Potential shooting at NIU tomorrow....

[Mizango]

EDIT: *** JUSTIFIED NECRO-BUMP ***

Holy fucking shit. I'm sick to my stomach now. Looks like this just came true.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages ... geId=1.1.1

Yeah, I just saw that on TV. WTF?

[Norelco]

Valentine's Day Massacre of sorts. Heard that 3-5 people carried out on stretchers, one person with a head wound. No word if one of them is the shooter, who is a supposed white male with a handgun and a shotgun.

Getting this information on another forum with someone who lives in the area with a police scanner.

[Tajin]

[Anyway]

Its has been confirmed that there has been a shooting on campus and several people have been taken away by ambulance. All classses are cancelled on the DeKalb campus. People are urged not to come to campus. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

right on the site

[Norelco]

wtf! CNN says 18 shot. 2 dead, including gunman.

[Kuya]

Did school shootings ever happen this often?

[evilbau]

hmm not a lot of info coming out so far, guess just gotta wait.

[miokomioko]

This happened at my highschool like 9 years ago, attendance dropped to like 20% that day. I went to class with a target on my shirt.

[Charla]

By "this", I'm assuming you mean the 2-month-old half of the thread and not the today half.

[miokomioko]

By "this", I'm assuming you mean the 2-month-old half of the thread and not the today half.

Yeah, I suppose I should have read the last half of this thread... and look at post dates. Hmph. Yeah, obviously there wasn't a shooting at my school, but it was a fad going around back then to make threats that gave students an excuse to not go to school. For colleges, it's different because people are there by their own accord and paying for it and such, thus these college shootings make even less sense to me than the ridiculous act of killing people who don't even want to be somewhere in the first place. Buh.

[Epical]

Gah, I hate hearing about this stuff. =( On Valentine's Day no less...

[evilbau]

a little more info coming out now:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/univer ... index.html

18 shot, gunman killed self at Northern Illinois University

(CNN) -- A person shot 18 people Thursday at Northern Illinois University's DeKalb campus outside Chicago, then fatally shot himself, the school said, citing police.

[Zhais]

the fuck is with people -.-;;;

There was actually a bomb threat supposedly for today found a week or so ago written on a bathroom wall here on campus. Still went to class in that building as usual, still hasn't blown up.

[Aerin]

It almost feels like to me that I see a new school shooting on the news every other week.

[Akiyama]

It is getting pretty sick now.. I'm usually a huge asshole and "I don't care. I'm cool", but these are always so sad.

[Aerin]

What's even more sad is on CNN the woman on Lou Dobbs just said "I guess the biggest headline of the day is Romney endorsing McCain."

Endorsement > School shooting

[evilbau]

nothing short of the apocalypse is knocking the presidential campaign off the headlines. people love a horserace.

[Khamsin]

Oddly enough, the shooting that was predicted never happened, and the shooting that just happened was never predicted.

[Blarg]

Slowpoke wrote the original message.

[Charla]

And nothing short of the apocalypse is knocking old memes off the internets.