Bay Ridge Rover has somehow triggered the ire of members on neighborhood message board BayRidgeTalk, who wish to go ‘back to the future’ as it were – to see The Rover get “kneecapped”

Kneecapping is described as:

“to cripple someone by shooting them in the legs…”

“a form of malicious wounding, often as extralegal punishment or torture, in which the victim is injured in the knee, usually using a firearm to damage the knee joint and kneecap. Popular with paramilitary organizations.”

Impressively, Rover’s kneecapping ranks right up there with other historical firsts, such as: the completion of Stonehenge, Mesozoic Era, and front row seats to see the ‘thrilla from Manila.’

BayRidgeTalk has probably become best known as last year’s staging area for a crusade against an alleged local drug house.

The disturbing, as of now, unfulfilled prophecy of gun violence – in a community that’s had a violence marred year of it’s own with a series of senseless homicides and stabbings – comes on the heels of 5 people shot dead by a mentally disturbed member of the Northern Illinois University community, just last week.

Begging the question in this meta-talk environment: when does “Bay Ridge talk” stop being just a thread – and start becoming a r.l. threat?

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