends. It was every bit as intense and crazy as the YouTube videos show them to be. Lots of shots fired, burning buildings and lots of scumbag looters. You could be barricaded on top of a mini mall with the building next to you burning down and no one would come to help or put out the flames. The only businesses that survived the riots were the ones with ordinary Korean American citizens defending them.

Some Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=1bEG2AMaM7w&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=xVB9qARy06E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=zlNUlpqT-F0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=9_gXrKlD1WI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=xTT4GY3AWsw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=vx-8R2juK3A&feature=related

Nice 80's hairdos in these
http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=nkM_bqCD0Ts&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=mmzGDXj2-BU&feature=related

I thought it was pretty well written, except for the embellishment, exaggeration and outright bullshit   He needs a good proof reader, stat.

The Trotsky character was just too much.  The diolog was forced and the coincidences were implausible.   Caltrops?   WTF.  

Beaning a Mexican in the face with a  60 ounce-100 mph jar of babyfood?   Yeah, that didn't happen, homey.

The other glaring errors have already been motioned.  It could have been a great story, with just a little attention to detail.

The author is one of those annoying little compulsive liars.

Arfcom just came in it's collective pants.

Y'all bust yer asses making him out to be a liar.

He probably is.

BFD.

I watched them cave Denny's head in on live TV, I watched them drag a couple out of a green car and they started beating them, and then the TV cut away, I watched the Orientals waging a greatly outnumbered firefight, dumping mags with no cops or anybody else showing up to stop it, and this guy has the tone of what went down dead on. That shit was cracking for three days, and then they all went to sleep it off and that was about when I FIRST saw any authority of ANY kind moving into where the shit was happening.

You bust your ass concentrating on whether he has his details straight or not, I'll be focusing on where his tactical and strategic errors were, and maybe we'll have a good laugh about it on the other side, and maybe your head will meet a fire extinguisher at 45 mph, and you'll bleed out in the middle of a big intersection while a chopper records it for your widow and kids to watch.

You got your priorities, and I got mine.

I don't see anyone here saying that you shouldn't prepare for civil unrest or that the LA riots were not very bad.  Most people here probably masturbate to the thought of that.

If you want to watch video or read accounts, there are plenty of interesting ones out there that aren't bullshit.

Your mileage may very, but I don't see any benefits coming from the story posted.  If it generates discussion and turns up some real interesting stories, then that is another matter.  For now, the author deserves all the scorn and derision we can heap upon him.

   Certain things just did not add up.

  203 caliber rifle?

  Shotgun behind a water heater?

 Heck I recieved several call from different relatives living in Los Angeles asking to loan my guns to them .  I told them no.  I'm not going there.  Needless to say they were armed a few months after the riot.

I did keep my .357 revolver with me at all times even though I was far, far away from Los Angeles.  There were rumors that a riot may start up by my area.  Which in a way I'm glad was just a rumor.

The story was an absolute fabrication.

It was a fun story.....
a total bullshit fabrication, but fun to read none-the-less!

I think the writer is possibly spreading this story around in hopes of a book or movie deal if it catches internet-fire!

.... and on the .0000001% chance that the ending was true, have fun in Australia asshole!

OST for later

This. Horrendously embellished.

My experience: I was a senior in high school, living in Ventura County during the riots. Ventura County is next to L.A. County, just north of the San Fernando Valley. There was some fear that the suburbs would also become involved, but as far as I know, it didn't happen. Back then I would drive down to L.A. just about every weekend to go to underground warehouse parties. Riots or not, we still did our thing, myself driving and a couple of my equally situational-awareness-blind friends. Besides having to avoid the National Guard intersections and a brief run-in with an LAPD cop in panic mode while I was trying to illegally park outside an underground after-hours club (Flammable Liquid), I was physically unaffected by the riots. Mentally, being near to the situation did change my perspective, more afterwards than during the actual events. In hindsight I was pretty ignorant/foolish to be out at night, driving around downtown and west L.A. I now live in Free America, California, great place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.

I see, what you did there.

While it may be a hugely embellished story, I agree with the overall point:

Society is only 15 minutes away from utter chaos at any given time. The riots have proven this, Katrina has proven this, and many other events around the world have proven this.

It's not a question of IF, but of WHEN.

He lost me at "Desert Eagle".

I was here then, and remember the coverage. It was at least 80% hispanic's looting. Funny how things died down on welfare day, remember that?

Oh, the poor, hard working store owners took matters into their own hands when the police pulled out. Mass amounts of Asians shooting from the rooftops.

Cops were sending a message. They refused to go in and stop it.

Heap scorn and derision all you want.

I'm making a list.

1. Riots within 10 miles of my home and I'm wearing armor and pot, and vest, plus rifle and sidearm, 24/7.

2. Rest is a weapon. He disarmed himself.

3. Rather than string barbed wire, I'm digging successive positions with cover.

4. No need to go to the store, and honey-do can make the trip herself if she just has to have fresh milk.

5. If by some wild ass miracle i did find myself in a public place, Joe Clerk is on his own, period. I'm not getting paid to kick thugs out of Joe Owner's store, Joe Clerk ain't getting paid to kick thugs out of Joe Owner's store, and picking fights with scum, unarmed and outnumbered, over (absentee) somebody else's insured property when a passel of them are burning buildings just down the street is a fool's move.

6. During any period of civil unrest, any person lighting any bottles within 200 feet of my home is taking rounds till they leave, stop or drop.

