Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

end of a joke there

surprised this wasn't posted yet. some cop totally blew him away last night/this morning.

I think everyone is too busy worrying about Tiger Woods to follow the details of this incident.

Admittedly, I was xtra relieved to read Detective Troyer's little slam on Huckabee in his statement about Clemmon's death (apparently Huckabee commuted a 95-year sentence because Clemmons "found Jesus"(?).. not from Troyer, I should note... also now I know to use my Huckabee Jesus lifeline should I become criminally insane)

(should be noted that Clemmons claimed to BE Jesus Christ once, so really he "found himself")

"I'd like to use a lifeline; call a friend"
"Great! Who will you be calling?"
"HUCKABEE JESUS"

so this happened while i was visiting knoxville this week in advance of a move:

An Inskip Elementary School teacher was charged this afternoon with two counts of attempted first-degree murder in the shootings of the school's principal and assistant principal.

and yesterday a little farther south:

Three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville were shot to death, and three other people were seriously wounded at a biology faculty meeting on Friday afternoon, university officials said. The Associated Press reported that a biology professor, identified as Amy Bishop, was charged with murder.

similar cases: the teacher found out his contract wasn't being renewed, the professor found out she was denied tenure.

i'm sure the normal gun-nut chorus will start up: just goes to show, you need everybody to be armed...

rolling disgruntled shootings thread 2010

Olson would not elaborate on the injury or release the guy's name.

Can't believe a professional journalist would use the word "guy", and that the editorial staff didn't catch it and substitute, oh I dunno, "man". Can't wait till 10 years from now when words like "wtf" and "lol" begin to appear in the headline.

Not a shooting spree yet but the BBC are hovering over the village where Moat is (allegedly).

Police are handling this in a pretty melodramatic manner wrt their 'direct messages' to Moat- would be very interested thoughts on that Ned?

They got a split screen with one showing the news conference where they are asking the media not to fly over the village and in the other screen live pictures from over the village.

jesus

Reading Moat's letter...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/06/extracts-raoul-moat-letter-police
...I don't think he's in any mood to give up.

xp

Great advert for the overuse of steroids this guy

Bizarre thing - this morning the police said he had 2 hostages and now those 'hostages' have been arrested for 'conspiracy to commit murder'.

Beeb now talking to man in shop in village. They are so determined to get some action on this after missing out on the Cumbrian one.

Last night I called 999 and declared war on Northumbria police before shooting an officer on the West End A69 roundabout in his T5. Sitting there waiting to bully someone. Probably a single mum who couldn't afford her car tax.

Rang again and told them they're gonna pay for what they've done to me and Sam. I went straight but they couldn't let it go.

The public need not fear me but the police should as I won't stop till I'm dead.

On the night 3/7/10 I shot Chris Brown and Samantha Stobbart, after an argument earlier that evening, and here I will make all the facts clear so there is no misunderstanding.

They took it all from me, kids, freedom, house, then Sam and Chanel. Where could I go from there? Obviously I have issues but I was pushed. I never beat my kids. I could simply admit to anything now cos it doesn't matter.

I'm a killer and a maniac but I ain't no coward.

I was terrified of losing Sam, as I knew I'd lose the plot and that, and not wanted to do so stopped me from ever beating her and anyone saying otherwise can go on a lie detector.
Now I've realised Sam is really hurt I am gutted. I never meant that.

Moat then threatens to target hospital staff if they fail to save his ex-girlfriend.

Those doctors better save her or I'll hit that hospital. I still love her despite everything but my head is a mess right now and I know I'm too far gone to make much sense of it.

I guess I've finally lost it. I'm not on the run, I will keep killing police until I am dead.

They've hunted me for years, now it's my turn.

I am very sorry about Sam and wish I hadn't shot at her. Just make sure she stays alive.

I never cheated on her, I wish she hadn't on me. She pulled the trigger by doing so just as much as me.

