“I was there” Ground report on the AppState “Gunman”
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Gray_Fox
on March 3, 2008 at 05:52 pm
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So a guy returns to his off-campus apartment here in Boone to find a burglar with a small handgun. The supposedly armed man runs onto the Appalachian State Campus proceeding to scare the crap out of the students, faculty and staff. The university decided to lock down all campus buildings at 5:10 PM, but because of communication mishaps it didn’t filter all the way down until about 5:30 PM. Meanwhile, I’m sitting at work minding my own business when the cops come in with guns drawn telling us to get out of the building. By then about 5 of us had gathered in the kitchen and the cafeteria. Once the Boone 5.0 told us to clear out, we stampeded out of the building and ran to an adjacent campus building, only to sit there for an hour. Some brave souls stood outside of the cafeteria, trying to see if the cops had their man cornered. Eventually, more of us ventured out trying to figure out what was going on. By then it was pretty much a joke, as one faculty member quoted “No one’s been shot, no one’s been injured, I’m goin’ home!”
We went back to work at 6:30 PM, only to hear the Food Services director tell us to close up shop and go home. About a minute later one of the Chancellor’s Aides called us and said to stay open. With the rush we didn’t get out of work til after 8 PM, so by the time I came back to the dorm the hysteria was over. So I come to find out the police had entered the building on a tip that said they had seen the same gunman at the very Chic-fil-a that I work at. Go figure.
Just another crazy day right?
UPDATE: Cops are in my dorm pulling security right now....
UPDATE: The cops have cleared out of my dorm. Apparently the gunman was spotted at my Hall.
Pretty freaky that the guy is still at large.
"Scare" over, Gunman a hoax.....
The Police here in Boone learned this morning that the guy who reported the story made it all up.
The Watauga Democrat has a video of this guy being interviewed. He's soo.... sketch.
http://www.wataugademocrat.com/index.php
http://www.wataugademocrat.com/2008/0303/0303lockdown.php
You gotta love mass hysteria.
So a guy returns to his off-campus apartment here in Boone to find a burglar with a small handgun. The supposedly armed man runs onto the Appalachian State Campus proceeding to scare the crap out of the students, faculty and staff. The university decided to lock down all campus buildings at 5:10 PM, but because of communication mishaps it didn’t filter all the way down until about 5:30 PM. Meanwhile, I’m sitting at work minding my own business when the cops come in with guns drawn telling us to get out of the building. By then about 5 of us had gathered in the kitchen and the cafeteria. Once the Boone 5.0 told us to clear out, we stampeded out of the building and ran to an adjacent campus building, only to sit there for an hour. Some brave souls stood outside of the cafeteria, trying to see if the cops had their man cornered. Eventually, more of us ventured out trying to figure out what was going on. By then it was pretty much a joke, as one faculty member quoted “No one’s been shot, no one’s been injured, I’m goin’ home!”
We went back to work at 6:30 PM, only to hear the Food Services director tell us to close up shop and go home. About a minute later one of the Chancellor’s Aides called us and said to stay open. With the rush we didn’t get out of work til after 8 PM, so by the time I came back to the dorm the hysteria was over. So I come to find out the police had entered the building on a tip that said they had seen the same gunman at the very Chic-fil-a that I work at. Go figure.
Just another crazy day right?
UPDATE: Cops are in my dorm pulling security right now....
UPDATE: The cops have cleared out of my dorm. Apparently the gunman was spotted at my Hall.
Pretty freaky that the guy is still at large.
"Scare" over, Gunman a hoax.....
The Police here in Boone learned this morning that the guy who reported the story made it all up.
The Watauga Democrat has a video of this guy being interviewed. He's soo.... sketch.
http://www.wataugademocrat.com/index.php
http://www.wataugademocrat.com/2008/0303/0303lockdown.php
You gotta love mass hysteria.
Proof
FlyOnTheWall:
Wow. That was unexpected. Thanks. (I don't do gatorade, though.)...
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