7. During civil unrest, anyone in my AO wants to eat from my stash, they pack a weapon and cover my six, period.

8. During civil unrest, any strangers congregating within visual range will hear snapping noises and see dirt flying until they leave or come closer, if the latter, they take rounds till the perceived threat is negated.

9. No fucking idea what he might have been doing with wire and nails, but I'd spend that time filling trash bags with dirt and stacking them on the roof. A covered position inside the house to sleep in wouldn't be a bad idea either. Willy Smith can sleep in the tub if he likes, but I'm too tall, and my tubs are made of fiberglass.

10. If Joe Cop objects to my toting a rifle around on my roof, I will be more than happy to spend the week in his jail sharing his donuts. Assuming he has the sack to actually land nearby and cuff me, of course.

11. Any riots within 20 miles of me and you won't find me at a resteraunt, or anywhere else outside my home and property. Unarmed? Sure...right.

12. When I'm sleeping, the others in my AO rotate manning an OP, or scanning the news, or both, waking me up when they should, or they leave my AO, period.

13. Rioters generally moving my direction, at a distance of my choosing, will be engaged from cover until they change direction, or catch and kill me. I reserve the right to protect my home and family from mobs already burning and looting, REGARDLESS of subsequent cost.

14. Rather than zombie out glued to the boob tube, I'm taking very low profile patrols on the hour. I want to know what's out there, what direction it's moving, how many, capabilities, etc.

15. Somewhere in there I'll be in contact with all my neighbors, and they will either join up a well executed neighborhood defense, or...burn alone should it come to that.

That'll do for starters. I consider my time on this post better spent than your time on yours.

Best of luck to you, sport.

I hate you so won't quote you


The National Guard finally arrived, way too late to make any difference. Curfew was maintained for weeks, martial law and tanks on street corners. The real purpose of the military presence was to force whites and blacks to go back to pretending to like each other, that multiculturalism actually worked and that there was not a race war of apocalyptic proportions brewing everywhere and anywhere in the near future. It was all about maintaining appearances.
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Bull fucking shit...

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+1

My thoughts as well, as the 24/7 coverage on local TV went on and on...

I was young at the time, but I remember the riots. Didn't wholly understand the racial implications of what was happening, but I knew it was a dangerous time to be in South Central or LA in general for that matter. I still went to school every morning in Monterey Park (about 10 miles from Downtown LA), so it wasn't crazy bad.

But yeah, this story reeks of hyperbolic bullshit laced with a couch commando's masturbatory fantasy. However, he gets a good point across and it was decent enough fiction to keep me entertained for a few minutes.

That's, like, nice and junk.

Of course, you had started preparing and planning long before this post was made and knew all of that before you read that lengthy pack of lies, so what did you gain from reading it?

Some of us aren't going to broadcast our preparations and planning.  You know what they say about assumptions.

You should rethink some of that, though. While I agree with the "one problem at a time" approach, you will be held responsible for any rounds you touch off after the mess is over.  Plan your use of force contingencies ahead of time and plan them carefully.  If you need to shoot to warn, you need to shoot to kill, so don't use warning shots.  Maybe secure some CS grenades to disperse strangers without putting rounds into the air.  

Also, while I'm an advocate of active patrolling and probing as a first line of defense, you want to be careful about sneaking around an urban or suburban area with a rifle during a period of civil unrest.  Joe cop doesn't care who you are or what you're doing, and while he might not go into the inner city to keep the creatures from burning their habitat, he and his coworkers will swarm a man with a gun in a peaceful area outside or near the cordon.  They will be hyped up and ready to roll, and you will give them an excuse.  Low profile is the way to go.  A fight you avoid is a fight you've won.

I remember they tried to start some riots in Atlanta after it started in California................it lasted a few hours but was extinguished pretty quick

I was thinking that the veneer of society is not really thin as these riots make it look. Not every segment of society fights and burns and loots and kills because of something that they don't like such as the outcome of a trial. A lot of things have happened that I as well as most everyone that I know don't like yet I never have seen the need to riot arise over it.

Bunch of mall-ninja fantasy BS there...

Entertaining Sunday morning read. Don't have the time or the inclination to fact check. Lots of things don't pass the smell test but the overall intent of the story was worthwhile.

By the way... good luck with that DEagle in Australia.

I lived in North Long Beach when this happened.
I worked at LAX and commuted right through the middle of this shit.

Lots of interesting shit went down.

Lots.


Chris


BTW,there are ton of inconsistencies in his story...

Tag for later.

Priceless.

This is true.... It is very ugly!

And with that... Whatever is coming down the pike for this country next is going to play out VERY ugly!

I stopped reading at heavily armed private police force.

Of this you can be sure.

And laptop computers.

BS or not, the one thing to remember is that the Cops/AR/NG are not going to protect you as an indivigual. That is up to you. No Govt entity is tasked to protect you or your property and thats the plain fact.

I'd have to say most Guard units probably had A1s. Just 2 years earlier, plenty of active army troops went through Desert Storm with A1s.

I Am Legend (novel written in 1954.)

Okay, I was wrong. It was 15 days for handguns back then. The law changed to 10 days in 1997.

http://wiki.calgunsfoundation.org/index.php/Time_Line_of_California_Firearms_Laws#Firearms_purchase_waiting_periods

Do Mexicans actually use the word "arse"? Why do the Mexicans sound Jamaican?

Listen....I believe the guy...every story has a note of truth in it.