Yet Another Person Shot...

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Ok, I'm organizing a party to go hunt this ****er down. Who's with me?

[Boris Godunov]

I know it was a joke, but I think vigilanteism is probably the last thing this situation needs...

[Dis]

I'm still conducting my searches for the murderer of O.J. Simpson's wife and Usama Bin Ladin. I'm having trouble getting a passport for Pakistan, so I may just resume the search for the murderer of O.J. Simpson's wife.

[Bearcat]

Supposedly there was a Delta Force sniper who was interviewed on CNN who was eager to go after this guy.

[monkspider]

How interesting. Apparently the locations of these victims are forming crosses. This ties into the whole "I am God" thing quite nicely. Apparently we have a real nutjob on our hands.

[Dis]

grrrr, this is worse than the mail box bomber who wanted to mark a happy face on the U.S. map

[Boris Godunov]

That map seems like a stretch, monkspider:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/oct02/snipershootings.htm

[monkspider]

Oh sorry, I just saw it posted on some other forum I frequent. It looked legitimate enough. A thousand pardons.

[Boris Godunov]

Looks to me like he's randomizing his locations, just to throw them off from predicting the vicinity of his next attack. Devil.

[Dis]

humans have a strange fascination with the dark side (no not the star wars dark side- that is cool).

It would be foolish to deny it. The success of movies like Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon show this. Not to mention the popularity of Charles Manson.

Manson is an interesting one. Maybe because his plan for world domination was so over the top, yet despite that, he still attempted it. Although that case is different since he didn't actually kill anyone. His power of human control was remarkable, even to this day.

In this case you have a guy who is probably a loser in every other aspect of life, but he has good vision and a decent weapon with the desire to use it. In most cases we would never look at this guy twice. Yet he is installing fear in an entire region of the country.

I certainly don't want to see people killed. But I have no control over the situation. I won't hide my fascination to "rubber-neck" the carnage.

[monkspider]

Last I heard they have all the roads leading in and out of the town where the last person was shot blocked off, so perhaps our crafty fox has finally met his match.

[snowcrash22]

This is an interesting scenario.

I have lived in Northern Va for almost 7 years now. Some of the Virginia shootings were places I drove by everyday or stoped at a couple times a year. Chances are a serial killer drove down the street a half a block from where I am sitting, while he was shuttling between Maryland (not convinced he lives there) and Fredericksburg.

I find it is interesting that random bullets are now catching middle Americans in a very efficient way. And in the ways they react.

**warning: Uninformed generalizations Approaching**

Haven't rappers and moviemakers been trying to tell me about how devastating uncoordinated violence is to a community? Kids in bunk bed in front of a window killed by stray bullets? Drive-bys? Mistaken identity gangland style murders?

Now I find that 'interesting' that to have a tiny taste of what that feels like. When I go out and walk the dog at night, I now have a tickle at the back of my head that I could be exposed to a 300-yard headshot. That is why I am following this so intently.

It is a new experience that needs to be learned from, but hopefully won't last too long.

P.S. the reaction time of the VA police is getting frighteningly fast....this sniper needs to lay off for a month or he will be caught.

[Dis]

all they have to do is search these cars

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by snowcrash22
P.S. the reaction time of the VA police is getting frighteningly fast....this sniper needs to lay off for a month or he will be caught.

Frighteningly or thankfully? I suspect it's not your intent, but this sentence sounds sympathetic to the bastard.

[Dis]

I am surprised by the reaction time. But it is good of course.

With all the false alarms I'm sure they are getting, I am impressed.