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From NPR:
Police are responding to an active shooter at the headquarters of YouTube. A hospital has received "several" patients from the incident, a spokesman says.
Local TV news reports show pictures of people evacuating a building with their hands over their heads. Each person was being frisked by a police officer, apparently to make sure that they pose no threat.
Local law enforcement officials have not issued any information.
From Reuters:
Police in San Bruno warned people in a Twitter message to stay away from the address where YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, is based.
"We are responding to an active shooter. Please stay away from Cherry Ave & Bay Hill Drive," San Bruno police said on Twitter.
Lisa Kim, a spokeswoman for Stanford Health Care, said the hospital was receiving between four to five patients from the shooting incident at the YouTube offices.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:59PM (41 children)
Ive seen this mentioned elsewhere, nothing productive going on in the comments...
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:01PM (1 child)
We gotta get those clicks, man. Ad revenue!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kazzie on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:02PM
Who'll get the ad revenue when videos of the event are posted to Youtube?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:10PM (33 children)
Until we know the actual details there is no use speculating. Disgruntled worker? Crazy person? Angry about the banned gun videos? No point in guessing really.
Oh right, thoughts and prayers.
(Score: 2) by deadstick on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:37PM
Yeah, Trump came through with that.
(Score: 4, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday April 03 2018, @11:37PM (10 children)
Write a check out to your favorite NRA apologist, then write "Thoughts And Prayers" in the two places where the dollar amount would normally go.
If I can find my postage stamps I'm gonna do some of this.
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:31AM
I'm not seeing what America's oldest civil rights organization has to do with a jihadi. Perhaps, despite ignoring the law on murder, you think she'd have just stopped if getting the pistol were illegal? ("Oh darn, I guess I can't slay infidels because 3D-printing a pistol would be a crime.")
The last time anything NRA-related was involved in a massacre, it was a barefooted NRA safety instructor who ran down the street with his AR-15 to successfully stop a bad person. This was good.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:03PM (6 children)
You need to write a check out to your Muslim apologists. Find your postage stamps, Bubba!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:51PM (2 children)
It seems clear to me that the NRA would lose a lot of money if they cut out the conservative muslim demographic from their marketing. More so than the white conservative, because the muslims are not so interested in who is president at the time they make their purchases.
They are not driven by fear shouted to them about the government is going to take their guns; instead, they are driven by the intrinsic motivation of righteousness. And that will always sell bullets.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:13PM (1 child)
Yep - it's as clear as mud. WTF are you even going on about? There are at least as many redneck gun owners in Arkansas, alone, as there are Muslims in the United States. Clear to you - are you a carp? Do you feed in the murky bottom waters of a polluted river?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:34PM
On this day we salute Runaway, champion of truth, defender against trolls!
/ns
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @05:41PM (2 children)
It wasn't a religious attack jackass.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 05 2018, @01:13AM (1 child)
Oh, so you and a team of shrinks have ruled out any possible influence of this broad's religion on her actions. Derp-a-derp!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:18PM
But you and your supeeerb mental abilities can definitively say that her religious exposure IS to blame. Glass house bub.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:03PM (1 child)
I can see how to write that amount in words, but how do you write "thoughts and prayers" in digits?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @05:30PM
0.00
(Score: 5, Insightful) by driverless on Wednesday April 04 2018, @12:59AM (20 children)
Dear USA,
Could I suggest the following template for reporting the daily shooting over there? It'd make for a lot less work for people reporting the story every day:
Love,
The rest of the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:14AM
My sweet gunwoman. My precious Valkyrie.
Love,
memes
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:22AM (18 children)
You know, it's quite possible to not shoot your mouth off about other nations' entirely domestic issues that don't concern you in any way at all. Americans do it all the time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:33AM (2 children)
Only while stuffing their faces with pizza and hamburgers, right?
