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Greg Lannes
10-22-2002, 01:10 PM
I know, I said I wouldn't talk about this anymore but JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH am I pissed.

Someone please kill that piece of shit "sniper". WTF, how many have to go through with what he's dealing out?


"Your standing too close,
what the fuck's with you,
you ain't my old lady and you ain't a tatoo,
no need to whimper,
no need to shout,
this party's over,
so GET THE FUCK OUT..."
Lyrics courtesy of Sebastian Bach. Music courtesy of Skid Row.
Xaroc
10-22-2002, 01:19 PM
I know, I said I wouldn't talk about this anymore but JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH am I pissed.

Someone please kill that piece of shit "sniper". WTF, how many have to go through with what he's dealing out?



I couldn't agree more. Morale is pretty bad here. They have to find that guy and soon.

-- Xaroc
Mark Asher
10-22-2002, 01:28 PM
What gets me is how fast he disappears. You'd think that they could seal off all the roads around an area within minutes of a shooting and nab him through a massive car search, but he's apparently long gone by the time they do that. I think the guy's shrewd, but I bet he's gotten a bit lucky too.

I doubt this is a terrorist act, but just think if it was and one of these shooters would pop up every couple of months in a different city. Talk about a jumpy nation.
Greg Lannes
10-22-2002, 01:33 PM
Yep guy's,

I couldn't agree with you more. He knows the area (evidently) very well and he's a stealthy little prick to boot.

After this morning it just enraged me, more so than 9/11 if you can believe that. I guess it's because he picks off anybody. No rhyme nor reason. Terrorism, possibly.....that'd be a real kick in the ass.

Best,

Greg
Anonymous
10-22-2002, 01:36 PM
Whoever's behind the "Greg Lannes" character is doing a great job.
Greg Lannes
10-22-2002, 01:38 PM
Whoever's behind the "Greg Lannes" character is doing a great job.

Hehe!

Ya cool.

Best,

Greg
Anonymous
10-22-2002, 02:20 PM
Yawn

How boring
Jason McCullough
10-22-2002, 02:40 PM
I thought I was the only person on earth who knew the lyrics to obscure Skid Row songs.
wumpus
10-22-2002, 02:41 PM
I blame videogames.
Brad Grenz
10-22-2002, 03:11 PM
Pembleton and Baylis caught this guy by now. What's the hold up?
Aszurom
10-22-2002, 05:17 PM
My chief concern at this point is that what the sniper is accomplishing is proving that this sort of thing can be done consistently and gotten away with. At the rate he's going, he'll get busted eventually - because even the perfect crime can't be repeated indefinitely.

However, I think once he is put down there's a distinct possibility of someone elsewhere taking up the hobby to fill the void in the media coverage.

I'm also wondering if this is a madman with a "message" or just a "man hunter" fetish of his. If he does have a message, only the cops know it if anyone... and you'd have thought he'd get his agenda out in the open by now if there was a "cause" we were supposed to connect this to. Basically, he's taking very poor advantage of his 15 minutes.
Greg Lannes
10-23-2002, 05:17 AM
My chief concern at this point is that what the sniper is accomplishing is proving that this sort of thing can be done consistently and gotten away with. At the rate he's going, he'll get busted eventually - because even the perfect crime can't be repeated indefinitely.

However, I think once he is put down there's a distinct possibility of someone elsewhere taking up the hobby to fill the void in the media coverage.

I'm also wondering if this is a madman with a "message" or just a "man hunter" fetish of his. If he does have a message, only the cops know it if anyone... and you'd have thought he'd get his agenda out in the open by now if there was a "cause" we were supposed to connect this to. Basically, he's taking very poor advantage of his 15 minutes.

Hey *IX*Aszurom,

Excellent use of the word "hobby". I sure hope your wrong there.

Best,

Greg
Aleck
10-23-2002, 05:26 AM
What gets me is how fast he disappears. You'd think that they could seal off all the roads around an area within minutes of a shooting and nab him through a massive car search, but he's apparently long gone by the time they do that. I think the guy's shrewd, but I bet he's gotten a bit lucky too.

I didn't follow yesterday's shooting too closely, but following the shooting in Falls Church (last week, the FBI woman) it took local law enforcement more than 30 mins to put up the roadblocks -- and they only blocked major highways. As someone who has lived in the DC area for almost a decade, I can tell you that there are dozens of secondary routes that commuters take because traffic is terrible on the major highways during rush hour. This guy is probably just taking back roads because, well, they're faster, easier, and the police aren't bothering to block them.

Xaroc's right -- morale here in DC is low. Some friends of mine run a local Italian restaurant. They say that overall they're down about 60% since the sniper attacks started. The only thing keeping the door open is that everyone is ordering food delivered using "Takeout Taxi."

According to the news this morning, all this guy wants is $10M. Almost seems worth it, if it wouldn't spawn a dozen imitators...

ASJunk
Brian Rucker
10-23-2002, 06:22 AM
You pay him once and he'll just come back next time he feels like he needs a new set of clubs. That's why we (supposedly) don't negotiate with terrorists.
deanco
10-23-2002, 08:01 AM
Golf clubs cost that much now? :shock:

DeanCo--
Tyjenks
10-23-2002, 09:07 AM
_Did the police really hang up on the sniper 5(five) times?
_Did they really miss the last note and the sniper had to call and tell them to go back to the scene of the latest shooting and grab it off a tree?
_Why is the F.B.I. not holding the press conferences?
_Does Chief Moose have some great dialogue going on?

