DC-Cannon House Bldg on lockdown-MSNBC [Update: gun was plastic]

MSNBC | 10/30/03 | MSNBC

[Diddle E. Squat]

Searching for a lone gunman

[Semper Paratus]

I've studied the roads there pretty damn extensively, back when I lived there. I know where they go.

You sound like Holly Hunter in a taxi in Broadcast News.

[OldFriend]

That metrosexual man, howie dean!!!

[76834]

Yep, and that has to make you wonder.

[Darlin']

Ya know, if you wanted to see what kind of security is in place, how the Capitol Hill police react to an incident, to pinpoint the flaws, something like this would be a good scenario.

[mhking]

You sound like Holly Hunter in a taxi in Broadcast News.

[shrug]

[LibertyGirl77]

MHKing is right -- the rest of you are confused. If you follow the signs to STAY ON 395 going North out of Virginia, you end up going underneath the House and Senate buildings and popping out at NY Ave. But you have to exit the main lines of the freeway to do that, as in, you EXIT 395 to stay on 395. If you stay in the mainlines, 395 "becomes" 295 in Anacostia, and 295 ends roughly at Penn. Avenue.

[per loin]

MSNBC saying that it was part of Halloween costume.

[dakine]

hahahaha...no more mention of 95s... Now have I ever told ya' about I-96, and I-696?...

[OldFriend]

Is Janet Reno still tall............

LOLOL

[enuu]

How do we know there was not a toy gun used as a foil for a real gun? In other words, the girl had the real gun in her purse, the toy was in the guy's backpack, or vice versa. They've now planted the real gun behind a statue or under a chair or something. Then they turn themselves in and show the toy gun that was on the x-ray. Tomorrow someone else goes into building, picks up gun from pre-planned location and continues with whatever the plan is. Just because there is a toy gun does not mean there is not a real gun. Obviously with two people involved, BOTH carrying bags, there is some careful plan, not an impulsive thing.

[mewzilla]

If this was a test, we flunked.

[ElCapitanAmerica]

CNN , IT WAS A TOY GUN A GUY WITH A HALLOWEEN COSTUME!!!!

OMG!!!!

[OldFriend]

Dog is in the wrong pew!

[Mo1]

Yes it would

[camle]

AAAAAHHHHHHHIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

leaping out the window hysterically babbling like a democrat!!!

[boxerblues]

Halloween costume???? stupidity is now a costume

[No Blue States]

You forgot I45!
Man what a speedway!
But at least Southbound will plant you on the beach.

[oceanview]

excellent analysis.

[nuffsenuff]

I stand corrected.

I-295 and I-395 interesect in SW DC not Anacostia.

Feel better?