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| Brenden D. Chase 2006-10-02, 11:33 pm |
| There's one tragedy they cannot blame on GTA. Amish people don't play
videogames.
http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Glo...ail&Format=HTML
A 32-year-old milk truck driver took about a dozen girls hostage in a
one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, barricaded the doors with boards and
killed at least three girls and apparently himself, authorities said.
It was the nation's third deadly school shooting in less than a week, and
similar to an attack just days earlier at a school in Colorado.
The gunman, identified as Charles Carl Roberts IV, was inside for over half
an hour and had barred the doors with 2x4s with the girls inside, State
Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said. By the time officers broke
windows to get in, three girls and the gunman were dead, Miller said.
Three children were found dead at the scene and seven others were taken to
hospitals, Miller said.
Roberts walked into the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School with a
shotgun and an automatic handgun and barricaded himself inside after
releasing about 15 boys, a pregnant woman and three women with infants,
Miller said. The girls were lined up along a blackboard and their feet were
bound, he said.
A teacher called police around 10:30 a.m. and reported that a gunman was
holding students hostage.
Roberts apparently called his wife from a cell phone at around 11 a.m.,
saying he was "acting out in revenge for something that happened 20 years
ago," Miller said. "It seems as though he wanted to attack young, female
victims."
Moments later, Roberts told a dispatcher he would open fire on the children
if police didn't back away from the building. Within seconds, troopers heard
gunfire in the building. When they got inside, they found him dead.
"It's obvious to us that this was a premeditated hostage scenario," Miller
said. "I believe, based on what the investigators have so far, he intended
not to walk out of there alive, but he also intended to kill innocent
victims."
The school had about 25 to 30 students, ages six to 13, Miller said.
Lancaster County Coroner G. Gary Kirchner told The Associated Press early
Monday afternoon that six people were killed. He later said he wasn't sure
of the number.
Two hours after the shooting, about three dozen people in traditional Amish
clothing, hats and bonnets stood near the small school building speaking to
one another, several young people and authorities.
The school is among farmlands just outside Nickel Mines, a tiny village
about 55 miles west of Philadelphia. The shooter lives in nearby Bart, Pa.,
according to WGAL-TV.
Numbering about 180,000, the Amish, have settlements in 25 states and
Ontario with 70 percent of the population in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
They practice a form of Christianity that emphasizes piety, modesty and
community derived from a literal reading of the Bible.
Because of their belief in separating their communities from the outside
world, which they consider corrupting, they have strict regulations over
societal customs. They tend to dress in simple, mostly dark clothes with
little ornamentation, speak in a German dialect, and often shun
technological innovation they deem corrosive to their way of life, including
electricity, television, automobiles, telephones and tractors.
The Amish run their own schools, but most communities educate their children
only through the eighth grade, which American students reach at about
13-years-old. U.S. courts have exempted the Amish and other groups from
requiring further education on the grounds of religious freedom.
It was the third small community to be shocked by a deadly school shootings
in just the past week.
On Friday, a school principal was gunned down in Cazenovia, Wis. A
15-year-old student, described as upset over a reprimand, was charged with
murder in the killing. Just two days earlier, an adult gunman held six girls
hostage in a school at Bailey, Colo., before killing a 16-year-old girl and
then himself.
Nationwide, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo.,
remains the deadliest school shooting, claiming the lives of 15 people,
including the two teenage gunmen. Last year, a 16-year-old shot seven people
to death at a school on Minnesota's Red Lake Indian Reservation, then killed
himself.
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| TheGame 2006-10-02, 11:33 pm |
| Not that I am blaming GTA on this, but was the milk truck driver Amish?
Brenden D. Chase wrote:
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> There's one tragedy they cannot blame on GTA. Amish people don't play
> videogames.
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| tealskull 2006-10-03, 2:33 am |
| no he wasnt so the original poster proved nothing. video games do cause
problems though so deal with it.
"TheGame" <n0n0n0n0n0@excite.com> wrote in message
news:1159846180.408450.209500@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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> Not that I am blaming GTA on this, but was the milk truck driver Amish?
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> Brenden D. Chase wrote:
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| In article <aKKdnU1XfbNbQbzYnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com>, tealskull=20
says...
quote:
> no he wasnt so the original poster proved nothing. video games do cause=
=20
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> problems though so deal with it.
>=20
Only to those already with a deranged mind.
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| Khee Mao 2006-10-03, 7:34 pm |
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"tealskull" <death@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:aKKdnU1XfbNbQbzYnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
quote:
> no he wasnt so the original poster proved nothing. video games do cause
> problems though so deal with it.
>
I wonder what videogames Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao (not this Mao,
silly, I'm playing back through Ninja Gaiden presently), Pol-Pot, et al were
playing when they decided to be brutal dictators...
