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Knife-Wielding Man Shot Dead outside Dutch Museum
2015-01-26
[AnNahar] Dutch police on Sunday rubbed out a knife-wielding man who tried to stab pedestrians outside an art museum in the northern city of Groningen.

The shooting happened around 5:30 pm (1630 GMT) outside the university city's Groninger Museum, when the man threatened bystanders with a number of large knives, police front man Ernest Zinsmeyer told Agence La Belle France-Presse.

"When police approached the ma, he fled. Officers fired a warning shot but the man tried to stab bystanders as he bravely ran away and police shot him," he said.

The man then fell into a canal near the museum and was pronounced dead by the time police retrieved him from the water.

Zinsmeyer said the suspect had not yet been identified and his motives were unknown.
No doubt there'll be a good deal more of this kind of thing for a while.
He said although a terror attack could not be ruled out, it was unlikely. The incident was being investigated.

As in other countries, Dutch police have been on high alert since a series of Islamist attacks left 17 people dead in Gay Paree earlier this month.
Posted by:trailing wife

#11  Poor fishies, BigEd.
Posted by: Barbara   2015-01-26 19:15  

#10  ...dead by the time police retrieved him from the water...

Sleeping with the fishes...
Posted by: BigEdLB   2015-01-26 18:13  

#9  In this case, gun control was putting lead (or some other environmentally sound element) on target.

Sintered Tungsten, IIRC.
Posted by: Nguard   2015-01-26 13:03  

#8  The man then fell into a canal near the museum and was pronounced dead by the time police retrieved him from the water

They kept throwing him a life-ring, but for some reason he wasn't taking hold of it.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-01-26 10:15  

#7  In this case, gun control was putting lead (or some other environmentally sound element) on target.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-01-26 09:29  

#6  they'll never get the stink outta that canal
Posted by: Frank G   2015-01-26 07:41  

#5  "Man-love Fridays."

Jirga, Jirga, Jirga.... I'm stealing that one.

Posted by: Besoeker   2015-01-26 05:54  

#4  Have you heard a refrain any hoarier
Than the sharia justice wah-warrior
As he slays infidels
In the little gray cells
In a series of Muz sanatoria?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-01-26 03:26  

#3  "Your bastard way to describe this event and malicious name calling show a bastard POS as you are"

Still recovering from man-love Fridays??
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2015-01-26 02:53  

#2  
Posted by: Fuckyouwifetrailing   2015-01-26 02:43  

#1  Ululating the Amish battle cry?
Posted by: tipover   2015-01-26 00:29  

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