Author: Jason

I think Milli Vanilli said it best when they said, “Baby, don’t you lose my number”… Sniper hooks police up with some digits, Cheif Moose eagerly waiting by phone. Or something like that. It seems the sniper may have left another message. I certainly don’t hope this isn’t just a case of someone losing a number and the police finding it and thinking it’s something it isn’t. I mean, some guy’s probably tearing through his house for some hot chick’s number while the police are waiting by the pay phone the number is too, hoping that it’s a clue. God, I hope they catch this son of a bitch soon.

BeltwaySniperForum.com I’ve realized the problem I’m having with these kind of sites. It’s their forums. Now, the person making these sites might be making them for good intentions, you know, to keep the public informed, as a tribute to the victims, as a support list for those who are stressed out by these events. But sooner or later these sites are over run by people who are just their for a soap box for their theories about who’s responsible and why. Terrorism, government plot, one person, eight people, aliens, these sites will attract these crack pots if they haven’t already so it’s either that these theories are there or they’re coming and I’m very leary of those kinds of things. And I’m sure it’s very frustrating for the webmaster of these sites as well as most of them do not feel the same way as those that will take over their boards. But that is the nature of the beast we all call the Web.

Meryl Yourish on the recent sniper related shooting. This is interesting to me because she’s currently in Richmond and now she feels at risk. I mean, I’m sure she did before, but this is closer to home for her and probably all of Richmond.

But what I’m really finding interesting is Fredericksburg’s place in Virginia in all of this. I mean, I’ve lived here pretty much all my life and Fredericksburg has always been in some sort of limbo as to where it is. It’s smack dab between Washington DC and Richmond, Virginia. Not quite northern Virginia, not quite central. Not quite a suburb of DC and certainly not a suburb of Richmond.

But Fredericksburg is the line, more or less. Go ten minutes north, you’re in northern Virginia and anything happening there is reflected in DC in some manner. Go ten minutes south, you’re in central Virginia and Richmond is your metro area. Just weird how it reflects in the media and people’s reactions to these events.

I have no idea what I’m trying to say.

Ashland is damn close, though. Not as close as the Exxon around the corner or the Michaels on the other side of town, but still.

Sniper shooting in Ashland, VA? All signs point to yes, but they can’t be sure until they get ballistics testing, if they can even get the bullet out of the guy. And I know this area, I go by it a few times a year for various reasons.

Why would the sniper shoot in Ashland?

No one’s looking for him down there.

This would also explain the five day lull, he was casing a new location to do a shooting. He’s unfamiliar with Ashland, or, was and it took time for him to get used to it. Now he’ll move somewhere else or he’ll get gutsy and head back towards the beltway. Sigh.

Also, if you look in TIME magazine this week with their article about the sniper killer they have a map of the area and his shootings. They mixed up the two in the Fredericksburg area, the ones labled 8 and 11. The earlier shooting was further north, the later one was south. Minor thing that should have been caught in editing, but oh well.