2 sets of highway sniper shootings kill 1, injure another

[JBusch8899]

SEYMOUR, Ind. (AP) — Investigators scoured hundreds of miles of highway for clues to a killer after two sets of sniper attacks within hours of each other left one man dead, another wounded and four vehicles peppered with bullet holes.

A day after the attacks, police were still trying to identify potential suspects and searching for any witnesses who might have seen the shooter

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[cyanide]

Where do these nuts come from ?

 

[Lou629]

Another dim-wit running around with a rifle, making himself ( and the rest of us indirectly ) a poster-child for the Brady bunch to latch onto. Yet another example, among many, of those who have no business around guns in the first place. No wonder the antis' are scared to death of us with morons like this running around setting such a fine example for the RKBA cause.

 

[Freedomv]

Could it be someone who is associated (real or imagined) to the fights in Iraq or Afganistan. Thinking he is doing his part terrorizing here in the USA.??

I doubt that much would be said by the Authorities if so, as to keep the public from panicing and retaliating against local muslims etc. untill the culprits were caught.

$.02

Vern

 

[Lou629]

Freedomv

I kinda doubt it. They said the same type of thing back when the DC sniper case was ongoing a few years back. After they caught Malvo & friend, it turned out to be another couple of home-grown mental cases with guns. I predict it'll be more of the same here. I'm sad for the victims, and sad for all the rest of us who are responsible gun owners. Why can't these mental-defectives just go out and get run over by a tractor-trailer while crossing an overpass some night? They give all the rest of us a black eye with the media and the media are not our friends to begin with.

 

[bogie]

Uh... I thought that the DC snipers were muslims "doing their part?" Personally, I think they were a test case... Can you shut down a city with a minimal force?

I could shut down this whole damn country with 100 dedicated and trained personnel.

 

[mrmeval]

Guessing stinks until you catch them.

It's premeditated murder. It's a nutcase. It's a terrorist. It's an anti-terrorist. It's an anti-gun activist. It's an NGO with or without orders. It's some government official acting unofficially. it's some government official acting officially.


You can expand on this for quite a while and make a pretty chart.

 

[Henry Bowman]

I could shut down this whole damn country with 100 dedicated and trained personnel.

12 would be more than enough.

 

[Deanimator]

I was watching Fox News this morning as the "firearms experts" on Fox and Friends were describing the great skill of the sniper(s) with knowing looks on their faces.

I remember all of the inane babbling about the "skill" of the DC Snipers. While watching this garbage on TV, I just turned to a friend and snorted, "They're not displaying any level of skill that EVERY basic trainee has to display to make it out of basic training. He pooh poohed that. Guess what? They were a couple of doofuses shooting from close range with a scoped rifle.

The Fox people were waxing ignorant about the "skill" involved in shooting "an automobile at high speed". Nobody thought to ask, "Just how MANY shots did the guy fire to get a hit?"

Well, as I've said elsewhere, there is no class of individuals as arrogant, ignorant and intellectually lazy as news people.

 

[mrmeval]

My hometown is North Vernon but I was born in Seymour as they had a hospital. The Sheriff of North Vernon is an ex-state trooper and damn good at his job and he gets along well with other counties so I'm sure there will be a good effort to find the scum.

Sometime in the 90s there were incidents of someone shooting from the road at farmers on tractors. A lot started carrying rifles and the problem tucked tail and left. Afaik no one was injured though there was some tractor damage.

 

[Leatherneck]

"Paging Chief Moose, Chief Moose please pick up the white courtesy phone."

TC

 

[El Tejon]

mrmeval, yes, I remember those incidents in Jennings County. Very pretty down there, btw. Lots of places to go shooting.

The I-65 "sniper" is a toothless banjo off his meds whose mommy did not love him enough. I would wish the media would stop using the laudable term "sniper" in referring to a nut with a carbine.

 

[ARGarrison]

El Tejon, I'm also sick of the term "sniper" when applied to these shootings.

The second truck shoot at, the one the wounded guy was in, was on TV. It was pulling a trailer. The trailer had multiable hits. Police were numbering them and the highest number I seen was 13! To me that is not a sniper, but an unskilled nut blasting away at traffic.

 

[sm]

Sensationalism Sells

Recent discussions in regard to "getting news" , bears out how Political leanings and agenda affect "reporting".

I still feel Indoctrination is a better descriptive word than reporting.

