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sweet fucking jesus what's going on in atlanta

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― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

I was wondering about that. The BBC report was sketchy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah i flipped from the carolina/clemson game to cnn and the first thing i hear is 'atlanta in lockdown...3 and a half years to the day after 9/11' and i'm like 'wtf' but it's some lowerkey drama thank god. still, MANHUNT!!!

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

A few weeks ago at the courthouse in Tyler (east Texas) a guy opened fire killing his ex-wife, a baliff, and then an bystander who carried a concealed weapon and tried to stop the guy. Although he was an excellent shot the good samitarian didn't know the shooter was wearing a vest and was promptly shot dead for his efforts.

Following a car pursuit I beleive the shooter killed an officer before he was finally brought down.

courthouses are scary places these days.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

i kinda think the phrase "three-and-a-half years to the day" shd have tipped you off this wz not 9/11 related

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

woah the description sounds so much like
http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/images/ig/0002713,01.jpeg

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

a sheriff's sergeant was escorting a prisoner into Barnes' courtroom when the prisoner grabbed the sergeant's gun and shot the judge and sergeant.

That kind of careless shit happens in the movies to the point of predictability.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

But the Madrid bombings were a year ago today, and two and a half years to the day after 9/11. There are all manner of conspiracists who would have you believe these dates are not coincidental.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

This was not a terrorist. Why anyone would make any kind of connection is baffing.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

b/c American news outlets thirst for terror these days.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

But it's so baldly idiotic!

Yeah, I guess I'm not surprised. Just disgusted.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

There are all manner of conspiracists who would have you believe these dates are not coincidental.

that's mostly the media isnt it. esp bringing it up in this context is just sensationalism.

x-posts.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I don't think it's terrorism-related. I'm just saying to mark s why people might think to mention the date (other than that news channels totally run out of ways to report stuff)

xpost

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

half of five i can just about swing to, link-wise
half of seven = unconnected

sorry this is distracting from the actual story here

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

(other than that news channels totally run out of ways to report stuff)

That's what's so crazy. Isn't "Maniac Rampages Through Courtroom, Killing Two" sensationalistic enough without trying to justify the war in Iraq with it?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Three, I mean. He killed three people.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

well it was sensationalistic and it worked cuz my first reaction glaring 'BREAKING NEWS: ATLANTA' and reporters noting relations to 9/11 and 'ATLANTA UNDER LOCKDOWN' is to suspect gee maybe a terrorist attack happened in atlanta (god knows it wouldn't be the first time) and o yeah most of my relatives and many of my friends live/work in atlanta and cnn felt the need to psyche me out about the possibility of their being in danger so i wouldn't flip by their channel. assholes.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

you get the sense they are praying for another 9/11 so we'll all watch tv all day again-->if they can remind us of that "feeling" we'll get all excited and watch.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

whereas now, my rather selfish concern (beyond 'this is interesting/exciting' and feeling sad for the families of those who died) is wondering if i'm gonna have traffic issues going to the sec tourney tonight.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

News of the shooting shocked those who knew Barnes, described as a fair judge

Fair is in fair-to-middling, I wonder, or fair as in didn't maliciously lock up innocent people?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

The former definition of "fair" is used here far less often so I'm sure they meant the latter.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Fair as in pale-skinned.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

He was also described as "bonny."

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Nichols, who also faced charges of sodomy....

WTF?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

i heard that dude's a Unix Admin. think they'll blame this on staring at the "kill" command for 18 years?

― Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that's a grept pun.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Sodomy charges are often included in sexual-assault cases. (spec. 'aggravated sodomy' - forced oral/anal sex or pedo-related)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I suppose that's different from rape or battery.... I was thinking that it seems like rape & battery would cover it, and the sodomy charge was just something else they could throw at him - like he was also charged with wearing a hat in a church.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

i work in a courthouse. we get occasional bomb threats or someone will pull the fire alarm. but now the bailiff in my division is totally 'gearing up'. i may have to armed with mace.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I heard about this. Hope he isn't anywhere nearby me.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

near, rather

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

you're a cunt for that you know

― fr33 gr4mm3r, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

you misspelled "stud"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

they got him

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Only a few miles from me, no less. I know people who used to live in the apartment building where they surrounded him.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

A friend reports that Rush Limbaugh somehow managed to blame this on Hillary Clinton. I guessed he used it on his show yesterday as a jumping-off point to squeal about Hillary wanting to restore voting rights to ex-felons. Something like, oh, is this the kind of guy she wants to give voting rights to?

