How I Kept Track of the Standoff on the I-190

May 13th, 2008 News

I had a busy night yesterday, so I didn’t even know about the standoff until someone told me. Sure, I checked out Channel 2 and Channel 4, but my phone can’t show the video feed, so the information was spotty.

What I did was go to Twitter to see what my “twitter friends” had to say about it all. First, the alert:

JoshBflo: Armed standoff on the I-190. All traffic is stopped in the 198Industrial curve corridor. I missed it by about 15 minutes. Ch 2 … …

mikealicious: Police standoff in Buffalo with some guy waving a gun around. Avoid the I-90 at all costs.

rocketsareneat: hostage situation on the 190. WTF?

leonwestbrook: Buffalo people plz stay the hell away from the 190. There is a police standoff going on.

Then came the waiting, and with it the snark. A smattering:

GWI Hey I was on TV today! Not the crazy with a gun on the I190, but the one in a pink shirt talking about garden blogging

speljamr: Guess I might as well make some popcorn and watch till something happens.

speljamr: After 3 hours either blow your damn head off or put the gun down. I know, I’m an asshole.

ceakowal: Watching the standoff - almost in its 3rd hour. Afraid that if I go do something else, something will actually happen!

rocketsareneat: I don’t know what people are thinking sitting across the road from this gun waving dude with their damn kids.

AngelaStockman: Police standoff: armed gunman on the same stretch of road that I take to work. Two hours and no movement. Grateful I wasn’t in office 2day. about 10 hours ago from web

ceakowal: … How dare he come from out of town and disrupt our life!!!

captaingig: 5 Bucks says this I190N guy gets poped. Now substitute ’says’ for ‘hopes.’

rocketsareneat: Standoff finally over. And right in time for House!

speljamr: SWAT team go the guy out of the truck. Traffic can now resume on the 190.

ceakowal: go SWAT team!

ceakowal: … my thought was if I was on the 190 at rush hour and some idiot did that - I would help him end it all ;)

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One Response to “How I Kept Track of the Standoff on the I-190”

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    George Says:
    May 13th, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Good thing those SWAT teams on the 190 had lots of good practice last week babysitting college kids at Canisius

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