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Originally posted by 9mmepiphany:

It has definitely gotten worst over the years. It is hard to believe that UOP (University of the Pacific) is located there and the NFL 49ers used to practice there.

Interesting sidebar: Manteca which is just north of Stockton has a booming restate market. It is being marketed as the Far East Bay for folks who can't afford to live where they work

Manteca is just south of Stockton, not north, and has been a bedroom community for the Bay for a while, but you are right. A lot of homes have been built there in recent years.

Used to go to Manteca Waterslides as a kid... now it is all tract homes.

I know of at least one forum member who lives in Manteca, or used to. Name slips my memory at the moment... He is/was a mechanic for a county fleet in the bay area, as I recall.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
That brought a smile to my face! I wonder what kind of stick he used…

Someone mentioned a mop handle and it looks smooth.

A slick Sikh stick.

This should be real and not a meme.

I used to go to the Manteca water slides when I was a kid. Good times. Stockton is a shithole.

If Newsom and Desantis debate in November as advertised, it should simply be a loop of this footage and similar beat downs and other vigilantes, along with endless skid row B footage.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
That brought a smile to my face! I wonder what kind of stick he used…

That is, in my part of the country, your basic "Magic Ugly Wand". What part of your body ain't already ugly is gonna be when the wand gets through with you!

If they could have gotten his shoes off, that stick would have been really effective.

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Originally posted by thumperfbc:

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Originally posted by 9mmepiphany:

It has definitely gotten worst over the years. It is hard to believe that UOP (University of the Pacific) is located there and the NFL 49ers used to practice there.

Interesting sidebar: Manteca which is just north of Stockton has a booming restate market. It is being marketed as the Far East Bay for folks who can't afford to live where they work

Manteca is just south of Stockton, not north, and has been a bedroom community for the Bay for a while, but you are right. A lot of homes have been built there in recent years.

Used to go to Manteca Waterslides as a kid... now it is all tract homes.

Indeed.
Manteca was more of a not-Modesto or, Stockton alternative, just like Lodi is with all their senior communities popping-up. Today, it's nearly connected to Tracy, which was the original far-East Bay, just over Altamont Pass. Anyways, it's hot as F out there, hence why those waterslides were so popular for 30-years, now it's all underwater for a subdivision's lake.

The reciprocal of the "Smash and Grab". The Grab and smash! LMAO.

Yes, the beating should have been longer and more effective.

I was hoping that they were going to water-board the POS with some Slurpee’s!

Who else watched this and yelled at the monitor "use it like a spear! STAB him don't hit his foot!!"

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Originally posted by corsair:

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Originally posted by thumperfbc:

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Originally posted by 9mmepiphany:

It has definitely gotten worst over the years. It is hard to believe that UOP (University of the Pacific) is located there and the NFL 49ers used to practice there.

Interesting sidebar: Manteca which is just north of Stockton has a booming restate market. It is being marketed as the Far East Bay for folks who can't afford to live where they work

Manteca is just south of Stockton, not north, and has been a bedroom community for the Bay for a while, but you are right. A lot of homes have been built there in recent years.

Used to go to Manteca Waterslides as a kid... now it is all tract homes.

Indeed.
Manteca was more of a not-Modesto or, Stockton alternative, just like Lodi is with all their senior communities popping-up. Today, it's nearly connected to Tracy, which was the original far-East Bay, just over Altamont Pass. Anyways, it's hot as F out there, hence why those waterslides were so popular for 30-years, now it's all underwater for a subdivision's lake.

I have inside information on why the Manteca water slide closed.

The government imposed a new code that mandated they had to put another water treatment plant in place at the cost of a couple million $. That was after the previous year in which they sunk over 500k into upgrading their current treatment system.

It was a fun place to go in my youth.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
So, why waste their time.

Hmmm... because it's their job? To "protect and serve". Protect these poor guys lives and livelihoods, even if just temporarily.

Was this happening at the same time the entire Stockton PD was looking for the guy that shot a cop ?

Regardless the scene from bronx tale would have been better. “ now youse can’t leave…”

That criminal got exactly what he deserved.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
That brought a smile to my face! I wonder what kind of stick he used…

Should have used a heavier stick.............

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Originally posted by Spiff_P239:
That criminal got exactly what he deserved.

No, the thief deserved a longer, more intense beating, one that would correct his bad attitude.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
If they could have gotten his shoes off, that stick would have been really effective.

Absolutely he blocked a lot of strikes with his boot.

It was actually probably the perfect stick. Dense enough and big enough that he’d feel it and (hopefully) rethink his poor life choices, but unlike a baseball bat or a nice length of pipe not something likely to land him in the hospital (or morgue) and the employees in jail. Really, it was just some catch-up for some of the spankings the would-be robber should have got but didn’t as a child.

One can joke about beating the guy into a thin red paste (and I wouldn’t argue the world wouldn’t be a better place if that were legal), but that isn’t legal and would not go well at all for the individual administering the “correction”.

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Originally posted by slosig:
One can joke about beating the guy into a thin red paste (and I wouldn’t argue the world wouldn’t be a better place if that were legal), but that isn’t legal and would not go well at all for the individual administering the “correction”.

And the next time he will return - shoot the shopowners and carry-on.

Dead thugs DO NOT repeat offend - killing them outright is the only solution.