DraygoKorvan
2004-08-18, 01:41 AM
So I was browsing around and I ran across this:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=3&u=/ap/20040817/ap_on_hi_te/regulating_cybercafes
California municipalities are alone in passing specific laws covering Internet gaming parlors, though some cities have sought to apply existing arcade zoning laws to the gaming cafes, Miller said.
Several shootings near cybercafes in 2002, two of them fatal, prompted the LA ordinance, which passed last month. In one of the fatal shootings, witnesses told police that the victim, a member of an Asian gang, was at an LA cybercafe hours before his body was found. In the other homicide, the victim was shot at an Internet cafe in the San Fernando Valley. The next month and not far away, one youth was shot in the leg and another severely beaten at separate cybercafes
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What a big peice of BS, somehow they managed to connect internet cafes with shootings, when it is blatently obvious that this is gang activity.
And keep this non-partison, I don't mean this to be a political debate thread.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=3&u=/ap/20040817/ap_on_hi_te/regulating_cybercafes
California municipalities are alone in passing specific laws covering Internet gaming parlors, though some cities have sought to apply existing arcade zoning laws to the gaming cafes, Miller said.
Several shootings near cybercafes in 2002, two of them fatal, prompted the LA ordinance, which passed last month. In one of the fatal shootings, witnesses told police that the victim, a member of an Asian gang, was at an LA cybercafe hours before his body was found. In the other homicide, the victim was shot at an Internet cafe in the San Fernando Valley. The next month and not far away, one youth was shot in the leg and another severely beaten at separate cybercafes
[bolded for effect]
What a big peice of BS, somehow they managed to connect internet cafes with shootings, when it is blatently obvious that this is gang activity.
And keep this non-partison, I don't mean this to be a political debate thread.