Hunter College professor recounts terrifying machete attack in Jamaica

[St_Bess]

What kind of Anancy story is this - machette chop you and you doan even go to hospital? Long before guns machette and switch blade knives were the weapon of choice and when someone chop you you either dead or end of a hospital. The last time someone in my little district chopped off a man hand clean because him thief him ganja that him plant a bush. Last week Satiday someone that I know (my great-aunt's brother-in-law was killed by someone who chopped him up with a machette - dead, dead). I don't go to JA often because me fraid and I am not ashamed to admit that I am afraid of my own people.

[tuffstuff]

What kind of Anancy story is this - machette chop you and you doan even go to hospital? Long before guns machette and switch blade knives were the weapon of choice and when someone chop you you either dead or end of a hospital. The last time someone in my little district chopped off a man hand clean because him thief him ganja that him plant a bush. Last week Satiday someone that I know (my great-aunt's brother-in-law was killed by someone who chopped him up with a machette - dead, dead). I don't go to JA often because me fraid and I am not ashamed to admit that I am afraid of my own people.

Was right w/ u sutill mi draw brakes a di last sentence. Dat need a whooooole new thread

[My Looh]

Yu not alone St_Bess

I have no plans to visit JA again anytime soon partly for the exact same reason. Add to that, when I go everyone hold out dem han like mi a Santa.

Yawd!

[j-kid]

Perception of JA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wahalla]

I doubt this story's veracity but the tale of threat and violence has a thread of truth.

[lonewolf]

I looked up Miss Cassidy's email and contact information if anyone is interested.
I also shot her an email with a copy of some of the postings of this thread by those claiming that her story is fabricated and requested her response. Maybe she will respond to clarify or varify the story.

[Tropicana]

Why would you stalk someone online, contact them and post their personal contact information on a discussion board just to win an argument?

[Suesumba]

Yu not alone St_Bess

I have no plans to visit JA again anytime soon partly for the exact same reason. Add to that, when I go everyone hold out dem han like mi a Santa.

Yawd!

Jamaica is not bad if you have personal drivers and a bodyguard.

[lonewolf]

Her story has more holes than fishnet stockings.

Why would you stalk someone online, contact them and post their personal contact information on a discussion board just to win an argument?

Duhh...Her email is public information and posted on the Hunter college website.

Why would you call someone a liar and drag their name through the mud ON LINE?

What's there to win? This is my first response on this thread? I'm not contesting anything and she has a right to defend herself and protect her good name from the likes of people like you if the story is true.

Maybe she will find a need, maybe she will say why bother?

Are you afraid of the truth or are you simply afraid of facing someone you may have of unjustly called a liar?

[lonewolf]

Saying the story has gaping holes in it is not the same as calling someone a liar. It is getting to the point that one can't discuss anything on here as nut cases like you reach out harass the person and bring them here to what is supposed to be a forum just for discussion. There is no doubt in my mind that this is exactly what happened yesterday too. Why, just to win arguments and support your POV? Childish?

This is a discussion board, not a gossip column. I'm trying to find the truth of the story.
Why not go directly to the source of the story, and THAT IS THE PERSON THAT SAID INCIDENT HAPPENED TO.

If you were a subject of a story on the internet where people were questioning your honesty, would you not want your say?

No, nut cases are obsessive compulsives that fret over silly things such as blonde hair white women.

Why do you find a need to resort to name calling?

[RichD]

This is a discussion board, not a gossip column. I'm trying to find the truth of the story.
Why not go directly to the source of the story, and THAT IS THE PERSON THAT SAID INCIDENT HAPPENED TO.

If you were a subject of a story on the internet where people were questioning your honesty, would you not want your say?

No, nut cases are obsessive compulsives that fret over silly things such as blonde hair white women.

Why do you find a need to resort to name calling?

well you have opened the channel ....please let us know if she avails herself of this opportunity.

[Emperah]

if fi har name, numbah and email inna de public domain mi nuh si nuttin wrang wid it.

maybe unno should intaview de station weh de po-lice come from as well fi get tuuh de bottom a dis.

[RichD]

if fi har name, numbah and email inna de public domain mi nuh si nuttin wrang wid it.

maybe unno should intaview de station weh de po-lice come from as well fi get tuuh de bottom a dis.

we trying to figure out where in jamaica it occurred..when she come maybe she will ansa that question too

[lonewolf]

Rich "well you have opened the channel ....please let us know if she avails herself of this opportunity. "

Will do Rich, I also gave her my private email as a contact. I'll contact you with any information if she sends me same.

Today, 03:32 PM
Emperah

if fi har name, numbah and email inna de public domain mi nuh si nuttin wrang wid it.

maybe unno should intaview de station weh de po-lice come from as well fi get tuuh de bottom a dis.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, and she does not have to respond if she does not want to.


I suppose that we would have to find out exactly where it happened in Jamaica to find out what police to talk to?

[Tropicana]

if fi har name, numbah and email inna de public domain mi nuh si nuttin wrang wid it.

maybe unno should intaview de station weh de po-lice come from as well fi get tuuh de bottom a dis.

They were not. Lonewolf said that he looked it up.