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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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SlicKitty
09-01-2010 at 02:22 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:22 PM.
He's dead. They just confirmed on the local news that he did die.


I mean...there are causes worth dying for and causes that aren't, and this guy was sadly misled.
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OwenKealy
09-01-2010 at 02:23 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:23 PM.
Quote from Phrozt :
It definitely didn't fail.. they saw smoke.. there was just no report as to the size of the explosion.

And yes, he could just have burns. The point is, just because police say he's "in custody" shouldn't assume the fact that he's alive.
"We've managed to scoop most of him into a Hefty bag..."

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He's dead.
woot
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stomach
09-01-2010 at 02:23 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:23 PM.
the only thing odd about this guy is that he had a myspace account but not a facebook account. NOT A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT???? NOOOOOOOOOO

SD and the gunman have something similar, both without facebook accounts. bwahahaha
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lordoffire
09-01-2010 at 02:25 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:25 PM.
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I would imagine it's pretty good. I spend a lot of time in that area (was just at DeMarco last weekend) and it's a vital area.

I doubt that there are many fruitcakes like this one who think it's Disc.Channel's job to save the world.
...might be time to arming the guards
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appleyum
09-01-2010 at 02:29 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:29 PM.
Quote from SlicKitty :
He's dead. They just confirmed on the local news that he did die.


I mean...there are causes worth dying for and causes that aren't, and this guy was sadly misled.
Damn online news is slow. I am hoping around major news channel and none of them have updated that.

Only NBC is.
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09-01-2010 at 02:29 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:29 PM.
Quote from lordoffire :
...might be time to arming the guards

You can't arm guards at every place that gives one guy a cause that he thinks is just.

This guy was a blip on the radar and next month, the only people who will remember his name are the people who were directly affected.

There were 3 hostages (according to local news). Don't know if that's online yet, so I guess I'll put that out there.
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09-01-2010 at 02:34 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:34 PM.
I'm just glad the hostages were okay, and he's the only apparent victim.

Again, if you walk into a building with a bomb strapped to your chest, you're just asking to get hurt.
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09-01-2010 at 02:42 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:42 PM.
The local news is saying that he does a lot of ranting at a Borders across the street, where he offered a local college student $100 to read the book Ishmael (which is currently in my "to read" stack). She took the $100 and found the book interesting, but didn't understand what he wanted.

She said he clearly needed help and that he often referred to children as "pollution" because the earth is overpopulated.
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09-01-2010 at 02:45 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:45 PM.
He was clearly mentally ill. Sounds like he may have been schizophrenic. So glad he didn't take any lives.
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09-01-2010 at 02:48 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:48 PM.
I haven't seen any of the major news networks confirm his death.


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The local news is saying that he does a lot of ranting at a Borders across the street, where he offered a local college student $100 to read the book Ishmael (which is currently in my "to read" stack). She took the $100 and found the book interesting, but didn't understand what he wanted.

She said he clearly needed help and that he often referred to children as "pollution" because the earth is overpopulated.
Roy: Thomas can raise a barn, but can he pick up a 7-10 split?

Ishmael: God blessed my brother to be a good carpenter. It's okay.

Roy: Yeah, well he blessed you, too, and I'll give you a hint what it is. It's round, has three holes, and you put your fingers into it.

Ishmael: You leave Rebecca out of this.
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PaintTheSkyGrey
09-01-2010 at 02:55 PM.
09-01-2010 at 02:55 PM.
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I don't know... I'm not sure if I can see this ending well for the hostage-taker.
Do I win the pot or something? How much?
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Iaaaiws
09-01-2010 at 03:02 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:02 PM.
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5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that.
If he had been willing to amend that to Illegal Immigration I would have pulled up a chair and kept him company for a while laugh out loud
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09-01-2010 at 03:05 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:05 PM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
Do I win the pot or something? How much?

No, I'm sorry.

Husband...(Cousin) says there's a sniper on the Mac Grill. I'm sure this is going to end with his demise.1:38:30 PM



Well, that didn't work well. I copied and pasted it out of the conversation we were having, but the formatting didn't come over well. I actually thought the guy had a chance of making it out, but when I heard he had little respect for human life, I amended my opinion.
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09-01-2010 at 03:07 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:07 PM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
If he had been willing to amend that to Illegal Immigration I would have pulled up a chair and kept him company for a while laugh out loud
Doesn't the term anchor baby imply the immigration is illegal?
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09-01-2010 at 03:11 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:11 PM.
Discovery Channel Hostages: Gunman Shot By Police [huffingtonpost.com]
Police say the gunman who took three people hostage at the Discovery Channel network's programming has died after they shot him.

All three hostages escaped safely.
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