Yeah it was pretty messed up all around. And ever since it’s been a staple on any type of “World’s Wildest Police Videos” shows.
I worked out of this one for a few years before they finally closed it in 2011 after 102 years of continuous operation; . Right now we’re based on Camp Murray, right across I-5 from Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM, more popularly known as “J-Blam!” or The Fort Formerly Known As Lewis). But there are still armories around, some fairly new and some fairly old. Ask me again in two years; thorough change going on.
What’s the story behind it all? It sounds fascinating and kind of depressing at the same time.
Wow, I just did a search on the ones in Indiana and came up with more than a page.
http://www.in.ng.mil/Home/ContactUs/ArmoryListing.aspx
It’s ok though, we don’t have any active duty stations except for Crane Naval base anymore, and you aren’t allowed on Crane, the third largest naval base in the world. They did finally build a PX and Commissary where Fort Benjamin Harrison used to be by Building One, which happens to be 1.6 million square feet of Army pay masters, which only includes 70 military personnel out of 5000 employees. Big ass building. “269 million payroll transactions annually, including the salary of the President of the United States”
The guy was a bit of a mess. Motorcycle accident led to drugs, led to odd behavior, led to loss of job, and then short trip to batshit crazy. I think he might have had problems before though.
How many stories like this start with a bad motorcycle accident? I know a couple people who are stuck in life because of previous injuries.
Yeah. Sad guy with a sad tale, who for a whole variety of reasons came to the conclusion that the only way out was to kill a bunch of people. The part that sticks with me about the story is how when he got the tank stuck on the divider and the cops swarmed it, they pried the hatch open and one cop stuck his torso into the tank with his gun out, yelling at Nelson to stop. Nelson looked at the cop, looked at the gun, and kept trying to get the tank moving again. The guy knew he was going to die and was too deep in to care enough to stop.
I can’t imagine what the exit strategy at that point is anyway. Your thought goes to a certain point and then there is a blank wall which is the end and someone tries to tell you there is another way out. But that way is messy and painful in miserable, and includes too many feelings. It seems a lot of people end up in this sort of situation because they have like emotional fibromyalgia or something. They can’t handle a “normal” emotional load to begin with and then they end up in situations that normal people couldn’t handle.
If I ever crack, and do something hideous, they’ll never take me alive. As deep as I could go in my own head I know I’d come out of it and wouldn’t be able to take it on the other end. At some point you are going to end up at some facsimile of sane and have to look at what you did from a rational point of view, and I think a lot of these people feel that, and maybe even know that instantly as soon as the police show up. This was a fantasy until I realized I couldn’t just stop and walk away, at every point up to the police showing up I’m still in control and can stop at any time. When the police show up is when I’m a monster.
That’s terribly depressing.
Typical Guard equipment maintenance; it took him three tanks to find one that would start.
What sticks with me is this part of the official spin:
Armory officials said that only a few people are given keys to the vehicles
Exactly what keys are they talking about? The tanks start with a push of the button.
I haz icons for almost every project I am working on. Yay!
(just trying to figure out what would be right for the Ŷak’ȳ’ar’an project, but I have to redo the outlien on that anyway)
I’m not familiar with those vehicles, but the current humvees also start very simply, with just a twist of a knob. They are still locked though, with conventional (if heavy duty) padlocks. One on the door, and then one through a cable on the steering column.
I can understand that mindset. Once you get past a particular point, it doesn’t matter what happens to you. It’s a very scary place to look back at.
I finally threw up today so now my migraine is just a bad headache.
I hate weather changes. Man, light sensitivity, flashes, nausea, this one was almost a full migraine. I had about 7 in one week that were crippling, so that’s my benchmark, since then I’ve had a few baby migraines, that still suck total ass. This one was leaving me almost totally useless.
But usually if I can throw up I feel better almost instantly. But at the office it’s embarrassing.I might have to at lunch too. But…
I feel better!
Are you sure you aren’t pregnant, @Woodman?
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That sounds like my reaction to food contamination with something I’m allergic to. If I don’t get rid of it immediately, it will be migraine hell. I feel better almost immediately if I can, though.
I feel totally awesome now, ate a big assed lunch at Logan’s and everything.
And the solution was more of a dry run this time than a full reaction. So nothing has left my system, I’ve read a couple things about blood pressure changes or something like that having an affect.
“Schrodinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark” - here
Leave it to Team 17 to make a game whose very title makes me dissolve into demented giggles.
It’s definitely going on next month’s splurge list.
Managed to see most of a total lunar eclipse tonight, and even got some relatively good photos of it.
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Are you going to post them?
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Man! I didn’t even know there would be an eclipse! We had clear skies and view of the moon, too. Rats!
I, too, would love to see pictures!