Noose found in break room at LSU medical center
 

Hospital administrators said they have notified federal authorities and asked them to investigate

Investigate what? Is tying a noose a crime?

Yes, the worst kind, a hate crime... After Jena, anything involving a noose makes the headlines....

so correct me if I'm wrong.. but with Halloween coming up.. seems I've usually seen the occasional noose hanging from a tree etc.. used for Halloween decoration..

I guess that'll be a crime now ? :confused:

A "hate crime" is an adjunct to another felony. Tying a knot isn't a felony.

Try telling that to Sharpton or Jackson... I'm sure they would say that the mere presence of a noose is assault against their people....

Yeah I remember some kids wearing nooses as part of their halloween costumes many years ago. Not this year though..... The PC machine has spoken.

Like this:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...cal&id=5709523
New Jersey couple removes hanged dummy from Halloween
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I wonder if all cowboys should take offense as well, didn't they hang bad cowboys in western times. Also besides burning, didn't they hang witches too.
What about the Indians? Stupid me, I forgot they were alll black not white. Give it a rest people and quit hollering about bullsh##.

LOL, can it be a "noose" if it has a noose at BOTH ENDS ????

from KTBS

Hospital chief explains rope found in break room


LOL and on another note, I'd like it broken down, throughout history.. the number of people hung to death, and a breakdown on race :)

I'm sure certain people are on high alert right now, scouring their places of work for possible signs of racism. I'm sure the signs are even being taught in their houses of worship, thanks to "leaders" like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Neighbors, coworkers, and strangers are to be regarded as racist until proven otherwise. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if certain people planted nooses around town to stir up trouble. I had a person like this as an elementary school teacher in East Texas. Some of her comments to her fourth grade class:

Have you ever considered why...

...you wear white to a wedding and black to a funeral?
..angel's food cake is white, and devil's food cake is black?

I think racism is alive and well in Louisiana, but I don't think the racists are who the media says they are.

There are different races. That would make me a racist by the media standard. IT is in fact the media that tries to make us all one color. God created all his children different as our finger prints. He looked and it was very good. Forcing people into one universal mold causes many of our problems. Some are good at one thing while other peoples are good at another. We like different food and our teeth, bones, skin and hair are very different. In the last few years a Doctor at LSU has been able to determine the race by DNA samples. The media and politicians play the race card. The kids learn from their parents and the media :rolleyes:

There are 2 nooses hanging from the rafters in the shop @ my job and NOBODY cares- Someone was probably bored, and they look like they've been there for years. We have several black employees and plenty of black customers that see them, they are in plain sight. I never thought anything racist about it- black folks don't have a monopoly on hangins! I'm sure somewhere in MY ancestry a noose was involved, and I am not offended! People will always make something out of nothing, especially the reverends Al and Jesse, who are becoming more irrelevant by the day-

Trust me, the insurance company cares......if they knew about them...

Or maybe I'm wrong in insurance companies now exempt most policies from terrorism as well as hate stuff.... If it is a real "exposure", then they will "exclude" that to keep those double digit profits...

That's only because the right opportunist has not come along to sue your shop for racism. Trust me. If they knew, there would be news cameras at your shop tomorrow. Actually, make that tonight on the ten o'clock news. Then it's only a matter of time until CNN and Anderson Cooper are camped outside your shop for round the clock coverage.

That does it! From now on, I will take great offense to being called "white". From now on, I insist that when so-called "African Americans" speak of "white" people, they use the term "European American", or there'll be 9 kinds of hell raised. So let it be written, so let it be done!

Yeah, they gots to call ya European American, I'll just call you Cracker ! :cool:

Just like black folks can use the "n" word with impunity but we cant, you can call me "cracker" but they cant.

OK, This gets better everyday. Mrs. Hurl works at said hospital and knew about this before it hit the news. This thing was found in a room where the residence go to sleep or rest during their 100 hour week. It was knot a noose but a type of chord used for traction patients. The knots were of the type that a Doctor has to master in order to use this for traction. Someone had been practicing these knots, also this chord had been in there for months. I wonder how long it will take for the truth to come out in the media. I've heard some whisperings but knot much.:nono:

Updated News Story
 

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KTBS -- Oct 26 2007 9:55 AM
Hospital chief explains rope found in break room

Holy Crap!!! I hope no Civil Rights activists look in my boat, they will swoon at all the hate crime knots that I've tied. Some look identical to a noose. I've actually caught Black Bass and Black Drum, oops I shouldn't have said that.

It sounds like the janitor found the rope and due to his lack of knowledge over what it was and it's purpose felt the need to report it. Why didn't he ask the doctors first about it? Sounds like a media opt to me!

That is the same as, my son was in the Navy and he had to learn how to tie alot of different knots I guess he'd better watch it too.:D:D