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Charlie Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:38 PM
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Sources: Capitol "gunfire" likely from air hammer
Edited on Fri May-26-06 02:39 PM by Charlie Brown
You have GOT to be kidding me.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/26/house.shots/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Law-enforcement sources at the Capitol said Friday that suspected sounds of gunshots heard in a House office building were made by a mechanic using a pneumatic hammer on an elevator, security expert Mike Brooks reported.

"It looks like this is going to be the source of the noise that they heard," Brooks said Friday afternoon.

Police, who conducted a room-by-room search of the Rayburn building, where some members of the House have their offices, issued an "all-clear" about 3:15 p.m.
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:39 PM
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1. I thought Cheney was hunting again. n/t
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:43 PM
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2. WTF? A pneumatic hammer sends Capitol Hill into a tailspin?
We are terrorist fodder. :eyes:
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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:49 PM
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3. America the scared
So afraid that our fragile world of Hummers, tract homes, Applebee's, and American Idol will come crashing down around us.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:49 PM
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4. Uhm.. Air hammers sound nothing like a gun shot
D.C. seriously needs to get a grip.
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Us vs Them Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:56 PM
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5. Have the terrorists won yet?
Seriously. I think they have.
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 04:10 PM
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13. Land of the (not-so) free, home of the (not-so) brave. Yeah, I think OBL
and company have won. Do you suppose he and Bush will be having a celebratory BBQ this week-end? In memory of the America that was. :-(
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 09:00 AM
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27. Or land of the freaked-out and home of the bought. n/t
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ArmchairMeme Donating Member (390 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:56 PM
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6. Some news sites still call it sound of gunfire
What are "they" going to use next to "scare" our representatives?
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:59 PM
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7. Drop your pants and grab your ankles
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redirish28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:17 PM
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8. Notice which building it is again... perhaps the capitol police used that
"Sounds of gunfire" evacuation to perhaps gather into for the administration. My wife made the suggestion to me. She is seriously wondering if the Capitol police aren't using these evacs to the administration advatage.
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pinerow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-27-06 09:37 AM
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22. Capitol Police=Glorified Rent-aCops
Flame away...:wtf:
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:25 PM
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9. Is DC paranoid, or what? Imagine what Iraq lives with every day.
Car bombs, suicide bombers, IED's, pipeline explosions, drive-by executions, you name it.

And DC goes crazy over a contractors tool.

God help us. We've become a nation of scared fools.
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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-27-06 05:32 AM
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20. Exactly what I was thinking
Wouldn't you like to give *'s 29% a holiday week in Baghdad and see how long it takes them to crap their pants? If we've become this hysterical as a nation then we've already lost the "war on terror" because that label isn't about the actuality -- it's about the fear.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-27-06 08:11 AM
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21. Not DC per se
But the law enforcement and security folks and the media. I'm a DC resident and figured that there was some simple explanation. DC itself is pretty used to false alarms and Chicken Littles: A while back there were reports of a possible chemical weapons incident in a government building. Streets were shut down, the building evacuated, the media on high alert. It turned out to be a high school student in the McDonald's on the ground floor of the building, who had been fucking around with his girlfriend's pepper spray.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:33 PM
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10. My guess...was that it was a car backfiring...
I knew this was nothing.

Every one is so cranked up on fear...it's ridiculous.

I think the entire nation has PTSD from Junior's war- and fear-mongering.
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:48 PM
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11. whatever... another stupid ass non-story
pumped up by MSM for show. Why no show the arms and legs getting blown off for rich greedy business interests in Iraq? Not sensationalistic enough? Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... Fuck you MSM.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:50 PM
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12. there is a type of hammer that uses a gunpowder-filled cartridge to drive
the nail into concrete.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 04:28 PM
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14. RamSet, or some brand name like that?
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 04:34 PM
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15. It was a Republican who reported the gunfire
Wonder how he got his gunfire expertise?

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/26/060526204527.mf8kf88w.html

A US lawmaker admitted to being the source of an erroneous report of gunfire in a Congress office building that led authorities to shut down a large part of the legislature's sprawling complex for several hours.

Republican Representative Jim Saxton, speaking to Fox television, said he was in the elevator at the garage level of the Rayburn House Office building, when he heard what he thought was gunfire.

"I heard what I thought to be between six and ten shots," the Republican lawmaker said.

"It sounded exactly like gunfire to me. It was not of a backfire nature. it was the sharp crack as comes out of a weapon."



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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 04:40 PM
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16. Wow. Another RW genius causes a near-stampede.
Jim, you're falling victim to your own party's paranoia/scare tactics.
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HuffleClaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-27-06 04:51 AM
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18. his phone records would probably show a call from ROVE prior
to the 'crisis' i bet.
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DiscussTheTruth Donating Member (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 06:51 PM
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17. Are they sure no one is missing? Maybe they should count just to be sure.
nt
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-27-06 05:14 AM
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19. The Party of the workin' man
and defenders of gun owners everywhere.

Yeah, right. Can't even tell the difference between an air tool and a gun shot. :eyes:
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-27-06 11:26 AM
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23. Our brave reps.
its a good thing those cowardly clowns impersonating lawmakers don't have weapons,they would end up hurting innocents people.
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:50 AM
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25. And who skid-marked their Munsingwear and called the cops?
Why, a REPUBLICAN, of course.

:puke: :eyes: :puke: :eyes:
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:56 AM
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26. I originally suspected someone had pissed off Cynthia McKinney again.
We could use a "Foxy Brown" moment up there.
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