Why I can't go to lunch right now

[Slayer 0]

Wolf just informed me that someone can drive pretty far away from Atlanta in three hours...

You could go to Birmingham... but why?

[Jingus 0]

Wolf just informed me that someone can drive pretty far away from Atlanta in three hours

It depends entirely on what route you take, the time of day, and whether God likes you or not. Ain't no traffic jam like an Atlanta traffic jam. That city's roadways can make one question the theory of relativity, since to the subjective observer it can appear that the entire universe has ground to a dead stop.

[2GOLD 0]

At least he hasn't revealed that gunshot wounds can be lethal.

-=Mike

 

He's only been on 20 minutes, give him time.

He'll probably reveal gunshots can be lethal and that cars need gas.

 

I also love how Atlanta hospital and police won't give out names out of respect for the families. But CNN has been blasting their names left and right.

 

Good job CNN, way to show the families respect.

[Ripper 0]

What the fuck, they declare martial law or something? The suspect's like two feet taller than Ripper. Fuck the po-lice man, go get a burger.

SO much bigger than your.......so much bigger....

 

 

Anyway, given he keeps changing cars, he can duck and dodge in Atlanta for a while. They just need to shoot at the fucker and call it a day but they will probably try to use ways to bring him in alive.

 

But seeing as we have a very determined police force, they will be getting him sooner or later...hopefully sooner than later. I have shit to do.

[EricMM 0]

Hey does anyone from Atlanta still call it "hot-lanta" or is that done?

 

Maybe just in the summer time?

 

I've always thought that its kind of stupid

[Ripper 0]

Hey does anyone from Atlanta still call it "hot-lanta" or is that done?

 

Maybe just in the summer time?

 

I've always thought that its kind of stupid

No one really says it. Its just on T-shirts and tourist shit.

[EricMM 0]

I knew it! So corny...

 

Well I hope they catch this guy, or actually I hope he surrenders. What the fuck is he running to???

[Vyce 0]

Since you are in Atlanta and Georiga in general, does the state have the death penalty?

 

Didn't he kill a federal judge?

 

Then he's fucked. If the state doesn't give him the death penalty, the feds can. Assuming that he isn't taken out before they have a chance to try him.

 

Thank God he's of legal age, so that the law can kill him one way or the other.

[Guest BDC]

Hey does anyone from Atlanta still call it "hot-lanta" or is that done?

 

Maybe just in the summer time?

 

I've always thought that its kind of stupid

No one really says it. Its just on T-shirts and tourist shit.

Except with the SEC tournament starting tonight, UK fans have been calling it "Cat-lanta". Interestingly enough, the stations that were down there to cover the game were sitting outside with folks waiting for the ticket window to open and didn't know what the hell was going on when this broke out because they weren't in contact with the studios. Way to go, guys.

[The Czech Republic 0]

At least he hasn't revealed that gunshot wounds can be lethal.

-=Mike

BOOM!

[Guest Failed Mascot]

They should ambush him by placing up little stands that say "Free Fried Chicken and Watermelon" and have cops hiding in the bushes near them. Have big assed women serving the food and the plan becomes fail-proof.

[DerangedHermit 0]

They should ambush him by placing up little stands that say "Free Fried Chicken and Watermelon" and have cops hiding in the bushes near them. Have big assed women serving the food and the plan becomes fail-proof.

This is the most racist post I've ever seen.

 

I loled

[ISportsFan 0]

Relating to the meal post, we had a dinner here in the residence halls on campus at the U of Illinois for black history month. The menu:

 

Fried Chicken

Scalloped Greens

Kool-Aid

Hot Wings

etc.

 

Also, every Thursday one of the residence halls has a theme called "Soul Ingredient," with all stereotypical "black people" foods. But, that meal is served to about 90% African Americans, because a bunch of the African Americans go to that res hall for that meal.

 

On topic, I hope this guy gets caught, but I wouldn't be surprised if he is on the loose for a couple of days (maybe even a week) before he gets arrested again.

 

Jason

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Sodomy is a crime now?

[Crimson Platypus 0]

I know it's illegal in Michigan.

