Charlie Bronson comes to Waldo.........

Just when I am giving credit to the folks in Waldo for taking a proactive stance on crime, namely the Waldo Rapist, some nimrod tries to play Charlie Bronson. This self appointed vigilante, and yes Virginia, THE GUY IS A VIGILANTE, chases a random black man who he figured fit the description. Never mind that the black guy is in a car, no need to be bothered with shit like height and weight. Our hero chases/stalks his prey, from I'm guessing the Waldo area, across the state line in to Kansas, the Dot no less. He follows his target to his home, and apparently sits there long enough for the hunted to become the hunter. Dude comes out of his house with a gun, allegedly, and allegedly shoots at our hero. Lets forget for a minute that it turns out that the guy is not the rapist according to the cops. No need to worry about minor details like innocence or guilt. And this lynch mob mentality extends beyond some random knuckle head who decided to play street cop.

You need look no further than the facebook page entitled,
Lets Find This Prick is on Facebook.
I'll admit, it's a catchy title, and an understandable sentiment. The facebook page was a good idea, now it's in the running for it's own reality special, When good ideas go Bad!!!

Here are a few gems from the Wall of the page.

Travis Sanchez This mother fucker needs to be lit on fire then while he is screaming in pain, needs to be shot in the back of the fucking head. LOW LIFE PIECE OF SHIT.

Nice! It's good to see folks are keeping things in perspective and productive.

Michael Muller his face bothers me... just wanna stab him in his neck.

Not to be outdone

Maria N Smith it wasnt him sorry guys. but the guy we were concerned about that was doing the shooting has been caught. so.... one more scum bag off the streets..... yay as for the rapist, if your on here, you better watch it. people are tired of you shit. you are going down one way or another!!!!

and again

Russell Taylor I'M PRETTY SURE I WOULDN'T CALL THE COPS IF I SAW HIS MUG IN PERSON!!!

And finally this gem

Caren Klebenstone Smith He better pray the KCMO Police find him before someone else does! If you do see him, be sure to drag him on your property....justifiable homicide.

The thing these people have either overlooked, or ignored, just seeing someone who looks like a composite sketch, does not make that person the perp. There is a very real danger that the wrong guy could get shot by one of these genius types who are posting this shit.

As if that wasn't enough, the KCK chapter of the Guardian Angels are trying to get in on the act via the same facebook page. They have had zero effect on the East Side and in KCK. If they get involved in Waldo it will only create a carnival atmosphere.

I'm sure they will all show up in one little tiny car that does wheelies and has a OOOgah horn.
And yes that is actually them in the photo.

And the hits keep coming. But you can go to the link and read them for yourself. This facebook mess has more rubs to it , than a group of fat guys in an elevator. The thing that bothers me the most, isn't that some clown is following random people, who vaguely fit a composite sketch, from within the confines of a car, in the dark, that may or may not fit a sketchy description of a car, that may or may not have been involved........whew! Do you see where that run on sentence was headed?

3,000 members plus, 2 moderators, and not a single person has called these people out. There are however lots of thumbs ups, and comments of the same ilk.

Instead of calmer voices prevailing, rather than having a little respect for the serious nature of what the victims have been through., Never that, we have a group 3000 strong, condoning what is tantamount to a lynch mob. As each comment sinks further into a mob mentality, not one person has addressed them. Suggesting that someone kill a guy who happens to resemble the physical description, then drag him into their yard, so they can get away with it, is a level of fucked uppedness that defies all reason. I still want to believe calmer heads will prevail, and hope whoever is moderating that facebook page gets their shit together before somebody ends up killing an innocent man, or winds up getting a Full Hood Monty Beat Down for following random black dudes to places folks from Waldo shouldn't be going. So here's a few tips and advice for the people who think Falling Down was a documentary.


1. You can't, I repeat can't, shoot a random black guy just for being fat, bald , black , and on your block. My postman is fat, bald, and black, so stay out of my neighborhood with that bullshit. This guy gets my mail to me between 9 and 10 A.M., like clockwork. Anybody fucks that up, and we are gonna have issues. You also can't stab someone in the neck because you don't like his face. For starters it might be the wrong person.


2. If you do see a guy who fits the description, and you do shoot him, dragging him into your yard won't keep you from getting a murder beef. It's like the old myth that if you ask a guy during a drug deal if he is a cop, and he says no, then turns out to be a cop, it's entrapment. Again, and I really can't stress this enough, you cant shoot a guy because you think he Might be The Guy. If you catch him prying open windows or jimmying doors, blast away. Otherwise cool your jets.


3. Self appointed trackers, bounty hunters, and Bruce Willis wannabees, you can't just start running around tailing every blue car that has a bald headed black guy behind the wheel. Take a license number, get a description, call 911. Tough talk of stabbing folks in the neck because you don't like his face is one thing. Taking your milquetoast ass in to the heart of KCK in pursuit of some guy who is from that area, will result in what we saw tonight, or worse. And by worse I don't mean that you might get killed or put in traction. By worse I mean that one of you hot heads will end up killing an innocent person.


4. Let the police do their job. There are more detectives involved in this case than most metro squad murder investigations. A dozen or more detectives do not need some nimrod to muddy up an investigation by playing vigilante. This isn't a real life version of Grand theft auto, or some Facebook Mafia wars rpg. It's real life, and 6 hours of handgun training, and watching a couple of NCIS marathons, does not fucking Columbo make. It just makes you a dick head totally out of your element. As the guy in the KCK incident found out, "Your a long way from Starbucks homie".


Last and most importantly, the mentality that has taken over a once well intentioned grass roots effort, is disrespectful to the 5 victims of this creep. The facebook page has sunk to the level of an internet chat room. Macabre jokes about stabbing a person based on how they look, or dragging bodies into your yard, do not resemble a group of concerned citizens, so much as a scene from Blazing Saddles, minus the humor. The focus should be on bringing a community together to stop a predator, not trying to one up one another on how to kill someone, or blow their beans and franks into vapor. The whole thing is reminiscent of sophomore boys puffing up out back of the school, in order to impress one another.


To the folks in Waldo who are taking proactive steps, absent of a mob mentality and junior high false bravado, keep up the good work. You should be pissed off, and you should be doing what you can to help catch this creep. As reasonable people, I'm certain you understand the difference between justice and a lynch mob.

To those of you who are whipping each other into a frenzy via Facebook, cracking jokes about what you would do if you saw the guy, try having a little respect for the 5 women who deserve some justice and peace of mind. Justice and peace of mind that won't be attained through some moron chasing random men through the streets of Kansas City. Or a mob mentality reminiscent of the bad old days, when a rope and a mob of white folks was a substitute for justice. If people really cared about the victims, it would serve them well to act like rational concerned human beings, rather than a torch carrying mob from an old Frankenstein flick.