Morning Roundup: Goodbye, Abe Edition
D.C. Police Seek Suspect in Series of Bank Robberies
Suspect in 9-Year-Old's Murder Found Dead in D.C. Jail
Photo of the Day: November 25, 2009
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>> Another family says it wasn't notified by the city when their relative died. [WaPo]
>> Some guy on our new professional tennis team is a complete tool. [D.C. Sports Bog]
>> One blogger takes a tour of National Harbor and finds it to be a little creepy: "like a pre-fabricated, glossy Jonestown: It looks like the work of a cult of corporate/retail executives and paranoid survivalist lunatics who had this glossy compound built to preserve their opulent, credit-card-waving lifestyle after the bombs drop and reduce the rest of us to carbon-stained cockroach kibble." [IntangibleArts]
>> As the O Street market development heats up, OffSeventh returns.
>> A woman and a D.C. police officer trying to save her were attacked by a pit bull. Eventually the officer shot and killed the dog. [WJLA]
>> Google has launched an Elections '08 Map Gallery, perfect for the map geeks and policy wonks alike who read DCist!
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Is that an ugly brise soleil or what?
That's the NAR headquarters in the pic, innit?
That pit bull story doesn't seem to add up...she was walking the dog, her boyfriend's pet, down the street and it just started attacking her?
I'm not saying it's not true, it just seems like there's a piece missing. Did something happen earlier to agitate the dog?
You know, anything to get Anna Kournikova into DC might be a good thing...I'm just saying...maybe they guys isn't a complete slack-jawed idiot?
Sometimes pit bulls go wonky like that. Nothing specific needed to agitate him.
Gimelstob was known on the Tour for being a jokester. I wouldn't take what he's been saying too seriously. He's actually perfect for this whole team tennis thing, because its objective appears to be entertainment more than excellent play.
She was probably taunting the pit bull with her plush Jim Graham doll. Why do you think I wear a muzzle? And it's not because I look so goddamned handsome in it.
anyone have the link to the shaw listserv?
mellamella: it's here.
thanks IMGoph
Didn't the DC city council consider banning certain dog breeds (i.e. pit bulls, Rotweilers, etc) last year? Does anyone know what happened with that?
The bill died in committee and the remains were torn apart by, you guessed it, murderous gerbils and hamsters.
Back in the day, you could shoot animals on sight for looking at you cockeyed. Now, thanks to Disney, Bambi, and Old Yeller, everybody gets all misty-eyed when some cute creature is digging lead out of its liver. Well I say, hard cheese. You f**k wi' Tony Montana, you f***ing wi tha best, man. First you get tha money, den you get tha power, then you get some bitch mauling you.
and if i remember correctly, wasn't our man in ward one leading the dog banning parade?
Pit bulls trained or raised to "go wonky" do that, usually when there are specific triggers...but normal dogs, including pit bulls, typically don't do that for no reason at all.