Warning: short rant
Mar. 22nd, 2011 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaToday at about 1:30 there was a shooting in my city that resulted in a police officer killed and another injured, apparently seriously. This took place about 3 miles from where I live. One suspect fled in a car; the make and model and license number are known. This is a tragedy, clearly, and there is a dangerous armed man somewhere on the loose.
But, was it really necessary to put all schools in the city on "soft lockdown" for the rest of the day, and cancel evening PTO meetings, and for 4 parents to contact me wanting to know if the Girl Scout meeting was cancelled, and for the leader who planned the meeting to call me and say we had to cancel? Do we really think this armed guy is going to be driving down a busy center-of-town street some 5-6 hours after the crime, some 3 miles away, looking for little girls to shoot?
Signed, being more rational than other people is sometimes so annoying.
ARGH THE STUPID IT BURNS:
From Twitter:
Dumb question, but how far is Athens from Atlanta? Like, should I be worried the alleged cop killer is going to drive by at any moment?
But, was it really necessary to put all schools in the city on "soft lockdown" for the rest of the day, and cancel evening PTO meetings, and for 4 parents to contact me wanting to know if the Girl Scout meeting was cancelled, and for the leader who planned the meeting to call me and say we had to cancel? Do we really think this armed guy is going to be driving down a busy center-of-town street some 5-6 hours after the crime, some 3 miles away, looking for little girls to shoot?
Signed, being more rational than other people is sometimes so annoying.
ARGH THE STUPID IT BURNS:
From Twitter:
Dumb question, but how far is Athens from Atlanta? Like, should I be worried the alleged cop killer is going to drive by at any moment?
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Date: 2011-03-22 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-22 10:53 pm (UTC)In re "lockdowns," I don't mean to generalize, but it always seems like the wacky violence sprees that end up with weird detentes over crack and/or Oprah books happen in the South. Or Los Angeles.