I know this is off topic, but it makes you realize how close we all could come.
My wife and I were out shoping for patio furniture today. We arrived to find the parking lot closed off, and at least twenty law enforcement vehicles on the scene. Had we been 15 minutes earlier, we would have been in the store in the midst of this:
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/top_stories.aspx?storyid=29433
What a shame for their children. Needless to say, this put a damper on our patio furniture search for the day.
Robert - I guess its a good thing you were 15 minutes later. Situations like this are sad and you never know when they are going to happen.
Stan.
Regrettably, most separations,divorces are not friendly. This is not the first time this has happened. I recall a pharmacist in a Vineland, NJ Shoprite being killed under similar conditions. The one comforting thought(if that is possible) is that there is usually only one victim, rather than multiple victims of snipers who shoot at anyone that happens to come by.
My only comforting thought is that we were not 15 minutes earlier, because we would have been IN that store. I shudder the thought.
This may sound horribly pious but it’s meant to be practical…
I’m so glad that a friend taught me to never go out from home or to sleep on an argument. It’s also good to have a hug every day… for one thing arguments have to be settled before a hug.
Glad you weren’t caught up in the incident.
Nothing pious about that at all. I agree 100%. We never go to bed with an arguement, never leave each other with an arguement. Things like this just kinda seem to really put things into perspective.
It’s indeed sad when a person see’s so little to live for.
I just pray the kids will get through OK, well, at least as OK as possible.
Glad you weren’t there too!
Years ago I was in a hunting store in Oshawa looking at stuff for deer hunting season. While watching the news that night I found out that an hour after I left some people went into the store, shot and killed the owner and then took all the hand guns. You just never know eh…
Sadly,such is the facts of life and that happy stuff has been going on for years the only difference the media plays it up.I suppose some day they will show the corpus delicti in living color…
At any rate one can not dwell on such matters lest they become paranoid and become afraid to leave there home.
I also agree a hug and kiss and along with never going to bed mad at your mate should be the goal of every marriage…
Wow, you never know when something like that is going to happen in your own city. I hope the kids will be OK.
Also off topic, since we seem to be talking about about death here, the Crocodile Hunter was killed by a stingray yesterday, leaving behind a wife and child. Another unexpected event.
We had a similar thing happen in Leesville some years ago, right out in the Wal-mart parking lot. A man and his wife (ex-wife? I can’t remember exactly which) had been shopping at separate stores, she at Wal-mart and he at Lowe’s. He came over to the Wal-mart, parked in a space close to her SUV, got out and went over and shot her multiple times then fled the scene. The whole thing was caught on the store’s security cameras, which gave the police several very good angles on the shooting. They had him in custody in a matter of minutes.
My daughter sent me a clip (since deleted) about some genius that entered a firearms dealer’s store occupied by several customers (one an off-duty policeman in uniform!) and fired a shot into the ceiling to announce his intention to rob the place.
At least, I assume that was his intention. After being hit from several sides by people who were NOT firing into the ceiling, he was in no condition to explain his actions - except possibly to J. Lucifer Satan.
Some people might consider that heart-rending. I consider it improving the breed.
Chuck (retired mercenary, from a family tree that had branches on both sides of every war ever fought)
you used to be a mercenary???
Mercenary, Bob Heinlein’s definition, and mine: A person who performs military service for pay.
Granted that my paychecks were issued by a sovereign state, not a private business. I still got paid. Actually, I’m still GETTING paid, which is why I identified myself as a retired mercenary.
Chuck (MSgt USAF, Ret)
Life is but a dream and a breath seperates us from the forever.
There are moments that you might think your time is come but not quite yet.
I live quietly now that I am away from the big road but I think of lives saved and lives lost over the years.
I knew a couple were the soon-to-be-ex-husband stabbed the soon-to-be-ex-wife to death. The husband was a lab tech I worked with on a daily basis and his wife worked for the same company on the production floor. Very sad. Here are several articles describing the incedent:
http://woodtv.com/global/Story.asp?s=1757130
http://woodtv.com/global/Story.asp?s=1762471
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3133195&nav=0RceXypr
Of course Randall is still in the news:
DARN!!! wanted to talk to a mercenery, talked to oss agents, tunnel rats, german pilots from ww2, ect. ect. never a mercenary though.