Add Brooklyn’s Jamaal “The Abuser” Tinsley to the list of players catching the escalator clause of the street. If you show shine, rocks, and grill, be on guard for the stick-up kid. Read NY Post article (Pete Vecsey’s – Marked Man)
Mel Mel’s late night clubbing turned into bullets on the highway gun play. The Pacer guard known on the playground for his abusive, stop-and-go handle was threatened similarly to how Julius Hodge got his legs taken from him at a stop light a few years ago in Denver. That incident stalled Hodge’s development and now he is out the league. Jamaal is truly fortunate because Pacers equipment manager Joey Qatato was shot in both elbows while riding in Tinsley’s Rolls Royce. I’ve heard the big boys of the entertainment field say it comes with the territory; however, lives are now being threatened at an alarming rate.
Add the Tinsley episode to the S. Telfair chain snatching, big Zach Randolph’s home getting invaded, and the murder of Sean Taylor to see what I’m saying. It’s as if the pressure to get money is making men turn into masked, handkerchief wearing desperados looking for a rep. Yo, I was watching Channel 9 news last night and a kid from Crown Heights was featured selling a documentary DVD called “Criminals Gone Wild.” It showed kids getting stuck up on TAPE! A cop said, “to film a crime on tape is not a criminal activity.” Dude selling them said he started getting calls from crooks TELLING HIM where they were going to strike next! At $26.99 a pop the word is they’re going like crab cakes at a B-more cookout.
I’m saying to myself – The American Republic has a problem. The glorifying of violence on this level is dangerous; the very fabric of what this land is supposed to be about–freedom to earn and make money–is being violently stepped on. Now we got kids calling to get on tape to rob folk AND we’re putting them on a podium and celebrating it with our $. It’s a wack, dangerous trend that is ruining the games our country celebrates so dearly.
I run this…Stick-up Kid. Image by Kathleen.
December 12th, 2007 at 11:52 am
g says:
lol,its Mel Mel fam,lol….
December 12th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Sean Couch says:
G:
The Abuser’s nickname has been documented a few ways. If this is authentic street then I stand corrected. I’ve heard it a few different ways.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Sean Couch says:
G:
Your correct note the *. Been a few places like Dyckman and out at 55th and hear it one way and it’s spelled another. Good catch.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
g says:
no prob cowboy….
December 13th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Bakar says:
Shoot. It used to be that if you have a mad game the streets will leave you alone.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Sean Couch says:
Respect levels are down as a whole. Someone is always looking to make a point. It’s seems as if that point is
getting more and more violent.
December 14th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Jesse Washington says:
Antoine Walker got his home invaded too, up in the CHI. They tied him up and e’ything. Steve Francis got stuck up Uptown a few years back. Now Sean Taylor is dead and The Abuser got shot at for flossing a Rolls, a Benz and a Dodge truck outside a club. I know it’s in our nature to want to shine, but if you dangle meat in front of a vicious hungry dog, he will strike. Nobody deserves to be targeted by violence, but still. Flossing can be self-destructive when taken to extremes.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Sean Couch says:
Jess:
Who makes the dog? The owner or the dog?
December 15th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Sean Couch says:
Also, it was Eddie Curry not big Zach Randolph who had the home invasion.
December 15th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Nhamz says:
This is happening worldwide. We got soccer players being jacked by stick up kids over in the UK (because ball players don’t make any coin over here). It’s a way of life over in Brazil with the soccer players there too. In Argentina, its on an even bigger level where all the big money players like Manu Ginobli and their families are under constant threat of being kidnapped by organized crime syndicates and held for big money ransoms. We need to watch this though, because if this begins to dominate our neigbourhoods, will big money ballers who make it out, ever come back and play in the summer if it becomes accepted that they will be under threat from stick up kids? Whatever happened to hood ethics?
December 16th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Sean Couch says:
That’s a great point. The NBA player always brings the buzz and the rep the street loves to see. I went to a Bobcat game
and they were playing the Celtics. I got a chance to see
KG play in person. It doesn’t match TV. A kid would love to
see KG at Dyckman. This trend is disturbing.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
JosephVecsey says:
Flossing isn’t self destructive. Shooting at people is. If you got money, why not show it off? You don’t have to be a jerk about it, but just because you drive a nice car and wear a nice chain, doesn’t give anybody the right to shoot at you. Either live with it or kill yourself if you want to be the person flossing so bad. Or try making it. “Flossing can be self destructive?” Wow…
December 16th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
JosephVecsey says:
By the way, with my own name on this site, can somebody spell my father’s last name right if they are going to use it. I know the New York Post can’t get it right either somtimes, but damn.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Sean Couch says:
Copied the post spelling, we’ll change it.