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Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.
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My last job was doing websites for higher education, and I can tell you that it's very much a thing. It's a part of many universities' emergency protocols, sometimes paired with an alert banner on the homepage. (And that banner may or may not link to a further page of information.) While things like a gunman on campus is most certainly an emergency, these systems also serve other messages. Things like other emergenci…
Sloppy joe day
Manually transcribed from police scanner: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.
Just heard on the police scanner that it was an armed robbery at the 7-11.
(All that on the police scanner in the last minute or so)
I find it very interesting, that there are such websites. I wonder whether it works, but I guess that if only one life is saved by a notice on a website, that is enough
So you'd have to deducted the people killed in making sites like these first. So a web site is possibly $40,000. A humans life in the US is probably worth around $2,000,000. So it might cost one 50th of a humans life to create a site like this.
I'd guess not, but the figures are complicated, the site is used for other things for starters.
I'd suspect a suicide help line would be better money spent. Don't drink and drive campaigns, healthy eating, quitting smoking help all far better returns I'd guess.
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Just heard on the police scanner that it was an armed robbery at the 7-11.
Presumably the one across the street from campus on Main St., for those not from the area. (ETA: And assuming that the police report is accurate.)
"There was a shooting at 32 Vassar St... No suspect description... No direction of flight..." MIT officer was shot and weapon stolen, I think they said the weapon was recovered. Officer is at MGH. Witness in lobby of Stata saw man in cowboy hat. (All that on the police scanner in the last minute or so)