Hmm.
Who cares of course about the trannies. (Well I guess I shouldn’t say that but the OP isn’t the reason for my post now, and it is a 3 year old article anyway).
But I must admit I never took a look at this situation very closely, as it’s perfectly reasonable (for anyone from this area who knows this particular area knows), it’s perfectly reasonable to believe that someone, drugged out or not, might make a wrong turn coming south on the BW Parkway (which is 295 by the way) into the access road to the NSA. Anyone who’s driven that part of 295 south to Washington knows that exit isn’t very well marked and it’s very close to the exit for 32 (which is just a bit further south).
But now I’m having difficulty reconstructing the events as claimed. First, to be clear, the official story is that these two dudes made that wrong exit off of 295 right into the gate for the NSA, which again is easy to do, mistaking it for the exit for 32 which is only a bit more south. The exit for the NSA, when coming south on 295, is the exit that (if you look at it in an online map) leads right to “Technology Road” and “Connector Road”. That’s the exit every motorist here knows is easily confused for the Route 32 exit which is just a bit further south.
However if one looks at where “Connector Road” leads (on a map with satellite view), it leads to a gate for the NSA it’s true, however that is not the gate where we then see areal photos of the minivan.
The gate in the pictures you posted is the Cannine Road gate, which is far from the Connector Road gate, and the Cannine Road gate is not easily accessible from 295. You have to get off 295 at 32 and then make a U turn (or intentional right), basically, to get on Cannine Road from 32, which can be seen from the satellite view map pic you posted. Again, Route 32 isn’t the “Baltimore Washington Parkway”, that’s 295.
So my connundrum right now should be clear: how did the trannies “mistakenly” turn off 32 (which again isn’t the BW Parkway) onto Canine Road? I can assure you, having driven on 32 as well as 295, the exit off 32 to the NSA (Canine Road) is very clearly marked as “NSA”, so it stretches the imagination (at least in this long term resident’s mind) to believe the trannies missed that big NSA sign on 32. I can believe it if they were shot at the Connector Road gate (because again that exit off of 295 isn’t marked well, in fact it’s not marked at all, no “NSA” sign no nothing. I suspect that’s the employee’s entrance because it’s always super backed up when I drive 295 on my way to work at 5:30 in the morning).
But they apparently weren’t shot at the Connector Road gate, apparently they were shot at the Canine Road gate. Comparisons of the photos of the minivan and the background of where it’s stopped with satellite photos of both the Canine Road gate and the Connector Road gate prove the van is at the Canine Road gate. The Canine Road gate is the only one with a parking lot in the background. The Connector Road gate doesn’t have any parking lot around it.
So something isn’t adding up in my head right now. Maybe I should use more tinfoil. I’ll twke a closer look at this situation at home with a large computer monitor maybe I can figure out how the trannies got so mixed up as to go all the way to the Canine Road gate from 295. Because to answer to the point about the direction of the van, it’s quite possible the van got moved to that access shoulder off to the side after the incident. To let traffic pass into the NSA. I doubt those were photos during or right after the incident IOW. I believe the actual incident occurred sometime late in the evening/early morning.
My question isn’t about the direction of the minivan in the photos. It’s how the hell did the trannies “mistakenly” turn into the NSA off 32, which isn’t the BW Parkway, which is what the official story says they did (the official story says they took a wrong exit off off the BW Parkway, which is 295 not 32).
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Yesterday's story of the Minivan that was shot at and stopped at the NSA gate. In which no one was killed.
I screwed up and put both stories in one post, which has caused confusion.
Your whole question is a good one and has to do with how that the got where they are pictured. It's hard to figure out, it certainly looks like they were already in the NSA compound and trying to get out when they got trapped where they are.
Sorry to you and everyone else for the confusion.
I did a second post and that's probably a better place to go chat about this: What's up with the NSA shootings?