[Newsbot]

Title: hostages in Edmonton
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: nanza
Date: 2009-10-21 12:55:20
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

I work in the buillding on the other side of the block. Eeeep! It has been a fun filled day so far!

[Newsbot]

Title: Gunman holding hostages in Edmonton building
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-10-21 10:04:20
Canadian

[Choban]

Let me guess, his claim was denied. He's not the first and sadley won't be the last that resorts to this kind of action. Problem is that it won't get him anything but a jail cell.

[BartSimpson]

I wish I was there. Really.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I work in the buillding on the other side of the block. Eeeep! It has been a fun filled day so far!

My wife works in Oxbridge Place (a block south). I'm so glad that she's on mat leave this week.

[Regina]

bootlegga bootlegga:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I work in the buillding on the other side of the block. Eeeep! It has been a fun filled day so far!

My wife works in Oxbridge Place (a block south). I'm so glad that she's on mat leave this week.

You're only giving her a week off?? Seeeesh.........slave driver!

[DrCaleb]

Regina Regina:

bootlegga bootlegga:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I work in the buillding on the other side of the block. Eeeep! It has been a fun filled day so far!

My wife works in Oxbridge Place (a block south). I'm so glad that she's on mat leave this week.

You're only giving her a week off?? Seeeesh.........slave driver!

lol

A guy I work with, we stole from WCB. He knows a bunch of people in the building. I've got servers in many of the buildings around there. Oxbridge, Sterling Place, Centre West . . .

How pissed off do you have to be to walk into a place with a gun? You have to be on your very last option to do something like this. I hope everyone comes out OK.

[BartSimpson]

I'm not trying to start a debate, but has anyone noticed that these hostage standoffs only happen in places where people don't generally carry guns? Why don't these cowardly psychos pull this BS in a police station or someplace like that? They alway pick places where no one will be able to fight back and that makes me want to get my hands on them all the more.

[Akhenaten]

$1:

I'm not trying to start a debate

Whew! 40 page thread rehashing the same go-nowhere shit averted!

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I'm not trying to start a debate, but has anyone noticed that these hostage standoffs only happen in places where people don't generally carry guns?

In Canada, that would be 'most everywhere'

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Why don't these cowardly psychos pull this BS in a police station or someplace like that? They alway pick places where no one will be able to fight back and that makes me want to get my hands on them all the more.

I don't think the lack of having people fight back was his motivation. Probably there was something or someone he needed on the 8th floor of WCB. If what he wanted was in a police station . . .he might have gone there instead.

[bootlegga]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I'm not trying to start a debate, but has anyone noticed that these hostage standoffs only happen in places where people don't generally carry guns? Why don't these cowardly psychos pull this BS in a police station or someplace like that? They alway pick places where no one will be able to fight back and that makes me want to get my hands on them all the more.

Not that I want that debate either, but this is the first workplace hostage standoff in Edmonton that I can remember (and I've lived in Edmonton for close to 40 years). I'll admit there have been other domestic disputes involving guns in the past decade, but I'll take my chances without everyone walking around with guns.

The days of the Wild West and every idiot wandering around with weapons is thankfully far in the past, at least in Canada.

[fifeboy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I'm not trying to start a debate, but has anyone noticed that these hostage standoffs only happen in places where people don't generally carry guns? Why don't these cowardly psychos pull this BS in a police station or someplace like that? They alway pick places where no one will be able to fight back and that makes me want to get my hands on them all the more.

Know what you mean Bart. Like this incident in Alabama.http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/03/10/2009-03-10_alabama_shooting_spree_suspect_michael_m.htmlAll those gun toting Alabamians kept a real tragedy from occurring. No hostages were taken.

[Yogi]

".....the mans neighbors say he is upset with 'the organization'." Jeez! Ya think???

Having worked as a subcontractor for WCB in Edmonton for several years, I have intimate knowledge of the exact layout of the building. I know exactly which room they are all in and also may know some of the hostages. I can't explain it, but I am having unsettling feelings about this. I sure hope that it all ends peacefully.

[HaRdLy]

I saw this coming years ago.