There was a cartoon of Muhhamad in the UNC paper last week. So probably not a coincidence. I went to UNC. If you know the campus, you know this is a very hard area to get to with a motor vehicle. Its a good ways away from any real road access and is on the central quad of campus. Its at least a third of a mile from anywhere I can think of where you get into it with a car.
---There was a cartoon of Muhhamad in the UNC paper last week. ---
Bingo!
SUV = 4x4? Moslim, not dumb.
I'm not so sure it's that difficult. It'd be tough to get over there from down past Dey Hall or from Raleigh Street by the Student Union, but it seems it'd be relatively easy to pop down from Lenoir Drive between Davis Library and the Upper Quad. So long as there's no service vehicle blocking the way as there usually is!
I think you're right; and he had to WORK to get that car where he got it.
I went to UNC too. I was in undergrad school before the library next to the Union was built, and vehicles could get there more easily. I think now a car would have to come by the Chemistry building, by the Wilson Library to get to he Pit. Unless an SUV could come up the step between the Union and the Pit. The self-loathing of the libs at UNC has only grown since I was there 1876-80 (and grad school 1985-88, but not on main campus very much).
Go Heels, beat DOOK
I'm sorry, they just didn't let anyone into State you know... ;)
To be the devil's advocate on this guy, I just don't think he decided to run a Jeep into the Pit over a couple of cartoons. Even money he flunked out in the Fall Semester and wanted to take that out against somebody. That or it was something personal against somebody
Absolutely!
If a person unfamiliar looked casually at this, he just could not imagine what an obvious ASSAULT this was (as the police are charging).
This is THE outdoor spot where students longue about between classes on nice days....not a place you could run into with a car because a bug flew in your eye! This was attempted murder.
I just learned about this a few minutes ago. As it happens, I just watched CBS Evening News where, of course, it did not appear. UNC has had cartoon controversy. Now Mohammed deliberately (by numerous accoutns) launches a murder attempt by vehicle against relaxing students.
Oh yea....it wouldn't be news on C-BS because it doesn't insult the president.
I didn't know about the cartoon, makes sense. I was also familiar with just the spot, it was always fertile ground for political disputation. The "roads" in were always blocked save the pre-dawn hours to allow delivery vans, and this was long before people thought terrorist, it was just a pedestrian area, made sense, that part of campus is very compact. My tenure there, I left the car at the parents' house, took longer to find parking than to walk from the dorm.