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| Gunman, 3 victims dead in Chicago tower |
| 2006-12-09 |
 CHICAGO (AP) - A gunman carried a cache of weapons past security in a giant envelope Friday afternoon, chained a law office's doors closed and fatally shot three people before a police sniper killed him as he held a hostage at gunpoint, authorities said. Officers entered through another door in the U-shaped office, and a SWAT officer shot the gunman from about 45 yards away, Superintendent Phil Cline said. There was no negotiation and the hostage was unharmed, he said. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #8 GREAT graphic!!! There was no negotiation and the hostage was unharmed, he said. KORBEN: Mind if I go? I'm an excellent negotiator. COP 1: Uh... Sure, go ahead. Korben gets ready. COP 1: We're sending someone in who's authorized to negotiate. [INTERIOR OF POLICE STATION] Korben walks quickly into the room, heads straight for Akanit, raises his gun and puts a bullet through his head. KORBEN: Anyone else want to negotiate? COP 2: (to another Cop) Where'd he learn to negotiate like that? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-09 18:50 |
| #7 I want to patent thisn here device I invented that killz all the lawyers thru the internets. I calls it a Henry VI. |
| Posted by: Billy Shakespeare Jr. 2006-12-09 16:06 |
| #6 Sigh. Color me un-surprised. The combination of being very creative, but somewhat unstable, in combination with very real odds against getting a new invention into the profitable market-sector... it had some really nasty potential. And my office was closest to the front door, at that firm, too. I often thought about asking for getting a panic button installed. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2006-12-09 15:14 |
#5 You called it, Sgt. Mom: The gunman who fatally shot three people in a law firm's high-rise office before he was killed by police felt cheated over an invention, authorities said Saturday. The Chicago PD did some nice shooting, too: He was holding a hostage at gunpoint Friday when a SWAT officer shot him from about 45 yards away, Cline said earlier. There were no negotiations and the hostage was unharmed, police said. |
| Posted by: exJAG 2006-12-09 14:47 |
| #4 So there is a animated fly on the GIF.... hmmm ... is that patentable? With reference now to FIG. 1, there is showm a simple animated GIF photo exemplary pest elimination device. The elimination device 24, 34, 44 can be attached to a helmet a gun or a hand for example. .... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-12-09 11:01 |
| #3 Hmm. I guess that makes sense. I am a patent attorney, and we're about as threatening as librarians. It's just that in biotech, I tend to think of clients only as institutions and their relatively normal employees. But now that you mention it, I had a couple of individual "inventors" consult me when I was doing military legal assistance. They were pretty squirrely -- adamant that their little widgets are tantamount to cold fusion. One guy expected to leave my office with a patent and a million-dollar contract with the Army, and just about f***ing erupted when I explained that the process was considerably more involved. Okay, yeah, I see your point, Sgt. Mom! |
| Posted by: exJAG 2006-12-09 10:00 |
| #2 Well, patent attorneys deal with inventors who tend to be a little more on the squirrely side of the human spectrum. My last office job was fa consulting firm who dealt with intellectual property, and some of our inventor-clients...lets just say I was amazed that some of them were allowed out unsupervised. My abiding nightmare was that one of them someday would come bombing through the front door with a gun. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2006-12-09 08:28 |
| #1 Patent attorneys?!?! |
| Posted by: exJAG 2006-12-09 08:10 |