chief moose gets his man?

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anybody following this? so weird.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

It just seems too weird, but then I suppose there's not much in the way of normal about someone randomly shooting people.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

They've caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

yep, im fascinated by it. glad they caught him though.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

the guy on cnn was holding himself back from laughing when he had to say the "duck in a noose" thing last night

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm reserving my opinion until there's more info. But the whole thing feels off, somehow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this was a thread about Anthony finding romantic happiness at last.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

if only.

so will they seek the death penalty for the 17yr old?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 24 October 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

no, he'll cop a deal and get prison for the rest of his life. good, he deserves to suffer everyday for the rest of his life and ponder in a 6' by 8' cell about what he did. little fucker.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 October 2002 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

huh?

he doesn't seem to have a lot of leverage to 'cop a deal'

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

he'll cop. i watch CSI, they all cop. hehe. :)

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

plus he's a minor, he won't get the chair.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Plus it's Maryland, which I don't believe has the death penalty. He could get the chair in Virginia, however.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"I sentence you to this lovely Chippendale with plush arms and a high back."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Why are we discussing the 17-year-old getting the chair? Unless I've missed most of the morning's news, police haven't yet made any claim that the two arrests are the actual sniper/s. (In fact, didn't they have separate public communications with the sniper/s even after closing in on these two?)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

People like fantasizing about killing 17 year olds, nabisco.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

A blog that Tracer Hand linked to a couple of days ago, higherclearing.com, which seems credible, is reporting that charges will be filed against the pair later today.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

i heard this morning that they had already filed weapons charges and 6 first degree murder charges on Muhammed?

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Maryland does have the death penalty (lethal injection) but is much less likely than Virginia (or Mississippi) to impose it.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 24 October 2002 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Looks like another Gulf War vet freaking out .

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 24 October 2002 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, the state was having second thoughts about death penalty recently. The governor halted them in the spring to look at race bias. I suspect this will affect pop. opinion.

The guy thinks he's Bob Dylan or something: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20021024_1217.html
Is this a popular story? I've never heard of it before.
tree stump = tree stump!?

― Mat Bo (Mat Bo), Thursday, 24 October 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Regardless of what happens in this case, I just can't stop saying "like a duck in a noose" now. It's just so preposterous it's great.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Despite all my rage, I am still just a duck in a noose.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 October 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I suspect this will affect pop. opinion.

Especially since a new Maryland governor will be elected this November.

According to NPR, Federal, Maryland and Virginia prosecutors met today to assess who has the best case against these two and which jurisdiction would be "best" for bringing charges.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 24 October 2002 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"In the ancient story, passed down through generations of Cherokee Indians, a rabbit brags that he can catch a duck. He throws a noose over the neck of a duck, but it flies away with the rabbit hanging on. Eventually the rabbit must let go, landing in a hollow tree stump"

I agree with Ned about somethig being "off" - they say that the Tacoma neighborhood is dense: if you missed the tree you'd hit a house - maybe that was a bad lead? Did Chief Moose mistake Washington State with D.C?

If these are the guys I'm glad they caught them but I can't help wondering what Mark Twain would make of the instructions for citizens to zig-zag; of the cops' delay in opening the first letter (which apparently contained a deadline to communicate); of the tip-line operators who hung up repeatedly on the sniper himself; of Chief Moose's faintly ridiculous apologies and cajolings... Twain has a great story about an elephant on the loose. A crestfallen man in charge of the Raja's prized possession tells the local police chief that it's missing. The chief pulls out a notebook, exuding professionalism and authority, and asks what color it is, its measurements, and its feeding habits. He tells his detectives to look for huge footprints and missing stacks of hay.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 October 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw this thread yesterday but haven't seen a television or a newspaper or another website since. so I don't actually know anything except what I have read here.

+is tom a sort of mildly accurate psychic that the police shoulda hired a while ago to help with their investigations?--

PJM - our pub conclusion was that the Tarot card thing was not a local mass murderer but a local 14 year old boy.
-- Tom ([email protected]), October 22nd, 2002.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 October 2002 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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