holy smokes the cops just blew someone away

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Snipers took out a hostage taker in front of the train station in rush hour.
Today just has all the hallmarks of a bad day.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Egads. Aren't you in Toronto? You would think they would have tried talking through it (which they probably did).

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently he shot someone in the PATH prior to this. News repors just keep flooding in. Along with delayed coworkers from the suburbs.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF?! They shot a man IN FRONT OF A TRAIN STATION IN RUSH HOUR?! How many hostages was he holding, and what was he planning on doing to them?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040825.whostage0825/BNStory/Front/

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ron Peattie, a pipefitter who was heading to BCE Place to work, told globeandmail.com's Allison Dunfield that he heard police yell "Hit the dirt! Everybody down!"

I can't believe the cops still say 'Hit the dirt'.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

hey man nice shot

― kephm, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thestar.com/images/thestar/img/040825_gunman_hostage_200.jpg

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know why I just posted that. I feel creepy now.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy fuck.

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

cbc.ca has fucking awful pictures.

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Sun (canoe.ca) as well.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy fuckity fuck fuck, I can't believe the cbc has a picture of that.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know what's weird? We have both Newsworld and CTV Newsnet or whatever on in here, and neither of them have show it.

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

a fukked up day for sure, i saw a motorcycle accident scene on the way in

― kephm, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

In New Orleans the cops will shoot a musician 11 times in broad daylight for being in a stolen truck, and it never makes it outside the local papers. The only danger he was posing was that he might have gotten away from the police.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1091613335109680.xml

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

holy fuknshit¡ i heard on the radio that front st. was closed due to "police activity"; but - wow¡

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/08/25/canada.shooting.reut/index.html

Interesting concluding sentence: "Gun violence is rare in Toronto, as in the rest of Canada, which has much tougher gun control laws than those in the United States."

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

this is pretty f'ed but i don't envy the cops who have to make these kinds of decisions.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

while going to those canadian news sites i read about maggie thatcher's son plotting a coup in some small african country WTF

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i know!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Did it mention that this small african country has far less stringent gun control laws than Canada?

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

welcome to the wacky world of canuk news.
slow news day here means we get everything down to fluff stories from belarus.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom caught part of this on her way to work this morning, she didn't see him get shot though. Toronto is getting to be more and more like Detroit every day.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 26 August 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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