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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: 3, Informative) by looorg on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:14PM (32 children)
News over here said the gunman is apparently supposed to be a woman and that she is already dead, which is somewhat rare -- the female part, not the being dead part.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:30PM
Confirmed here [latimes.com]
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:30PM
Google promotes diversity.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:54PM (12 children)
https://gizmodo.com/possible-active-shooter-reported-at-youtubes-san-bruno-1824294859
and here:
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-youtube-shooter-live-updates-htmlstory.html
"authorities do not believe this was an act of terrorism and appears instead to have been a case of domestic or workplace violence"
So I'm guessing she didn't yell "allahu akbar."
Seems at the moment 5 shots fired, shooter killed herself, wounded 4 others.
Who benefits?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @11:02PM (7 children)
You do realize domestic terrorists are a much greater threat right? How many stories have we had now where the nutters scream "muslim terrrorrrrriiiiiist!!!" and it turns out to be some relatively average US citizen?
Who benefits from someone going postal? Nobody unless it manages to scare people enough to give away some MORE freedoms.
It is amusing to me seeing fools like yourself rail on about "turrists" while negating all actions by the US which would more than apply as terrorism. Hell, the US is too pussy to even label "military actions" by the proper term WAR.
Stay afraid fool, better to live in "protected" fear than be free amirite?
(Score: 1) by Arik on Wednesday April 04 2018, @12:21AM (5 children)
You clearly do not know me, and you presume far too much.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:44AM (4 children)
Entirely possible I thought you were much more right wing turristy than you are. Might be the font?
My point stands about people who think everything is terrorism by jihadis because they've been conditioned to hate and fear. If you are not such a person then my apologies.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:54AM (3 children)
If she did this intending it to create terror in order to advance her political agenda, then it was terrorism. If not, then it was not. Her religion has nothing to do with it.
But you'd never know that reading the media accounts.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:06AM (2 children)
Perhaps without intent, you advance the deadly agenda of an enemy.
An analogy: You're like HIV, and Muslims are like strep. What might otherwise be survivable will doom us if our defenses are down.
On a per-capita basis, terrorism is overwhelmingly muslim. No other group comes even remotely close. Surveys taken of muslims in western nations show that there is consistently high support for terrorism. Muslims are not unusually industrious, so most are too lazy/poor/unskilled/busy to actually carry it out, but they do generally desire it.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by Arik on Wednesday April 04 2018, @06:41AM (1 child)
You might want to take those words to heart.
"You're like HIV, and Muslims are like strep."
Seeing your fellow humans as agents of infection is not rational, nor is it healthy.
"What might otherwise be survivable will doom us if our defenses are down."
But there is some truth there. Unfortunately, again, it's truth pointed at you, not myself.
The agenda you are advancing, whether consciously or as a 'useful idiot,' is certainly one that lowers our defenses. You're spreading division, mistrust, and disinformation. You advance the cause of chaos when you do these things, however much you may imagine yourself an agent of order you are not.
"On a per-capita basis, terrorism is overwhelmingly muslim."
[Citation needed.]
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @05:01PM
Heheheh, looks like such accusations attract the racist trolls anyway huh? I believe the per-capita basis since muslims are such a huge percentage of humanity and they tend to be persecuted like christians back in the day. However, much of that violence is supposedly targeting other muslims so it really isn't as scary as you'd think.
Other countries are probably terrified of americans due to our excessive amount of gun violence, prison population, and tendency to drone small villages, but that doesn't make a good generalization of the average tourist or ex-pat.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:49AM
[citation needed]
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:25AM (2 children)
There has to be some irony here--the victims (presumably Google employees) were taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. (per LA Times story)
(Score: 2) by chromas on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:09AM (1 child)
The term "Zucced" just got serious.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:38PM
Too soon.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:54AM
It's that single finger (no the other one!) pointing up to indicate the number "1". The idea is that there is 1 correct sky fairy, 1 correct prophet, 1 correct religion, etc... and all the rest of us just need to die.
She had that in one of her videos, all dressed up with the head covered. I think the hint is damn obvious: she's yet another Muslim terrorist.
The parable of the frog and the scorpion is relevant. Western society is the frog. Islam is the scorpion.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Entropy on Tuesday April 03 2018, @11:02PM (16 children)
I wonder if this is what they expected from all those diversity programs?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @11:11PM
Grow up
(Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Tuesday April 03 2018, @11:27PM
De longer you verk here diverse it gets.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:10AM (13 children)
Sorry, say that again? "Great job hiring women, idiots, bitches be crazy and shoot shit up?" God, are you dumb. This is noteworthy precisely *because* of how rare it is for women to do this sort of thing. Grow the fuck up and shove your whiny persecution complex back in your diaper where it belongs.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:09AM (4 children)
It's also less common for whites to do something around a cop that gets them shot.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday April 04 2018, @07:29AM (2 children)
Not as less as you'd like to believe.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:11PM (1 child)
GP here. I know. :(
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday April 05 2018, @12:16AM
Same here.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday April 04 2018, @10:23AM
Have you ever seen an episode of COPS? I'm surprised more people don't get shot.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Entropy on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:37AM (3 children)
You thought I was serious? lol.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:04AM (2 children)
Yes, because it sounds like all the other regressive bullshit you say every--single--frickin'--time--you post. Poe's Law is a bitch, isn't it?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:12AM (1 child)
To be fair, there are a few posts that are positive...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @05:04PM
That isn't "fair" that is weaseling your way out of being a douche. Now go clean out some menstruation!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:55AM
Did someone say something that made you feel bad sweetheart? Should we put him in time out?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:16PM (2 children)
There are exactly two noteworthy things about women with guns.
First, women don't USE their guns very often.
Second, when women do use their guns, they're deadly.
Almost all women put up with a lot of shit, before they finally reach for that gun. But, they don't fire 500 rounds to nail two people either. Mostly, if a chick intends to kill two people, she fires two shots. If she intends to kill ten, she fires ten shots. Most guys these days are pitiful. They NEED a semi-auto and mega-magazines to kill less than a dozen people.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday April 04 2018, @05:59PM
Gun suicide's remarkably unsuccessful, and remarkably male, so that final part might be considered her field of excellence.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 04 2018, @07:34PM
So your complaint is that murderous men aren't murder-y enough? Ye gods, your priorities are screwed...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...