SHANE IS SAFE

[gabe]

that is all, im sure rilla will type in details whenever he gets a chance

[drmcboy]

good deal, I could not remember which one of you was UVA vs tech. crazy stuff

[IowaSkinsFan]

the content here would go down a notch without rilla

[Galapogos]

Do I suck because I thought there would be something about the cowboy movie in here?

Do I sucked because I was kind of pumped for it?

[Genitruc]

wtf why does this shit happen so much?

oh yeah. Guns FTW.

[givememyleg]

guns? help me.

[AHiltz]

guns? help me.

cnn.com

[Sprayed]

Guns don't kill people. rilla was the first person that came to my mind. Glad to here he's ok.

[Xianti]

Thank goodness you're alright, Shane. Take care.

[swiggidy]

Rilla was the first thing I though of...

If you're still in the dark
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vte...ing/index.html

[WildBobAA]

That's messed up.

[overdraft]

"Thank goodness you're alright, Shane. Take care."

QFT

Good luck 'Rilla

[ensign_lee]

Uh, yeah. 'Rilla was the first thing that came to mind when I saw that too.

...except I was actually afraid that he went on that professor killing spree that he was joking about earlier.

Glad to hear that he's ok though.

[a500lbgorilla]

I tried to post this reply before but got an error.

I know one of the people shot. She just got out of surgeory and is doing ok.

I was 20 yards away in Randolph watching the whole thing.

If the shooter was smart, he would have picked my building which leads to several others but instead chose Norris which has 3 exits.

Swat, FBI, ATF, K-9, Sherrifs, all descended on that building almost immediately after people claimed to have heard shots.

Campus should have been closed this morning at 7 am. They could have easily canceled the 9 am classes which cost 30 people their lives.

My campus is falling apart at the seams. Morva shot cops at the beginning of the year, 2 bomb threats last week and now this. It's 100% unreal.

[Galapogos]

Wow, scary stuff. Glad you're okay.

[a500lbgorilla]

Never have I ever wanted a gun more than when people were being shot 20 yards away.

Never have I ever been in a room with 30 other people, professors and students alike, trying not to cry when the news verified that it was 20 dead. 20 that died a minutes walk away. probably 50 paces from comming to my classroom and shooting me and my friends.

What do you do?

I was in the basement of Randolph (a fucking maze and the safest place) talking to a professor who said a Janitor turned a corner in Norris and saw a body covered in blood. He went to kneel down and touch him when the shooter appeared out of no where and opened fire. The janitor bolted around the corner and across the parking lot (tiny for like 20 cars) to Randolph.

So many people, so close to death.

My friend has a class at 10:10 in Norris 209, 208/06 got shot up. He was heading inside when the swat showed up. 2 mins earlier and hes right in the thick of it all!

I already said I know one girl who was ACTUALLY fucking shot!

The whole thing is just too hard to wrap your brain around. I've been calling everyone Ive ever met to see if they're alive. So many people where just like me, only a couple of yards away. Easily could have been shot.

[WildBobAA]

so fucked up

[zook]

Glad you're ok rilla. My mind is blown with shock and sadness.

[a500lbgorilla]

No fucking warning, just bursts into the classrooms and opens fire. what are you supposed to do?

[Aces]

Damn, 'Rilla ...glad to hear you're OK.

[donkbee]

I thought of you too when I heard about this in the morning, Shane. I'm glad you're okay. I'm so sorry that you have to deal with this, it must be amazingly hard. I'm glad the girl you know will be okay. Good luck.

[IowaSkinsFan]

wow the experience your describing is unreal.

[Lukie]

Shane, good to hear that you are alive and uninjured. All my best wishes go out to you and your peers.

I actually did not know about this until I read this thread. Sick events like this further my belief that I should have a weapon for self defense. This isn't the place for that though.

[zook]

Interview with a student who was shot and survived.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=67f_1176750363&p=1

[Phantaroth]

glad you are okay I remembered you went there when I heard about it.

[Fortune 500]

Glad you're safe man...

Thoughts and prayers are with you and your fellow students.

[Irisheyes]

Wow that is crazy. Glad you're safe and my thoughts are with those who endured this terrible ordeal.

[Ltrain]

Glad you are ok and stay safe and careful in the next few weeks. The fallout from these events can be like an aftershock since a lot of people will be angry, hurt, unstable and looking for someone tangible in order to place blame (i.e. if the shooter was a janitor, minority, etc.). Has it been disclosed if the shooter was a student?

