This happened closer to me than I'm comfortable with

Kinja'd!!! by "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
Published 01/30/2017 at 16:37

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Madman running around traffic with a knife shot and killed by police

The dude was reportedly mentioning ISIS.


Replies (27)

Kinja'd!!! "Wacko" (wacko--)
01/30/2017 at 16:42, STARS: 0

i thought this is why stun guns exist.

No mention on the race of the victim?

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 16:43, STARS: 0

None that I can find.

Kinja'd!!! "CB" (jrcb)
01/30/2017 at 16:44, STARS: 0

A knife is a lethal weapon. According to the Use Of Force model, you match force with force. Not every officer carries a stun gun, either. It’s a sad outcome, but not unexpected.

Kinja'd!!! "For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
01/30/2017 at 16:48, STARS: 5

If someone’s charging you with a knife, don’t trust the stun gun.

Kinja'd!!! "TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
01/30/2017 at 16:50, STARS: 1

If someone was coming at me with a knife I wouldn’t trust anything that didn’t apply a physical force against their motion. A stun gun can stop a persons control but it doesn’t do anything about their momentum.

Kinja'd!!! "Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever" (rustanddust)
01/30/2017 at 16:54, STARS: 0

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Not always:

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Kinja'd!!! "Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
01/30/2017 at 16:56, STARS: 0

Nah. Typical HWY 99 shenanigans.

Kinja'd!!! "Sam" (samwellington)
01/30/2017 at 16:57, STARS: 1

To be fair, knife guy probably wasn’t on PCP. PCP is a hell of a drug.

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 16:57, STARS: 0

Typical Highway 99!

Kinja'd!!! "TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
01/30/2017 at 17:00, STARS: 1

That’s why I said can and not will.

Kinja'd!!! "Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
01/30/2017 at 17:01, STARS: 1

Sadly, yes. My wife works not too far from there and there’s some unsavory folks around there but ISIS sympathizers they are not. Just methy things.

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 17:04, STARS: 0

Luckily I live pretty far from 99, but as of right now, I’m only a couple of blocks from the crime scene.

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 17:06, STARS: 1

Knowing the area, he was probably on meth.

Kinja'd!!! "Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
01/30/2017 at 17:09, STARS: 0

Yeah it’s goofing up traffic by Mrs. SB’s office. She gets “odd” folks in her building all the time asking to use the bathroom or a phone. They steal coffee creamers and sugar from her lobby.

Kinja'd!!! "unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)" (unclevanos)
01/30/2017 at 17:12, STARS: 0

It’s a shit day. Every year at our school we have a suicide or homicide.

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2017/01/fatal_overdose_at_njit_newark.html

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 17:12, STARS: 0

I’m reading about it on The Seattle Times. They’re reporting that a couple of minutes before the shooting, he was in a Western Carpet Center asking to use the bathroom, then started making comments about the Middle East.

Kinja'd!!! "Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
01/30/2017 at 17:17, STARS: 0

I really wish people would stop referring to Missouri as the Middle East.

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 17:18, STARS: 0

Is Missouri both “east” and “middle?”

Kinja'd!!! "Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
01/30/2017 at 17:18, STARS: 0

It’s more like 3/4 East and upper middle.

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 17:18, STARS: 0

Damn.

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 17:19, STARS: 0

“Upper Middle-3/4 East” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as well though.

Kinja'd!!! "Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
01/30/2017 at 17:22, STARS: 0

No it doesn’t

Kinja'd!!! "unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)" (unclevanos)
01/30/2017 at 17:23, STARS: 0

The school had the god damn nerve to state its student size and demographics during a email for the student’s funeral. Last year a student was shot in his frat house for a failed robbery. Two years ago a student committed suicide off the parking deck’s 8th floor. We rank at the #3 most depressed school in the us.

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 17:25, STARS: 0

That’s really fucking sad.

Kinja'd!!! "unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)" (unclevanos)
01/30/2017 at 17:32, STARS: 0

I can’t wait to leave and tell the alumni association to go fuck itself for having such a depressing shithole. The sad part I’m only happy when I leave campus in my joop.

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/30/2017 at 17:33, STARS: 1

Impossible to be sad in a Joop.

Kinja'd!!! "unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)" (unclevanos)
01/30/2017 at 17:38, STARS: 0

It’s a glimmer of hope in a sea of shit.