On 8/26/2012 7:23 PM, Christopher M. wrote:
> "George" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 8/25/2012 9:11 PM, Christopher M. wrote:
>>> "Pete C." > wrote in message
>>> .com...
>>>>
>>>> "Christopher M." wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Pete C." > wrote in message
>>>>> .com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> graham wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Andy" > wrote in message
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> OT: Craziness in NYC!!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Noon TV news reported earlier this morning, a crazed gunman at the
>>>>>>>> Empire
>>>>>>>> State building in midtown Manhattan at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue
>>>>>>>> shot
>>>>>>>> randomly at passers by. Two dead, nine injured.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The mayor reported some injured were, in the confusion, were shot by
>>>>>>>> police.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Crazy nuts to my left <---> crazy nuts to my right!!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Crazy!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Andy
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Guns don't kill people!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But people with guns sure as hell do!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Police with guns sure do. As a non-criminal civilian your odds are
>>>>>> much
>>>>>> higher for being shot by careless police than by a civilian.
>>>>>
>>>>> You could make the same argument with car chases. But if no one
>>>>> enforces
>>>>> the
>>>>> law there's chaos. The thin blue line must be preserved.
>>>>
>>>> Have you noted that nearly everywhere the police now have rules
>>>> prohibiting nearly all car chases? Nearly every car chase scenario ends
>>>> worse than simply letting the suspect get away and finding them later in
>>>> a safer environment. In this NYC case the police did not have an active
>>>> shooter to respond to until they initiated the confrontation, prior to
>>>> that they had a suspect leaving the area, nothing more.
>>>
>>> How do you know the suspect wasn't planning to shoot more people? Could
>>> you
>>> read his mind?
>>>
>>
>> Consider the whole series of events. Guy shoots and kills former boss and
>> it is witnessed by construction workers. The construction worker finds
>> cops on foot patrol and points out the person. Cops pursue the person with
>> no weapon in sight until they either confront him or he spots them .
>
> So the construction workers read the guys mind. The construction workers
> read his mind, and learned that he wanted to kill his former boss. And since
> the guy had no weapon in sight that meant that his shooting activities were
> over, and he was on his way to Weight Watchers.
>
>
> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)
>
>
OK, but I wrote nothing like that. Maybe read what I wrote and give it
some consideration.