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Emu_steve
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 1:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

and I put related in quotes:

"Va. Tech gunman entered U.S. through Detroit"

The student (gunman) comes from a country that Northwest serves.

Detroit is an Northwest hub.

Student comes to United States via Detroit on NWA.

Like what's the point?

Or as they used to say, "what does this have to do with the price of tea in China?"
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Hans57
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 1:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Where did this headline appear?
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Tetsua
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 1:42 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Not the headline but ...

quote:

Immigration records maintained by the Department of Homeland Security show that Cho was born in South Korea on Jan. 18, 1984, and entered the United States through Detroit on Sept. 2, 1992. He had last renewed his green card on Oct. 27, 2003.



http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20070417/NEW S07/70417023

(Message edited by tetsua on April 17, 2007)
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Upinottawa
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 1:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I can't wait for the rumours that the gunman entered the US through Detroit from Canada....
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Detroitrulez
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 1:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

uh huh.....let's not overreact here.....would you prefer they just make up a city?
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Farrer
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 2:05 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ahem, uh Steve.....let's let the dust settle on this tragedy before we get huffy over an unintentioned, thin-skinned and ill-percieved slight.

Maybe now would be a good time to feed the emus and harvest some of those emu eggs, or maybe some of those hairy feathers. Right? Aren't they kind of like Apteryx's? Wingless birds w/hairy feathers? (RIP Johnny Hart) Take your over-active mind off current events, maybe. Did I mis any hyphening opportunities?
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Smogboy
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 2:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Just because they say he came through here (and thousands of other law abiding immigrants have too) doesn't mean that he picked up firearms here in Detroit enroute to Virginia.

I'd say that this was just a factual sort of thing and not a knock against Detroit- just like the fact that a lot of the articles also talk about the color of his parents' house. It doesn't necessarily mean that these facts made him a killer.
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 2:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yea I know but who cares if he entered the U.S. from Deetroit or anywhere else in the states. It has nothing to do with the shooting and although maybe we are over reacting, its just an unecessary article.
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Club_boss
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 2:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information had not been announced, said Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock 9-mm pistol."

"A U.S. federal government official said Cho had been born in South Korea on Jan. 18, 1984 and entered the U.S. on Sept. 2, 1992."

"As a green card holder, Cho would have been eligible to purchase a handgun in Virginia, barring a criminal record."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0 ,2933,266523,00.html
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Smogboy
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 2:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's just one microscopic part of the article. The article only mentions Detroit ONCE.

Let's not as Detroiters get thin skinned and get hung up on the fact that the papers mentioned our fair city for that scant second. Part of why it was included in the stories have been just to paint some of the shooter's background. Or would we just prefer articles that say "MAN SHOOTS PEOPLE" or just bulletpoint (no pun intended) the highlights?
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 3:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hans57:

It was the lead of the Internet version of the Detroit News.

www.detnews.com

It is still up as I post.

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Va. Tech gunman entered U.S. through Detroit

Associated Press"

My point is that it is completely meaningless or trivial to say which International airport someone flies into. He was here legally so DTW, JFK, Dulles, etc. What is the point?

P.S. Dulles is a short hop from where the kid lived in No. Va.
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Leland_palmer
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 3:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"My point is that it is completely meaningless or trivial to say which International airport someone flies into. He was here legally so DTW, JFK, Dulles, etc. What is the point?"

Besides he was 8 at the time.
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Zephyrprocess
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 4:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yes, but how many sleeper-cells of disgruntled English majors entered this country via Detroit almost 15 years ago?

"Dude, it all changed after 9/2/92..."
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Peter
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 4:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This is completely unrelated to the shooting and I doubt anyone reading the article will blame the shooting on the fact that he came through Detroit. Sometimes I think people dig to find ways to blame Detroit for things that are completely unrelated...
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 5:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Maybe what they (the media) were getting at is just breathing Detroit’s air can make you a gun wielding maniac. But I doubt it.
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Cris
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 6:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This is just Detroit media's desperate attempt to find a "local connection" for reporting a major story.
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Waz
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 6:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You are so right, Cris.

I hate to pick up the paper (or check online) when a major news story occurs and the second lead article deals with some local folks who were not involved at all but get interviewed simply because they were in the vacinity. Do I really care if someone in Gibralatar or wherever has a second uncle who may have taught this guy in a class for one semester?
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 10:24 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

the sad story for me is that I run at the high school track where one of the victims practiced lacrosse before she graduated from high school last June and headed to Tech.

I didn't know the victim but I'm sure she was there with her team while I was running laps on the school's track.

I'm sure the high school lacrosse team has to be in shock as she was their former teammate from last year.
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Johnlodge
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Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 10:55 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I did hear Fox News slip up and refer to that office shooting as "Last week's office shooting in Detroit". I mean, I guess Troy and Detroit sound somewhat similiar, but...
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 12:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got to figure does "shooting in the Detroit suburb of..." imply negative things about Detroit? ;-)

guilt by association? ;-)
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Gistok
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Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 1:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Much ado about nothing... would it give you folks a warmer fuzzier feeling if the report said he came to the USA thru DTW Romulus...
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Cliff19336
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Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 3:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think the point is that the media is trying to oversensationalize everything. And since Detroit has such a negative rep in the media, its only natural to imply that the shooter somehow got tainted during his stop-over in Detroit and became a mass murderer.
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Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 3:30 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Victim Brian Bluhm, 25, was born in Iowa and raised in Detroit, according to friends.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18 143312/

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