‘Kindness of America' author shot by stranger while hitchhiking
Source: Herald Sun
Raymond Dolin, who is writing a memoir called The Kindness Of America, was shot just before 6pm local time on Saturday (Sunday AEST) while hitching a lift on Highway 2, a few miles west of Glasgow, the Billings Gazette reported.
A man driving a maroon pickup pulled up next to him, shot him and drove away.
Dolin was able to flag down a passerby and is now recovering at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow.
Authorities launched a manhunt for the pickup driver.
Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/kindness-of-america-author-shot-by-stranger-while-hitchhiking/story-e6frf7lf-1226391677753
Sigh
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)There is no clue provided. The article's from Australia, he's in a hospital in Glasgow, and the report came from a Billings newspaper. Did this happen in Scotland? Australia? Montana?
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 11, 2012, 12:09 PM - Edit history (2)
U.S. Route 2 is hardly any distance from the Canadian border. It runs parallel to the Great Northern Railway mainline.ETA:
This gratuituous picture of "The Empire Builder" somewhat to the west of Glasgow, just because I love this picture. Unexpected development: Today, June 11, is the 83rd anniversary of the introduction of "The Empire Builder". Nice train: the first car is an RPO, three normal domes in the middle, and a full-length dome near the back.
OK, here's a link to the story:
[link:http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/hitchhiker-hospitalized-in-random-drive-by-shooting-near-glasgow/article_cc8c914f-7308-5184-ada1-e215399e06ed.html|
Hitchhiker hospitalized in 'random' drive-by shooting near Glasgow]
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)it would have been for them to use US Rt 2 instead of Rt 2, which probably also exists in Scotland and Australia
muriel_volestrangler
(101,156 posts)If they have numbers, they have prefixes of 'A', 'B' or 'M'. 'M' means 'motorway' - the standard of an interstate highway, with rules like no bicycles. 'A' and 'B' are the major and minor roads between towns and cities.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I did not know that.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)They let us sneak into the dome cars, even though we didn't have tickets to be in that car. It was awesome.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)But they were never full, so no one really cared, apparently.
pansypoo53219
(20,907 posts)ooh, that was such a neat place.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Guess I'll see Glasgow someday outta the dome
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)the Empire Builder. I only travel by train these days. I am always eager to use any excuse to take that route. Came close last summer but the connection in NorCal didn't fit even my flexible schedule.
haele
(12,581 posts)North-east area of the state.
Sadly, this gentleman ran into an asshole.
Haele
petronius
(26,581 posts)cities are actually named after smaller towns somewhere in the U.S.
Hopefully they catch the shooter quickly - with such a small population, it seems like someone will know who it is (so long as it wasn't just someone passing through)...
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)to add to the confusion, throw in a southern accent.
I have had people down here tell me they were going to "Alaska" for a weekend, which left me puzzled until I discovered we have a small town here called "Eliaska"
Hundreds of small towns around the South are named after European cities, gets confusing.
Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)csziggy
(34,120 posts)petronius
(26,581 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)Any upstate New Yorker could tell you that it's BER-lin, with the stress on the first syllable.
Out in Illinois, it's Cair-o, not Cai-ro.
And I just found a discussion page at http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000391.php that cites a number of others.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)If you call it Cairo, the locals look at you really strange. "You from da city?" (chicago). "Figgers."
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Vienna, Berlin, Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Washington, Norfolk, Alexandria, Amsterdam, Moscow... Virginia.
We invented them all.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)You can spend more time asking "where did this happen" in LBN than reading the articles sometimes.
I'm guessing it happened in Portland.
petronius
(26,581 posts)"A MAN hitchhiking across the US was recovering in the hospital after he was shot by a stranger as he waited by the roadside in West Virginia."
ashling
(25,771 posts)except this headline to the story:
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)This should perhaps have been included in the OP.
But it's kind of a sketchy story, coming from an Australian newspaper.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)Raymond Dolin, Hitchhiker Writing 'The Kindness Of America,' Allegedly Shot By Charles Danielson
The Huffington Post | By Hilary Hanson Posted: 06/11/2012 10:30 am Updated: 06/11/2012 10:55 am
~snip~
But on Saturday night, the West Virginia man was shot by a random passerby on the side of a highway, the Billings Gazette reports. Dolin was waiting for a ride a couple of miles outside of Glasgow, Montana around 6 pm. That's when, he says, a man driving a maroon pickup truck pulled up and shot him in the arm before speeding away.
The hitchhiker was able to get the attention of another passing vehicle, KRTV reports, and is now recovering at a Glasgow hospital. His injuries are non-life threatening.
After a manhunt lasting about four hours, authorities tracked the maroon pickup about 100 miles east of Glasgow and arrested the driver, Charles Lloyd Danielson III, of Washington State.
