# Klan gets a taste of Karma. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 25, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265 "2003-11-25T21:57:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/1 "2003-11-25T21:57:45Z")
From [here](http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-kkk25.html): > [@](#): > > A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said MWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Serves the dumbass crackers right. And while it is an amusing story, I’m quite pissed that they had 2 children at the “ceremony”. Nothing like preaching hatred and violence to children. Make that hatred, violence, and stupidity. Poor kids. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/2 "2003-11-25T22:04:27Z")
We all know who they’ll be blaming for this. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/3 "2003-11-25T22:20:26Z")
Iraq? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/4 "2003-11-25T22:21:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*We all know who they’ll be blaming for this. \*\* Well, if they say “inferior race” and you consider inbred assholes to be their own race, then… ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/5 "2003-11-25T22:26:19Z")
Yeah, I read this, and wasn’t sure whether to feel guilty about giggling. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/6 "2003-11-25T22:29:50Z")
_I shot a bullet Into the air It came to earth In a racist’s hair._ ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/7 "2003-11-25T22:38:59Z")
If only this stuff happened more often. I think Hitler survived a bombing at close range (saved by a thick table?) and another froze before it could go off. IIRC, there were even more attempts to kill him that went awry. Meanwhile: Lincoln, Kennedy – dead, first attempt. Stalin, dies in bed. Karma is a fickle mistress. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/8 "2003-11-25T23:25:54Z")
Well obviously this is God’s fault. The guy shot the bullet into the heavens and God’s criminal negligence allowed it to fall back to Earth and kill that man. Me, I’d sue. 😛 Or maybe we should try God in absentia. Issue a restraining order or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/9 "2003-11-25T23:37:16Z")
About four or five years ago, the KKK wanted to hold a white supremacy rally in downtown Manhattan (on the steps of City Hall, specifically.) While the city could not legally refuse, they did insist that no Klansmen wear a hood that covers the face. (There is a city ordinance that no one can hold demonstrations can use masks that obscure their faces, for security reasons.) However the Klansmen went to court to challenge this ruling. Their argument? Get this, they feared that if they publically revealed themselves to be Klansmen they would be DISCRIMINATED AGAINST for their beliefs!!! Dickheads. In any event, they lost their case, the rally was held but got a small, pathetic turnout. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/10 "2003-11-25T23:53:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Left Hand of Dorkness \* > \*\*Yeah, I read this, and wasn’t sure whether to feel guilty about giggling. > > Daniel \*\* I wouldn’t feel too guilty. I was rolling around the floor in hysterical fits of laughter (I know, I’m easily amused) Karmic retribution can be a wonderful thing. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/11 "2003-11-25T23:59:26Z")
I think anybody that fires a gun into the air indiscriminantly is an idiot. The fact that it’s a Klan member is just gravy. (It would have been better irony if the bullet had hit the buttfuck that fired it, but I guess that’s too much to ask…) ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/12 "2003-11-26T00:10:26Z")
Is this that “master race” I keep hearing about? ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/13 "2003-11-26T00:13:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by syncrolecyne \* > \*\*Is this that “master race” I keep hearing about? \*\* Certainly is. I hear, through the grapevine, that Mister Bates is the current head honcho. ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/14 "2003-11-26T00:36:51Z")
I live about an hour away from Johnson City. My boss told me about this when I went to work this afternoon. I can’t say that I was terribly surprised. There are a lot of those ‘good ol’ boys’ in this area and that seems about like something one of them would do. It’s things like that, that make me can’t wait to get out of this area. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/15 "2003-11-26T00:40:54Z")
Does schaudenfraude have karmic repercussions? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/16 "2003-11-26T00:48:56Z")
No. Good clean fun. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/17 "2003-11-26T01:58:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chimera \* > \*\*Well obviously this is God’s fault. The guy shot the bullet into the heavens and God’s criminal negligence allowed it to fall back to Earth and kill that man. > > Me, I’d sue. 😛 > > Or maybe we should try God in absentia. Issue a restraining order or something like that. \*\* No, it this is a clear case of self-defense on God’s part. After all, they shot at him first. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/18 "2003-11-26T04:21:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamlet \* > \*\*I’m quite pissed that they had 2 children at the “ceremony”. Nothing like preaching hatred and violence to children. Make that hatred, violence, and stupidity. Poor kids. \*\* Just for the life experience, check out the KKK website sometime. They have an entire “For Kids” section with child-friendly “literature”. Pretty colors and all. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/19 "2003-11-26T05:27:35Z")
Thin. The. Herd. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265/20 "2003-11-26T05:42:12Z")
I thought that this was fucking hilarious when I first read about it. Yes, I found joy in the maiming, perhaps death, of a, and I use this term loosely, fellow human being to be extremely amusing. I am overjoyed that this happened and I make no apologies for it. Haj [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klan-gets-a-taste-of-karma/215265.md?page=2)