[donkbee]

In the video zook posted, it was said that he looked like he was in his 20s and he was asian.

[Galapogos]

They think he maybe was because he would have known the campus pretty well to move as quickly through it as he did. Nothing confirmed yet though.

[lolzzz_321]

Glad 'Rilla is safe, first thing I thought about when I heard Virgina Tech. My thoughts go out to all on VT campus.

[vqc]

first thing i thought of was rilla.
im sorry rilla, happy your safe, i hope everything will be alright.

i was driving home from class and bolted to FTR to make sure u were ok, lost your number, otherwise i wouldve called you

good luck VT

[kmind]

fuck this shit...glad tech wouldn't take me and all my friends are safe but thoughts and prayers to everyone harmed in this

[a500lbgorilla]

Thanks to everyone for their concern and prayers for myself and my community.

[euphoricism]

Christ. Time to expedite that concealed carry application. Then again, can't take it on campus anyway.

[ChrisTheFish]

Glad your alright man, that's some really fucked up shit... must be tough, best wishes man.

[Numbr2intheWorld]

This is very very sad, i'm glad you are ok. It's terrible that so many died.

[Alexos]

People are crazy, I dont get why this happens so often now, I dont get it...Easily accessible guns is the first thing that comes to mind, but theres more than that.

Glad you're safe man!

[Legendash]

Wow, just saw this on BBC and vaguely remembered someone at FTR attending VT. Glad you're safe man.

[weezie]

hey man do you know why the guy did it?

a friend of mine is a freshman there and got shot twice in the stomach but i think she's going to be okay

[IowaSkinsFan]

Rilla, if you want go into your feelings more?
What you've have written so far is.... idk the word.... touching? Real? idk.

[VQCsGirl]

So glad to hear that you're safe, 'Rilla and that your friend made it out of surgery alright. I'm so sorry this happened to your campus and I hope that the friends you've been calling all day are safe as well. My prayers go out to your peers and their families...no one deserves this, and I hope with all hope that you all make it through as best as you can in the next few weeks. Take care of yourself

[mrhappy333]

This is very very sad, i'm glad you are ok. It's terrible that so many died.

Rilla, Im so sorry ,this shit is so fucked up!! Glad your OK.

[thizzSantaCruz]

Prayers and the best wishes go out to everyone affected by this tragic event.

I've barely been here for a year but my thoughts immediately turned to Shane when reading the news. I'm so glad you're ok mate.

My thoughts go out to the victims/injured. The society we live in today is ridiculously incompassionate and violent.

[a500lbgorilla]

For an update on the events. People are telling me that he was seen in Randolph waving a gun around. Not that I believe them, but it's just difficult to wrap your mind around. I don't want to believe them. I can't believe them.

When I would watch old tradgedies on television, like the shooting in Lancaster PA (the amish school), you just can't relate. It's easy to desensitize yourself to the violence becuase movies and television are so much more fierce.

But watching the video of pop pop pop the 20 odd shots on the guys cell phone video (Which varified that I heard the gunmans last 3 shots and mistaked them for people knocking down doors with battering rams. Also the nerds in my class thought they were flashbang grenades. Im looking at you Triptanes.)

Every one of those gun shots is someone's life becoming infinitely worse than it was mintues before. Everyone one of those pops is a bullet crashing into someone's chest, someone's arm...

What's sick is that everyone knows that when they release the names tomorrow, you're going to recognize someone. It's a big campus, but it's a small campus in that you see the same people everywhere you go it seems like.

It's just difficult to watch the news and be so sensitive to every image, video and detailed report that your mind throws you right in there. It's really shocking what your mind can put you through when I didn't even see any blood.

All I wanted to do since the momment I got home was just get blazed out of my mind and float away. But you can't get away, it's all anyone talks about and all anyone wants to watch. We just congeal in front of the TV and save for the frequent beer and food runs, zombify ourselves.

I still think that I'm a pretty well adjusted kid, but I have a lot more respect for a lot more things after this. It's just beyond the scope of what my psyche can handle right now. I'm just going to keep drinking until someone changes the damn channel.

[a500lbgorilla]

That post was for ISF but felt good to write down. I kinda wanna delete it now though.

[Xianti]

For an update on the events. People are telling me that he was seen in Randolph waving a gun around. Not that I believe them, but it's just difficult to wrap your mind around. I don't want to believe them. I can't believe them.

