Talk:San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
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[edit] Victims' names
Should the list of victims be re-included? It seems right... but something more specific than "retired truck driver" seems appropriate.
From this photo I can tell that the memorial includes all 21 names. But I can't make them out. Is anyone in that area, who'd be willing to go check?
-Adam
I'm glad that they put the victims names and I added 6 of the Survivors.
[edit] Odd sentence
I removed "At the time it was the worst single-day massacre in U.S. history." See Battle of Antietam, for one.
[edit] Copycat Crime
Wasn't there also some guy in the mid nineties who shot up a McDonald's. I vaugley remeber it happening after that move "Falling Down" came out. Maybe I was just hearing the story wrong and they were referring back to this incident.
You are thinking about the Luby's massacre in Texas, but there was a movie called Bloody Wednesday and it is on Amazon.com TVSRR 19:34, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrote awkward sentence
- Freeman MacNeil is now (25 years until parole eligibilty is reached) in a maximum security prison in Renous, New Brunswick.
This was a weird sentence, so I rewrote it. However, I don't have the information about the actual criminal sentencing. The sentence as quoted above (as it originally appeared), in addition to being terribly written, is ambiguous. 25 years from the time this article was written, or 25 years from the sentencing? Someone with knowledge of the subject should clear that up. Torgo 22:35, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Split
This article for some reason discusses two different incidents, although the incidents are largely unrelated accept for the fact that they both took place at McDonald's restaurants. joturner 03:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- I removed the whole second section. It should be either it's own article or not be int. - brenneman {L} 07:16, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
- I split the two articles as requested. They definitely deserve seperate articles. Valoem talk 05:46, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] McMurder?
I work in the news industry in San Diego (the market includes San Ysidro), and have never heard the term McMurder. An internet search did reveal use of the term, but it's hardly widespread enough to be cited in an encyclopedia. (For reference, "McFart" and "McTrash" all return lots of hits on Google, but we don't include separate sections on them.) Any comments before I change the name of the article, and its references? Photomikey 03:25, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
- I agree; the reference to McMurder should be removed. But what do you think should be changed in the name of the article? --Satori Son 19:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
- I also agree. The term "McMurder" that your Googling turns up is a sort of campaign slogan by militant vegetarian activists opposed to the fact that McDonalds sells meat products. It has nothign to do with this massacre. I will remove the line. -- Securiger 21:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Music?
It's been said that Huberty carried a boombox to the massacre with him, and blasted the song, "Warrior" by the group Scandal as he shot people. The lyrics seem pretty surreal if this is true. Is there any way this can be confirmed and included in the article?
