Binghamton Massacre
Posted: April 4th, 2009, 12:57 pm
Yesterday morning I took a bus downtown because I had to run some errands on main street. When I got on the bus the driver told me that part of main street had been closed off by the police so he would be taking a detour around it. Neither of us knew what had happened, but figured it was probably a big car accident or a fire. On the way there I must have counted 3 or 4 different ambulances headed towards and away from my destination but again I just figured it was a bad car accident.
I got off the bus a few blocks south from main street and started walking north to get to my destination, along the way I heard several more ambulance sirens and started to get worried. When I got to main street I looked down it and saw that the street was filled with police cars and ambulances with flashing lights, but no wrecked cars, smoke, or firetrucks. I'm not much of a rubberneck and my business was in the other direction so I headed up main street and put the whole thing out of my head.
I finished my errands and caught the next bus back, and went about my day. An hour after my trip I started getting txt messages friends and family asking me if I was ok. I had no clue what they were talking about and just reassured them I was fine. It was then that I saw the story on the internet and found out that what I had seen down main street wasn't a traffic accident, but one of the biggest mass shootings in America recently.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/amer ... 1133.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/nyreg ... stage.html
I got off the bus a few blocks south from main street and started walking north to get to my destination, along the way I heard several more ambulance sirens and started to get worried. When I got to main street I looked down it and saw that the street was filled with police cars and ambulances with flashing lights, but no wrecked cars, smoke, or firetrucks. I'm not much of a rubberneck and my business was in the other direction so I headed up main street and put the whole thing out of my head.
I finished my errands and caught the next bus back, and went about my day. An hour after my trip I started getting txt messages friends and family asking me if I was ok. I had no clue what they were talking about and just reassured them I was fine. It was then that I saw the story on the internet and found out that what I had seen down main street wasn't a traffic accident, but one of the biggest mass shootings in America recently.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/amer ... 1133.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/nyreg ... stage.html