THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on August 09, 2008, 08:06:46 AM
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BEIJING -- A knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics on Saturday, team officials and state media said.
The man then committed suicide by throwing himself from the second story of the site, the 13th century Drum Tower just five miles from the main Olympics site.
The brutal attack shortly after midday was all the more shocking because of the rarity of violent crime against foreigners in tightly controlled China, which has ramped up security measures even more for the Olympics.
The stabbing came only hours after what by many accounts was the most spectacular opening ceremony in Olympic history and it has already dampened some of the enthusiasm.
"They are deeply saddened and shocked," Darryl Seibel, a spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee, said of the volleyball team.
The U.S. Olympic Committee said in a statement that two family members of a coach for the men's indoor volleyball team were stabbed at the Drum Tower "during an attack by what local law enforcement authorities have indicated was a lone assailant."
One of the family members was killed and the other was seriously injured, it said, without giving details.
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Has the Olympics death toll ever been higher? Between this (not to mention the inevitable smog deaths) and Russia invading Georgia...
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COMMUNIST OLYMPICS
Can't trust those dirty, dirty commies. They'll even fuck up the Olympics!
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Munich is still in the lead so far
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Has the Olympics death toll ever been higher? Between this (not to mention the inevitable smog deaths) and Russia invading Georgia...
Good lord, you've never heard of Munich?
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Has the Olympics death toll ever been higher? Between this (not to mention the inevitable smog deaths) and Russia invading Georgia...
Good lord, you've never heard of Munich?
Homeschooling.
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Has the Olympics death toll ever been higher? Between this (not to mention the inevitable smog deaths) and Russia invading Georgia...
Good lord, you've never heard of Munich?
Saw the movie. It didn't have any aliens, robots or dinosaurs so I turned it off.
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Has the Olympics death toll ever been higher? Between this (not to mention the inevitable smog deaths) and Russia invading Georgia...
Good lord, you've never heard of Munich?
Didn't 1400 people die in Georgia yesterday?
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why the hell does bush get to do this
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what did he do to deserve this
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:lol Holy shit
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Has the Olympics death toll ever been higher? Between this (not to mention the inevitable smog deaths) and Russia invading Georgia...
Good lord, you've never heard of Munich?
Didn't 1400 people die in Georgia yesterday?
Did they die AT the olympics?
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Bush has moved on
(http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/OLY_Bush.sff_CHGH110_20080809012745.jpg)
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The man then committed suicide by throwing himself from the second story of the site
Must have been one hell of a second story drop
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Uh, what about the Centennial bombings in Atlanta? Doesn't that sorta count?
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AP: Man jumps off second story of building, sprains ankle
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poor richard jewell :(
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Uh, what about the Centennial bombings in Atlanta? Doesn't that sorta count?
At least they died on free soil.
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The spirit of the Olympics lives on. Though I surprised since they got killed in a well known tourist spot (which would've been patrolled) and not a shady part of town at night.