Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Thursday, Oct. 17

FNC, CNN, MooseChief, Presstitutes | 17 October '02

[tomkat]

"To avoid multiple vanity threads regarding any news from press conferences, let's keep a live commentary thread going again today."
Peach

[OReilly]

"I May Be Wrong, But I Doubt It."

I have to go get something for you... I'll be back.

[Ligeia]

this quiet must be driving the people in the DC/MD/VA area crazy..

The quiet is nice, and I want to refute the press and media claims that we are 'paralyzed' and 'gripped with fear.' We are on edge somewhat, we are modifying our lives to a small degree; but we are stronger than the media reports. Some have worried here about gallows humor. Gallows humor has helped us a lot. We joke about walking around wearing targets and bullseyes and we laugh nervously. We worry about our loved ones more than ourselves. Everywhere people are going on with their lives. Maybe it's the liberals in the media who are having such a hard time dealing with adversity.

Oct 16, 2002

'Need to be vigilant'

Sorrow, anxiety, fear in Falls Church BY FRANK GREEN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

Candles and flowers were left near the spot in a Falls Church parking deck where FBI analyst Linda H. Franklin was fatally shot Monday night. (BRUCE PARKER)

FALLS CHURCH - Four white votive candles and plastic flowers marked the spot on the filthy pavement where Linda Franklin was felled by a bullet hours earlier.

Lidia Salinas, who lives near the Seven Corners Shopping Center, stood over the makeshift memorial and cried softly in the face of television cameras.

"She said that she feels sad. She says that she doesn't know the person but feels like a part of her family," said a young girl translating Salinas' Spanish for reporters.

Once again, traffic cones and police tape were geographic margins of a tragedy triggered by a sniper - this time in the ground level of a parking deck at the Seven Corners Shopping Center.

Virginians such as Salinas came to grips in their own ways yesterday with the anonymous killer's latest outrage.

Some stayed at home. But the vast majority went on with their lives. Many, however, were avoiding Seven Corners. Stores on the opposite side of the center from the crime scene opened at 10 a.m., but by 11 most of the vehicles in the lot belonged to store employees. Continue

[Sacajaweau]

Valley girl...I'm laughing like heck here. You could write on the pavt WHILE you were on your belly. We assume you're smart enough to hit the deck.

Sac

[ET(end tyranny)]

Got any idea what the cop said?

[Kip Lange]

I thought the instruction to have a pen and paper along at all times to write stuff down was amusing.

"9:51 -- Guy next to me got shot."
"9:52 -- Ran like hell."

[valleygal]

HA! I thought about that after I posted. I guess I should have asked first. LOL!

[valleygal]

OK :)

[Sacajaweau]

The cop rushed over to the lady? He probably moved her in some way which may have screwed up the trajectory "stuff", etc..who knows??

Sac

[Kip Lange]

The truly depressing thing is that (and I bet LE will admit this in private) the best shot at getting the SOBs is if they hit again. :-(

[valleygal]

ROFL! Wiping tears from my eyes!

[Ligeia]

Thankfully, the condition of the boy who was struck has been upgraded from critical to serious today.

[ET(end tyranny)]

The truly depressing thing is that (and I bet LE will admit this in private) the best shot at getting the SOBs is if they hit again. :-(

Thought about that myself. Even wondered if the cops ought to stick a white truck somewhere and then show film of it being towed, and then talk about questioning someone. Seems that every time they say they are questioning someone that the shooter comes out.

But I hate to have someone get shot, just to get the SOB out in the open again. *sigh*

[valleygal]

Took me so long to respond because I lost my connection and then had to answer the phone 5 times.

Oh man, that was funny.

[Yaelle]

I have this image in my head of witnesses rushing up to the cops, lifting their shirts, and reading license #s and perp descriptions from their bellies!!! ROFL!

[valleygal]

ROFL again!

[Yaelle]

Sorry, I can't stop... What if the witnesses just lay there supine to stay safe and raised their shirts and let the spy planes READ the info off their bellies?? LOL!

[valleygal]

Yaelle, you are too funny!

And I hate to leave but I've got kids to pick up and my daughter is swimming in the City HS meet. Duty calls.

But I leave with a very big smile on my face.:) Will be back later!

[archy]

Why do you reckon they called those old siege machines catapults?

[archy]

Remember Mooses' weirdo comment....

You may have to be a little more specific. I'm expecting a crowning gem along the lines of *the shooter was as white as the Ace of Spades,* anytime now though....

[OReilly]

Recently a routine police patrol parked outside a local neighborhood bar.
Late in the evening the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes with the officer quietly observing.

After what seemed an eternity and trying his keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his own car, which he fell into. He was there for a few minutes as a number of other patrons left the bar and drove off.

Finally he started the car, switched the wipers on and off (it was a dry night), flicked the hazard flasher on and off, tooted the horn and then switched on the lights. He moved the vehicle forward a few inches,reversed a little, and then remained stationary for a few more minutes as more patrons left in their vehicles. At last, he pulled out of the parking lot and started to drive slowly down the street.

The police officer, having patiently waited all this time, now started up his patrol car, put on the flashing lights, promptly pulled the man over and carried out a breathalyzer test. To his amazement the breathalyzer indicated no evidence of the man having consumed alcohol at all!

Dumbfounded, the officer said "I'll have to ask you to accompany me to the Police station this breathalyzer equipment must be broken."

"I doubt it," said the man, "Tonight, I'm the designated decoy."