convienient store owner was pretty stupid - Menace II Society (1993) Discussion

[–] keno4518 11 years ago

Agreed. I don't condone the whole murder thing, but come on. Who talks crap like that? If you don't want trouble, shut up and let them buy what they want and leave. They were talking crap the whole time and that idiot FINALLY pushed it

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[–] jtf1986 11 years ago

He wasn't talking crap about his mother, he was talking crap about O-Dog by saying he feels sorry for his mother.

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[–] admirdemondo 11 years ago

its still was stupid of him to say that and he lost his life over it

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[–] everydayboredom1980 11 years ago

For someone who didn't want trouble, he was pretty rude. You hear O-Dog telling him before he kills him that everytime he comes to the store, the owner has something to say to him.

O-Dog is still a sick and evil character and obviously they didn't deserve to die for being rude store owners.

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[–] dw_316 11 years ago

Agreed. Sure, they might've been rude but nothing ever justifies murder like that. We don't really know the history between them either, whether they stole from the store before or whether they caused trouble before, so that part's unclear. Stereotypes suggest in ghetto neighborhoods, Asians probably get bullied around by African Americans. One of my friends is Asian and lives in one where the leader of a gang is always carrying a gun around and sitting on other people's cars and graffiting the neighborhood and causing trouble and she always tries to avoid them. But then I've seen some Asians act "gangsta" the same way so I'm sure it goes both ways around. Nevertheless, that opening scene made me uncomfortable and sickened that people would murder others in cold blood like that, even over a verbal argument, and that some people in this world condone it and see it as justified. I just wish the world wasn't like this.

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[–] Mandingo609 10 years ago

Stereotypes in Ghetto neighborhoods suggest Bullying??? Where did you hear that? Is there an article I can read? Or, are you just talking out of your a$$?

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[–] Anrkey 9 years ago

Exhibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFwA0UwnuS8 -"So pay respect to the black fist
or we'll burn your store, right down to a crisp and then we'll see ya! Cause you can't turn the ghetto - into Black Korea"

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[–] roachbusters 10 years ago

Ironically, by killing the couple, O-Dog only proved the husband's point.

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[–] DevelopmentHell92 10 years ago

OP, it's idiotic that you're so quick to the blame the Asians rather than O-Dog. He had a right to make that "mother" statement, just like O-Dog had a right to insult or yell at him back. The convenient store owner said what he said because I mean, let's be realistic.. do you know anybody in real life that would kill someone over such a petty insult, nevertheless, risk capital punishment or life imprisonment?

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[–] joke_ster36-2 10 years ago

Yes, shootings like that happen all of the time it's not unrealistic.

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[–] dsims8 9 years ago

@ DevelopmentHell92

The convenient store owner didn't know that he would kill someone over a petty insult at the time he made that statement. Yet he kept shooting slugs.

Sometimes it's better to just keep your mouth shut to avoid any conflict. The owner obviously didn't know that. But I still agree that it wasn't worth him losing his life over.

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[–] theoffice11 9 years ago

Yeah the OP is stupid for suggesting the owner deserved to die for that. Let's face it the owner was right, Odog was a ghetto guy who wanted to steal and cause trouble. Odog couldn't handle the truth or was most likely looking for an excuse to kill and steal, which he got.

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[–] kottovic 7 years ago

Thank you sir totally agree. it's a classic cheesy robbery scene anyone knows in real life you keep your mouth shut to avoid this jungle behavior. Truth hurts the koreans were both right but the price was higher than new pair of titties.

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[–] Terry214 10 years ago

I don't condone the murder but yes, no reason to keep agging him on there. Just let him pay and leave. You don't stir up people like that anymore than they are.

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[–] DevelopmentHell92 10 years ago

But does something verbal justify getting shot?

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[–] Prismark10 9 years ago

The store owner was an idiot and so was his wife.

Its that man again!!

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[–] FridayOnElmStreet 9 years ago

They were both stupid. He just had to do the mamma line.

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[–] MarkAntney 9 years ago

I won't use "Stupid" as much as I'd use "Naive". That he didn't think saying what he said that ODog would just leave?

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[–] Dark_Star1 8 years ago

I'm not buying that. Koreans in that part if town already know that a lot of blacks hate them, and those two koreans sure as hell knew that those two blacks hate 'em. Koreans who run a store in that neighborhood know better than to yap at black teenagers. I'm not saying the due deserved to get blasted, but he brought it on himself.