9 Killed in Czech Restaurant Shooting

wretcheddomain · 24-02-2015 03:40PM #1

Just in now from RTE...

Underground · 24-02-2015 03:51PM

A lone gunman apparently. I'd imagine he's quite a religious bloke.

wretcheddomain · 24-02-2015 03:52PM

Reports just in that the gunman has now been killed.

jamesbere · 24-02-2015 03:53PM

F**k sake not another one.

KungPao · 24-02-2015 03:53PM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Reports just in that the gunman has now been killed.

So, he Czeched out?

*groans*

Gone Drinking · 24-02-2015 03:54PM

I was in the country last week, not massively far away from that area (maybe an hour drive) at times. Something like this happening had crossed my mind. Crazy.

Sickening

Magico Gonzalez · 24-02-2015 03:54PM

KungPao wrote: »

So, he Czeched out?

*groans*

Never too soon for some is it.

Have a word with yourself, moron.

wretcheddomain · 24-02-2015 03:58PM

Underground wrote: »

A lone gunman apparently. I'd imagine he's quite a religious bloke.

Reports so far suggest it's a 60 year old local man.

kneemos · 24-02-2015 04:08PM

Underground wrote: »

A lone gunman apparently. I'd imagine he's quite a religious bloke.

That would be presumptuous.

G_R · 24-02-2015 04:08PM

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Never too soon for some is it.

Have a word with yourself, moron.

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MsBubbles · 24-02-2015 04:11PM

How awful. WTF is going on in this world ? It seems like every week there's some kind of shooting

Wobbly_Legs · 24-02-2015 04:13PM

Was on a ski holiday in Czech two years ago, I was upstairs in the hotel room while two of the ski party were down in the hotel restaurant.
A heated argument broke out between the waiter and a few diners, the situation eventually diffused and those diners left.
The waiter then approached the two members of our ski party and started apologising profusely, he explained that the diners were not happy, were not going to pay the bill and threatened the waiter with a shooting;
he said this approach is common place.

This unnerved us quite a bit.

Underground · 24-02-2015 04:13PM

kneemos wrote: »

That would be presumptuous.

True, it is presumptuous. We'll wait for further details.

Koobcam · 24-02-2015 04:13PM

MsBubbles wrote: »

How awful. WTF is going on in this world ? It seems like every week there's some kind of shooting

True, though on the other hand, if you think of the number of people in this world and the number of guns and other weapons, it's kind of amazing that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often.

MsBubbles · 24-02-2015 04:19PM

Koobcam wrote: »

True, though on the other hand, if you think of the number of people in this world and the number of guns and other weapons, it's kind of amazing that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often.

Absolutely. I completely agree

Menas · 24-02-2015 04:25PM

Koobcam wrote: »

True, though on the other hand, if you think of the number of people in this world and the number of guns and other weapons, it's kind of amazing that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often.

It used to be the case that most of these mass shootings happened in america. People going postal.
But we see them now in europe too.
Time to move back to a cave away from people.

Macavity. · 24-02-2015 04:29PM

Shooter is in his sixties apparently. I find that very unusual as far as these attacks go.

RIP to the victims.

DarkyHughes · 24-02-2015 04:33PM

MsBubbles wrote: »

How awful. WTF is going on in this world ? It seems like every week there's some kind of shooting

It's actually died down a lot in Europe since the end of the Cold War & The Troubles.

Lawlesz · 24-02-2015 04:35PM

First I heard of this was when I logged on here a few minutes ago. Its only an hour down the road from where I live. Getting more and more frequent these days, the frightening thing is there is absolutely no way to stop this kind of thing (lone wolf loses the plot and starts shooting) from happening

24-02-2015 04:37PM

MsBubbles wrote: »

How awful. WTF is going on in this world ? It seems like every week there's some kind of shooting

Yeah it does seem like that just lately.

Arsemageddon · 24-02-2015 04:38PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

It used to be the case that most of these mass shootings happened in america. People going postal.
But we see them now in europe too.
Time to move back to a cave away from people.

They've always happened in Europe, just not as frequently as in America.

syklops · 24-02-2015 04:39PM

Wobbly_Legs wrote: »

Was on a ski holiday in Czech two years ago, I was upstairs in the hotel room while two of the ski party were down in the hotel restaurant.
A heated argument broke out between the waiter and a few diners, the situation eventually diffused and those diners left.
The waiter then approached the two members of our ski party and started apologising profusely, he explained that the diners were not happy, were not going to pay the bill and threatened the waiter with a shooting;
he said this approach is common place.

This unnerved us quite a bit.

Gun ownership is quite high but I've never heard of people threatening to shoot waiters before. Descending into fisticuffs, yes absolutely, but not shootings.

BeerWolf · 24-02-2015 04:43PM

Probably over some petty dispute...

Few weeks ago in Turkey some fella pulled out an AK47 and shot dead a disabled person on crotches dead, and the police shot the gunman dead... reason ? Disabled person took his parking spot...

cerastes · 24-02-2015 04:45PM

MsBubbles wrote: »

How awful. WTF is going on in this world ? It seems like every week there's some kind of shooting

Theres plenty of things that happen that never make the news, enough to shock but not too unpalatable, dont want to upset people.

Trigger Happy wrote: »

It used to be the case that most of these mass shootings happened in america. People going postal.
But we see them now in europe too.
Time to move back to a cave away from people.

Why? are caves impervious to bullets? some kind of magic force field over the entrance?

Macavity. wrote: »

Shooter is in his sixties apparently. I find that very unusual as far as these attacks go.
RIP to the victims.

People are people, I dont see what his age has to do with it? maybe its more unusual, but its not like all old people are nice, this guy clearly isnt out of the werthers originals add?

The Diabolical Monocle · 24-02-2015 04:46PM

Underground wrote: »

True, it is presumptuous. We'll wait for further details.

Dont be too harsh on yourself. Theres pretty good odds your instincts will be shown to have been right.

Macavity. · 24-02-2015 04:59PM

cerastes wrote: »

People are people, I dont see what his age has to do with it? maybe its more unusual, but its not like all old people are nice, this guy clearly isnt out of the werthers originals add?

Well, initially the thought of it being a religiously motivated attack entered my head, and statistically the perpetrators of those attacks are generally men in their twenties/thirties. So it struck me as odd that he was so old.

Although it seems from recent updates that this was not a terrorist attack, so his age makes more sense.

wretcheddomain · 24-02-2015 05:17PM

It's not an Islamic extremist after all - that's the end of the discussion.

RIchieNouveau · 24-02-2015 05:18PM

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Dont be too harsh on yourself. Theres pretty good odds your instincts will be shown to have been right.

It's been ruled out as a terrorist attack by the Czech authorities.

The Diabolical Monocle · 24-02-2015 05:58PM

huh. well ah'll be damned.

TheBeardedLady · 24-02-2015 06:10PM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

It's not an Islamic extremist after all - that's the end of the discussion.

Why?

jiltloop · 24-02-2015 06:17PM

BeerWolf wrote: »

Probably over some petty dispute...

Few weeks ago in Turkey some fella pulled out an AK47 and shot dead a disabled person on crotches dead, and the police shot the gunman dead... reason ? Disabled person took his parking spot...

Well that's what you get if you stand on people's crotches! Disabled or not.

9 Killed in Czech Restaurant Shooting

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