~snip~
Danielson, 52, is being held on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon and driving under the influence, according to the Great Falls Tribune. His first court appearance is scheduled for today.
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/11/raymond-dolin-hitchhiker-shot_n_1586276.html
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)give the map a chance to load, and you will see a highly detaild Montana Map published by the state.
Find U.S highway 2 in the northern part, and go to the eastern state line, NOrth Dakota then follow it west and you will see this small town. 75 to 85 miles east of that line,, on U.S. 2
What a hell of a thing to happen in the that part of the country.
Sorry I had to post this...I used to teach Geography and maps in a high school. sometimes I miss it..
thanks for putting up with this if you found the map....Stuart G.
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)Glad the guy's okay.
I hate guns.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)All because of this loser.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Renew Deal
(81,802 posts)flamingdem
(39,304 posts)but somehow it's funny in a Monty Python kind of way. Kindly person .. bang.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)But your post is spot on. I mean, if you told me to write a piece of fiction with a wackier headline, I don't think I could.
mainer
(12,013 posts)she traveled the world to demonstrate that people are kind, and was murdered in Turkey.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7344381.stm
The fact is, there are too many asshole humans mixed in among the good ones.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I did a search of her and now wish I didn't, since it's mainly old RW blogs mocking her naivete...
Here's the DU thread that got too little attention:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3192402
mainer
(12,013 posts)and a suspect has now been captured.
petronius
(26,581 posts)to Glasgow, Montana.
Sad and angering story (albeit funny in a dark way), but it's also a kind of an amusing commentary on the globalization of small news: an Australian newspaper rattling off names of tiny US towns as if they were common knowledge, and misplacing them, to report a not-globally-important crime against a person from yet another country...
grantcart
(53,061 posts)I suspect that the finished book would be used by the uber patriots to support that mind gagging phrase.
Now they would be right.
barbtries
(28,702 posts)glad he survived.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)America. Fuck Yeah!
snooper2
(30,151 posts)or did the gun culture, prompt him to write the book knowing he would use the "gun culture" meme lying about getting shot to promote the book and make some quick cash?
LOL
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)Except instead of another person doing the shooting, it's him shooting himself.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Indeed. I thought that was quite obvious. Maybe it's rather more subtle than I thought... I'm not very clever.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)For shame.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)it'll just end up being used on you.
I guess this is what they were talking about.
Poor guy was helpless to defend himself and had his own gun used on him.
/that's how you spin!
Zax2me
(2,515 posts)Fuck yea!
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)a map.
Glasgow, Montana, of course, is not near West Virginia.
RoseMead
(1,014 posts)Stuart G
(38,365 posts)The incident took place in Glasgow Montana...It took a while to find it
It is located on U.S. Highway 2, about 80 miles west of the North Dakota /Montana state line.(or border.)
It is located about 50 miles south of the Canadian Border with the United States, and has abouta 3200 people..It is kinda out there,
a long way from the next town..
here is how to find this place..
http://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/docs/2011-2012-mt-highway-map.pdf
give the map a chance to load, and you will see a highly detaild Montana Map published by the state.
Find U.S highway 2 in the northern part, and go to the eastern state line, NOrth Dakota then follow it west and you will see this small town. 75 to 85 miles east of that line,, on U.S. 2
What a hell of a thing to happen in the that part of the country.
Sorry I had to post this...I used to teach Geography and maps in a high school. sometimes I miss it..
thanks for putting up with this if you found the map....Stuart G.
that is what teaching geography does to you...you got to know exactly where it is...well, I found it...
rug
(82,333 posts)Stuart G
(38,365 posts)and they got him within a day of the incident..
Ptah
(32,983 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Ptah
(32,983 posts)Mont. Authorities Say Hitchhiker Shot Himself
Source: ABC News
A West Virginia man who claimed to be a victim of a drive-by shooting along a
rural Montana highway while working on a memoir called "Kindness in America"
has confessed to shooting himself, authorities said Friday.
Ray Dolin of Julian, W. Va., 39, made the acknowledgement Thursday night, said Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier.
The case remains under investigation and charges are possible, though none have been filed.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mont-authorities-hitchhiker-shot-16577716#.T9tp7FK8h-w
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Only in America
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Robert Heinlein once wrote, "An armed society is a polite society." If that is true, America is indeed the most polite society on the planet...
(90 firearms per 100 Americans, making the US the most heavily armed nation on the planet as per the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.)
Most polite society on earth, indeed. Sigh...
Ptah
(32,983 posts)The hitchhiker shot himself!
The hitchhiker shot himself!
The hitchhiker shot himself!
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)That then means it's polite?
(I'll simply type that once, though...)
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)Only to be B.S.ed by him.
So in a way, does that mean our faith in kindness in America is restored???
kirby
(4,441 posts)"Authorities arrested a 52-year-old man and charged him felony assault but have dropped the charges."
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Mental illness sucks. Bad.