Good morning, Washington. So the Redskins managed to beat the Dallas Cowboys yesterday, which when all is said and done, basically means ‘Skins fans get to walk around with a sort of boosted self-esteem for the next week, which lets them trash talk, gloat and generally be obnoxious. That kind of fandom is not something I’ll likely ever understand, but if it also means fewer people walking around who are from the D.C. area but for some totally incomprehensible reason are Cowboys fans and wear Cowboys gear out to bars, then I say ‘F Romo,’ too. Who are these people, and why weren’t they raised right? If we can get even a small break from having to deal with these clowns, then I welcome post-beating-Dallas-week with open arms.
Tale of Two Shootings: Two double shootings happened within hours of each other on Sunday, both in areas where such violence is relatively rare in the District. One person is dead and another injured after a double shooting at 11 p.m. at Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant in Adams Morgan. Police say that it appears the shooting took place after an argument, which preceded one man shooting another before turning the gun on himself. The man with the gun died, while the condition of his victim, who is still alive, wasn’t known this morning. The other shooting happened a few hours earlier, at 14th and T NW. Two men were shot and seriously wounded. No clear motive has been established in that shooting. As for the Meskerem shooting, it’ll surely be interesting to see whether or not Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham calls for the restaurant to have its license suspended as a result. Wouldn’t it be awfully hypocritical if he didn’t?
Bad Accidents: Couple of really horrific accidents over the weekend. The first was a deadly collision that took place when a Metrobus, which was thankfully empty of passengers, ran into a taxicab carrying several passengers. One man died in the crash, a 55-year-old from California named Bartlett Tabor. The others, including the Metrobus driver, the cab driver, three other passengers and a firefighter, were sent to the hospital. The accident, which happened at 19th Street and Virginia Ave. NW, is under investigation. The Metrobus driver has apparently been employed by WMATA for less than a year. After hitting the cab, the bus jumped a curb and continued through a grassy area, eventually stopping on the grounds of the Federal Reserve Building at Virginia Avenue and C Street. The effort to remove the bus from the Federal Reserve campus is pictured above, caught by a DCist Flickr contributor.
The second scary accident occurred when a medical helicopter crashed in District Heights, Md., killing four of the five people who were on board. One person, an 18-year-old woman, survived, though she remains in critical condition and underwent surgery this morning. The painfully tragic aspect of this crash is that some of the victims were being transported via medevac because they had just been in a serious car accident.
Briefly Noted: House set to vote on bailout package, forcing news watchers around the globe to look up the definition of moral hazard … Region already has gotten same amount of rainfall so far this year as it usually does over an entire year … Man dies after stabbing … Head of the D.C. police photo lab sued again for sexual harassment, again.
Photo by jeremyreitman