Is there a CSI videogame out yet that can teach the authorities how to catch this person(s)?

I guess they are doing all they can, but some of this shit seems like the Keystone Kops!
Greg Lannes
10-23-2002, 10:29 AM
I guess they are doing all they can, but some of this shit seems like the Keystone Kops!

That my friend is funny! Hehe!

Oh well as long as a sense of humour remains it can only be bad for the dime store sniper.

Best,

Greg
Anonymous
10-23-2002, 12:42 PM
That my friend is funny! Hehe!

Oh well as long as a sense of humour remains it can only be bad for the dime store sniper.

Best,

Greg

Dude, "your" so busted. FAKE! Who is Greg Lannes?
Jim Hoffman
10-23-2002, 02:40 PM
You know how they put up beltway checkpoints right after a shooting? Well, what if the sniper just quietly drives away, a couple miles, without getting on the beltway, and just parks in some alley and listens to radio coverage for the next 5 hours?
Mark Asher
10-23-2002, 03:00 PM
Or just drives to a strip mall and shops and eats lunch for 3-4 hours rather than trying to get too far away?

The guy must be damn good at staking out a position, though. No one ever gets a good look at him.
TomChick
10-23-2002, 03:27 PM
The guy must be damn good at staking out a position, though. No one ever gets a good look at him.

I'm not too surprised at this. After years of playing Unreal Tournament, I'm well aware how hard it can be to find someone who's camping with the sniper rifle.

Now if he were to upgrade to the UT2003 lighting gun that traces a line back to your position...

Gack. That might have been in poor taste. At any rate, I'm not surprised no one's gotten a good look at him. Snipers are hard enough for trained military personnel to spot, much less panicked civilians. I can imagine how unnerving it must be to live in the DC area these days. Every time a car backfires, those poor folks must think he's struck again.

-Tom
T Elhajj
10-23-2002, 03:34 PM
[quote]Gack. That might have been in poor taste.

uh, yes.

I'm only surprised because it's exactly what I would have said, and frankly Tom, I have come to expect more from you. :)
Greg Lannes
10-23-2002, 03:40 PM
Hi Tom,

I don't think it was in poor taste, just humour that some people here don't get. :roll:

Mark and Jim,

You pretty much share the same thoughts as I do. As I said earlier, he's incredibly stealthy and I get the sense he is very cool headed in all of this.
I wonder if he's that rogue French lieutenant? I'm thinkin an AWOL foreign legionnaire, they did say he's of Yugoslavian origin so that's why I say Foreign Legion.

Best,

Greg
Anonymous
10-23-2002, 04:21 PM
Where is The Transporter when you need him? He would coat himself and the sniper in oil and squish around on a rooftop wiht him like a big homo, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Jason McCullough
10-23-2002, 04:32 PM
He'll turn out to be a loner, conservative white male, the same as the rest of them.
T Elhajj
10-23-2002, 05:45 PM
I heard on the radio just now that he may be an ex-Army guy from the Tacoma, WA area.
Anonymous
10-23-2002, 06:18 PM
"He'll turn out to be a loner, conservative white male,"

sounds like your typical Quarter To Three poster.
Aszurom
10-23-2002, 06:26 PM
Yeah, CNN has had about an hour now of showing FBI guys in some back yard with metal detectors, and the hauling-off of an old tree stump.

I'm sorta disappointed that they're apparently on the verge of getting this guy... I was about to suggest that we start a "sniper lottery", where everybody puts in $10 and tries to pick his final score. However, unless they don't already have this guy in custody (and why would they permit transmission of the search if the guy could still run? He KNOWS that's his house.) it looks like the final is going to be 10-3
Aszurom
10-23-2002, 06:35 PM
Check this shit out...

http://www.247news.net/2002/sniper2.shtml

It's the "satan sniper"... he's forming an inverted pentagram! OHS NO!
Anonymous
10-23-2002, 07:52 PM
sounds like your typical Quarter To Three poster.

Very funny fatso.
Anonymous
10-23-2002, 08:45 PM
huh?
Brad Grenz
10-23-2002, 09:34 PM
Yeah, there was team coverage here in the Northwest of the "Breaking News" about a Tacoma connection. They interview a neighbor and asked her if she ever heard anything sounding like gunfire coming from his yard. Huh? Like he practices on the front lawn... Damn local news... Squirrel bastard numskulls.
Jason McCullough
10-23-2002, 10:59 PM
Amusingly, I saw a report that the neighbors repeatedly complained to the police about gunfire coming from the Tacoma property.
Greg Lannes
10-24-2002, 05:03 AM
Hi Jason,


I just saw on CNN, perhaps I'm late to the show but they have in fact arrested two guys, a 40 year old and his step son at a rest stop. Within an hour after their names were broadcasted by Moose. My wife brought me up to speed actually.

I hope these are the guys and no more nonsense happens.

Best,

Greg
Dave Long
10-24-2002, 06:08 AM
According to the MSNBC story, one neighbor did complain in January about this guy. He heard no more than three shots at a time. They also apparently used the tree stump the authorities hauled away as their target and it may have the same type of bullet in the stump.

--Dave
Greg Lannes
10-24-2002, 08:33 AM
Hi Dave,

Indeed I've heard that much as well.

Nevertheless it's more optimistic sounding at this time than monday's ill fated effort.

Best,

Greg
Anonymous
10-24-2002, 09:09 AM
Just goes to show...

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