Mark Essex, the Howard Johnson sniper or Black Panther shootout in the CP3 (Calliope Projects). I watched from a few blocks away on Saturday morning as a Chinook would land in the Superdome parking lot & load up with 50 cal ammo, then fly over to the HoJo & unload into this blockhouse on the roof where Essex was hiding. There were a couple of fires also. One was the Rault Center a high rise that folks were jumping from (can't remember the name). The other was a second story gay bar that killed about 35. There was a jet liner that went down in a neighborhood in Kenner in the 80's that was pretty tragic.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/mark_essex/index.html

That's terrible!

A Chevy engine in an Austin Healy - Phah!






(No Disrespect)

Delta flight 191. That was loud.

eehm, that wasn't in your home town now was it?
unless you lived in the desert?

my home town, worst thing, nothing really, the real worst thing happened long before i was born, ww1... occasionally some unexploded shells blow up a farmer... but it's so common around here, hardly anybody looses any sleep over it...

Dunno which was worse...
Patricia Columbo slaughtering her family to be with an older man:
http://www.zimbio.com/Mayor+Rick+Soares/articles/14/Murder+In+Elk+Grove+Illinois
Or American flight 191 crashing (I saw the smoke as it started to rise while walking home from school):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191

One was more destructive, while the other was born of violence.

Friday, May 13, 1980.

A tornado ripped through downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. Though the tornado literally bounced from building to building on its way down the main drag, only 5 people were killed. The town of 80,000 sustained $50,000,000 (1980 USD) in property damage. My cousin was in a laundrymat were one of the five was killed. I was was supposed to be downtown with my mom buying jeans, but she was running late. Whew!

Wikipedia Entry for Kalamazoo Tornado

Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo

Two events.

My current home town - 1987 Edmonton Tornado (wonder why always Friday)

The Edmonton Tornado was a powerful and devastating tornado that ripped through the eastern part of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and parts of neighbouring Strathcona County on the afternoon of Friday, July 31, 1987 (also known as "Black Friday" to Edmontonians).

The tornado remained on the ground for an hour, cutting a path of destruction 40 kilometres (25 miles) long and up to a kilometre (0.6 miles, or 3000 feet) wide in places, and peaking at F4 on the Fujita scale, but may have briefly become an F5. The tornado killed 27 people, injured more than 300 people, destroyed more than 300 homes, and caused more than $330 million in property damage at four major disaster sites. The loss of life, injuries and destruction of property made it the worst natural disaster in Alberta's recent history and one of the worst in Canada's history.

My old home town - Detroit Race Riots of July, 1967

The result was forty-three dead, 467 injured, over 7,200 arrests and more than 2,000 buildings burned down.


Tim

It involved Americans & was therefore worthless to Stijn.

the title of the thread : worst thing that happened IN your home town.
sorry if i fell over a technicality, but that's what it is... didn't mean to belittle the event itself, just pointed out it did not happen in your home town, like the thread title asked


keep your bashing in the other thread Mule...

Fargo ND circa 1957. Nothing much happened after this F5 tornado....


Many died including several children from the same family.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1218557418.gif

A young mother claimed that her baby was kidnapped outside of the bank while she was inside. She then claimed that she saw in a dream where the kid was dumped. She got off scott free of all charges as I guess either the judge or jury (cant remember which) bought her story.

Oh, I should add, she was my babysitter when I was a kid

They weren't apartments, they were homes. A whole square block of them blown to hell when the cops dropped an incendiary bomb on a house and burned several kids to death.

I don't think Williams was chief yet back then, but trust me, we know that Williams was an idiot too.

Yeah, his comment irked me too.

i met the guy who did it, his name is hampig sassounian. pretty crazy story.

IRA blowing the centre of it to pieces.

I must have grown up in a safe place...can't remember any mass tragic thing happening when I was a kid...not in this town. No serial killers, no major fires, nothing.

Things I remember as a kid: Air Florida crashing into the 14th street bridge. Reagan getting shot. All kinds of other stuff since then and every day depending on how you look at it.

You met him?!?! He and his partner shut down Westwood for days. The FBI, who is located about 3 kms from my house, came down on the neighborhood like an invading army. In some cases, they conducted house-to-house searches. It was scary seeing unmarked sedans trolling the streets and hills between UCLA and Wilshire, checking out everyone, and in some cases, asking to see people's I.D.