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2023-02-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

LAPD Stops Potential Mass Casualty Shooting in Hollywood, Man in High-Rise Had Rifles Pointed Down at Park

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-03 07:53|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Crypto investor?

Posted by AlanC 2023-02-03 09:55|| 2023-02-03 09:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Quite reasonable,TW. On the other hand, would it be so paranoid to think the CIA was out to get you? Or to wonder about the timing and whether it was a gun/controller’s set-up in some way?

Posted by Glenmore 2023-02-03 10:18|| 2023-02-03 10:18|| Front Page Top

#3 The real shock is that LAPD did something not stupid.

Posted by Angstrom 2023-02-03 13:04|| 2023-02-03 13:04|| Front Page Top

#4 "...found a sniper rifle, two high-powered rifles..." mmm-thought by definition sniper rifles were high-powered. Was it a mostly powered sniper rifle?? I'm not aware of a text-book/industry/military definition of "high-powered". 300 n above??.338 Lapua? .50cal BMG?

Posted by Bankok Billy 2023-02-03 13:51|| 2023-02-03 13:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Had a great view of the 101 freeway from what I heard on KFI. Target rich environment when the traffic gets jammed which it does almost every day. Congrats to the LAPD. The cops are not all as loony as the mayor and city council members.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-03 13:58|| 2023-02-03 13:58|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not aware...

Check your SIPRnet for more details.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-03 14:02|| 2023-02-03 14:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, the LSD's did need some Daddy/Hunter Biden media diversion.

BTW: What does the TAT on his arm represent or mean?

Also I see this picture being floated

Posted by NN2N1 2023-02-03 15:27|| 2023-02-03 15:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Tat: a MDY date?

MMXIV=2014
XX=20
VIII=8

8/20/2014

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-03 17:00|| 2023-02-03 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9 All sorts of things happened all over the world that day. Without at least a hint, there’s no way of knowing which one would be important enough to him to carve thedate into his flesh.

Could it be a US Army thing?

On the other hand, would it be so paranoid to think the CIA was out to get you?

Nobody outside of my personal circle had any interest in me when I was 25, Glenmore.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-03 20:46|| 2023-02-03 20:46|| Front Page Top

#10 I have a family member who progressed into paranoid schizophrenia at a similar age. That part makes sense. The part about someone with that diagnosis making rent in LA and assembling a high cost arsenal of black market firearms seems unlikely. Good job catching him, but the financials on this and the Uvalde shooting don’t make sense to me at this point.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-03 21:55|| 2023-02-03 21:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Nobody outside of my personal circle ...

They just didn't know you yet.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-03 23:08|| 2023-02-03 23:08|| Front Page Top

#12 I hope your relative found stability and a safe harbour, Super Hose. You make a good point about finances, but if he had savings and/or family money and his schizophrenia had not blossomed before he arrived... he wasn’t there long enough to have run through his funds.

They just didn't know you yet.

You are ever gallant, my dear.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-03 23:37|| 2023-02-03 23:37|| Front Page Top

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