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In reply to the discussion: Anyone know why a Sandy Hook teacher's *car* was "riddled with bullets" that day? [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)2. A lot of second hand information was circulated that day
You have to consider this was a mother whose daughter had just been shot. She was not in the best condition and very well may have thought that any dent or rust hole in the car was a bullet hole. Or she could be repeating something she heard from someone else. You really can't tell with these kinds of news reports, and it is a safe bet that the reporter did not pepper her with questions about that. Her daughter is dead, so it's not like the reporter followed up with "how many bullet holes? from which direction?" etc. etc.
There are a number of CT's that work on "conflicting early reports" of all kinds of events. In this event, the news organizations published pretty much anything they heard from anybody.
My favorite is that it appears the police, out of due caution, detained various people at the scene, on the assumption the shooter could be one of the apparently "fleeing" people. That's normal. There was an early report that some guy in a leather jacket, for example, was detained. This is now spun by some as proof that there was a second shooter or an accomplice when, in reality, it's normal for police to check out anybody that might be at all suspicious when approaching a scene like this one.
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Anyone know why a Sandy Hook teacher's *car* was "riddled with bullets" that day? [View all]
rainbow4321
Dec 2012
OP
The NY Daily News seems to be the only one claiming that, so it's probably bullshit. nt
onehandle
Dec 2012
#1
it really was one of the worst reporting i have watched, on an event like this. nt
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#3
Little bodies with many of those horrible bullets. A horror too impossible to imagine!
Auntie Bush
Dec 2012
#6
Effective range for that weapon, the whole school and parking lot were within it.
nadinbrzezinski
Dec 2012
#37
I read somewhere that 4 teachers the day before argued with the kid at the school. He
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#7
I guess I just don't understand why anyone thinks the killer had some kind of rationale.
Chorophyll
Dec 2012
#14
Are you suggesting the killer had a motive? I mean, why was ANYTHING riddled with bullets
Chorophyll
Dec 2012
#9
While you're at it, can you also tell us who carried out the 9/11 attacks?
Common Sense Party
Dec 2012
#54
According to this article, the bullets fired in the classroom went through the outer wall...
Spazito
Dec 2012
#18
I'm a regular sub for paras (teacher assistants) and the teachers themselves in CT.
Jennicut
Dec 2012
#50
newspapers shouldn't be allowed to just remove stuff when they make such ridiculous mistakes
farminator3000
Dec 2012
#27