 

 

 

ER SO I'VE HEARD FROM OTHER PEOPLE THAT TOLD ME.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

This is the most racist post I've ever seen.

Bah. I've said better...

[Guest Failed Mascot]

I challenge you to a RACIST~ off!

[iliketurtles 0]

Some former NYC police decective just put a $10,000.00 bounty on the capture, dead or alive, of this guy on MSNBC.

[2GOLD 0]

Some former NYC police decective just put a $10,000.00 bounty on the capture, dead or alive, of this guy on MSNBC.

 

Make it 20,000 and dead and he has a deal.

[CanadianChris 0]

Weird...I just heard about this on Sportsnet, of all places. Apparently the judge was the one who presided over NHLer Dany Heatley's vehicular manslaughter trial.

[iliketurtles 0]

$60,000.00 reward now being offered.

[AlwaysPissedOff 0]

Wolf just informed me that someone can drive pretty far away from Atlanta in three hours...

You could go to Birmingham... but why?

To get lost in the insane amount of backroads and claim he survived?

 

God, I hate trying to navigate my way through that damned city...

[MrRant 0]

They should ambush him by placing up little stands that say "Free Fried Chicken and Watermelon" and have cops hiding in the bushes near them. Have big assed women serving the food and the plan becomes fail-proof.

Or you could just put a bunch of white women out there.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Ain't no traffic jam like an Atlanta traffic jam.

Having grown up in Los Angeles and currently living in Miami, I LOL at this. Quite possibly even to ROFLMAO levels.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

They should ambush him by placing up little stands that say "Free Fried Chicken and Watermelon" and have cops hiding in the bushes near them. Have big assed women serving the food and the plan becomes fail-proof.

Or you could just put a bunch of white women out there.

Or just move all the calenders in the area to the first of the month and wait by the welfare office...

[Slayer 0]

Wolf just informed me that someone can drive pretty far away from Atlanta in three hours...

You could go to Birmingham... but why?

To get lost in the insane amount of backroads and claim he survived?

 

God, I hate trying to navigate my way through that damned city...

I know, I've had the same issue when driving through there

[Stephen Joseph 0]

Ain't no traffic jam like an Atlanta traffic jam.

Having grown up in Los Angeles and currently living in Miami, I LOL at this. Quite possibly even to ROFLMAO levels.

You have no idea...Only atlanta can block 10 lanes of traffic in one direction. It's a nightmare at times.

[Guest MikeSC]

Atlanta is the only place I've ever seen with bumper-to-bumper traffic jams --- at 3 in the morning.

-=Mike

[iliketurtles 0]

They got him.

[ISportsFan 0]

Adding onto HartFan86's report, here's Fox News's report.

ATLANTA — After a two-day massive manhunt in Atlanta, Ga., suspected courthouse triple slayer Brian Nichols (search) is in police custody, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms told FOX News on Saturday.

 

Nichols, 33, was taken into custody in north Atlanta after a standoff.

 

The arrest came on the heels of a hostage situation at an apartment complex, hours after a U.S. customs agent was discovered shot to death about 16 miles away.

 

Authorities who had been investigating the scene where the agent was found dead in north Atlanta were dispatched to the suburban apartment. The attorney for the courthouse shooting suspect was at the hostage scene.

 

And here's CNN's report.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Brian Nichols, the suspect in the shootings of three people at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, is in police custody, according to Police Chief Richard Pennington.

 

Nichols was arrested Saturday at the apartment complex that police had surrounded in Gwinnett County, north of Atlanta. A blue pickup truck matching the description of that belonging to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who was found slain was discovered at the complex.

 

A massive manhunt had been under way to find Nichols, who police say shot and killed Judge Rowland W. Barnes, court reporter Julie Ann Brandau and deputy sheriff Hoyt Teasley in the courthouse in downtown Atlanta on Friday.

 

A Department of Homeland Security official in Washington Saturday said the off-duty U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer who was shot and killed was David Wilhelm, an assistant special agent in charge of ICE's Atlanta field office. Authorities had been looking for his 1994 blue Chevrolet pickup.

 

Surveillance camera snaps suspect

Security camera images from inside a parking garage had given investigators a major lead in the hunt for Nichols. The surveillance images did not show how Nichols made his getaway.

