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Report of Fight
updated: Aug 21, 2012, 2:07 PM

By Roger the scanner guy

Franklin Center six or seven subjects with shovels and pitch forks heading toward the Library, SBPD Responding. Roger

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COMMENT 310887	2012-08-21 02:10 PM
Community Service?
COMMENT 310888P	2012-08-21 02:12 PM
No torches? How ever will they kill Frankenstein's monster?
DILLYDALLY	2012-08-21 02:15 PM
Quasimodo sighting?
COMMENT 310891	2012-08-21 02:15 PM
Frau Blucher!!!
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-21 02:18 PM
Seen running behind library they left in a white Toyota Corollia crusing the neighborHOOD for someone..
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-21 02:19 PM
North on Voluntario..SBPD checking out the area.
COMMENT 310900	2012-08-21 02:25 PM
We should post those 72 hour shark siting warning signs at the Franklin Community center during events like these.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-21 02:28 PM
I'd rather deal with a shark in the water then a bunch of guys with pitch forks!
COMMENT 310911	2012-08-21 02:37 PM
Are you sure they weren't headed to the community garden that's right there?
COMMENT 310912	2012-08-21 02:37 PM
Planting an organic garden for the kids to teach them to be healthier? That would be cool!
COMMENT 310914	2012-08-21 02:40 PM
they wanted to get a quick brawl in before SBPD shift change.
COMMENT 310920	2012-08-21 02:47 PM
Strange choice of weapons. I bet they were headed to the Garden. I don't blame someone for calling it in though. Scary stuff going on in that neighborhood.
COMMENT 310922	2012-08-21 02:57 PM
I think they dig reading...
COMMENT 310925	2012-08-21 03:01 PM
922 for the win!!!
COMMENT 310928P	2012-08-21 03:09 PM
The Community Garden, which costs about $50/year to join, is not at the Franklin Center, on Montecito, but a block and a half away on Yanonali.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-21 03:16 PM
Maybe that is where they were headed when the police said they were going North on Voluntario from the Franklin center.
COMMENT 310939	2012-08-21 03:24 PM
a rehearsal for Young Dr. Frankstein, The Musical is in full effect!
COMMENT 310943	2012-08-21 03:28 PM
ixnay on the ottenray..
COMMENT 310944P	2012-08-21 03:36 PM
"Going north on Voluntario" would take them away from the Community Garden.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-21 03:38 PM
Well then maybe they were going somewheres else..
COMMENT 310946	2012-08-21 03:43 PM
912: Franklin and the charter school both have gardens in the community garden plot and also within their school properties.
COMMENT 310962	2012-08-21 04:14 PM
Heading to the lower 40 of course.
COMMENT 310965	2012-08-21 04:20 PM
They missed the beach fees meeting.
SBROCKS	2012-08-21 04:32 PM
It's a different world we live in. Sad if they were carry shovels and pitch forks to harm someone and even sadder that we see someone with something so inocent and we think gang activity.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-21 04:54 PM
Maybe they were going to bury someone in the garden.
COMMENT 311032	2012-08-21 06:43 PM
What does SBPD say? If these were innocent gardeners they wouldn't have fled (if they did, I don't know).
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-21 06:51 PM
I think they picked them up and took em over to the police department to do alittle gardening..
COMMENT 311049	2012-08-21 07:32 PM
We're sorry, the photo-interpretation of "American Gothic" in Santa Barbara has been delayed, pending someone to post bail.
COMMENT 311192	2012-08-22 09:39 AM
aaahhhh yes... bury the organic fertilizer in the garden!
COMMENT 311214	2012-08-22 10:35 AM
Random acts of gardening?
COMMENT 311218P	2012-08-22 10:48 AM
REPUBLICANS?
COMMENT 311221	2012-08-22 10:56 AM
Are Eastsiders taking to gardening and developing a green thumb? Better than 'banging and coercing youngsters to join them. I am not saying all of ES is bad, but if they would get together as a community, get to know each other, and have events like building community gardens and having volunteers offer after-school programs and get-togethers like the Mesa does, they could turn it around. Create a place that is safe and where learning and volunteering are accredited. Don't rely on the cops as everyone is hush-hush in fear of retaliation, celebrate your heritage and maybe have a BBQ get-together on the weekends with some music, beautify your neighborhood, garden together, do your own neighborhood watch program.
COMMENT 311239P	2012-08-22 11:31 AM
311221: I respect your observation, but noting it's a different population here than on the Mesa. However, the Community Garden at Yanonali is used; there are regularly large parties in Yanonali Park; the Franklin East Side Library is heavily used; and I think there are volunteers at Franklin and Adelante Schools (although the test rates remain abysmal.) The Milpas Community Association does a serious outreach into the neighborhoods (note: there is no one single ES neighborhood, perhaps another difference from the Mesa.) As for the "your heritage"? Which one? That's one of the problems here, the assumption it is all Latino. Probably the only point in common (and another distinction from the Mesa) is that it is generally low income with houses low cost (for Santa Barbara, that is.) How to celebrate that would be a challenge.
COMMENT 311255	2012-08-22 11:47 AM
891 ftw. We had better confeerm ze fact that ze yung frankundstein waz following in his grandfatta's vootshteps! What? Following in his grandfather's footsteps. Footsteps, footsteps!

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