Bloke in shop just said "normally you only see this on tv or news programme".

Probably a single mum who couldn't afford her car tax.

Desperate attempt to get Littlejohn's job.

when the cumbria killings happened one news meme was "sleepy cumbrian countryside where this sort of thing never happens", as if elsewhere gunmen shooting at people at random was par for the course.

It is in Hackney, according to another news meme

xp
That is EXACTLY the line on the beeb right now. That and "...the net is closing".

They are now explaining what "the net is closing" means...

...but what if he slips through the net?

Mesh issues, what you need there isn't police it's trawlermen, maybe a cross-organisational alliance?

i know i shouldn't really laugh, but ned's net gag just made me giggle somewhat.

His Facebook messages:

Friday 11.21am Just got out the slammer to a totally fucked life.

11.32am Lost my business. Kids to s services. Gonna lose my home and lost my mrs of nearly 6 years to a copper. Like they havent fucked my life enough over the years.

11.37am Well she aint the lassy I thought she was. Cant win the kids, as police have fucked me over there too.

11.44am Mate this ones a hard knock. Its that whole rebuilding life from scratch thing. Iaint 21 anymore.

11.54am Fucking strange how someone youve spent so long and treasured can turn on you like a pitbull. If Id fucked of with someone else id feel pretty shitty and definately twist the knife etc this ones a double hard knock.

12.22pm yea when its over its all a pile of chaos. How did a guy who had it all end up in this situation.

12.30pm Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, so if a lass can really love you and treat you right, then they can also swing the complete oppposite way eventually.

I ain't no coward.

http://auer83.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/o_rly1.jpg

^ he'll be writing a 49 page letter about how I ruined his life next

I ain't noel coward

http://halfhearteddude.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/noel_coward.jpg
"o rly"

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

so this guy shows up at a mate's house, police question the mate for hours the next day... then the guy shows up at mate's house AGAIN and no policeman is keeping an eye out????? christ

Not exactly covering themselves in glory here, the Northumbrian police

Odd, because usually when one of their own is involved, police efficiency rates miraculously improve exponentially

well yes let's not lose sight of the real villains here, the police.

^daraoulmoat

Oh blah blah blah but those inefficient fuckers are supposed to be protecting us (xp)

yeah but protecting ye from psycho gunmen on the run, it's not exactly sheepherding either.

altho as i said the melodrama of the public statements is a bit 'it's my chance to shine, ma'

Suddenly realised I've been to Rothbury very recently when I went to Cragside. If he can get there, mingle with the NT visitors, have a nice cream tea, that'll probably calm him down no end.

not blaming the police for anything.. and i guess it is easy to be all 20/20 hindsight and pile on any mistakes but seriously.. i'd imagine posting a set of eyes at the mate's house would be standard practice. no doubt it's a fucking weird feeling to be a policeman up there right now though, knowing you're this guy's explicit target!

well yeah that's not great stuff from the lads, they won't be happy when they see that later, as mick mccarthy would probably put it

Details emerged yesterday of a 49-page letter, dated 4 July, that Moat had written to police.

pretty sure 49 pages is a record for this kind of work, good going Newcastle

And they say the art of writing letters is dead

Dear Fascist bully boy...

Love the way Sky keep calling him a "quiet family man".

I never cheated on her, I wish she hadn't on me. She pulled the trigger by doing so just as much as me.

aaaaaagh, I wish serious harm on this fuck and a long, long life in prison.

oh, cosigned and i'm pretty sure that goes without saying WmC, but i'm also sure that any number of psycho profiles could claim this guy as a poster boy too.

49 pages in the same rambling incoherent waahburger style thrown together above is pretty managable imo, btw

Should send Douglas Hogg up there to clean him up.

Gonna lose my home and lost my mrs of nearly 6 years to a copper.

i know this is a mostly irrelevant detail to get hung up on, but isn't she 22 years old?