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| Brenden D. Chase 2006-10-03, 7:35 pm |
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"Rumba" <rumba@boomboom.com> wrote in message
news:XelUg.415$zf3.397@fed1read03...
quote:
> this is the more likely cause of the looney lactic messenger's
> inspiration...
> http://www.fat-pie.com/milkman.htm
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disturbing...
and yes, I was wrong.. the milk man was not Amish.
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| Doug Jacobs 2006-10-03, 7:35 pm |
| In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Khee Mao <big_bad_buddha_daddy@yahoo.com> wrote:
quote:
> I wonder what videogames Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao (not this Mao,
> silly, I'm playing back through Ninja Gaiden presently), Pol-Pot, et al were
> playing when they decided to be brutal dictators...
Better yet, what games would they if they were teenagers today?
My bet is they'd probably end up playing something completely surprising,
like Animal Crossing or something like that.
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| HockeyTownUSA 2006-10-03, 11:34 pm |
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"Rumba" <rumba@boomboom.com> wrote in message
news:XelUg.415$zf3.397@fed1read03...
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> this is the more likely cause of the looney lactic messenger's
> inspiration...
> http://www.fat-pie.com/milkman.htm
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WTF? How sick is that shit? Someone should take the dude that made that POS
and pop a cap in his head.
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| Brenden D. Chase 2006-10-03, 11:34 pm |
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"HockeyTownUSA" <cyberpilot@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:m8ydnYoJnv86nL7YnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
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> "Rumba" <rumba@boomboom.com> wrote in message
> news:XelUg.415$zf3.397@fed1read03...
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> WTF? How sick is that shit? Someone should take the dude that made that
> POS and pop a cap in his head.
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violence is not the answer.
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| Paul Heslop 2006-10-03, 11:34 pm |
| "Brenden D. Chase" wrote:
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> "HockeyTownUSA" <cyberpilot@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:m8ydnYoJnv86nL7YnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
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> violence is not the answer.
People always seem to be pushing the limits of taste when it comes to
humour and although it is disgusting you can tell that someone
somewhere and his mates too found that thing funny. It's like the
puking Women's Institute racists on Little Britain or the lady who
pisses a stream without realising it. There may be a tiny bit of
humour in it but generally it seems malevolent and intended to see
just how bloody far you can push the boundaries.
--
Paul (why dont you call me i feel like flying in two)
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Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/
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| In article <m8ydnYoJnv86nL7YnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d@comcast.com>, "HockeyTownUSA" <cyberpilot@gmail.com> wrote:
quote:
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>"Rumba" <rumba@boomboom.com> wrote in message
>news:XelUg.415$zf3.397@fed1read03...
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>WTF? How sick is that shit? Someone should take the dude that made that POS
>and pop a cap in his head.
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Here is the sick aids ridden duchebag who made that crap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Firth
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| In article <45232925.4668BFB9@blueyonder.co.uk>, Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
quote:
>"Brenden D. Chase" wrote:
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>People always seem to be pushing the limits of taste when it comes to
>humour and although it is disgusting you can tell that someone
>somewhere and his mates too found that thing funny. It's like the
>puking Women's Institute racists on Little Britain or the lady who
>pisses a stream without realising it. There may be a tiny bit of
>humour in it but generally it seems malevolent and intended to see
>just how bloody far you can push the boundaries.
>
The world needs to quit putting up with these XXXXed up little men.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Firth
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| Paul Heslop 2006-10-04, 7:36 pm |
| GMAN wrote:
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> In article <45232925.4668BFB9@blueyonder.co.uk>, Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> The world needs to quit putting up with these XXXXed up little men.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Firth
I see the music was by the Aphex Twin. They seem to want to shock for
the fun of it too
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Paul (why dont you call me i feel like flying in two)
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Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/
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| Fred Liken 2006-10-04, 7:36 pm |
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"Khee Mao" <big_bad_buddha_daddy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:efuina$ei$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu...
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> "tealskull" <death@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:aKKdnU1XfbNbQbzYnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> I wonder what videogames Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao (not this Mao,
> silly, I'm playing back through Ninja Gaiden presently), Pol-Pot, et al
> were playing when they decided to be brutal dictators...
Doom
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| =DR_OCTOPUS=™ 2006-10-09, 7:34 pm |
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tealskull wrote:
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> no he wasnt so the original poster proved nothing. video games do cause
> problems though so deal with it.
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> "TheGame" <n0n0n0n0n0@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:1159846180.408450.209500@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Video games dont cause problems people with psychological issues and
access to weapons cause problems. IF YOU CANT TELL THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN FANTASY AND REALITY DONT PLAY VIDEO GAMES !!!!
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