December 2, 2007
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The Daily News
1 Don't believe everything you read.
2 Sequentially, this Daily News is the Friday, November 30 one.
3 That was last Friday.
4 That night I had left a basketball game at the school and on the way home stopped at the store to pick up a few things.
5 Standing in front of the liquor store in the Save Mart center at Hostetter and Capitol, I suddenly heard loud shots off to my left.
6 Gunshots. Loud.
7 Time stood still. Everything turned silent. People curiously looked around, but there was nothing, no noise, no screaming, no screeching tires.
8 Just dead silence. A few cars moved silently through the parking lot.
9 I slipped behind a cement pillar and instantly called 911. Knowing I was a potential witness was particularly alarming, as I was afraid they would take a shot at me.
10 As I called 911, a guy stumbled out of a restaurant and fell to the ground, his friend following right behind. I wanted to get over there to help but realized that the shooters might still be around.
11 Fortunately a police unit arrived instantly and it became an instant crime scene.
12 I had already written TWO DN's at work and e-mailed them home. I had done them on Word, and by the time I was done talking with the police, it was late. I opened the e-mail, cut and pasted the better DN, and the computer went instantly wonky.
13 I kept trying to make it happen but it refused. I almost published one and stuff deleted and disappeared.
14 I simply conked out at that point, awoke later on and just wrote a really swift DN, which was mailed to the DN alumni.
15 Yesterday (Sunday) I went online, checked out the DN because I like to edit them on Sundays for archival purposes, and Friday's DN took up about two miles of space on the computer screen.
16 Clearly something was STILL amiss, so I ended up deleting it, as well as the others that I had hidden.
17 So THIS is the final draft of that weird day, and is intended to be the Friday DN.
18 So weird man.
19 By the way, the guy lived, so far as I know. I heard on the police radio that it was an ankle or leg wound. I was up all night worried, seriously. It bothered me that I didn't run right over to the guy, and I thanked the Creator of the Universe for having the police arrive as swiftly as they did.
20 So here's the archive. I've been a bit shaky ever since but didn't want everyone to know that. We've all been through some sort of strange thing like that, as we live in one of the most violent countries in the world.
21 Sadly it's gonna happen.
22 Just thought I'd record all that and let you all know that this is officially the Friday DN and NOT a Sunday DN, no matter what it says at the top of the page.
23 Gottago.
24 Peace, and I mean that.
~H~
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