I'm leaving work early today for a less fun reason than usual

"Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal)
04/05/2018 at 17:47 • Filed to: None

My building is on lock down. Again. This guy hangs out in our neighborhood is why.

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We had active shooter training a week ago. I skipped it as I’m in a secure facility with armed police at the front desk but it is on a college campus where shit likes to go down so I see the point for it, sort of.

People aren’t getting any less cray cray but they seem to get better weapons and encouragement. And news. And attention.

YouTube is right up the road. This is getting to be a bit much.

DISCUSSION (13)

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
04/05/2018 at 17:55

That’s crazy. I work in the same building as the United States consulate, so security is as tight as it can be here, but it still remains a threat to us all. We drill too.

Hope you guys remain alright

Chariotoflove > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
04/05/2018 at 17:59

We had active shooter training last week. I don’t feel in danger from that, but we did have a bomb threat last year. I had to let myself down 5 flights of stairs one step at a time. When I got the bottom, just said screw it and went home.

haveacarortwoorthree2 > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
04/05/2018 at 18:06

People at my old law firm’s office in DC kept having to vacate due to bomb threats called into the building. We assumed it was because the Secret Service had a satellite office in the building. As it turns out, it was an employee of the restaurant that also was in the building that was the cause — every time one of its employees wanted the the day off, he’d call in a bomb threat.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
04/05/2018 at 18:14

I told my coworker last fall that she probably shouldn’t bring her hunting rifle into the office due to the sensitivity of that kind of stuff these days.

WilliamsSW > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
04/05/2018 at 18:16

Stay safe! You’ve had too much of this shit lately.

Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief > haveacarortwoorthree2
04/05/2018 at 18:21

Now they have all the days off.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
04/05/2018 at 20:02

I’m in Australia. We have the crazy, we have the angry, we have the meth heads and we have combinations of all three.

We don’t have the guns or the need for active shooter training. It’s quite nice.

But by all means you keep doing what you do...

Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
04/05/2018 at 20:26

Ah yes, and I agree with your point, but I’m Australia literally every other thing might kill you. There seems to be no shortage of gruesome and wonderfully random animal attacks and weird bugs with all kinds of toxins. I’m not sure exactly how much safer you are but it’s gotta be more peaceful.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
04/05/2018 at 22:22

Yeah the risk of deadly bitey things is well overstated.

Australians are more likely to die of the things that kill most people in the developed world (old age, lifestyle diseases, poor choices and outright stupidity) than interactions with the local wildlife.

Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
04/05/2018 at 22:31

I jest. I’m a surfer and here in Northern California is where the Great Whites are in the Winter, which is also when there’s surf. Based on public perception I should be dead about 20x over by now.

I have been to beaches closed due to a shark sighting which I’ve taken far less seriously than a building lockdown due to a possible lunatic with a shotgun leaving a manifesto about wanting to go shoot people. I’d rather take my luck with the sharks.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
04/05/2018 at 22:56

Australians have a shark hysteria issue as well. Mind you...

https://www.google.com.au/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/9612898

Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
04/05/2018 at 23:00

Jaysus Lord holy shite

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
04/05/2018 at 23:16

There is a renowned surf spot not a world away from this area. It’s called Cactus.

Kinja'd!!!

See that channel behind the break? You’d never catch me surfing there! Regardless of how good the wave is...

http://www.globalsurfers.com/spot.cfm?land=Australia&surfing=141&travel=Cactus