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To: rabidralph

That's funny.... I didn't catch on until you posted. Yeah, couldn't be Arlington, VA. It wouldn't be in the paper. When I lived in Norfolk, VA there was a helluva parking lot shootout just up the road from me and they never printed a thing about it in the Ledger-Star.

The bride and groom following their wedding were checking into their motel in a really nice area of town right beside my church when they were accosted by three guys with a shotgun. The groom shot and killed one of them and the other two grabbed him and tried to shoot him with his own pistol which misfired. He managed to get away. The two were subsequently captured. (This is all from memory from nearly 20 years ago).

The only reason I finally heard about was that the tiny little Hampton, VA paper wrote a story about it and I'm guessing it was the only press it got.

In my mind that was a front page headline and the notoriously anti-gun Ledger-Star concealed it.


12 posted on 11/03/2006 10:45:10 AM PST by Belasarius (Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job 5:2-7)
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To: Belasarius
Hey, Senior, thanks for your service. I was a JO2(AW).

Either the story wouldn't be in the Arlington, VA, rag or it would declare the robber was the true victim.

13 posted on 11/03/2006 11:26:44 AM PST by rabidralph
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