FOXNews.com - Armed Man Believed to Be Environmental Protester Takes Hostages in Discovery Channel Building As of right now, the guy has strapped a bomb to his chest and has taken a number of people hostage at Discovery Channel's corporate office in Maryland. He's a known protester of their "environmental records". Watch this one and hope for the best for the hostages.
Maybe he's just demanding that Optimus and Megatron get the most character development in TF Prime when Discovery launches Hub. Also, let's hope it's road flares, not a real bomb.
How does this crazed psycho expects the Discovery Channel channel to clean up the planet? He should go to the Planet Green channel.
So he's dead, huh? True, they probably had no choice but to end him. This guy sounds so mentally unstable they probably couldn't reason with him.
He said "froggies" in his manifesto. Thought that was funny. I was just talking to someone the other day about how these channels glorify people grossly reproducing... not that I condone what he did. I was just missing the old days where the Discovery channel actually had nature/science documentaries. Kind of like when SciFi/SyFy showed anime, MST3K, and science fiction. Or when TechTV existed. Sigh. But seriously women, it's not a clown car, okay?
CNN says the guy is in custody. Police: Suspect in Discovery standoff shot; hostages safe - CNN.com Although, AP and Washington Post say otherwise. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/01/AR2010090103911.html
Glad the hostages are alright, and now they can run this footage over to the "world's craziest police standoffs" or something like that....
Saw this on CNN. I feel a little bad for thinking this particular venue for a hostage situation is a little funny. Glad to see everyone made it out OK.
I'm watching Fox News right now and they just confirmed the gun man is dead. Police is searching the building to see if there is more explosives.