Breaking News : 'Shots heard' in Capitol office

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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

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Not here, then?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta love the guy who was told about it by Blackberry.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Allegedly a press conference at noon EDT, about ten more minutes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Just like old times... http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/TDT2000/topics/completed-research/weston-indictment.html

Maybe the Black Heva is loose again.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Some witnesses have pointed out there is a firing range in the same building and on the same level as the garage.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Russell Eugene Weston Jr. told a court-appointed psychiatrist that he stormed the U.S. Capitol last summer, killing two police officers, to prevent the United States from being annihilated by disease and legions of cannibals.

"He described his belief that time was running out and that if he did not come to Washington, D.C., he would become infected with Black Heva," wrote Sally C. Johnson, the psychiatrist who examined Weston last fall. Weston called this imaginary ailment the "most deadliest disease known to mankind" and said it was spread by the rotting corpses of cannibals' victims, Johnson wrote.

Weston told Johnson he went to the Capitol to gain access to what he called "the ruby satellite," a device he said was kept in a Senate safe. That satellite, he insisted, was the key to putting a stop to cannibalism.

The former mental patient told another doctor that he fatally shot officers Jacob J. Chestnut and John M. Gibson on July 24 because they were cannibals who were keeping him from the satellite.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, now the building has gone back on lockdown.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Rep. Jefferson is makin' a break for it! Or he took the easy way out with a bullet from the freezer.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

if anyone's interested, you can find a list of which members' offices are in which building here

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Okay am I a terrible person if the first thought I had when reading that description of Weston's hallucination was "THAT WOULD BE A FUCKING AWESOME MOVIE"?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Umm, dude, that same thought process in reverse is surely what led to the delusions in the first place.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

what about if my a guy I know's first thought was, "yippee! The president is dead!"

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

It would be fun for a few minutes, but then you realize that Cheney would be in charge.

― Bluebell Madonna (Ex Leon), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be fine with that for the rest of the year, he'd be so grouchy that he'd resign by New Year's to prevent from seizing up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

exactly

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

then you realize that Cheney would be in charge
fuck no - Cheney's the guy what pulled der trigger. Oops! Sauced agin!

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

DEVELOPING STORY FROM CNN.COM!!!

http://home.cinci.rr.com/justamerican/images/Siren_animated.gif Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia says staffer from his office taken to the hospital after being "shaken up" by reports of gunman on Capitol Hill; staffer was not shot. http://home.cinci.rr.com/justamerican/images/Siren_animated.gif

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Zzzzzz

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://home.cinci.rr.com/justamerican/images/Siren_animated.gif

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

The absurdity of that siren gif gets me everytime.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

surely this calls for more Cheney the Experienced Hunter jokes.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

some artist needs to start building massive versions of those things and leaving them in public places

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

This has all the markings of the Black Hand.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Crnaruka.jpg

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

how probably is it that the member office from which the shaken-up staffer is stretchered out is also live-blogging the affair?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

weird. I was just just thinking Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

this is obviously some trivial bullshit - if anything serious had gone down we woulda heard about it by now.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

that's what They want you to think

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!

http://home.cinci.rr.com/justamerican/images/Siren_animated.gif

Capitol Police say the apparent gunshots that sparked a Capitol shutdown were likely caused by workers using tools!

http://home.cinci.rr.com/justamerican/images/Siren_animated.gif

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

look out! it's gunna go off again!

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

RIPOFF.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I was at least hoping for a suicide. it would've further fleshed out the US's contemporary parallels with Rome.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

More likely one of these, they use gunpowder caps to shoot nails.

http://www.rd.com/images/tfhimport/2000/Feb00_Using_Tools/20000201_Using_Tools_page002img002.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

"furring strip"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA

How many Capitol Hill staffers have to be shaken up before the citizens of this country smell the coffee?

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

furring strip >>>>> stripping furry

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Too many shots being drunk in Capitol office, more like.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

It was Dayton, wasn't it, who originally reported the gunfire.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I bet someone is feeling very stupid right now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

what would Dayton be doing in Rayburn?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 May 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

We used to regularly have fire alarms from construction work, book carts accidentally running into alarm detectors, accumulations of steam, etc. But now that I think about it, we've gone for months without one.

― youn (youn), Friday, 26 May 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

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