Strange Way To Start The Morning
So, I walk outside this morning to take my son to the bus stop, and hear a helicopter.
Not a starnge sound, as Frederickson is near Thun Field, McChord AFB, and Fort Lewis.
Then I realized that it was TWO helicopters. As I squinted up into the sky (this is at 6:30am; pre-coffee) it took me a few seconds to realize that they were News Copters.
When I got back to the ranch, after making sure the young one actually go onto the bus, and was not kidnapped, run over, or otherwise dealt injury, I saw the wonderous footage from the sky cams, showing the remains of a house, just a few blocks away.
Seems that a young man with (at the least) anger management problems had detonated a bomb, most likely killing himself, as well as leveling about 80% of the house.
Many sources on this, including KATU (courtesy of Orbusmax!)
The back story seems to be that this young man was renting a room in the house (which he found when the residents advertised on Craig’s List - not a web site that has seen happy news reports lately). The roomates had been on vacation, and when they returned, they found him playing with bomb making materials. They left and called the Pierce County Sheriff’s dept., who were on scene when said young man blew his top - and the hosue along with it.
The first thing that ran through my mind was, “Geez, I would hate to have to make the call to the homeowners insurace company. Not sure policies cover roomates exploding bombs in the house”.
The second thing was “That is even better than when the Meth Lab up the block burned down a few years back.”.
In retrospect, my main concern with the issue is that NO ONE that I can find properly defined the area of the occurrance as Frederickson. Most (like KATU) said Puyallup (not true, Puyallup ends at 128th street), and one or two simply referenced it as “Pierce County”, which is technically correct, in a general way, as Frederickson is still unincorporated, but still mildly insulting to my pride as a Fredericksonian (Fredericksonite? Fredericksoninni?)…
Heck of a way to start the day…
On April 16, 2008 at 1:00 pm, Perri Nelson wrote:
There have been helicopters circling my neighborhood at least once a month for the last several years. No, they’re not news helicopters, and they’re not the infamous "black helicopters" either. Usually they’re carrying police markings of one kind or another, and they circle around with searchlights on. I guess they’re trying to enforce laws of some kind. Either that or test the resident’s tolerance for noise.
Playing with bomb-making materials, now there’s a fine suburban pass-time. It’s a time honored tradition in suburban neighborhoods around the world, particularly among peace loving youth seeking a way to end injustice in the world, or at least their own exposure to it. I’m sure that the destruction of property, and the ending of their own miserable material existence is a small price to pay for their political statements. NOT.
I’m disturbed too to find that I didn’t even know that Puyallup was a suburb of Frederickson. If it wasn’t for your excellent reporting I would have remained in the dark.
I hope you don’t get woken up like this too often.
On April 16, 2008 at 1:01 pm, Perri Nelson wrote:
Why is it that the smiley I inserted in that to let you know it was tongue-in-cheek when I commented on your reporting disappeared?
On April 16, 2008 at 5:51 pm, Aurelius wrote:
Can’t help you with the Smiley issue.
I am having enough fun with the lack of line feeds, and getting the new TinyMCE plugin to work on WP 2.5 over at my place…
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