Some poor schlub got half of his lower leg blown off in our parking lot, and he managed to limp/hop his way through our shipping door at work and plop down on a table and proceed to bleed like the dickens. my co-workers managed to help him, call the cops and attempted to dress the wound. Thank goodness we have lots of latex gloves around from that anthrax scare a while back. I missed it (the shooting, and the arrival of the bloody stranger) b/c i was out doing the mail run. i got back, and the mail room is cordoned off, cops everywhere, and blood...lots of blood. I even have some stupid-@$$ reporter grilling me as i'm trying to deliver mail to the building next door (an associated company and our IT dept.). They sent us (the mail dept.), out to lunch on the company tab while they cleaned the mail room up. Place reeks of amonia now, but they let us take the rest of the day off, and gave us the #'s of some counselors. Bummed out my whole day. I hope the guy is ok.
No rest for the weary. I actually am gonna have to get there early next monday to sort out all the mail i missed today, plus all the mail i'm gonna acumulate over the 3 day weekend (we're gonna be closed for good friday). can't take time off b/c there is only 4 of us, plus our boss, in the mail dept., so we have to schedule time off well in advance, and one of them already has monday off b/c he's driving down to Uvalde for easter . found out the guy that was shot had just cashed his paycheck at one of the local check cashing places, and the guy that did the shooting had followed him to our lot from there, just to rob him. $400. makes me want to seriously reconsider doing the bank run when one of my co-workers goes on maternity leave in 2 months. BTW, since january, Austin has had more bank robberies than all last year! I want a bullet resistant vest, and an armed escort now...
dude, its cases like that that make you feel sick some attacks like that are completely stupid, and unprovoked, and therefore mindless
The really gross thing was that even though they had the mail room cleaned, there is still blood all over our parking lot. left a nice little trail to our door. eww. and a big splotch where it happened. double eww. mind you i don't mind the sight of blood, i just think they could have gone out there with a hose or something! just kinda tacky to just leave it there. and it's not needed for evidence; cops took looooottsss of photos. I'd do it myself if i had access to the hoses and spigots (hoses locked up in supply shed, and the spigots need a key of some sort to turn them on).
I can't believe anyone could do this to another human being. $400, thats like £250, thats really not a significant amount of money to try and kill someone for Did they catch the guy? Things like this make me glad we have such tight gun laws compared to the US.
This might shock some of you, but I remeber when I was in Canada, i heard some drunk mugged someone coming out of a liquor store. The guy refused to hand over the beers, so the mugger stabbed him. He died. Killed for a measily sixpack!
yup, that's the story. all happened in broad daylight. one of my co-workers, who works in the printshop, got in deep doo-doo b/c he talked to reporters. didn't give them any real info, but he wasn't even supposed to leave the building. dip-s*** was too concerned about his car to pay attention to what the president of trhe company told him, and he might get sacked b/c of it. i'm thinking that the guy who gave him a lift knew the shooter, and had planned to do something like this. one of the co-workers who help mr. bleedy told cops that it might have been a deal gone bad, before she knew what was going on. we've had crackheads hanging out by our dumpsters and behind the days-inn next door.
whoa whoa...so i guess we're gonna be reading about this in tomorrow's austin chronicle. i don't have a TV but I bet they're doing some breaking story business. sorry about what happened, i wonder what the story is