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thank you brother for saying it out loud... I have lived here almost 8 years part-time because full time would endanger my sanity, and for the record I am the person who called 911 and heard that horrendous attack on Ricky Green from beginning to end. I have lived with the sick inbred mentality of the so called "locals" whoever they are, sometimes I think "locos" is more like it...and I am sick of it. I came from a small town in France with similar neurosis about tourists since there were 2000 people in winter and 20,000 in summer, and I always enjoyed summer better with an influx of culture and diversity, so since I did not fit into the "local model" it was easy to move abroad and enjoy more culture...the melting pot...but bad luck, here I am in Bolinas...thanks to my husband facing the same inbred mentally retarded behaviors.

Anyway, whoever you are, thanks for being so candid and so honest.
I had seen Ricky many times and maybe because he enjoyed women (something a lot of locals don't even notice), he was always friendly and had a bright smile. I am pretty sure he was not all that tigthly wound up and probably on drugs like half the town.. and I did talk to him a few months after the attack, he seemed to me to be shell schoked and compassionate towards the town (good for him, a better person than me), yet a little dazed). The sound of that attack as I heard it and even the 911 person could hear it was so loud, did not leave any doubt that it was quite an uneven fight and a vicious action. I actually have been following the court cases and after hearing it feel that the sentences are light...I have met people who spent 3 years in jail for drug possession and some of the young people that night were showing a killing rage on a helpless human being. The beatings continued way beyond the screamings of ricky so he was long passed out when they kept beating him with skateboards. THey are getting off so easy considering he was a few hours away from death...so thanks to helicopters and intensive care, those little @!$%#ers only face a few years opposed to 20 to life, they are damned lucky is all I can say and I hope they stay away. They also managed to avoid any photos in the paper, so while Ricky was heavily publicized and even vilified, I have no idea what they look like. Anyway I appreciated reading you.

— outsider-1062040

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