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May 20, 2007
Fan-fuckintastic. We are now the lead story on CNN.com
The above would be sarcasm. First we're headlines for poor John Dickinson and now this.
You know, people. It's small town America. People do strange things sometimes. Get too deeply into their own heads and stop being sane. Awfulness happens.
It's also a university town. People here are pretty rational, for the most part, despite the racist dickheads to the north and the hyper-religious nitwits who started their own college. It truly, truly sucks that we've lost one of our officers and two other community members.
We're not the Wild West. And somehow headlines like "Officer dead after ambush in Idaho" make it sound like Ruby Ridge or Waco. Trust me. These things don't happen here. This is the first time in 138 years an officer has died in the line of duty.
But damn, not good recruiting for the University, especially given the other events of the last semester. I wish people would just realize that this shit happens everywhere.
Posted by sally at May 20, 2007 09:57 AM
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