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southwestforests
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04 Dec 2009, 6:41 pm
I don't see how this is at all astonishing.
I don't see how this would be at all unexpected.
Somebody show me how this is not normal human behavior.
Quote:
Mr. Owczarski said he could not elaborate further. But a university official, who requested anonymity because of pending litigation, said that the two people who alerted their families were secretaries for university officials.
One secretary mentioned that there had been a shooting while calling her son to wake him up for class, the official said. The other secretary was visiting her mother when she was called by campus officials and told to get to work right away because there had been a shooting. Before leaving, that secretary informed her mother of the situation, the official said.
One secretary mentioned that there had been a shooting while calling her son to wake him up for class, the official said. The other secretary was visiting her mother when she was called by campus officials and told to get to work right away because there had been a shooting. Before leaving, that secretary informed her mother of the situation, the official said.
{there's an old, old, old, old, joke, what are the three fastest forms of communication?, telegraph, telephone, tell a woman}
Comes from here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/us/05virginia.html?_r=1
Quote:
Report on Virginia Tech Shooting Finds Notification Delays
By IAN URBINA
Published: December 4, 2009
RICHMOND, Va. — During the worst campus shooting spree in American history, Virginia Tech officials locked down some administrative buildings and warned their own families more than an hour and a half before the rest of the campus was alerted, according to revisions made in the state’s official report on the tragedy.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/us/20091204vatech.pdf
Mark Owczarski, a spokesman for the university, said the revised report was inaccurate and lacked context.
“The revised report describes the two people who alerted their families as Policy Group members, and they were not,” he said. “It also inaccurately describes the actions of those two individuals who alerted their families as though it occurred with approval of senior officials. It did not.”
By IAN URBINA
Published: December 4, 2009
RICHMOND, Va. — During the worst campus shooting spree in American history, Virginia Tech officials locked down some administrative buildings and warned their own families more than an hour and a half before the rest of the campus was alerted, according to revisions made in the state’s official report on the tragedy.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/us/20091204vatech.pdf
Mark Owczarski, a spokesman for the university, said the revised report was inaccurate and lacked context.
“The revised report describes the two people who alerted their families as Policy Group members, and they were not,” he said. “It also inaccurately describes the actions of those two individuals who alerted their families as though it occurred with approval of senior officials. It did not.”
Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TempContent/techPanelReport-addendum.cfm
BTW, I went to VA Tech in the early 1980s.
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04 Dec 2009, 6:45 pm
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04 Dec 2009, 9:17 pm
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