Yet another US shooting

[senorsoupe]

Lewiston, Maine is today's location 

[carpetmonster]

 

[Leith Green]

If only someone could put their finger on why this keeps happening....................

[RH33]

4 minutes ago, Leith Green said:

If only someone could put their finger on why this keeps happening....................

Triggering 

[djchapsticks]

Maine is already a place that gives me the heebie jeebies.

Maybe it's Stephen King's books, maybe it's the fact when flying over it, it appears to be about 75% forest and nothing good happens in forests. Maybe it's both.

An active shooter hardly eases up my negative stereotype of the place though.

[101]

Just the 22 shot dead up to 60 other injured, been a while since they had anything more than a wee rampage. No doubt they will be trying thoughts and prayers to see if that can sort this out.

Edited October 26, 2023 by 101

[Fullerene]

1 hour ago, djchapsticks said:

Maine is already a place that gives me the heebie jeebies.

Maybe it's Stephen King's books, maybe it's the fact when flying over it, it appears to be about 75% forest and nothing good happens in forests. Maybe it's both.

An active shooter hardly eases up my negative stereotype of the place though.

Actually it is 90% forest.

[badgerthewitness]

Get this nosey auld shite on the case.

 

[Granny Danger]

Bowling alley and restaurant.  Could he not have just left a shit review on Tripadvisor?

 

[AUcal]

Get your thoughts and prayers out folks. 

Murica, pew pew pew.

[The DA]

44 minutes ago, badgerthewitness said:

Get this nosey auld shite on the case.

 

I suspect he'll be meeting her soon enough.

[Hedgecutter]

Appears that there's a massive manhunt (involving 100+ officers) for the shooter with some proper Rambo-type sh*t going down:

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The man identified as a person of interest in a mass killing in Maine is a firearms instructor trained by the military and was recently committed to a mental health facility, according to a state police bulletin.

John Miller, chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst for CNN, described the weapon as an AR15-style rifle with a possible telescopic sight. He noted that the gunman was wearing blue tactical pants with “bulging” pockets, suggesting the possibility that he was carrying extra ammunition

Edited October 26, 2023 by Hedgecutter

[Shipa]

11 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

Appears that there's a massive manhunt for the shooter with some proper Rambo First Blood type sh*t going down:

There'll no doubt be plenty of Rambo wannabees volunteering to join the manhunt...

 

 

 

 

Until they realise that they might also get shot at!

[Granny Danger]

18 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

Appears that there's a massive manhunt (involving 100+ officers) for the shooter with some proper Rambo-type sh*t going down:

If I recall correctly the ‘Rambo type shit’ didn’t go so well for law enforcement.

[Hedgecutter]

Just now, Granny Danger said:

If I recall correctly the ‘Rambo type shit’ didn’t go so well for law enforcement.

and that was with sticks and stones rather than AR-15 style rifle.

[Miguel Sanchez]

"a firearms instructor trained by the military and was recently committed to a mental health facility, according to a state police bulletin."

[Barry Ferguson's Hat]

He's a Maineiac.

[welshbairn]

[Florentine_Pogen]

On 04/10/2023 at 16:47, ICTChris said:

I wonder what newspaper comments would've been like in the 1970s or 80s.

This has lodged in my brain for nigh on 50 years................Back in the 70's I used to read my old man's Evening News when he'd finished with it and there was a very regular Victor Meldrew-esque correspondent on the Reader's Comments page called Gordon B. McFeeters who lived out by Carricknowe. I've no idea if Mr. McFeeters was real or just a 'ghost reader' invented by some sub-editor but I found his name quite amusing and his letters, bordering on the bursting of blood vessels, were always worthy of reading. Kids playing football in the street, dogshit on pavements, the introduction of one-man buses, the formation of Lothian Regional Council were all targets of his ire. However, a photograph of myself sitting atop the Walter Scott statue during the Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade led to a particularly vituperative rant from GBM and the erection of barriers around Scott's statue by the Council.

I reckon social media headsgones would have been right up Mr. McFeeters alley.

ETA - Just realised this is the US Shootings thread and my post has zip to do with gun crime. All I can say to make the link is that if Gordon B. McFeeters had ever had access to an assault rifle, the football-in-the-street kids of Edinburgh would have been in grave danger.

 

Edited October 26, 2023 by Florentine_Pogen

[eindhovendee]

8 hours ago, djchapsticks said:

Maine is already a place that gives me the heebie jeebies.

Maybe it's Stephen King's books, maybe it's the fact when flying over it, it appears to be about 75% forest and nothing good happens in forests. Maybe it's both.

An active shooter hardly eases up my negative stereotype of the place though.

I've always felt the same, John Connolly novels with the Charlie Parker character are exactly like that, set in Maine, very creepy and dark.