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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 12:14:25 GMT -5
Who here knew that Gilroy claimed to be garlic capital of America?
Do rotting garlic stalks make a neighbor angry enough to shoot?
Bad news--what kind of maniac does this sort of thing?
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Post by Gianna on Jul 29, 2019 13:57:53 GMT -5
Gilroy is in/near Steinbeck country. When you drive through at certain times of the year, the scent of garlic is pervasive in the air. Not a bad smell at all.
As for the shooting today, garlic doesnt kill people, people holding guns do.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 29, 2019 16:12:08 GMT -5
I went there one time, but in the off season - late October. And a garlic smell doesn't bother me at all!
That is terrible what happened. Still haven't heard what prompted that guy to do this.
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Post by Gianna on Jul 29, 2019 16:47:50 GMT -5
The killer was a 19 year old ultra right-wing extremist. Racist, neo-nazi according to the news.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 29, 2019 16:51:59 GMT -5
The killer was a 19 year old ultra right-wing extremist. Racist, neo-nazi according to the news. So I guess that he hated garlic lovers? As normal people we can never understand killing innocents. It's appalling. I know that garlic smell. We went to the Rodale Organic farm in Emmaus PA one time when they were curing garlic and you could just smell it in the air. It smelled really nice.
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Post by Gianna on Jul 30, 2019 0:03:52 GMT -5
As normal people we can never understand killing innocents. It's appalling. I really dont understand killing people without cause. Sure, self defense, or in a war. But everyday people? Inconceivable.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jul 30, 2019 8:53:17 GMT -5
I have always thought that driving through Gilroy at the right time of year would be glorious. Wisconsin grows a lot of cabbage and after they harvest the cabbage heads, the stumps that remain are left in the field to rot. Driving through rotting cabbage country is no pleasure cruise to be sure! Sad to hear about the shooting out there. I hope the community can come together and find healing and move on from this tragedy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 11:05:19 GMT -5
Why pm earth would a 19 year old shoot kids? This was a studied, very deliberate act.
As for the smell; have you ever been near an onion field when the harvest was bad and many onions are left in the field to rot? A farmer near home once put in a big crop of onions. Something went werong, and a large part of the crop was left in the field.
Farmer put out the word that the crop was not marketable but good,and people from miles around came to collect onions. Those left in the field after that rotted and it was quite stinky around there.
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Post by paquebot on Jul 30, 2019 11:19:35 GMT -5
Few people here could have smelled worse than rotting cabbage fields. Del Monte had cabbage fields around here years ago and locals could go into the fields and harvest any split heads. We filled the trunk of a '49 Ford in 1955 and made our own kraut. But the worse smell was from pea viners. Before mobile viners were created, vines were hauled from the field to a permanent viner. These were located far from any homes because the juice from the pile was absolutely gut-wrenching. Even now, with the vines left in the fields to rot, it is not a pleasant aroma. Good thing is that it only lasts for a few days instead of months.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by coppice on Jul 30, 2019 12:59:15 GMT -5
His posted xenophobia, is alas part and parcel of white supremacy. All they need is a large assembly of 'other' for it to be an ideal place for massacre. Gilroy provided that fertile field.
We don't need to import homicidal nut-jobs, we grow our own.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 30, 2019 13:51:47 GMT -5
We don't need to import homicidal nut-jobs, we grow our own. I was thinking the same thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 14:33:48 GMT -5
Fellows; every society on earth grows its own nut jobs. They are most often disconnected from that society, loners and losers with few or no emotional ties to other human beings. They have existed since time began but nowadays TV and telephone cameras tell us about every one.
On the pea viners, Martin: Years ago, about 1962, I worked with a fellow who grew up in Wisconsin. He told me that as a kid he and his friends would run along behind the wagons bringing peas to the viners and grab peas off the wagon to eat. It had never occurred to me that a raw green pea might be tasty. Now I make green pea salads.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jul 30, 2019 16:05:51 GMT -5
This thread is treacherously close to politics. I'm out of it.
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Post by spacecase0 on Jul 30, 2019 19:05:39 GMT -5
Who here knew that Gilroy claimed to be garlic capital of America? I did use to drive through there once a month
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