WAY TOO GO!!!

I visited Columbine a week after the massacre, very sobering. :(

It's nice to see someone questioning what happens at work (getting involved).

L.B.

Wirt Atmar wrote:

> Just in case you didn't already know this, a Long's Drugs Store employee
> foiled a Columbine-style massacre yesterday. A young girl developing
> photographs at a local Long's in San Jose saw the developing photos, was
> shocked by them, and called her father, who was on the police force.
>
> They arrested the photographer, a 19-year-old named Al DeGuzman, as he was
> standing there waiting for the photographs to be returned to him. The Long's
> employee stalled him until her father could arrive.
>
> This all goes to show that the people you hire in an organization really do
> matter, right, Donna? :-).
>
> There are a fair number of people alive today who wouldn't be otherwise
> because of this Long's employee.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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>
> CUPERTINO, Calif. (Reuters) - A last-minute tip from a drug store photo clerk
> helped police thwart what they called a plot for a "Columbine-style" attack
> at a California college Tuesday -- averting a potential bloodbath at the
> school's main cafeteria.
>
> "This was an elaborate plan for a mass murder -- no other way to put it," San
> Jose Deputy Police Chief Mike Miceli told a news conference after a tense
> morning which saw De Anza College evacuate its campus in Cupertino, about 45
> miles south of San Francisco.
>
> Police announced they had arrested a suspect, identified  as 19-year-old Al
> DeGuzman, and uncovered a cache of arms including two rifles, one sawed-off
> shotgun, a large amount of ammunition, and more than 60 explosive devices
> ranging from pipe bombs to Molotov cocktails.
>
> DeGuzman was reportedly a student at De Anza, a single-campus community
> college with an enrollment of 26,000 students. Police said he did not appear
> to have a criminal record, and identified no motive for the alleged plot.
>
> But they said he had left a recording indicating sympathy with the teenage
> gunmen who killed 15 people, including themselves, during a shooting rampage
> at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999 -- making him apparently the
> latest in a growing list of angry  U.S. students who have sought to take
> vengeance on their schools through the barrel of a gun.
>
> "He had his act together...and he was very much intent on what he was going
> to do," Miceli said.
>
> Miceli said a search of DeGuzman's room at his parents' San Jose, Calif.,
> home had turned up a diary and an audio tape indicating he may have been
> planning the alleged attack for up to two years.
>
> They said the alleged assault -- described as a "Columbine-style attack"  --
> had been due to begin at 12:30 p.m. PST (3:30 p.m. EST) Tuesday, centered on
> the main campus cafeteria.
>
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