Posted on 01/30/2006 10:09:58 PM PST by JennysCool
No kidding. It's been so long since we heard about a postal employee going postal, I thought it was a think of the past.
How terrible for the families. What is it with people?
The warm smell of Goleta rising up through the air ...
You know what it is? I think things like this are the ultimate in taking one's self too seriously, mixed with the notion that whatever happens to you is always somebody else's fault.
Hm. The two of those things together equal a narcisstic complex, no? I wonder how many murderers are that way.
Just spoke with m-i-l. The sorting facility and her post office aren't the same thing..so, no direct knowledge of the folks involved.
I can understand riding down Glenn Annie to get to KMart or via Hollister, which is parallel to El Colegio, but the reply, as written confuses me. Sorry.
Typical of such shootings, though, you will probably find later on that the shooter was a nut case, or in competition for the attention of one of the men she shot.
The usual.
Plus, as you pointed out, none of the postal employees were armed, or, if they were armed, this gal AVOIDED them by coming in through the electronically controlled employee entrance door WHERE THERE IS NO ARMED GUARD.
Most likely one of the people dead outside doesn't have her key, and that's how this gal got in.
She didn't go in the platform because there are people there with guns ~ they call them truckdrivers ~ it does get dicey out there sometimes ~ actually, it's darned dangerous most of the time because this area simply isn't all that visible from main roads or other public areas.
Sometimes a postal guard nails one of these crazoids. Apparantly the guards weren't around, or someone justified reducing the number of armed guards by pointing to how cheap the electronic employee entrance door was. I hope she enjoys her merit pay raise, eh!
BTW, the Board of Governors made it a firing offense (plus prosecution) for an employee to bring a firearm on the premises of a post office. That means no one had a gun in the car out in the parking lot. Or, if they had a gun in their car, it was off site parked on local streets. Your car, parked at the post office, is always subject to search.
Post offices are high risk ~ a crazoid with a gun can just tear through there killing at will.
As far as I'm concerned the USPS Board of Governors murdered these people just as certainly as if they'd put guns to their heads.
Those putzfaces face little risk themselves, and never go anywhere without positive armed guard protection.
Would that it were so. I think I spent as long as 18 months once without a major reorganization.
Yes. Agreed.
And, news reports do indicate she was a known nutjob.
Whoops. I meant Los Carneros, not El Colegio. (It was an exciting night!)
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