This crap started on the road I live on less than 10 miles away. Geez, back then I even had a girlfriend who worried about me going to the store.

Doug Duncan recalls 'three weeks of daily terror'
Wednesday - 10/3/2012, 7:31am  ET
During the 2002 terror attacks, then-Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan briefed victims' families on developments in the investigation. (AP)

 WASHINGTON - The call came when he was attending a conference in Chicago. His police chief wanted to talk to him.

 Former Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan said that raised a red flag.

 Chief Charles Moose didn't typically call Duncan when the county executive was out of town — unless it was important.

 It was Oct. 3, 2002 when Duncan received he call. He was told there had been one murder the night before and two more that morning.

Duncan immediately cut short his trip and raced back to a county in crisis.

 "On my way back to the hotel, I got another call saying someone else had been murdered, " he recalls.

 By the time Duncan got to the airport, there had been another shooting.

 "The whole flight home I sort of prayed that no one else had been killed, " he says.

 In less than 24 hours, five people had been killed in Montgomery County.
It would be the sniper shootings that would thrust Duncan, the man often referred to as the "Mayor of Montgomery County, " into the glare of the national media.

 oldslabsides wrote: 

 meower wrote: 
Fifty lashes with a wet comma?

 oldslabsides wrote: 

i just thought that the present tense was kinda funny.

 meower wrote: 

what?

 oldslabsides wrote: 

he is??

1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd - the last Prince of Wales - is hanged, drawn and quartered by order of King Edward I (Longshanks) of England.

 hippiechick wrote: 

Actually ABBA's The Visitors was the first commercial CD manufactured and sold.  Billy Joel's 52nd Street was the first album to be released on CD.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

true. 

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
Upside.

 buzz wrote: 

that may have had something to do with it.  it's back in rhythm now.  whew.

 oldslabsides wrote:
  No kidding. We should send him a list.

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
too much rootin and tootin?

 oldslabsides wrote: 

I thought I did.  oops.

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
well shit.  stop that, will ya?

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Not a good idea.  I woke up in afib this morning.  The day I was supposed to stop taking a heart med.  Guess I'll give it another day or so....

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
So, what's Monday morning like when you're retired?  I plan on living vicariously thru you the retirement I'll never have.

 oldslabsides wrote: 

That's the "tootin" part of "rootin tootin"!

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
I love the way he looks as if he's being launched skyward by his own gaseous emissions.

 oldslabsides wrote: 

Yer darn tootin' they did!