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Posted: 10/26/2004 6:19:58 PM EDT
Got a report of a man in his underwear on his balcony fireing a semi-automatic rifle in South Fargo. Will update when I get more details.
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what the hell is the temp up there. Isn't it a bit chilly for underwear?
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can shotguns go 300 miles. If they can I am so putting on a helmet.
Seriously, isn't this why we employ sharp shooters. |
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45 degrees here. I hope he doesn't point the gun at anyone. He will get shot. No if's, and's or but's.
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You listening to a scanner? What freq?? |
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I live in NORTH Fargo. That would indicate my rampage. Nothing going on on my scanner. Just turned it on and normal radio traffic for the most part. |
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People live in North Dakota? And they are civilized enough to where underwear?
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It was one of those warnings that flash on the bottom of the tv screen. It's 46 degrees out today. I guess I will have to wait for the news at 10 to find out more.
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I've got my scanner on and don't hear lots of radio traffic going on. |
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A few of us brave souls tough it out up here. Unlike the tropics down in SD. |
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Boy, I thought So. Calif. had a monopoly on nut cases. We had an off-duty L.A. County deputy shoot up his house and barricaded himself in his house armed with a gun, and the LAPD had to bring in the SWAT team and lock down the local elementary school.
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Oh yeah. There's something going on...
Just heard some chatter. |
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Hell yeah, didn't have to scrape my windows today. Doesn't mean the heater in my house isn't running right now. |
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Check his backyard to see if he just put a body through the wood chipper.
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We don't do airsoft up here. Probably some drunk bastard pissed off at his old lady going on a rampage on the deck. |
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Domestic Disturbance call, he held police at bay. He has fired dozens of rounds. He is still hold up in his apartment....
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Sounds like around 17th street and 34th Ave. They are taping off areas and moving people away.
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Arfcom tinfoil hat crew:
Mighty convienient timing. This has to be a Brady Bunch incident, as |
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I give 3 to 1 odds he will leaving his apartment in a body bag!
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If he keeps shooting he'll run out of ammo soon. He better hope the real po-lice show up instead or hotshots or he will die.
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Apparrently he is firing shots about 20 to 30 at a time. From the news footage it looks like a Hi-Point carbine. Not sure, the footage is pretty dark.
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Negotiator on the phone right now. They want to get a hard line run into the apt from the phone company.
Edit: Or he could want the hard line so he can leave "The Matrix". |
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Why couldn't this have happend in my neighborhood??? I'd have dropped him by now......
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The news said that the domestic disturbance call came in at about 6:20 p.m. and then he started fireing out on the balcony at about 7:45p.m. This has been going on for a while now.....
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How do they get a hard line in from the phone company, anyway? |
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Fixed it for you, pun intended. |
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Probably have them hard wire the line in the apartment to the negotiators line. Kinda like a bat phone. They should be able to do that at the telco central office. |
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No throw phone handy? I find that hard to believe. |
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I'm sure they have one, but the only way to throw it to him would be on his 2nd story balcony. Where he would probably be shot getting the phone.
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I guess he surrendered about 1:30 a.m. he is being charged with Terrorizing and Reckless Endangerment. What a tool....
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Article from www.in-forum.com:
· advertisement · A six-hour standoff between a well-armed man and Fargo police ended peacefully just after 12:30 this morning. There were no injuries. David Tofte, 26, was alone at 5231 Amber Valley Parkway, Apt. 18, when police negotiators convinced him to surrender. Authorities took Tofte to a Fargo hospital for observation after arresting him on suspicion of felony charges for terrorizing and reckless endangerment. Police received a call reporting screaming and gunshots at Central Park Apartments at 6:16 p.m. Authorities evacuated neighbors, calling in negotiators and tactical team members in hopes of resolving the standoff. RELATED CONTENT Map Fargo police at apartment complex Standoff tough on neighbors WDAY: Armed standoff in south Fargo Fargo Police Lt. Tod Dahle said it was unclear what prompted the incident and Tofte eventually came out of the apartment on his own. Police swept the apartment to find three guns, but it wasn't immediately clear what types of guns were inside. A preliminary background check, although not extensive, revealed no previous criminal behavior or any similar types of incidents, Dahle said. Fargo police negotiators and tactical team members joined efforts to resolve the standoff as the ordeal wore on hour by hour. Loud gunfire blasts by a man standing on a second-story balcony punctuated a cold night. Roadblocks sealed off the neighborhood, forcing dozens of residents to park their cars and walk home. By midnight, police had established phone contact with the man. At least twice the man told officers he would come out of apartment but didn't. Officers arrived at the Central Park Apartment building after receiving a complaint of screaming and gunshots about 6:20 p.m. Tuesday. The suspect periodically walked onto the balcony several times and fired shots into the air even as officers and neighbors watched from a distance. The man fired rapid bursts of six to eight shots at a time. Dahle said the man likely fired off at least 50 shots by 8:35 p.m. Police believe the man had at least one long gun and one hand gun. "I heard plenty of shots," said a 22-year-old resident of the building. "At first it sounded like someone was pounding on my wall." He fled the three-story apartment building about 7:10 p.m. and Fargo police told residents to either stay in their apartments or get out of the area. "I'm supposed to be taking a test right now," said Matt Kraft, a North Dakota State University student. Kraft, 21, also escaped the building about the same time. However, Kraft said he couldn't reach his car because it was in an area police wouldn't let him go to. Thirteen neighbors stood along Amber Valley Court, a nearby cul-de-sac from the building police had surrounded. The group crouched behind pickups and vans. Several people peered through binoculars from about 100 yards away to watch the apartment where the man had stepped onto the balcony to fire shots. "It's probably kind of stupid standing here doing this, but I've never been to one of these before," said neighbor Tom Woollweever. None of the neighbors in the group identified the man. The neighbors stood casually and talked until the unidentified man again stepped onto the balcony. Someone from the group would yell, "Here he is," each time the man stepped outside. The man fired shots several times from the balcony. Neighbors said it appeared the man was shooting into the air, except for the last time, when he appeared to aim at them. "All you could see is the horn of the barrel, then everybody hit the ground," Woollweever said. The last shots that could be heard from outside the building came about 7:40 p.m., sending onlookers to cover. |
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Uff Dah!
He must have eaten some bad lutefisk! (Although I'm not real sure there is such a thing as good lutefisk) |
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Hey digdug. Do you know the co-owner of Devils Lake Resort, Mike Shell?
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No I don't but I was born up in Devils Lake and have a bunch of relatives up there. |
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Yeh, I know. Kind of a WTF moment there. |
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