| From: | "Michael R. Goldberg" <mrgoldbe@**.NETCOM.COM> |
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| Subject: | Demon unleashed in Boston |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:37:29 -0600 |
this was relevant for here. There seems to be another "war" brewing. I
would welcome finding out more about it....
I think the true question is: Has aggression transferred from that
bizarre fast food riot that recently took place (machines versus
workers) to an escalating shadow war (which will bring work for all)?
Anyone want to take a guess at what the casualties for this is going to
be?
Rather than bore you with other people's views of what happened (pirate
and legit), I somewhat researched the events myself.
It seems earlier about 4pm today [Boston time], a tip came into the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's hands. It seems someone wanted to
make a point involving small kids. The Feds (with assistance from the
local police) emptied out a local boarding school. While details are
still sketchy, they searched the whole school and found a nasty bomb.
(Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find out what type of bomb was
actually planted.) After much effort, they disarmed the bomb, only to
set off an undetected counter-measure bomb that showered the room in
confetti, with hundreds of computer synthesized, pre-recorded voices
saying (and some screaming), "Congratulations!"
The media is swarming the event, so I'm sure we will all be bombarded
with more "news" of that event. I doubt much of it will be of use.
Anyone know the scoop on this one?
I will point out that I do find it interesting that almost nobody wants
to mention what else was going on while they were disarming the bomb.
Undoubtedly, you are asking, "Why, Ratspeak?" I can only currently
only offer this to you: "Perhaps they don't want to ask the serious
question of themselves. Perhaps they don't want to admit their fear of
‘the Wanderer' resurfacing."
"_The_ Wanderer?"
"Yup." Word is out that somebody has hired him, and he is already on
the war path. The latest causality was O'Malley's Pub at
>>encrypted<<. The one ork bouncer for the place was sniped. Moments
later, the Wanderer entered the bar.
[The speculation on the time lengths are based on my estimation. Word
is that it happened blazingly fast.]
Not even a minute later, one man was crucified, and seven other people
(6 men, 1 woman) were killed including the bartender who went down,
umm, "fighting." As an after-thought, police think that the Wanderer
gunned down an under-aged drinker --"just because." Several people at
the bar have been seriously questioned by the police over the incident,
and about the amount of illegal weaponry found on the premise. I
expect the place to be closed for a while as the authorities seriously
investigate the matter, and several incidental arrests to be made in
the process. [What's a little more injury to the previously insulted
parties? Huh? Oh yeah, the old addage applies. Kick a mangy dog when
its down. ]
The Wanderer remarkably left the area pretty quiet, only injuring about
seven more people and causing a nasty three car pile up, by randomly
firing into traffic. They found the van that was used in the get away,
but first wave of forensics have turned up absolutely nothing other
than the fact that the van was stolen hours before the "raid." (Which
wasn't even a forensic discovery.)
For more information on the event, including local [Boston] analysis go
to >>node<<. A raging debate as to whether the Wanderer was involved
with the whole bombs incident and if so, to what nerfarious purpose.
Right now, although it is losing ground, the paranoids in the bunch
haven't put it past him to hire other people to do the bomb as a false
alarm. I don't know if I agree with them on that issue though.
However, based on what was found in the pub, a lot of people are
wondering if this is only the beginning. And if so, the beginning of
what? Especially since the Wanderer was indirectly quoted having
yelled, "I don't care how many people I have to question! I will find
the answers, heretics!" ]<<<<<
-- Ratspeak <02:35:26/02-17-59>
>>>>>[ Why thank you for the cheerful news, Ratspeak! I'm sure
everyone will sleep a lot easier with news of the return of the
Wanderer.
I found the node you referenced to be very informative and interesting.
I especially enjoyed the speculation on just what the monster known as
the Wanderer was capable of, because their opinions are absolutely
fascinating. Based on his reputation from the locals, he sounds like
just the type of person I would like to employ. ]<<<<<
-- Mister Please <02:38:16/02-17-59>
