• Tractor hits bus, killing 1 in Jerusalem terror attack
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[quote] Police shoot and kill driver, who flipped bus on its side with construction vehicle; pedestrian in his twenties killed in incident; 5 others lightly injured; Aharonovitch: Slain terrorist was known to security forces. An approximately 25-year-old pedestrian who was struck by the tractor was critically wounded, eventually succumbing to his wounds after efforts to resuscitate him failed. The driver of the tractor was shot and killed by police. Five additional people were lightly injured in the attack, including the driver of the bus, which was empty at the time of the attack. MDA paramedics transported the injured to local area hospitals. [/quote] [url]http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Tractor-hits-bus-injuring-2-in-suspected-terror-attack-in-Jerusalem-369993[/url] By tractor they mean construction vehicle (like a digger).
Didn't the same thing happen in 2008 but it killed a lot more people? I remember hearing about that news story as an argument for permitting concealed carry weapons.
oh god those comments
Another attack: [QUOTE]A soldier was seriously wounded Monday near the Mount Scopus tunnels in Jerusalem after being shot by what the police assume was a Palestinian terrorists. The incident took place three hours after a man was killed and six hurt when terrorist went on rampage in industrial digger in the city. According to initial reports, the shooting took place not far from the Hebrew University when a man on a motorcycle opened fire and then fled. A manhunt is currently underway.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4554769,00.html"]Source[/URL].
What kind of moron do you have to be to try flipping over an empty bus with a tractor as a terror act?
[QUOTE=Melnek;45589436]What kind of moron do you have to be to try flipping over an empty bus with a tractor as a terror act?[/QUOTE] According to the Hebrew edition of Ynet his family are claiming he wasn't the kind of guy to do something like this, and this could have just been an accidental bus flipping incident resulting in a cop freaking out and shooting him. So there's that.
Maybe people who want to go crazy and create destruction are just taking the opportunity to do so within the chaos. Kind of like looting during a riot.
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[QUOTE=ScumBunny;45589458]According to the Hebrew edition of Ynet his family are claiming he wasn't the kind of guy to do something like this, and this could have just been an accidental bus flipping incident resulting in a cop freaking out and shooting him. So there's that.[/QUOTE] Really? That must be horrible. But I'm not really sure how a cop would freak out instantly and just shoot a person the second he witnessed a traffic accident. Is there any more to this story? Seems really odd.
[QUOTE=Melnek;45589739]Really? That must be horrible. But I'm not really sure how a cop would freak out instantly and just shoot a person the second he witnessed a traffic accident. Is there any more to this story? Seems really odd.[/QUOTE] Things like this have happened before and killed people. The police officer did the right thing acting in the public safety. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_bulldozer_attack"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_bulldozer_attack[/URL]
[QUOTE=Melnek;45589739]Really? That must be horrible. But I'm not really sure how a cop would freak out instantly and just shoot a person the second he witnessed a traffic accident. Is there any more to this story? Seems really odd.[/QUOTE] More details emerge. Videos from the scene show the digger slowly and methodically crushing the bus with his shovel (having already run over a pedestrian), right until the cops charge at him and shoot him. According to the cop who took him down when he charged him the driver tried to run him over. He climbed the vehicle and shot at him a couple of times, then the driver shook him off the digger, and he managed to recover, get up and shoot him again. Videos [URL="http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4554740,00.html"]here[/URL]. The second one down is when the driver was shot. The third is of the digger attacking the bus (in the distance).
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