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    Amateur video deaths, with twelve injured (four critical).
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    MOON GIRL FIGHTS CRIME Myrnalene's avatar
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    CNN reports that the driver is dead.

    What a nutbag.
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    This is what happens when you don't allow people free and easy access to guns. Nutjobs have to improvise and use highly inefficient methods of causing mass mayhem.
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    I don't know. Five dead and twelve injured sounds fairly efficient to me.

    Any idea if this was planned or spontaneous? I mean, I just can't get it through my head why anyone would have a murderous hate on for the queen of the Netherlands. She looks like a perfectly nice person, she doesn't have any real political power, and as royalty goes, she's completely obscure.
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    Quote Originally posted by phouka
    Any idea if this was planned or spontaneous? I mean, I just can't get it through my head why anyone would have a murderous hate on for the queen of the Netherlands. She looks like a perfectly nice person, she doesn't have any real political power, and as royalty goes, she's completely obscure.
    Maybe he thought Jodie Foster would notice him. :wink:
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    Default Re: Assassination (?) attempt on Queen of Netherlands

    Quote Originally posted by phouka
    I don't know. Five dead and twelve injured sounds fairly efficient to me.

    Any idea if this was planned or spontaneous? I mean, I just can't get it through my head why anyone would have a murderous hate on for the queen of the Netherlands. She looks like a perfectly nice person, she doesn't have any real political power, and as royalty goes, she's completely obscure.
    Kinda seems to be the way it goes. The really hated people get left alone, while those who are wildly popular, or just likable but prominent, get gunned down or blown to bits.
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    Didn't everyone figure out after.. oh.. JFK to not, you know, put your leaders in a large, slow moving, open vehicle and parade them in front of a crowd? Heck, Ferdinand (not the band) should've been enough of a warning for even that to not have happened... Although that wasn't even a parade..

    And looking further into it I'm sad to find that "Franz Ferdinand wiki" in google first points to the band's Wikipedia page... And second to the Wiki of the person who was assassinated and who's murder set into motion the first 'effin world war..

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