 

The nationwide manhunt for Nichols shifted focus late Friday with the discovery that the 1997 Honda Accord police had earlier thought was used for the getaway, was still in the garage where he carjacked it from a newspaper reporter after the courthouse shootings.

 

The garage's lower level exit gate, used only by parkers with monthly passes, was broken and detectives told CNN they believe Nichols crashed through it after taking another car on that level.

 

But they have not ruled out the possibility that he may have walked out of the garage.

 

A series of photos taken by two stairwell cameras show a shirtless Nichols putting on a jacket apparently taken from the reporter as he walked to a lower level and disappeared.

 

No camera was in position to capture what happened when Nichols exited the stairwell.

 

GBI Director Keenan said Nichols may have taken another vehicle, and its owner as hostage, soon after abandoning the Honda.

 

"That is of concern to us," Keenan said. "We know that in the previous carjacking he had ordered the driver of the vehicle to get in the automobile that he was carjacking. We are very concerned that is a possibility that has happened."

 

There have been no missing person reports, Keenan said.

 

"We do not know what type of vehicle he is now operating," Keenan said. "We do not know how he left from here."

 

Keenan described the manhunt for Nichols as the largest in Georgia's history.

 

But it was a private citizen who realized Friday night the 1997 Honda they were looking for was still in the Centennial garage, just blocks from the courthouse where the shootings occurred.

 

That garage was where a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said the Honda was taken from him following the shootings.

 

The shootings occurred about 9 a.m., as Nichols was being led into an eighth-floor courtroom, Dreher said.

 

Nichols was being retried on rape, false imprisonment and other charges after a first trial last week ended in a hung jury. The second trial began Monday.

 

Nichols apparently overpowered a deputy in an elevator on their way to the courtroom, police said.

 

Jeffrey Salamone, attending trauma surgeon at Grady Memorial Hospital, said the deputy escorting Nichols suffered a graze wound from a gunshot.

 

Salamone said Cynthia Hall has a small bruise on her brain and some fractures around her face. She was in critical condition, but was expected to survive.

 

Once inside the courtroom, police said, Nichols held people in the room at bay briefly, then shot Judge Barnes and Brandau -- both of whom died at the scene.

 

Nichols then fled the building, where outside he shot Sgt. Teasley in the abdomen, officials said. The sheriff's deputy was pronounced dead at the hospital, Salamone said.

 

Deronta Franklin told CNN that Nichols took his tow truck at gunpoint near the courthouse.

 

The gunman "told me to get out of the truck. I told him he can have the truck. And I walked away," Franklin said.

 

Courthouse security

Some said the shooting was predictable given the security lapses at the courthouse.

 

"The security in the Fulton County Courthouse, the way they deal with prisoners, is absolutely atrocious," attorney Dennis Scheib told CNN. "I said this was going to happen."

 

Scheib said deputies outside the courthouse told him that a knife-like weapon was discovered in Nichols' boot last week.

 

Fulton County State Court Judge Craig Schwall, however, described security at the courthouse as "phenomenal." Judges have their own private elevator, accessible only by key card, he said. Their chambers are heavily secured, he said, and they and other court officials have their own secure parking garage.

 

"I think that, as public servants, we all have to be mindful of these risks," Schwall said.

 

"The only thing I can imagine is that someone would have had to have moved very quickly and suddenly to catch one of the deputies off guard in order to remove his weapon," said attorney B. J. Bernstein.

 

Well-respected judge

Bernstein told CNN that Judge Barnes, who presided over civil and criminal cases, was "extremely highly thought of in the legal community."

 

Last month, Barnes made headlines when he ordered a 34-year-old woman, who had seven children and pleaded guilty to killing the eighth, a newborn, to undergo sterilization.

 

He was a vocal advocate of Fulton County's supervised rehabilitation clinics, an alternative for jail for repeat offenders with drug addictions. Barnes touted the program for its cost-effectiveness.

 

A juror in Nichols' trial told CNN that Barnes was kind, and said Nichols always seemed to be respectful to him.

 

CNN's Steve Brusk, Ninette Sosa and Randi Kaye contributed to this report.