When I would watch old tradgedies on television, like the shooting in Lancaster PA (the amish school), you just can't relate. It's easy to desensitize yourself to the violence becuase movies and television are so much more fierce.

But watching the video of pop pop pop the 20 odd shots on the guys cell phone video (Which varified that I heard the gunmans last 3 shots and mistaked them for people knocking down doors with battering rams. Also the nerds in my class thought they were flashbang grenades. Im looking at you Triptanes.)

Every one of those gun shots is someone's life becoming infinitely worse than it was mintues before. Everyone one of those pops is a bullet crashing into someone's chest, someone's arm...

What's sick is that everyone knows that when they release the names tomorrow, you're going to recognize someone. It's a big campus, but it's a small campus in that you see the same people everywhere you go it seems like.

It's just difficult to watch the news and be so sensitive to every image, video and detailed report that your mind throws you right in there. It's really shocking what your mind can put you through when I didn't even see any blood.

All I wanted to do since the momment I got home was just get blazed out of my mind and float away. But you can't get away, it's all anyone talks about and all anyone wants to watch. We just congeal in front of the TV and save for the frequent beer and food runs, zombify ourselves.

I still think that I'm a pretty well adjusted kid, but I have a lot more respect for a lot more things after this. It's just beyond the scope of what my psyche can handle right now. I'm just going to keep drinking until someone changes the damn channel.

I quoted it so you can't delete it. (Don't edit me. I'm an DUMMY PANTS.)

It's good for people to see it from your perspective, Shane. More importantly, it's good for you to vent and do it so frankly.

[Pelion]

shit

Glad youre safe mate.

i dunno what else to say. This stuff shouldnt happen :/

[a500lbgorilla]

I quoted it so you can't delete it. (Don't edit me. I'm an DUMMY PANTS.)

Good to see I can still make myself laugh

[givememyleg]

wow man

i'm glad you're okay.. this is just absolutely terrible

[koolmoe]

Glad you're OK, Shane. I heard about this during a meeting this afternoon, and I've been going nuts wondering if you were OK. What a relief to find this thread at the Community!

May God bless the victims, their families, and everyone around this tragedy.

[mcatdog]

Shane,

Please keep posting your thoughts here. I promise it will help you. I witnessed a random shooting when I was in junior high school and I'd say it took about a month before I could feel normal again. That happened almost ten years ago but I still remember it like it happened this morning and sometimes it brings tears to my eyes just to think about it. You're probably going to think about today's events every day for the rest of your life. No one should have to see what you saw. I can't even imagine what it would be like to grow up in a neighborhood where shootings are commonplace.

If there's anything positive we can say to you right now, I think it's that you seem like a very mature person, and I expect that you'll deal with this in as healthy a way as is possible under the circumstances. I wish I could say it will be easy for you, though, because it won't be.

Hang in there pal.

Mike

[pokerfanatic]

Fuck I just got home from class maybe 30min ago opened Yahoo news and bam got on FTR sure enough one of us goes to the college... this is just some crazy fucking shit, Rilla i'm glad to hear you are fine my best of wishes goes out to you and VT...

God be with the entire VT campus over the next few days, and for however long it might be to help the ones that need it the most in a dark time of need…. I know that nothing will ever be the same for the VT students that experienced this… but my god be the strong hand in helping them get through the pain… amen

[IowaSkinsFan]

No plz dont delete that, I know this is in the midst of a tragedy but seriously all this is reall touching me, it's showing me emotions ive never experienced before, so thank you.

[DaNutsInYoEye]

a lot of people will be angry, hurt, unstable and looking for someone tangible in order to place blame (i.e. if the shooter was a janitor, minority, etc.).

that's just pathetic

[gabe]

i just found out that a friend's friend's sister went there and died in the hospital. i dont know the person at all but still makes me sadder

[IowaSkinsFan]

oh my god....
i can't even imagine one of my brothers dieing.

[ensign_lee]

Wow Shane. I can't even imagine what you must be going through.

Be strong.

[BobbySalami]

Its sad it took me this news to pop back into FTR since I had remembered rilla going to VT.

Such a shame that this has to happen to innocent people because some lil' fucking coward goes apeshit for no good reason.

Ill keep the Hokie nation in my thougts, stay strong rilla

[IowaSkinsFan]

wtf bobbysalami? Haven't seen you around in a year i think

[UG]

Shane, my thoughts immediately went to you when I first saw the news about this on cnn.com this morning. As the death toll kept rising, I kept thinking, "god I hope rilla is okay."

