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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 10 2015, @07:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-thing-no-one-was-jaywalking dept.

According to reporting in AlterNet, the Denver Channel, Westword, and others:

A standoff between SWAT team members and an armed shoplifting suspect who barricaded himself in a Greenwood Village home ended, but now the home owner thinks police destroyed his house. Greenwood Village Police said the 19-hour standoff ended with no injured officers or citizens, but the home looks like a bomb went off.

There is a large hole in the front of the house, broken windows and glass are littered everywhere and shrapnel is stuck in the walls. Leo Lech said, "It looks like Osama Bin Laden's compound." Lech is no terrorist but an unlucky homeowner whose property was caught in the cross fire when the suspect broke into the home. A 9-year-old child who was in the home at the time was able to escape.

Greenwood Village Police say that the suspect had four active warrants out for narcotics and had a large amount of narcotics with him. The suspect tried to steal a car at the home and fired at police from the garage, Greenwood Village Police say. Negotiations with the suspect failed after police met two of the suspect's three demands, but the suspect severed communications with police. Police used explosives and a ramming device to gain entry into the home after negotiations failed.

"This is a complete atrocity," said Lech. "This is a paramilitary force used in a civilian environment ... for one gunman? To use this kind of power?" Lech said the Greenwood Village Police Department claimed it was not responsible and the city would not return his calls.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:34PM (#194722)

    MDC is a self-proclaimed mental case. He's got holes in his memory, and doesn't remember who he was at the time.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:43PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:43PM (#194728) Homepage Journal

    You are referring to Dissociative Identity Disorder. I have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:53PM (#194734)

      Do you enjoy feeding the trolls specifically, or do you just love to see the words drip from your fingertips as you type?

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:20PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:20PM (#194750)

        That sounds more like LSD than schizoaffective disorder if you're seeing words drip from your fingertips.

        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:46AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:46AM (#194790)

          Lsd (and other serotonergic hallucinogens) and schizoaffective disorder are quite similar, but the fx on lsd are much much more better and the duration much shorter.
          Anticholinergics and full blown psychosis are quite similar and the follow the same pattern.
          Dissociatives (mk801,Diphenidine, PCP, Ketamine) are quite similar to...

      • (Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:40PM

        by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:40PM (#194756) Homepage Journal

        ... but for those who come along later and read what the trolls had to say. If I don't respond to correct false statements, those later readers might not understand that they are false or even defamatory.

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        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @12:02AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @12:02AM (#194761)

          And your concern is solely for your own reputation.

          • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:38AM

            by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:38AM (#194787) Homepage Journal

            That's why I posted Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations [warplife.com] on my site fifteen years ago.

            Being concerned for accuracy is not the same as being concerned for my reputation. For example I am completely cool with other people knowing that I spend lots of time in mental hospitals and jails.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:52AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:52AM (#194792)

              Did you ever tried dissociatives drugs, not shit like lsd or coke or meth or cannabis but something like DXM, Diphenidine or Ketamine. I am pretty sure you would like that, the void is so peaceful and when it's not you don't remember. I excluded PCP from my list as a week long hypomania episode is not that funny....