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Austin Bombing Suspect Killed Himself in Explosion as SWAT Approached

posted by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the went-out dept.
Austin bomb suspect blows self up as SWAT team approached

The suspect in a spate of bombings that terrorized residents of Austin, Texas, died after detonating an explosive inside his vehicle as a SWAT team approached to apprehend him on the side of a highway, officials said.

Early Wednesday, authorities tracked the suspect — a 24-year-old white man — to a hotel in Round Rock, a city in the Austin metropolitan area, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told a news conference early Wednesday.

They tracked his vehicle until it pulled over on Interstate 35 and the suspect "detonated a bomb inside the vehicle, knocking one of our SWAT officers back and one of our officers fired on the vehicle as well," Manley said.

Austin serial bombings.

Also at CNN, BBC, and Bloomberg.

Previously: Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas

 
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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:03PM (17 children)

    by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:03PM (#656062) Homepage Journal
    Come, fellow. If you so earnestly believe I am of retarded birth, stand tall and yell it to the heavens. There is no need for the elipsees. They make it seem like you're whispering under your breath instead of pummeling into the ground! Let me show you:

    While the SWAT had less than 100 brain cells, he was still able to breath automatically. You, on the other hand, I don't need to know anything about. Just by seeing your failure of a quote, I can infer you have 15 brain cells and your handler has 60.
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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:50PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:50PM (#656096)

    Hmm… the problem with Arik Mono is that ellipses don't look very good. See that one I just used? It's all scrunched up and compressed since 1en = 1em—even em dashes get scrunched up! Look at that one! You can't tell whether it's an em dash or an en dash or a hyphen or a negative!

    Can we stop the violence against decent, hardworking variable width serif and sans-serif typefaces? Think of the kerning! Think of the children!

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:13PM (2 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:13PM (#656104) Journal

      I shot the serif, but I did not shoot the monospace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLUNu9zOLfM [youtube.com]

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:35PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:35PM (#656109)

        and you are now so Comic Sans. literally.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:41PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:41PM (#656134)

          Don't worry I got a small chuckle from the Marley reference. It was a better joke than yours, though comic sans was decent. If you delivered it with a better attitude it would have worked better.

    • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:05PM

      by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:05PM (#656123) Homepage Journal
      I don't answer to god. If there was inline CSS available, I'd be doing

      @font-face {
           font-family: "Linotype Abstract";
           src: url("css/fonts/LinotypeOL.wav");
      }

      on every single post and VariusTM Ornaments for every reply. My favourite color is CIE(0.363661,0.182901,154493.4785) and all of my grids are replaced with lists.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:33PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:33PM (#656177)

    Instead I will hope you get terminal cancer this year, you useless piece of shirt.

    And I hope it hurts you a lot.

    • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:42PM (10 children)

      by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:42PM (#656181) Homepage Journal

      I'll let you in on a secret: I don't use a single tty for my daily needs. I spawn and kill hundreds of xterms every day. None live long enough to get any sort of cancer that would affect me.

      And for calling me a useless rag, all I have for you is that: you're rude. Cloth has many uses, even if those as lowly as wiping the wet feces off of an obesely bed-ridden Soyim's bottom.

      • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by darkfeline on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:34AM (9 children)

        by darkfeline (1030) on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:34AM (#656468) Homepage

        > I don't use a single tty for my daily needs. I spawn and kill hundreds of xterms every day.

        Well, I can't say I am surprised to find out how ignorant this new persona is. Each xterm instance holds a tty.

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        • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:47AM (8 children)

          by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:47AM (#656472) Homepage Journal
          Each xterm process holds a tty the same way Big is Beautiful(TM), only in marketing jargon. Xterm and like allocate ptys while keyboard events talk to the tty sockets, which xterm listens to. TTYs are allocated by the kernel, not Xterm.

          You inglorious moran.

          • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday March 22 2018, @06:07PM (7 children)

            by darkfeline (1030) on Thursday March 22 2018, @06:07PM (#656748) Homepage

            That's an awfully convenient justification for "I don't use ttys". You should try being a politician, just make sure to hide the cocaine (or maybe tell the courts that cocaine is processed by the molecules in your body and not by you).

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