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:12AM (1 child)
You forgot the drinking and shooting things bits.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday April 05 2018, @12:32AM
You forgot the time honored tradition of fireworks and blowing shit up. Everything covered so far, still doesn't cover half of the events in the Redneck Olympics (which is the only Olympics I follow).
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @05:03AM (13 children)
If these shootups happen once in a blue moon, or even only once a month, you might have a point. God damn every week this shit happens.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 04 2018, @10:20AM (9 children)
You're saying that what is and isn't your business is a function of if it's interesting or not then? Feel free to fuck off with that nonsense any time you like.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:52PM
You do you and be sure to shut the fuck up on anything that don't concern you - i.e., most shits posted on here. Rohyngia? None of you damn buzwax. Refugees to Europe? Same shit - shut up.
Also, Americans don't talk shit about other countries' business? Which hole is your head stuck in?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:37PM (7 children)
Wait wait wait, so "You know, it's quite possible to not shoot your mouth off about other nations' entirely domestic issues that don't concern you in any way at all. Americans do it all the time." was entirely serious? I saw it with a +funny mod at the time and that made sense. The US sticks its nose in everyone's business!!
You were serious TMB? lol
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 04 2018, @10:45PM (6 children)
Absolutely serious. Our media doesn't report your everyday bullshit so nobody over here even knows about it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @12:26AM (3 children)
Shooting shit up in public space/schools is "everyday bullshit" in America. That's the fucking problem, you numbnut.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 05 2018, @12:45AM (2 children)
No, it's not. Whether a gun is involved in a murder is irrelevant. The key word there is murder, dipshit, and we're nowhere near the top of the list in murder rates.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @01:03AM (1 child)
Name another country where random shoot-up/carve-up/bomb-out what-have-you killing buncha people happen on weekly base.
"Nowhere near the top of the list?" Let's give ourselves a medal then.
Dumbass.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 05 2018, @01:41AM
Most all of them of any significant size. When your nation isn't even as big as most of our states, you kind of expect that it's going to have less gross crimes of any variety.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:21PM (1 child)
Incorrect, we hear about every terrorist attack on western nations, along with any other international news that helps US propaganda. Pay attention!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:30PM
Do you? I have to go to international sources if I want to hear/read about any non-domestic attacks. Even Brexit didn't get much domestic coverage.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:34PM
What people willfully overlook is the reaction promulgated in the media. This will continue for some time as long as the media feeds on these tragedies. It encourages anonymous nobodies to take up arms and make headlines. The media cannot seem to give it a rest and every crazy asshole knows this. The Florida high school shooter is now receiving fan mail. Until the media pulls their heads out of their collective asses, we can expect more of the same until the shiny wears off and the media starts chasing the next ratings magnet.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:04PM (1 child)
Need to start deporting Muslims, and the number of shootings will drop significantly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:38PM
The shooter was Bahá'i [wikipedia.org] It's the most universal faith, like the modern lefts "fake liberalism" it superficially respects everything and realistically respects nothing.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday April 04 2018, @05:29PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:41PM (4 children)
I haven't heard about this so Soylent actually informed me of it.
YouTube HQ? I'm sure an interesting motive will come out...
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:44AM (1 child)
I laughed at the breaking complaint. You guys just can't fucking win with the breaking news can you?
Three days late: complaints, comparison to Slashdot, but just days older.
One day late: complaints, accusations of disrespect to the dead, etc.
Completely on fucking time for once: complaints about whether it's even appropriate.
I think every breaking news article should come from the kick-us-in-the-balls-why-dont-you dept. :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:08PM
Some people would bitch if they were to be hung with a brand new rope. There's just no pleasing them. There's no point in trying. Soylent needs to do what it does, hold it's collective head up, and tell the world to "FUCK OFF!"
Someone or other did a song to that effect. "You can't please everybody, so you've got to please yourself." But, it's alright now, right?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:39AM (1 child)
Ill provide the first helpful comment, it was anti-youtube:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-03/youtube-shooter-identified-nasim-aghdam [zerohedge.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @07:06PM
and her website gives a 503 already.