So yesterday I was driving back from 29N from an out of town trip and I took Preston at around 4PM. I saw a bunch of police cars driving that way and honestly, I wanted to see what was up. I noticed AT LEAST 8 POLICE CARS. All the flashing lights were a hop past Rugby and I was waiting in what looked like a very big line.
While the crime apparently took place off of Preston, the police officers decided it would be a good idea to block traffic. I waited 10 minutes without any movement. I eventually turned and drove past a HUGE line of cars. I felt like this was an obnoxious move by the police. Maybe there was a good reason for blocking off the roads, but from what I could tell nothing was actually happening on Preston.
I did see them arrest one guy, which is probably big news for the police in this town. But 8+ cop cars and blocking off roads? What gives?
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it was a speeder. they figured if 8 cops all gave him tickets, that’d be $1600 more dollars in the city coffers. way to go, guys!
it was a pedestrian they ran over. they blocked the street off to keep witnesses away…
People were walking by on the sidewalk. I hope the pedestrian is ok.
@3 I think you missed the joke @2. You know, cops running over people in wheelchairs?
@4 … I am stupid.
@4…damn…i felt bad until i realized you were kidding too. did it have anything to do maybe with the shooting over on the other side of madison ave. the other day?
This all happened infront of my house. They arrested a morbidly obese woman and patted her down and found a hand gun. They said she had been wanted for a crime but wouldnt tell me anymore. It seemed like she had been driving a jeep that they had her arrested next to. Write more if you know, cause its was pretty scary to see someone arrested with a gun in front of your house…
There was a shooting on Madison Ave the other day? What are the details?
Clare, that’s it? That probably explains the police report:
Society VICTIM of Weapon Law Offenses (C), at Preston Av, Charlottesville, VA, on 06/15/2008, 17:52. Reported: 06/15/2008
I saw a guy in Christian’s pizza wearing shorts and a T-shirt (not a cop as far as I could tell) with a gun holstered. It was kinda freaky.
Hey, where did you find that official police report? Are they posted somewhere online?
We get emails because we are part of the news media.
we are the NEW media, not to be mistaken for the mothball infested old media that is The Hook and C-VILLE
Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!
yeah! screw the OLD media, with its wrinkly OLD skin, with its loose skin and OLD balls…
as b’yo would say, The Hook is only good for cover stories of local unsolved mysteries.
/wishing Robert Stack would replace The Rock as cville’s hottest new celebrity, as it might bring variety/closure to the cover stories of a certain weekly publication
Are we still talking about that evil paper. It is making me nauseous. I am so completely disgusted with the entire thing - talk about cut throat journalism. Some people’s kids.
Tuesday, they talk about your kids on page 34 of the current issue.
I wonder if they’ll do a story on cVillain now?
I am very puzzled indeed… why does the BELMONT YO on The Hook blog (who is of course not our Byo) have a username website link back to cVillain if he is a staunch Hookblog supporter? Am I missing something deep and meaningful. Someone way smarter than me… please enlighten me. Kyle?Thor? Terrence the Gerbil?
@18: I’m stumped.
Terrence… how’s tricks? Did you finish that book I lent you on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? I know you weren’t sure if it was going to work for you.
I did what now?
Flooz, I did finish it. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense. The root-mean-square deviation of the position from its mean times the root-mean-square of the momentum from its mean can never be smaller than Planck’s Constant divided by 4 pi. Fascinating really.
Terrence, your grasp of Thermodynamics is awesome. Now if you could just master that darn water bottle and stop crapping everywhere, you could take over the world.
Sorry… I meant Quantum Physics.
/outa here
OMG, what if Schrodinger’s cat eats Terrence the Gerbil?!
@ 25 He may or may not die?
@26: Wow, a quantum physics joke.
In Soviet Russia gerbil eats cat!
oh man, this thread just turned awesome. i just got back from the 10th dimension in my calabi-yau manifold, and i’ve got to tell you, you guys look ridiculous when i can see all your supersymmetries.
@ What can I say, its one of my quarks. Sometimes I go boson and on with it though.
Can we have a round of applause for B-yo’s awesome defense of us on that stupid Hook blog? Very impressed and proud of him. He posted under Bony Motel btw, the Belmont yo is a pathetic imposter.
B-yo, it’s like you have these deadly verbal powers that need to not be turned on us but saved for special occasions, such as humiliating stupid posters on the Hook blog.
CLAP CLAP CLAP
/waiting
CLAP CLAP CLAP
/anybody else?
mmmm yes, good show old chap, good show.
/quite! rather! goody!
i have an impostor too. he may be the time-travel version of me, in which case it’s really important that he (future parlie) and i (regular parlie) avoid all contact.
haven’t you seen that movie? something about a paradox. shut up parlie.
Um thanks, I think.
the Belmont yo is a pathetic imposter
This is the second reference I have seen to this but I dont see it. What is all this then?
I didn’t see it at first either, some of the names of the posters on the hook came up blank, but one was posting as Belmont Yo…it was this guy
“Cvillain and the hook are equal? That some funny stuff boney motel:
If it weren’t for cvillain nobody would be checking out the spicy bear…blah blah blah”
Oh that!
I wrote that just so I could argue with myself.
What? For realsy?
@39 yeah that’s kind of what i thought. as for shenanigans’ vast right wing conspiracy… maybe notsamuch?
One never knows.
@ 39 oh shut up, you did not.
Right wing conspiracy? I thought we said no politics. I don’t even know what that means.
@39: If that’s true, you are looney tunes.
@ 43 you are right, boney, I didn’t write that mess… although its an interesting concept with limitless potential in the field of thread jacking. i think they took my nick to “expose” me and let me know that they knew who i was
they are investigative journalists (with awards). they have my number, man.
oof. the comment that made the above make sense got spam caught.
/am not talking to myself, there or here.
Ah, I get it. So the Hook pretended to be you to say, Ah ha we know who you are on CVillian. Because Bony Motel isn’t a really obvious anagram or anything. I bet you were so scared.
oh man, an anagram! arg, an ananam ho!
@49 that’s a palindrome, moron.
I am utterly confused. racecar is a palindrome. boney motel is an anagram. wait, is there a joke in here somewhere, parlie?
i once wrote an anagram of the bible, the koran, and the kabala all at once, and it ended up being a palindrome.
Belmont yo = boney motel = molten boy = tool by men = only by tom
N…Be my tool
@53 be ‘n my tool
ok. i got here late. where’s the link to boney’s post on the hooker site?
@55: Here