Syuusuke
April 30th, 2008, 07:52 PM
Two sad things happened to day. Two different types of sad things...
Firstly,
I was on my way to school on the subway when I heard the announcement that it was going to skip one of the stops "due to police investigation". Normally if they were going to skip stops it would be due to construction, but unless it was urgent, constructions take place during the weekends.
Anyway, I hopped on the train that would take me past the stop, and that's where I saw a bunch of MTA (subway) agents/workers and police officers near a body, (and damn it was already stuffed in a body bag) investigating the front of train. I could probably infer that he or she got hit by a train or perhaps fell down and touched the deathly-electrifying third rail and the train stopped in its tracks (...).
When I saw the bodybag (I was sure there was body in it because it had the form of the human front and it was on a stretcher...so), I immediately felt sad and a little sick because of all the possible cause of death I thought of in my mind. It just sucks that another person that (hopefully) belongs to a family, that has friends, that may have a potential spouse/or is married, that may have a critical impact in our society went away. Man =/
Now why it hasn't hit the news yet, I don't know, but I want to know more info on this, get my details straight, etc.
And now the main scope of this thread.
City College Gun Scare...actually PELLET Gun scare. This is also sad...because the gunner had a, well, a pellet gun. Wtf?
Comes with a handy video if you don't want to read, otherwise: (http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6113430)
Police say the man held the weapon to the head of a student inside an office at the Harlem campus. The incident began at about 2:40 p.m. after a second student noticed that the 22-year-old suspect was following her. She recognized the suspect as an acquaintance, grew alarmed and ducked into a financial aid office, where workers called campus security.
Two uniformed New York City Police officers arrived a few minutes later to find that the suspect had put his weapon to the head of a nearby student as the woman he had originally followed hid in another room. The pellet pistol resembled a .44-caliber revolver.
Police say he later removed the weapon from the woman's head and put it to his own.
The officers coaxed the man into dropping the weapon. He was captured and taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Authorities say it was not immediately clear if he was a student.
The problem with this is that my school is in that college campus, so this may have more of an effect on my school than any other school in NYC.
I don't usually experience these things first-hand and frankly, it's a bit scarier than just hearing something happen across the county.
Firstly,
I was on my way to school on the subway when I heard the announcement that it was going to skip one of the stops "due to police investigation". Normally if they were going to skip stops it would be due to construction, but unless it was urgent, constructions take place during the weekends.
Anyway, I hopped on the train that would take me past the stop, and that's where I saw a bunch of MTA (subway) agents/workers and police officers near a body, (and damn it was already stuffed in a body bag) investigating the front of train. I could probably infer that he or she got hit by a train or perhaps fell down and touched the deathly-electrifying third rail and the train stopped in its tracks (...).
When I saw the bodybag (I was sure there was body in it because it had the form of the human front and it was on a stretcher...so), I immediately felt sad and a little sick because of all the possible cause of death I thought of in my mind. It just sucks that another person that (hopefully) belongs to a family, that has friends, that may have a potential spouse/or is married, that may have a critical impact in our society went away. Man =/
Now why it hasn't hit the news yet, I don't know, but I want to know more info on this, get my details straight, etc.
And now the main scope of this thread.
City College Gun Scare...actually PELLET Gun scare. This is also sad...because the gunner had a, well, a pellet gun. Wtf?
Comes with a handy video if you don't want to read, otherwise: (http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6113430)
Police say the man held the weapon to the head of a student inside an office at the Harlem campus. The incident began at about 2:40 p.m. after a second student noticed that the 22-year-old suspect was following her. She recognized the suspect as an acquaintance, grew alarmed and ducked into a financial aid office, where workers called campus security.
Two uniformed New York City Police officers arrived a few minutes later to find that the suspect had put his weapon to the head of a nearby student as the woman he had originally followed hid in another room. The pellet pistol resembled a .44-caliber revolver.
Police say he later removed the weapon from the woman's head and put it to his own.
The officers coaxed the man into dropping the weapon. He was captured and taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Authorities say it was not immediately clear if he was a student.
The problem with this is that my school is in that college campus, so this may have more of an effect on my school than any other school in NYC.
I don't usually experience these things first-hand and frankly, it's a bit scarier than just hearing something happen across the county.