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Sometimes you have to just burn them out like the old days.
Originally posted by Wildbob77
I live near there.
There is no community lock down.
The police are searching for a killer.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Wildbob77
Perhaps you can elaborate a bit on why the media uses the term? Are they canvassing the area aggressively, to use more P.C. terms? I'd wonder why the wording would even occur to anyone to bring into play ..if it's a routine investigation and manhunt. Those happen almost daily somewhere in the nation and have for as long as I've been alive. Lock-Down is a whole new concept of recent years and recent definitions?
In a pastoral place where fat horses swish their tails in knee-high grass and few people had ever bothered to lock their doors, residents now say their guns are loaded.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Covertblack
Here is hoping you're right then and it's just a misuse of terms...although very widely misused, if that be the case.
California town on lockdown as police hunt for suspect who fatally stabbed 8-year-old girl
^^ (New York Daily News) One image from that story appears to show a roadblock and a very strong police presence on a rural road outside the residential area this happened in, in another.
Hunt for Leila Fowler's killer: Community on lockdown
^^ (USA Today) They also use the term in headlines?
I suppose we may well just see the media coining a new term without much thought for how it's thrown around? It would be nice if that is all it amounts to.
Originally posted by thesmokingman
So....where were the kids parents at the time of the stabbing? Before you flame me with "I used to stay home alone when I was 12", you know that we do not live in the same age as we did back then. There was a loaded gun in that house, yet no adult there to use it and save their child. Where were the parents?
Originally posted by Covertblack
Originally posted by thesmokingman
So....where were the kids parents at the time of the stabbing? Before you flame me with "I used to stay home alone when I was 12", you know that we do not live in the same age as we did back then. There was a loaded gun in that house, yet no adult there to use it and save their child. Where were the parents?
Small town mentality. I live in a very low population area where people think the same thing towards crime. It's the, "it doesn't happen here" thinking that has been the downfall of many people.
Originally posted by Manhater
People these days...
If you had read the article, you would have noticed this.
Originally posted by thesmokingman
So....where were the kids parents at the time of the stabbing? Before you flame me with "I used to stay home alone when I was 12", you know that we do not live in the same age as we did back then. There was a loaded gun in that house, yet no adult there to use it and save their child. Where were the parents? This happened on Saturday. Were both parents at work? On a Saturday?edit on 30-4-2013 by thesmokingman because: (no reason given)
The parents were at a Little League game at the time their daughter was attacked, Campbell said. Leila's brother found her and notified the father, who called 911 and went home, he said.