I actually came home during lunch (something I hardly ever do) to check into FTR to see if you were okay, but the site was down. Tonight when I got home from coaching baseball I made a bee-line to FTR and the community to hopefully find out that you were all right. You are, and I am really glad and thankful for that.

My thoughts go out to you and everyone in your community. Stay strong, bro.

[a500lbgorilla]

I just want to thank everyone again for their kind words, thoughts and prayers.

[Staple Gun]

I never come here anymore but I rememeberred Rilla went to VA Tech, thank god your ok buddy.

[Halv]

This is sick. Just sick. I'm really glad you're still here. My thoughts are with the families and friends of those who aren't.

[chardrian]

Sort of a weird feeling to see this post and first thing I did was go yay!! or at least whew! when I realized rilla is not hurt, and then quickly realize how many more people out there who are absolutely life changingly devastated by today's happenings.

'rilla I'm glad you're safe. I am so saddened for your college community.

[thizzSantaCruz]

Sort of a weird feeling to see this post and first thing I did was go yay!! or at least whew! when I realized rilla is not hurt, and then quickly realize how many more people out there who are absolutely life changingly devastated by today's happenings.

'rilla I'm glad you're safe. I am so saddened for your college community.

A lot of famalies experienced the most stressful days of their lives today, hearing the news and not being able to contact your kids has got to be a huge burden on famalies. For the famalies of the past everyones prays are with you, and for everyone that has been affected hopefully it will not have a negative affect on your life.

People life is precious, let this put everything in prospective and make this world a better place for not only you but the people you meet in your every day life.

peace and happyness be with everyone.

[sandstorm]

As soon as I realized it said "Virginia" and then "Tech" i rushed to FTR. Glad that you guys are safe in all of this. Take care.

[a500lbgorilla]

I know he hasnt posted here in a long time, but Hydroseeds goes to VT and is an engineering major. Anyone know his name/number?

[IowaSkinsFan]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070417/..._tech_shooting

Apparently the guy was a senior.
Reading some parts of this article made me cry. There was one point where I just had to turn away from my computer. This is really disturbing.

Just as probably many expected, the guy was a complete loner, probably really depressed and emotionally disturbed.

[sauce123]

good to hear ur safe rilla. jesus, this is so fucked up.

[Lukie]

a lot of people will be angry, hurt, unstable and looking for someone tangible in order to place blame (i.e. if the shooter was a janitor, minority, etc.).

that's just pathetic

i hope you're not calling ltrain pathetic, b/c he's probably right

[donkbee]

Reading some parts of this article made me cry. There was one point where I just had to turn away from my computer. This is really disturbing.

I was listening to updates on it today in my car while driving during work and I cried. It's just so sad to think of how people's lives were taken without any warning at all and it must have impacted their families.

[pokadave]

this is sick, the more i hear, the less sad i am, and the more angry i get... the stories im hearing are so sad and hurtful that its really making me tear up right now. i want to meet the shooters friends and family, i know that sounds bad, but thats how angry i am right now. how the fuck can a human being shoot ANOTHER INNOCENT human being. its so wrong.

shane, i dont even know you, but im so sorry about the whole thing.

im 2000 miles away in california, but god damn, this is just so fucked up.


im so sorry for ANYONE affected by this.

[Ltrain]

a lot of people will be angry, hurt, unstable and looking for someone tangible in order to place blame (i.e. if the shooter was a janitor, minority, etc.).

that's just pathetic

i hope you're not calling ltrain pathetic, b/c he's probably right

Da Nuts,

Please understand, this is obviously a massive tragedy and I am not qualifying, rationalizing or passing judgment on what anyone needs to do to grieve or deal with such a traumatic event. My thoughts are on the health and safety of the OP not just for the day of the event, but afterward. It is obviously irrational and "pathetic" to take this tragedy and do what I suggested (pyschological projection), however, it is not a stretch to think that students on campus are not going to be rational for some time and there may be lingering safety issues for VT students as people vent out their frustrations. If I lost a friend in this, I am a very objective person, but I couldn't tell you what I would be capable of in a time of desperation.

If anyone wants to talk to me about this, please PM me as not to hijack the thread and I will be happy to discuss it. I would rather not post on this again since this thread is becoming a great coping mechanism, but again, please be conscious of your surroundings for the next few weeks so you can stay safe.

Good luck.