Fox News Alert. Montgomery County ANOTHER SHOOTING!!!

Fox News | 10/22/02

[areafiftyone]

JUST BREAKING!!! Police confirm another shooting. But are not sure if it is related.

[sweetliberty]

"If this turns out to be an illegal alien, there's going to be some very angry citizens waking up all of a sudden."

I wouldn't bet on it. Any time Americans get a wake up alarm, they just hit the snooze button.

[isthisnickcool]

Does the Muslim prayer time change every day?

Yes, slightly. About a minute a day. Going up in the A.M. and down in the P.M. See the site I link to below.

Note that the last Sunday of October starts daylight savings time so the times start to offset back one hour on the 27th. ALSO NOTE, that one of the earlier shootings occurred right at one of the evening prayer times. BUT afternoon and evening prayers can be COMBINED. This is permitted. Especially if the Muslim is "traveling".

Go here.

Enter city ="Washington"

Enter Country ="USA",

You will get a list, click on #4 (Washington, DC - 38.9 N, 77 W). This will give you the prayer times.

[ARCADIA]

Holy Cross Hospital

About a week ago, a freeper calculated all sorts of distances for morning shootings and concluded that the sniper(s) is operating out of the Holy Cross Hospital area. I don't remember the exact argument but it made sense to me.

[sneakypete]

What will this do to voter turn out in the DC area?

I don't think it will have much effect. Especially not in DC,where only Dims will win anyhow. Does DC even have any Republican or non-Dim candidates running?

One boy answered that he would like to see gun purchases restricted to those who had a license to buy guns.

I can see this going either way. That kid obviously came from a gun-grabber house,so his reaction can be expected. It could be that people from homes where there were no real strong opinions on gun control before could suddenly come out as rabid opponets of gun control. Face it,a lot of people who don't know any better actually believe that crap that any 12 year old can walk into a hardware store and buy a machine gun. Imagine their surprise when they decide to go down to the local Wal-Mart to buy a shotgun for protection,and find out there is a waiting period,background check,and maybe even a "Firearms Owner ID" involved.

[contessa machiaveli]

thank you fellow freepers, it's quite clear to me now. i think as a lierate society we've become accustomed to weird and convoluted possibilities. sometimes the answer is so simple and obvious it's ignored.

[dogbyte12]

thought of this, too. Isn't there a movie that shows that a cop's standard procedure when dealing with demands is to slow things down and get the perp talking? The intelligent perp (per Hollywood) then kills someone to let the police he's serious.

I have changed back from terrorist, to nut job thinking along these lines. I think this guy is a hard boiled fiction fan, not a foreign nut, or a military, or right wing type.

Cat and mouse games. Ransom demands with voice scrambler, playing around with the cops, killing an FBI agent... this is a game. I bet once this person is found, you will find their house full of books by Cornwell, Deaver, Patterson, and Kellerman. This guy is a nut who thinks (maybe rightly so), that he is as smart as the killers in all his favorite police procedural novels, and is doing this as his great statement to the world, that he isn't a bookish, dateless, friendless nerd, but that he is important.

I could be wrong. For over a week, I thought terrorist, but now with the risky behaviour, ransom, calling cards, taunting notes, voice changer, etc... it does sound to me like a person playing out crime novels for real.

[nina0113]

One would think that, but I GUARANTEE you, the American sheeple would do nothing. Not that they'd convert, but they'd do no such thing.

Just checked your profile - I knew you couldn't be from the South.

[archy]

they should have sealed off the borders of Maryland and Virginia...

Swell idea. Just like the ones in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Teexas, I presume?

I say we nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

-archy-/-

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Why don't you enlighten us and tell us something the many talking heads haven't?

That's exactly what I was trying to tell the guy I responded to. His was a more basic statement than most. It appears as though perhaps he wasn't following the case until recently.

[kinghorse]

Thank you Clarisse.

[LS]

I certainly agree no one should rule out Arab terrorists. But increasingly, most of the people "in the know," including virtually all the former FBI, Mark Fuhrmann-types, dismiss this. Yes, they could all be wrong. But I don't see them as being part of a "conspiracy" to keep the public from "knowing the truth."

But, we'll see. Right now, no one on this board knows one iota more than I do. And that's next to nothing.

[isthisnickcool]

what is "occam's razor". it's been mentioned on different threads at different times.

Looks like you have some excellent answers already. No need for me to add anything.

[justshe]

Chief Moose bio HERE

[sneakypete]

He may be using broken English as the only patois the authorities are able to understand since they seem to miss the point of the joke.

Think maybe the note told Moose,"Dog,I want fiddy-fi million to stop busting caps."?

[LS]

Yes, this does seem to make sense. The notes, etc., do not seem like a group, however.

[fooman]

Like maybe, FRENCH like broken ENglish?

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Which reminds me, does anyone remember the last time not having a drivers' license stopped someone who wanted to drive from driving? Also, can someone tell me how many of the 40,000+ people killed every year in automobile accidents have a license? I bet most of them do.

[nina0113]

Imagine their surprise when they decide to go down to the local Wal-Mart to buy a shotgun for protection,and find out there is a waiting period,background check,and maybe even a "Firearms Owner ID" involved.

Imagine MY surprise when I went to buy a gun at WalMart (a Remington 12-gauge) & they told me that they would automatically send all my information to the Virginia State Police in Richmond, in addition to the background check. This is not required under Virginia law, Walmart just voluntarily registers your gun anyway. I didn't buy it.

[AppyPappy]

I bet Moose asked for another call because the first one had too many big words.

[fight_truth_decay]

You must be a Baldwin or Streisand or maybe even a Jessica Lange wannabe..Shows the decay of society thru the invention and habitual use of the 'crack pipe'.