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John Wolver
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 01:52 am |
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Eric.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 02:02 am |
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Was this cyclist on school property or just riding by? Back to my legality thread, but if he/she was just riding by I think that is completely legal. The story notes the motorist was on Milwaukee Ave. Was the cyclist as well?
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John Wolver
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 04:50 am |
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| what i get out of it, they were riding by.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 05:26 am |
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Sounds to me like the cyclist was riding by and it is still unknown if the cyclist even had a gun on not, just something a motorist (most likely a sheeple) thought they saw.
KIVI is saying the weapon was a shotgun....
http://www.kivitv.com/global/story.asp?s=11443306Last edited on Thu Nov 5th, 2009 05:31 am by Vandal
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 07:48 pm |
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Overreaction by everyone involved, the original "witness", police, school officials and, of course, the media.
What a stupid thing to let get out of control.
Worse than watching 24.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 08:06 pm |
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Just because the witness, school officials, police, and the media were stupid, that no reason to knock a good tv series. he he 
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Posted: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 07:49 am |
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Argh -- just watched season 5 on DVD this week and was apalled at the portrayal of the all-powerful CTU. What with all the blabbering of protocols, sockets, throwing people in holding/detention, arrests, escapes, re-arrests, mis-management, insanity and general professional bureaucratic confusion it struck me as a horrible picture. Yes, it's "television land" but still, it was pretty awful.
My wife (Russian) is insistent that we get the other seasons ASAP, she loves the way they have all these Russian criminals and terrorists as well as the American President.
And we wonder where the rest of the world gets their generally low opinion of the American system?
Sigh......
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Eric.
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Posted: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 05:00 pm |
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watching them in order really helps the story more than most tv series. The bureaucracy is disgusting, but the hero(s) continually ditch the system (with full willingness to accept the responsibility of doing so) to follow their morals.
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John Wolver
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Posted: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 05:05 pm |
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ecocks wrote: Argh -- just watched season 5 on DVD this week and was apalled at the portrayal of the all-powerful CTU. What with all the blabbering of protocols, sockets, throwing people in holding/detention, arrests, escapes, re-arrests, mis-management, insanity and general professional bureaucratic confusion it struck me as a horrible picture. Yes, it's "television land" but still, it was pretty awful.
My wife (Russian) is insistent that we get the other seasons ASAP, she loves the way they have all these Russian criminals and terrorists as well as the American President.
And we wonder where the rest of the world gets their generally low opinion of the American system?
Sigh......
agreed
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John Wolver
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Posted: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 05:06 pm |
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ecocks wrote: Argh -- just watched season 5 on DVD this week and was apalled at the portrayal of the all-powerful CTU. What with all the blabbering of protocols, sockets, throwing people in holding/detention, arrests, escapes, re-arrests, mis-management, insanity and general professional bureaucratic confusion it struck me as a horrible picture. Yes, it's "television land" but still, it was pretty awful.
My wife (Russian) is insistent that we get the other seasons ASAP, she loves the way they have all these Russian criminals and terrorists as well as the American President.
And we wonder where the rest of the world gets their generally low opinion of the American system?
Sigh......
agreed
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Posted: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 09:48 pm |
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Yeah, I think is the residual momentum of free enterprise that has carried us thus far. However, the sand of socialistic, bureaucratic thinking and policies are doing what they can to halt the engine of progress and prosperity. As goes liberty, so goes prosperity.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10th, 2009 10:20 pm |
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I think I may know who they saw. I have seen a guy, probably in his late 40s or early 50s, that rides around in that area on his bike and has a nightstick hanging off of his belt. I have seen him in a couple of stores over there, like Home Depot and Winco. I could see how someone driving by could mistake that for a gun as it's pretty visible.
Of course, that doesn't mean the "MWAG" (man with a gun) call is justified. I also agree over-reaction on the part of the caller/police if the guy wasn't on school property.
...and what keeps playing through my head with the mental picture of the guy on the bike riding past the school is the music from The Wizard of Oz where the mean old lady from down the lane takes Toto and rides off on her bike (and then turns in to the Wicked Witch of the West).
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Posted: Thu Nov 12th, 2009 08:53 pm |
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I discussed this bit of news with my girlfriend, who is quite liberal in many ways. She found it to be a reasonable, justified action, and thinks that sort of thing should be done every time a firearm is seen near a school.
After a nice, long facepalm, I realized I have a lot of educating to do...
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Posted: Thu Nov 12th, 2009 10:19 pm |
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| or find a new girl...... sometimes that is the only education to be done. how is she with you carrying openly?
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Posted: Fri Nov 13th, 2009 02:16 pm |
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| She's fine with it. Owns a couple firearms herself, for that matter, and learned to shoot at a young age.
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Posted: Fri Nov 13th, 2009 06:34 pm |
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