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Sad day for our small town tonight

Discussion in 'Pull up a chair and sit for a spell' started by FLHTbiker, Nov 4, 2013.

  1. FLHTbiker

    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Tonight our small town is in mourning. Yesterday afternoon my wife and I coming home from Paradise Harley and we saw smoke coming from our town. Although we don't live right in town but 6 miles outside it. I knew it was a house fire by the color and location. It was a house fire and the renter who lived there had set it on fire. We later learned that the crazed renter shot a police officer who was responding to the fire. He shot him in the face and tonight we learned the officer died. Was the first fatal shooting of a police officer in Oregon City in 100 years. The swat team that showed up shot and killed him.
    What is ironic also about this as I believe that I recognized the shooter as a guy who was giving me a hard time while riding the bike up Hwy 213 to Oregon City a month ago. I had passed him in the passing lane as he and several vehicles were going very slow. I was simply going around him not at a high speed and then he swerved at me and kept on honking his horn. He would come up behind me honking his horn and kept it up. I finally pulled into the right lane and he pulled up beside me still honking. I motioned for him to pull over as I wanted to pound the guys face in by then. Oh he was also laughing to and then it hit me that this guy is really deranged so I sped up getting a lot of distance between us and giving him the finger. Never saw him again until they posted the picture of him tonight. Wow, the guy really was deranged. Glad I didn't push it with him any further when I was riding as yea know a vehicle is bigger and heavier, but sure would have like to smack him hard.

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    FLHTbiker, Nov 4, 2013
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  3. hotroadking

    hotroadking Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Yeah there was a guy that did that to a friend of mine here
    I was riding behind him, guy cut him right off he had to hit the brakes
    and then kept it up trying to goad him, diving at the bike.

    A little view of his sig p229 and the guy exited the freeway quickly..

    Shame to hear about the officer, sick people out there...
    hotroadking, Nov 4, 2013
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    badinfluence63 Well-Known Member

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    People are going nuts.
    badinfluence63, Nov 4, 2013
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  5. FLHTbiker

    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    HRK I was not carrying at the time.
    FLHTbiker, Nov 4, 2013
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    There are a lot of people that have issues that we can not comprehend, THAT is not to say they have a free pass on life. I will allways hope to be held accountable for my actions as everyone should. I am a volunteer fireman and try to help my community/fellow people, we had a bad incident in Webster N/Y where an individual choose to end his life, to bad he took other people with him.
    bambidee, Nov 4, 2013
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    sad news for sure ,
    cowboy, Nov 4, 2013
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    More crazies out there than ever - no regard for human life, not even their own. Very sorry to hear about the LEO . . .
    joshbob, Nov 5, 2013
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    Sad. And they'll probably find he's got a history of issues with the law & sanity.
    charlie46, Nov 5, 2013
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    A lot of wackos out there...
    marc 55, Nov 5, 2013
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    We had another crazy today too. Young guy went into a NJ Mall with an "assault" rifle shot it a bit not hitting anyone thank God and then killed himself. Evil is running rampart in the USA.


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    Fatboy128, Nov 5, 2013
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  12. marc 55

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    Yup...And it will unfortunately happen again...Just a matter of where and when...Another reason to carry
    marc 55, Nov 5, 2013
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  13. FLHTbiker

    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    I'm going to carry all the time for now on
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    Good idea. The only shootings we have here are almost all gang related in the big cities, and not that many compared to other places.
    joshbob, Nov 7, 2013
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