Fox News Alert. Montgomery County ANOTHER SHOOTING!!!

Fox News | 10/22/02

[CPL BAUM]

FROM VIRGINA STATE POLICE scanner: Be on the lookout for a light colored Chevy Station Wagon - partial plates 793 ABF. They believe there may be another letter after the "F"

- "Approach with extreme caution" - in connection with this morning's shooting in Montgomery County, MD.

[null and void]

He'd just have to say the shooter makes him nervous...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The shooter wants ransom, eh? How about if I pay him by squeezing on his neck until his worthless, pathetic life slips from his body?

[ARCADIA]

It's not that hard to write something in broken english. It can easily be deliberate. "Please excuse if my writing is not so good".....See?

Good point! Since he disguised his voice, then he may have changed his writing style, too.

BTW, many English-speaking foreigners don't write in broken English. Their style is formal and stilted, but grammatically correct. I used to work at a muli-national and, afterwhile, you pick up on the style.

Hence, "you write like a foreigner" is an insult to an educated bilingual person. It means their English is not idiomatic, conversational or easy-to-read.

[katykelly]

I just returned from a week of camping and fishing (no news). What's this about a false wittness at the Home Depot?

[CougarGA7]

I think this guy is a loner. A little wierd. And he has been for quite some time. His co-workers are not noticing the difference because he is still acting the same. I think he has been building up to this for some time now and something on October 2 finally put his "fantasies" into action.

Additionally, if he works in a job like courier or something simular, then he may not have extensive contact with co-workers for them to notice anything significant.

[null and void]

That might narrow it down a bit...

[Chad Fairbanks]

Which means that there is only a certain group that wants to kill Americans at random.

Liberals?

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Wow...that is VERY eerie.

[hoosiermama]

I thought maybe it was a duo. One to drive, the other to shoot the gun. Already moving when they take aim.....

[KSCITYBOY]

Mudboy - your fear of copycats is well founded. I hate to say this, but we may be getting a preview of future attacks on America.

[Alberta's Child]

No matter how clever they are, how can they possibly expect to collect the money without getting caught? There has to be a drop-off point somewhere.

You are assuming that this is cash they are dealing with. They can simply tell the police to deposit X dollars in a bank account and have someone wire money electronically to Yemen or some place like that.

[TamiPie]

It wouldn't be his neck that I would be slowly squeezing....

[hoosiermama]

roflol

[ARCADIA]

He might've placed one last call in Virginia and then raced up to Montgomery County, figuring the police, military planes and potential victims wouldn't be expecting him back in Maryland so soon.

Good point. Also, IMHO, he lives in that area.

[CougarGA7]

I've thought that too, but I dont think so. I think that if LE felt there were more than one then they would already be trying to play them against each other in the media. The idea being, trying to get the subordinate individual convenced that the dominant one was going to turn on him and maybe even turn him in and that he had better contact LE before he does so he's not the fall guy.

[sneakypete]

I want him to go out in a blaze on television so all potential snipers get a good look at the mess. I truly fear a bunch of copycats. I want to discourage them.

If you want to discourage copycats,forget all about that "blaze of glory" crap. That's their wet dream. A better way to discourage them is to have the shooter sentenced to life without parole in a maximum security federal prison,and let the media film him twice a year,living in his hole in the ground with the 24 hours a day lights,no contact or conversation with other prisoners,no visitors,and let out of his hole in the ground once a week to shower. Not much "glory" there.

[hoosiermama]

Good plan. But could we be dealing with a dedicated "cell"? (Maybe we should just be more willing to take an eye for an eye?)

I do not really think it is just "one psycho individual".

[Spunky]

Here are the Muslim prayer times for today:

Oct 22 6:13AM 7:25AM 12:54PM 3:54PM 6:21PM 7:34PM

Does the Muslim prayer time change every day?