Indoctrination begins at the localized level where an event occurred, by the time it passes thru county, state , national - even reaches international levels , so much more has been filtered, added to, blended , enhanced - it is not the event that occurred that folks remember so much as all the brainwashing, propaganda,and indoctrination that went on.


Shootings.

We had a person shooting from a Hillside down onto the Interstate back in thelate 70's / early '80s . News locally referred to this event and cautioned motorists of a "Hill-side Shooter"

Polical flavor at that time being as it was, suggested folks take an alternate route if could and report to any suspicious sightings.

LEOs, in umarked cars, perused the areas and scouted for this/these persons.
Some of these Officers were using "sniper rifles", I mean that is what they bought them for, and how trained. "Sniper" was only referred to the rifle the officers used.

The word SWAT was not even used. This was a "special police team".

Found the person(s). Original and copycat.

Even then, if a War, Riot, or Global something was happening , it was not "tagged" to story.

--

Roberta X over at TFL shared

"News is simply a filler between advertising".

I do not own a TV, I get enough "fillers" off the radio. Still my gut says the various Networks "fill in" with their particular political Indoctrinations.

Of late, I have been pleased with getting part of my news from the BBC using the Internet. How Ironic .

 

[El Tejon]

Thank you, AR, it just turns my stomach to hear "sniper" defamed to the point that the gatekeepers are using it to describe a shoeless banjo with a CKC and a bottle of cold whiskey and his pill bottle.

 

[Andras]

Uh... I thought that the DC snipers were muslims "doing their part?" Personally, I think they were a test case... Can you shut down a city with a minimal force?

No, they were trying to extort money to stop shooting people. In addition John Mohammad's ex-wife lived in the area and speculation is he was going to shoot her under the cover of the overall shooting spree.

 

[G.I.Bill]

I'm pretty sure Mohammad was a converted muslum, and didn't the attacks start with no demands for money. I thought they only starting asking for money months after it all started and several people had been killed. I assumed they figured while we're doing this for allah lets make some cash too and that's why it took so long for them to demand money. Logically (I realize we arn't speaking about logical people here) if the had only wanted money from the start they would have contacted authorities earlier with a demand for money.

 

[Ferrari308]

I thought Mohammad was a homo running around with his little boyfriend?

 

[Polishrifleman]

Wow, buzz kill.

They evidently have a 17yr old in custody for questioning.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14026622/

 

[bogie]

Betcha a box of donuts that somehow he brings up "Bush made me do it," or "I did it because of the war in Iraq."

 

[Yeager]

I'll put money down that he turns out to be a Counterstrike player.

Edit: I'll also put money down it was a .22LR rifle he used..

 

[One of Many]

The suspect was reported to the police by a suspicious acquaintance. The police found a rifle at his home, matching the caliber used in the shootings. No known motive has been determined for this person in the shooting.

It is reported that the 17 year old boy has confessed. Details are lacking, in the news report.

I hope that they have arrested the correct person.

 

[Lou629]

So much for the "terrorist" theories. Yet another home grown mental-case, who will, no doubt, turn out to be some poor, misguided, abused little angel, who's just been misunderstood, right? I just don't get kids and their mentality. He could have had more fun staying home playing spank-the-monkey, but noooo, he has to go out and do $h*t like this, and for what? Why? Little a$$holes like this are a good argument for birth control or abortion. Take them right out of the gene pool before they have a chance to grow to become even bigger a$$holes, or reproduce another litter.

 

[RNB65]

I'm guessing we'll soon be hearing a flood of stories about depression, bi-polar, not taking meds, abusive parents, etc., etc., etc. Every possible excuse but the real reason -- the kid's a sociopath who deserves to rot in jail 'til he's dead.

 

[possum]

SEYMOUR, Ind. (AP) — Investigators scoured hundreds of miles of highway for clues to a killer after two sets of sniper attacks within hours of each other left one man dead, another wounded and four vehicles peppered with bullet holes.

dosen't sound much like a "sniper" to me,dosen't sound very disciplined peperring vehicles with bullets. please lets try to refrein from calling someone with a rifle a "sniper"!I would almost bet my left nut that he has absolutly no official trainning of any kind. We all remeber the last guy that was a "sniper" he couldn't even qualify expert in the military, he got sharpshooter and all the news people blew that out of porportion like he was some kind of high speed snipping fool. and he was a fool, he got over zealous and that was what lead to his demisse!