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this guy is obviously sharp. I gotta wonder if he didn't notice the two hispanics with the van every morning while canvasing a gas station and figured it would be funny to give that phone number to the cops, since those guys would obviously fit the original BOLO. It sure made law enforcement look stupid.

He's watching the news, and everytime they say he does or can't do something, he does the opposite to prove them wrong.

If he wasn't smart, they'd have traced him by now. He's probably using call forwarding from all over the globe.

When they came on last night and said they didn't understand him, I told my father he was probably going to get pissed off and kill someone else. The FBI can recover erased audio from the Watergate tapes, but they'd have the sniper believe they didn't record his message, and couldn't understand it.

I'm sure he asked for a wire transfer. I'm sure he knows exactly what's possible electronically, and knows that Moose & Co. are full of crap. Why the hell would he come to a PO box that would obviously be surveilled, leading to his capture?

They'll be lucky if he doesn't get pissed and kill someone else again tonight or tomorrow for screwing around with him and continuing to treat him like he's stupid.

I don't know how a wire transfer couldn't be traced. Banks don't routinely wire money to unknown destinations.

Granted, it would require cooperation from foreign authorities if a transfer were to an overseas bank, and then most likely to several more destinations in an attempt to launder it, but I don't see how you ever get it into your hands without an FBI agent there to immediately tackle you. Even if it's in Iraq.

Yeah it's total BS. Electronic transfer is easy. They just refuse because there is no advantage for the police. Although, if I were the police, I'd refuse too and try the idiot PO box drop. The Terrorist won't fall for it, but the cops are trying to see if he is that stupid -- I doubt it.

They'll be lucky if he doesn't get pissed and kill someone else again tonight or tomorrow for screwing around with him and continuing to treat him like he's stupid.

I think his average is about 30 hours between shots. Tick tock tick tock...another victim. We can just hope the sniper makes a mistake or we get lucky. It's so easy to shoot people randomly in a very large area and get away with it.

I am seeing a lot of speculation about what is going on and a lot of criticism of those in charge, but I really haven't seen a lot of serious suggestions about how to go about catching this guy or these guys, no mattter who they are. I have heard remarks made in jest and a lot of comments about arming the people, but tell me how having anybody armed in any of these situations would have made any difference.

We have a lot of really smart people on FR. I would be very interested in seeing what FReepers would do, if they were in charge, to end this.