(Obviously somewhat missing the point that there's nothing ex- about this guy's felon status.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

haha the two rightwing spins i've heard most:

1) this is what happens when you have POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!

2) this obviously happened becuz of rap music

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

The German TV report I'm seeing on this is much more interesting than the American ones.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Hmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

hey curt1s (and other atlantans)...is there really 3 months' supply of water left before the reservoirs run dry?

― Just got offed, Saturday, 20 October 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

tennessee valley = america's next dust bowl

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago)

this is going to happen every summer and just keep getting worse

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:13 (seventeen years ago)

the republican governor is putting it down to mussel fields y/n? global warming deniers are dangerous, stupid cunts.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 21 October 2007 08:52 (seventeen years ago)

whatever man, i'll keep my sprinklers on at night if i goddamn feel like it

― cankles, Sunday, 21 October 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

So now it's weeks before it runs out? The gov is relying on God to solve the problem?

I'm guessing Dandy Don would be the answer man?

― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago)

(to answer what's going on, that is, not solve the problem.)

― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

so what's happened to all the water anyways? is coke watering down their product too much? is it just not raining enough? what feeds the reservoirs?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

(non cwazy-don answers plz)

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

drought + overdevelopment

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

people watering their fucking huge mcmansion yards in the exurbs during a record dry summer

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

Hurricane season hasn't been very active in the past two years down south, I can imagine GA gets some of that water as they move inland.

I heard the NC mountains supply water via melting snow but there hasn't been much snow.

I'm sure a thirsty Atlantan can provide more insight.

― brownie, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

also, building a city where there's no natural lake or river

― brownie, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

I think everyone in Atlanta is too parched to respond to this thread.

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

someone check on ade langston please

― omar little, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.american-lawns.com/history/history_lawn.html

fuck you american garden club

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

oh like ade or ethan seem like the kind of people who need tap water

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

So apparently the rain finally came.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 November 2007 05:24 (seventeen years ago)

They'll need months of above-average rainfall before anybody can unclench their ass, and this winter is predicted to be drier than normal, again.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 15 November 2007 05:53 (seventeen years ago)

everyone I know's been v. conscientious about cutting back on thee tap

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 15 November 2007 06:59 (seventeen years ago)

Soon Atlanta's ass table will be back up to normal levels.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 15 November 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

One of my favorite professors, RIP, taught an entire seminar every other year on how fucked up lawns are. I wish I had gotten to take it.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 15 November 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

I'm very pleased with my folks that they took out their front lawn a while back in favor of flowers and plants that suit a dryer California climate -- all the more important since where they're at has also faced water shortages in recent years. (Backyard hadn't been a lawn to start with, happily.)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 November 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

bomb the south

― gbx, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

i meant the suburbs there, sorry

― gbx, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago)

Suburbs suck.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

Why Grow Grass?
You may have asked yourself this question at one time or another. It's like a child's question such as: why is the sky blue? We grow grass for one reason: we can mow it and it survives, even thrives. Any other plant, even most other grasses would die after being mowed with any regularity. There are over 10,000 species of grass, yet only about 50 of those are suitable for use in a lawn.

Why can lawn grasses be regularly mown without dying, and still maintain a healthy and attractive appearance? Unlike most plants, lawn grasses grow from the base of the plant, well below the sharpened rotating lawn mower blade. Other plants grow at the tips that don't respond well to being repeatedly cut.

The process of mowing is actually reducing the plants leaves and cutting down its ability to use photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process that takes carbon dioxide from the air and turns it into carbohydrates that the plant uses for food. When the plant looses some of this ability, it overcompensates by producing additional leaves. The result: an even thicker, denser lawn.

So, the answer to the question "why grow grass?" is: because it's the one plant that adapts best for the environment we've created for ourselves.

― gbx, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

o_O

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

Q: why grow grass
A: because it's grass, duh!

― gbx, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.freudfile.org/jung/ouroboros.jpg

― gbx, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

uh I think the drought has very little to do with belligerent suburbanites continuing to water their lawns, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

glub glub

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago)

thousands of dollars worth of damage to my lawn. You know, the lawn that I completely landscaped a couple of years ago.

― Where is Stephen Gobie? (Dandy Don Weiner), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago)

Well, at least the reservoirs are in good shape...

Sorry about your lawn though.

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago)


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