Now I'm beginning to get really pissed about this guy. The people in the affected area MUST learn to spy on others, repugnant though it may be. I remember when I first started checking out my neighbor through binoculars, it felt really strange and I felt guilty, furtive, all of those shifty things. But I caught her on camera filling in the ditch! I quit monitoring her movements ages ago, way before she left, not only because I had what I needed but because it STILL felt weird, spying on someone.

I do know how strong that awful feeling is; we're taught to mind our own business, think the best of people and don't get involved. It's all got to be overcome, if only temporarily, if this guy is going to be caught. Lessons must be learned from Israel, where the average Israeli can now spot a homicide bomber miles away.

Telling people to zig-zag on the way into Burger King ain't gonna do it.

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2002

Answers

I think the cops do know a whole lot but also know if they share it someone else will be picked off.

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2002

I want a NAME, dammit!!!

Just saw Moose talking about the message they think is the Sniper, who said, "P.S. Your children are not safe anywhere at any time." BASTARD.

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2002

That message about the kids gave me the chills when I heard it.

If the citizens catch this guy he gonna die a deserving painful death.

-- Anonymous, October 23, 2002

Children

When I first heard this statement, I couldn't help but think of a daycare. God, I hope this sick bastard doesn't hit a daycare.

Next, last night I was thinking along completely different paths. Our country is our motherland, we are her children.

Who knows. I think it is way past time that the police ask for help from some of the hunters in the area, since they can't hunt for food anymore. Ask for volunteers. Assign a section of woods to one person. If that person hears gunfire, he/she is free to hunt down the perp. Bonus points will be awarded if the perp is alive when recovered.

Doing the one hunter per woods, would hopefully insure that the hunters didn't take out each other. Camo is a wonderful thing, and there have been times that I have not seen hubby when I was looking for him with him just being a few feet away.

Hell, I know plenty of people out here that would go to the DC area to hunt down the bastard.

-- Anonymous, October 23, 2002

The daycare thing has already been done, in Dunblane, Scotland. Either that or it was a kindergarten. Extremely strict gun laws made a lot of difference there, huh?

Maybe the local hunters have already gotten together and are very quietly doing as you suggest, apoc. I hope so. Problem is, Mr. Sniper might be one of them. I keep thinking he must be a consummate actor, since nobody has reported him as a suspect. But then Bundy got away with it for YEARS. Then there was that British doctor who was offing his patients for a couple of decades. And what about that guy who was Chuckles the Clown? Ugh! Same madness, different methods.

-- Anonymous, October 23, 2002