Just got word there's an active shooter at the local university, and the campus (ASU) has been locked down.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2015 9:48:37 am PST #11113 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
meara - Dec 10, 2015 9:54:39 am PST #11114 of 30003
Good grief. You're not there Matt, right? This should not be so commonplace.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 10, 2015 9:58:27 am PST #11115 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Seriously? This is crazy!
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2015 9:59:44 am PST #11116 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
No, I'm about 5 miles away. Apparently active shooter may have been a misnomer, reports are no shots were fired and police now have the suspect surrounded. He drove onto the student union lawn, drove donuts, and got out waving a gun and a gas can.
SuziQ - Dec 10, 2015 10:02:31 am PST #11117 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Stay safe, Matt. Crazy.
Part of the new volunteer training I give each month goes over various emergencies - fire, horse related issues, tornado...and active shooter. Over the last 6 months I've seen trainees go from being bored during the active shooter portion to being on full alert and asking questions.
-t - Dec 10, 2015 10:18:09 am PST #11118 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Stay safe, Matt!
The only mandatory emergency training we've had is armed intruder. The fire extinguisher training was voluntary. I think we got a page to read and sign-that-we-had-read on earthquakes. And we've been affected by an earthquake since I've been working here (didn't hit during work hours, but still). Oh, wait, no, we covered heat stroke, which is a good one to include here if you're going to cherry pick.
Anyway. Pretty curious about what history will have to say about the 21st century.
Beverly - Dec 10, 2015 10:38:38 am PST #11119 of 30003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
OMG, Matt, stay safe. Ditto everybody else in your vicinity.
What to get those hard-to-buy-for folks for Christmas this year? Your very own dedicated to you mass shooting! For a small additional fee, you can be included in the shootees, and for a significantly larger fee, you get to hold a firearm and participate yourself! The latest rage, everywhere!
There is surprisingly little coverage on this since The Donald monopolizes the news cycle
It's deliberate. Other "serious" Presidential candidates and corrupt public organizations alike are using his antics as a distraction--"Look! Look at the shiny! See how silly! Don't notice what we're doing over here."
Yeah, they *gave* us the pill popper and demonstrated its use when I threatened to bring Jenny to the office twice a day until her course of meds was done, to let the vet staff dose her. It worked pretty well. She still managed to spit the pill out a few times.
Shir - Dec 10, 2015 10:43:57 am PST #11120 of 30003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Guys? I think it means something when I'm more concerned about your safety in the States than my own in Jerusalem.
Please stay safe, and fingers crossed for a quick and peaceful solution of shooters events.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2015 10:54:01 am PST #11121 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
ASU gunman now in custody according to JPD, no one harmed so far as I know.
He was apparently a redneck protesting something. I suspect Obama taking his guns away, from the sound of the intelligence involved.
msbelle - Dec 10, 2015 10:54:11 am PST #11122 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Gift for the people you don't know what to get or has everything is a donation to planned parenthood or everytown for gun safety.