7 Arrested in Assaults by Renegade Amish Group

[scotpens]

At first I thought I was reading The Onion, but this is quite real.

The article mentions that the rogue Amish used electric clippers in some of the assaults. Isn't that against their faith?

Well, when you're a loony religious extremist, I suppose it doesn't matter.

 

[Amaris]

I feel sorry for the Amish folks whose hair was cut and shaved. For the rest of us, I imagine that would be the equivalent of being stripped naked in public and forced to walk about town that way (though some of us might like that...). It's odd, too, because most Amish people are very friendly and polite. I've had the delight of meeting a few, and they were very soft spoken and gentle, almost like the Quakers I know. Ah well, there are assholes in every walk of life, unfortunately.

I'm sure the rest of the Amish community will fully understand this and treat these victims with respect and kindness.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Wow, Amish terrorists. This is truly the Age of Extremism.

And the leader of the terrorist hair-cutting squad is Mr Mullet. You can't make this stuff up.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yeah, I heard about this when it first happened. Glad they are finally arresting people. That guy comes off nice and Amish-ish, but he's still a creepy leader. I don't know if I'd quite call him a cult leader. I got an almost Godfather vibe from him. Either way, even though the attacks seem minor to us, they are reprehensible to people in the community and I'm glad he's being held accountable.

 

[Guartho]

It's odd, too, because most Amish people are very friendly and polite. I've had the delight of meeting a few, and they were very soft spoken and gentle,

The wife of one of my best friends works in the gas station in a heavily Amish community. She says the boys are in there all the time trying to convince her to sell them cigarettes.

 

[Amaris]

It's odd, too, because most Amish people are very friendly and polite. I've had the delight of meeting a few, and they were very soft spoken and gentle,

The wife of one of my best friends works in the gas station in a heavily Amish community. She says the boys are in there all the time trying to convince her to sell them cigarettes.

Some teenagers are idiots in every society.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I think an Amish teenager has the best excuse ever. "I swear I'm over 18. I just don't have ID because I'm freakin Amish."

 

[Thestral]

I've had the delight of meeting a few, and they were very soft spoken and gentle, almost like the Quakers I know. Ah well, there are assholes in every walk of life, unfortunately.

I know you weren't saying this, but if I have to hear one more person ask me why I'm driving a car if I'm a Quaker...

I'll politely correct them. Again.

The wife of one of my best friends works in the gas station in a heavily Amish community. She says the boys are in there all the time trying to convince her to sell them cigarettes.

Some teenagers are idiots in every society.

Well, and there's also the rumspringa, when Amish kids are encouraged to go out and experience the world apart from the community so as to make sure they really want to join the society as adults. Dunno if they'd not be young enough to get cigarettes though.

 

[DS9Continuing]

I've had the delight of meeting a few, and they were very soft spoken and gentle

Well, and there's also the rumspringa, when Amish kids are encouraged to go out and experience the world apart from the community so as to make sure they really want to join the society as adults.

I think rumspringa is an excellent idea, and I wish more small communities practised it. To actually give your young people the informed choice of whether they want to be a part of your community or not is a remarkably rare thing, unfortunately. The problem I can see with it is that if they've been sheltered from worldly pleasures all through their upbringing they may overindulge now that they have access, and go further off the rails than if they'd been aware of such things from the start. But in principle I think it's an admirable practise.

I rememeber watching a TV show once, a reality series thing, where they put five Amish teenagers on rumspringa in a house with five rich and entitled kids from Hollywood, to let the two groups learn about each other. Frankly the show made me hate the Hollywood kids with a passion - they were mind-blowingly selfish, arrogant, rude and condescending to the Amish kids. They would say the most horrible things about Amish people right to their faces and then say "Oh, no offence" and think they were okay. They came off as much less civilized than this supposedly primitive subculture.

As it turned out, not a single one of the Amish kids decided to go home after the rumspringa was over, which makes me horrified to think they might end up like the Hollywood kids, if they think that's what being a teenager is.

On a side note, at least two of the Amish boys were damn fine. They work em hard on those farms if those bodies are any indication. They reminded me of the Mormon boys you see wandering around in pairs - one's mind automatically goes to how to seduce and corrupt them.

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