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breaking news: armed man in our bldg - NO OT PLS.

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Please pray for the safety of our employees. This is in silver spring, MD. News said there is a hostage. Police locked down the vicinity and I saw swat team. We were out of the bldg but some I believe are still there. This is the discovery channel corporate bldg.

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PaintTheSkyGrey
09-01-2010 at 12:19 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:19 PM.
Subject has pipe bombs and a couple of canisters strapped to a vest.
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OwenKealy
09-01-2010 at 12:19 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:19 PM.
Quote from ForeverDcember :
Well, parts of that sound good anyway High Five
Big Grin

At the very least, conduct experiments on T-Wolves fans to see just what in the hell is wrong with them. Stick Out Tongue

Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
Subject has pipe bombs and a couple of canisters strapped to a vest.
Fark.

This is not good.

Asshole probably has a dead-man switch on 'em too.
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PaintTheSkyGrey
09-01-2010 at 12:23 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:23 PM.
Quote from OwenKealy :
Fark.

This is not good.

Asshole probably has a dead-man switch on 'em too.
I imagine he probably has no qualms about killing people, since one of the things on his manifesto is population control.

However, he does seem a bit hypocritical since he wants programming relating to war removed from TV, so who knows...
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dogi
09-01-2010 at 12:27 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:27 PM.
News said they already identified the guy. Looks like the same guy who picketed infront of discovery bldg alone sometime last year and giving out money to the passersby. I'm not sure though but that is the talk here, if that is correct I remembered him having a full page advertisement in a metro paper gerarding his points on the same day he picket.
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Zoe Moon
09-01-2010 at 12:27 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:27 PM.
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One eyewitness on the scene who saw the man said the gunman had a weapon and was wearing a vest with four canisters on it and he was holding a device with a red blinking light on it.
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Subject has pipe bombs and a couple of canisters strapped to a vest.
Repost.
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OwenKealy
09-01-2010 at 12:27 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:27 PM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
I imagine he probably has no qualms about killing people, since one of the things on his manifesto is population control.

However, he does seem a bit hypocritical since he wants programming relating to war removed from TV, so who knows...
He's a nutter.

As far as I'm concerned, you can preach whatever crazy manifesto you want, as long as you don't harm people.

As soon as you take hostages, however, you've earned yourself a few hollow-point rounds to the face.
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09-01-2010 at 12:28 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:28 PM.
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Mine was confirmed by the police chief, not a random eyewitness. Harhar
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saint.
09-01-2010 at 12:29 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:29 PM.
was shark week that bad?
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Zoe Moon
09-01-2010 at 12:30 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:30 PM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
Mine was confirmed by the police chief, not a random eyewitness. Harhar
A Discovery Channel employee who was in the lobby when the guy walked in. Stick Out Tongue
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abeo
09-01-2010 at 12:31 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:31 PM.
No OT peeps.
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09-01-2010 at 12:33 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:33 PM.
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No OT peeps.
So stop posting OT comments. Thanks.
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saint.
09-01-2010 at 12:37 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:37 PM.
where's Behr when you need him?

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abeo
09-01-2010 at 12:42 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:42 PM.

A man believed to be James Jay Lee is seen in an image taken from a MySpace page. Lee is suspected of entering the Discovery television network headquarters with a gun and explosives.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38957...and_courts
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Zoe Moon
09-01-2010 at 12:50 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:50 PM.
The police spokesman has confirmed that there are hostages in the room with the suspect.
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ForeverDecember
09-01-2010 at 12:54 PM.
09-01-2010 at 12:54 PM.
So if he does have a pipe bomb (s) strapped to his chest, and they detonate, how much damage does that cause? Would it take out the building?
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