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

MSNBC | 10/30/03 | MSNBC

[Diddle E. Squat]

Searching for a lone gunman

[petitfour]

A woman with a Halloween costume that included a faux gun?

Must be a conservative woman dressing up like Rosie O or some other celebrity-gun-packin' hypocrite.

[Major_Risktaker]

LOL!

So if 10 bad guys buy swat gear and move in on a government building do you think they could get in?

I believe this ploy would work. What guard is going to stop these guys if a so call emergence it fabricated and the swat team moves in on a target building or another building during an so called emergence.

[mewzilla]

Sheesh. I could see that.

Everyone with illegal weapons line up in aisle 1, classified docs in aisle 2, WMD in aisle 3, illegal drugs in aisle 4. All others with contraband not included in this list, line up in aisle 5. It may be a few minutes till we get to you. That is all.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I doubt anyone would bring a toy gun into any DC building these days. It just doesn't happen.

[hispanarepublicana]

There have been times that I've been lost in the Cannon building and felt like it would be YEARS before anybody found me.......

[OldFriend]

Staffers........

Seems they put their backpacks on the scanner. The guard was not paying any attention. They innocenly went on their way. Only after they have moved on did the guard take a look at the screen and notice the gun. Panic ensued!!!

The guard ought to be fired IMMEDIATELY......and the staffers really did nothing wrong....unless they're dems who vote FOR zero tolerance gun control laws.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

It takes time to clean up sleeper-cells, especially when you have to give lip service to the "religion of peace."

They are all damned and they will lose.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

No charges will be filed.

None that we hear about, anyway.

[mhking]

So if 10 bad guys buy swat gear and move in on a government building do you think they could get in?

"Unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved..."

[mewzilla]

Well, if there's no law against bringing a fake weapon onto the Capitol, there bloody well ought to be one.

[Mo1]

MSNBC: No charges will be filed..

Lovely .. Our kids get kicked out of school for a keychain

But these 2 idiots bring a toy gun into a Federal Building and Nothing

What is wrong with this picture

[OldFriend]

The guard needs to be fired IMMEDIATELY, or SOONER!

[prairiebreeze]

The staffers used extremely poor judgement...

Prairie

[OldFriend]

The guard needs to be fired IMMEDIATELY, or SOONER!

[Not A Snowbird]

ho jeez! theres 295's, 395's and 495's. you can't escape them resistence is futile! if yer not careful I-395 will getcha!!!

I left I-405 in California and moved up here to Washington, and what do I find? I-405! What the heck!

[hispanarepublicana]

The guard ought to be fired IMMEDIATELY

Fake guns don't kill people; fake security guards kill people.

[Not A Snowbird]

I've never seen goverment employees hurry to do anything.

Now, kitten, you've apparently never been standing in front of the elevator bank in the federal building at 4:30...

[OldFriend]

Incompetence kills.

[McGruff]

Here's a pretty good summary of the story so far:

Halloween Eve hoax leads to Cannon lockdown, House recess
By Mary Lynn F. Jones


A man playing a Halloween trick and carrying a plastic revolver swept past security in the Cannon House Office building today, causing the building to be locked down and the House to go into recess.


The man and a female companion are now in police custody. According to police reports, the man is white, in his early 20s, and is approximately 5-feet, 2-inches tall, weighing 140 pounds. He was wearing black pants and a black jacket and was carrying a black and gray backpack, which contained the plastic weapon.

A white female, also in her 20s, is approximately 5-feet, 5-inches tall with brown shoulder-length hair. She was wearing a pink shirt, khaki pants, sunglasses and carrying a maroon bag.

The police had launched an extensive, office-by-office search of the Cannon building, closed tunnels leading to other Capitol buildings and stationed officers at all entrances.

Rep. Bob Ney's (R-Ohio) office said the man put his backpack through an X-ray machine. The officer noticed that the backpack was suspicious, but the man grabbed it and then ran off.

Capitol Hill security was increased both after the 1998 shootings, in which two Capitol Police officers were killed in the line of duty, and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.