Hostage situation.
Shuvit_Viper
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 62Members
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 62Members
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Today, half a year after the attacks on the WTC, we have our own attack here. A man just entered one of the greatest buildings in Amsterdam (our capital) with a machine gun, and a whole lot of explosives (i live next to this building).
He is probably schizofrenic, he is threatening to kill 4 hostages if all the people in the building don't paint phrases on the windows stating 'philies' and 'we mislead'. His anger is against Philips, who is forcing him to buy a wide-screen tv because there are those small black things on top and downside of the movies. (so he says)
We are watching, and fearing on how this might end. I just saw an AT (arrestation team, somewhat like SWAT) move towards the building, i hope they don't shoot him.
He is probably schizofrenic, he is threatening to kill 4 hostages if all the people in the building don't paint phrases on the windows stating 'philies' and 'we mislead'. His anger is against Philips, who is forcing him to buy a wide-screen tv because there are those small black things on top and downside of the movies. (so he says)
We are watching, and fearing on how this might end. I just saw an AT (arrestation team, somewhat like SWAT) move towards the building, i hope they don't shoot him.
Comments
He demands to be on television to say his thing about widescreen tv... :S
actually... he does not want wide screen. At first, they though he wanted the whole production of wide screen tvs cancelled...
One thing is killing people in games, that's just fun, but to wish for other people to get killed? Are we living in world that has become to used to accept killing on TV that we enjoy killing in the really world? (as long those who are killed are either 'freaks' or enemies?)
Ok, I don't want to sound like somebody giving a lesson or something, but I think that violence belongs in the gaming world, not the real world.
[EDIT] Jail him, fix him, just make sure he gets a chance with the psychologist.[/EDIT]
i agree, but there was a tournament right after the attacks on WTC, and they called all clans not CT and T but 'team 1' and 'team 2'. This was a big official lan tournament. i dont think this should happen. If you feel like you dont want to play a CT - T game, then dont play CS.
Apparently Phillip's Customer Service sucks...afterall, they made this guy wacko.
he just shot himself
he is dead. i regret it happened this way.
I think it should be up to the SWAT cordinator [EDIT:Psycologist] if a person should be shot or not, and if he's a real danger to other people's lives. Killing (sniping) somebody should never be the default solution, as was almost suggested here.
It's always regretable when people take their own lives.
I'm actually glad it went down this way instead of the way it COULD have gone..I.e., the guy getting scared and shooting the people or detonating the explosives. Granted, maybe they could have helped him, but if they couldn't..it's a big risk..and you don't take risks when people's lives are at stake. Sometimes you have to pick the lesser evil.
While I regret that the man is dead and they couldn't handle this peacefully, this guy was apparently seriously disturbed and not afraid of death, and more than likely, was willing to kill.
He/she would know if this was in fact true:"While I regret that the man is dead and they couldn't handle this peacefully, this guy was apparently seriously disturbed and not afraid of death, and more than likely, was willing to kill."