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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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SlicKitty
09-01-2010 at 03:11 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:11 PM.
Well, who knows if this guy is descended from an original Hawaiian on both sides of his family, but it would be interesting to know if anyone in his family was ever an immigrant.

I would have to imagine that (at some point), someone in his ancestry would have had to have immigrated.

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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.

I did say that. Frown









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OwenKealy
09-01-2010 at 03:13 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:13 PM.
Quote from SlicKitty :
The local news is saying that he did 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.
Past tense correction FTW. He's been corpse-ified, after all.
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SlicKitty
09-01-2010 at 03:14 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:14 PM.
Quote from OwenKealy :
Past tense correction FTW. He's been corpse-ified, after all.

Oh sorry. Right.
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Iaaaiws
09-01-2010 at 03:19 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:19 PM.
Quote from digitalhandle :
Doesn't the term anchor baby imply the immigration is illegal?
Perhaps that part, but the "stopping ALL immigration pollution" seems to encompass all immigration.
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digitalhandle
09-01-2010 at 03:35 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:35 PM.
Quote from SlicKitty :
I did say that. Frown
I know. Confirmation and sourcing FTW (we can't watch your local news, at least without a link).

Quote from Iaaaiws :
Perhaps that part, but the "stopping ALL immigration pollution" seems to encompass all immigration.
If he did not follow "stopping ALL immigration pollution" with "and the anchor baby filth that follows that." I might agree with you.
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DC
09-01-2010 at 03:36 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:36 PM.
Saves the cost of a trial...bulb
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lordoffire
09-01-2010 at 03:46 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:46 PM.
Quote from SlicKitty :
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.
didn't necessarily say "lethal"....give em stun guns instead
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PaintTheSkyGrey
09-01-2010 at 03:54 PM.
09-01-2010 at 03:54 PM.
Quote from lordoffire :
didn't necessarily say "lethal"....give em stun guns instead
A stun gun won't stop a person from detonating a bomb.
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lordoffire
09-01-2010 at 04:13 PM.
09-01-2010 at 04:13 PM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
A stun gun won't stop a person from detonating a bomb.
nothing is guaranteed....by guessing I'd say most nutjobs are just going in trigger happy
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Clivefrog
09-01-2010 at 04:30 PM.
09-01-2010 at 04:30 PM.
save the froggies

and, of course, the squirrels.

this guy's wacko. well, i mean, he was wacko.
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PaintTheSkyGrey
09-01-2010 at 04:49 PM.
09-01-2010 at 04:49 PM.
Quote from lordoffire :
nothing is guaranteed....by guessing I'd say most nutjobs are just going in trigger happy
So why not neutralize the threat instead of temporarily disabling it (for 5 seconds)?
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lordoffire
09-01-2010 at 05:04 PM.
09-01-2010 at 05:04 PM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
So why not neutralize the threat instead of temporarily disabling it (for 5 seconds)?
I'm all for it...the stun guns were for those who don't think the security needed much to back them up
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DC
09-01-2010 at 05:27 PM.
09-01-2010 at 05:27 PM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
So why not neutralize the threat instead of temporarily disabling it (for 5 seconds)?
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I'm all for it...the stun guns were for those who don't think the security needed much to back them up
Well if it was a sniper that got him...the perp is a bit out of range for a stun gun...


*last I saw/heard it was sniper that got him...
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Beartrkkr
09-01-2010 at 05:38 PM.
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TigerStar
09-01-2010 at 06:27 PM.
09-01-2010 at 06:27 PM.
This thread proves once again that you folks will argue about anything.
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