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one of you guys?
« on: July 07, 2011, 04:40:41 PM »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/man-wielding-hammer-shotgun-attacks-speed-camera-vehicle-on-bw-parkway/2011/07/06/gIQA4OvA1H_story.html?hpid=z3


Maryland State Police closed down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway for more than three hours Wednesday as they searched for a man who was carrying a shotgun and hammer and smashed the windshield of a Jeep SUV that had speed cameras mounted on it.

on the run?  need a place to hide?
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Re: one of you guys?
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2011, 04:53:47 PM »
searching vehicles for a man who came out of the woods on foot.
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2011, 04:55:43 PM »
Quote from: Harold Tuttle on July 07, 2011, 04:53:47 PM
searching vehicles for a man who came out of the woods on foot.

Well, do you expect the LEOs to drive their cruisers into the woods?
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2011, 05:03:36 PM »
Well.....better than him using a Molotov cocktail, I guess.....  =|
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« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2011, 05:04:37 PM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 07, 2011, 04:40:41 PM
on the run?  need a place to hide?

No.  Not at the moment, but thanks for asking.

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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2011, 06:30:16 PM »
He wore a long sleeve shirt when it was over 80 degrees?  My God, what's the world coming to?

By the way, my pet theory is the guy was upset because the speed cam wasn't slowing down traffic enough.  So he did something that not just slowed, but stopped traffic for hours.  Problem solved.
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« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2011, 08:49:11 PM »
You can't prove anything!

Besides, I don't wear jeans.
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« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2011, 08:50:27 PM »
Sounds like a hard core supporter of the Sixth Amendment and the Confrontation Clause.  :laugh:
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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2011, 11:23:36 PM »
The obvious solution is more hammer control laws.
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« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2011, 10:49:19 AM »
Nope, not me.  If I had a shotgun, I wouldn't bother using a hammer to bust out a windshield  =D
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« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2011, 10:59:52 AM »
We had a guy in AZ do a drive-by of a speed camera van with a .45 handgun, a couple years ago.

He ended up killing the tech that was inside the van, although he thought it only had electronic equipment in it and was otherwise unmanned.  Can't remember if he got manslaughter or actual murder at the trial.

What's scary about that, is I was coming home from teaching an Appleseed that Sunday evening and passed that same camera within about 5 minutes of the shooting.  I'd been a hugely outspoken critic of the cameras, and had a .45 in the truck with me as I drove by.
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« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2011, 12:01:17 PM »
I've often thought that a good solution to traffic cameras would be a paintball gun loaded with alternating epoxy/hardener paintballs . . . with the epoxy chosen for it's opacity when bonded to glass.  >:D
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« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2011, 02:08:14 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on July 08, 2011, 10:49:19 AM
Nope, not me.  If I had a shotgun, I wouldn't bother using a hammer to bust out a windshield  =D

But it would  be cheaper.
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« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2011, 02:19:54 PM »
Quote from: griz on July 07, 2011, 06:30:16 PM
He wore a long sleeve shirt when it was over 80 degrees?  My God, what's the world coming to?
 

Try it in 115+ heat.
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« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2011, 02:22:05 PM »
Actually, a long sleeved WHITE shirt would be pretty :cool:
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« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2011, 02:24:02 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on July 08, 2011, 02:22:05 PM
Actually, a long sleeved WHITE shirt would be pretty :cool:

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« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2011, 04:03:43 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on July 08, 2011, 02:24:02 PM
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« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2011, 07:28:57 PM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 07, 2011, 04:40:41 PM

on the run?  need a place to hide?

I'll keep the offer in mind, if I'm ever on the run.
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« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2011, 08:43:18 PM »
*sigh*

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I immediately flashed on a nice mule eared lupara.

The link is to The Washington Post f'r cryin' out loud!.  What was I thinking?
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« Reply #19 on: July 08, 2011, 09:31:48 PM »
Quote from: lee n. field on July 08, 2011, 07:28:57 PM
I'll keep the offer in mind, if I'm ever on the run.

its a great place to hide the new hood behind me is the fbi ghetto.  the builder went bnkrupt with 20 houses finished right as the new fbi facility was firing up  more than 1/2 the houses are feds
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« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2011, 01:03:48 AM »
I've never seen these camera vehicles you guys are speaking of but I get the picture.

I've often daydreamed about doing something similar.

IF only we had something in the COTUS that spoke about excessive fees and fines, to bad we don't have those kind of protections against radlib gov't excess, like we do for porn.
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« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2011, 11:19:31 PM »
the article mentions a $40 fine,   it doesn't say how much the court fees are on top of that.
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« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2011, 01:08:53 AM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 08, 2011, 09:31:48 PM
its a great place to hide the new hood behind me is the fbi ghetto.

Is that some sorta effa be aye policy or something?  They built a new H.Q. here a few years ago.  Right in the 'hood.

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« Reply #23 on: July 10, 2011, 02:32:37 AM »
the headquarters in on quantico

but a whole bunch of the employees ended up living right behind me in the mini mansions
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« Reply #24 on: July 10, 2011, 02:45:33 PM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 10, 2011, 02:32:37 AM
the headquarters in on quantico

Oh, THAT headquarters...  :lol:

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