Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Holy. Crap. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.html?cnn=yes This idiot, mad because he was denied a liquor license months earlier, arrived at the Super Bowl area last Sunday with a rifle and 200 rounds of ammo, prepared to "make people pay". From the article: Quote:
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If this deranged knob had put 1/3 of the effort into naming his dream bar as he obviously put into his eight page "manifesto" (I couldn't write eight pages about my entire life), then maybe this all could've been avoided. You can babble on for eight pages about your trampled dreams, but you can't come up with something better than "Drunkenstein's"? Even "The Haunted Castle" kinda sucks (if that was the real name). There's your problem, slick. Priorities and focus. Quote:
This goes down as one of the more idiotic, "WTF?" stories I've seen in a while. And to think that last Sunday's good vibe - exciting game, Petty's performance, etc. - came this close to being undone by this clown. Amazing. And sad, if that had been the story of the day instead. Sometimes we just never really know how close we come to nutty stuff like this. All it would've taken was for him to follow through with his master plan and squeeze off a few rounds, and a wonderful day would've been ruined by one idiot. Kinda scary... |
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Thunderbolt, fuck yeah!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Denmark
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Wow.
Manifesto writing. That's where the party is! Last edited by Mugge : 2008-02-08 at 09:45. |
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Who the fuck turns themselves in for a crime they almost committed?
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Not sayin', just sayin'
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Methinks "manifesto" makes his prattling letter sound more cogent than it actually was.
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I guess he thought he needed help, and scared himself that he came *that close*.
He certainly did open a whole can of worms for himself, huh? He could've just quietly driven back home and never spoke of it, but I guess he felt that wasn't enough? Probably no use trying to figure this guy out. He seems a bit off to begin with, if wiping out complete strangers on Super Bowl Sunday is his "solution" to being denied a liquor license for some shitty bar that nobody was asking for. Quote:
"Manifesto" makes it almost sound lofty and noble. |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Do you think he could be charged with attempted murder or something similar? He had the means, motive and opportunity, just no clearly defined victims... Scary stuff indeed.
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For a crime to take place, there needs to be an an offender, a victim and a lack of guardianship. None of those happened. Well, I always thought they were the cornerstones of an offense.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ottawa, ON
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The Super-Bowl thing did not happen, but the news just today has this happening:
6 dead after gunman storms U.S. city council meeting and this happening: Woman kills 2 students in Louisiana college classroom, takes her own life These things are so regular, they barely make more than a temporary ripple in the news. Now remember folks, the important thing to remember that this has NOTHING TO DO with all those guns floating about so easily available. It is very important to remember that. So very very important. Yes indeedy do. It is impossible that having a gun easily onhand could have any influence at all on a the outcome of a situation where someone loses it and then lashes out. There is simply no logical relationship. In fact, what we really need is more guns, which would allow people to respond to the gunfire with more gunfire. Sure, the crazies are likely to get their shots off anyway and the gunfire in response may turn public spaces into free fire zones, killing yet more people. But at least everyone dies happy, secure that their firearm rights have been preserved as they bleed out in agony on the floor. When there's an eel in the lake that's as long as a snake that's a moray. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Try harder to make some sort of point. I'm just not grasping it...you're being way to sideways and coy.
On a serious note, let's not louse up my thread and turn it into another one of "those" circular, contentious discussions (where it will get locked by mid-afternoon), please. Been enough of those around here lately. Thanks. The St. Louis guy sounds like another high-strung nutbag who felt "wronged" by The Man (the "go to city council meetings and interrupt the proceedings, grandstanding and monopolizing the time" kind of guy we all know and love). The Louisiana shooting is unusual in that it was a female shooter (and two female victims). That jumped out at me. Last edited by psmith2.0 : 2008-02-08 at 13:51. |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Florida's statute on attempted felony murder:
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Not Ohio - St. Louis, basically. Kirkwood MO is within the greater STL area, basically about 10 miles away from where I live and about 15 miles west southwest of the Arch. It's a STL suburb.
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I'm sorry. Yeah, St. Louis. I got my locations mixed up. Fixing it now...
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ottawa, ON
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