Virginia murderer killed himself- radio report

[underpants]

Just heard on a news break

The report is that he killed himself on 66. This counters the earlier reports that he was on 64.

Background - 81 is the North/South highway out of SW Virginia (Roanoke). 64 goes east near Staunton. 66 is the route to/from DC in the north end of the Shennadoah valley- the valley goes downhill south to north so the Winchester is considered "down valley""

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. The local station there is reporting that he is still alive... but critical.

Really critical.

[underpants]

3. Clear Channel station report

They are wrong all the time.

Thanks

[frogmarch]

8. MSNBC is also saying alive but critical. nt

[onehandle]

2. Off topic, but 81 is a beautiful drive.

Whenever I go back to the South, I take it instead of 85, which is a traffic riddled clusterfuck of constant construction. Not to mention it avoids DC which is nothing but pain if you are just passing through.

[underpants]

4. Yes it is

I was on 81 Saturday from Staunton to Roanoke (Bill Maher show)

[Glassunion]

6. I'll take it over 95 any day.

The scenery is beautiful.

[Codeine]

7. Also off-topic; you guys really don't say "the"

before the highway numbers! I always thought that was a myth. Out west we say "the 101", "the 5", etc.

[jberryhill]

9. That is correct

If it has a name, it gets "the" - the New Jersey Turnpike, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the beltway (any of many beltways).

If it has a number, it is just the number or "I" number. I-95 or 95, never "the 95".

[titaniumsalute]

10. I find that interesting...

Both in Ohio or Florida where I have lived no one says "The Number" for an interstate. Of course if it is a Turnpike you say THE Florida turnpike or THE Ohio turnpike.

[cwydro]

25. When I lived in Florida, we said "95" or "US 1", so we used the number too.

And the turnpike was indeed THE turnpike.

[lpbk2713]

11. Easterners don't usually say freeway either.

It's usually highway, or turnpike or Interstate. Or even beltway or bypass.

And I think it's a New England thing to say "route", ie Route 95 or Route 301.

[hifiguy]

15. Adjusting to Easternisms/New Englandisms

was a bit of a trial when I lived in the Boston area while in grad school.

Soda, not pop, the Pike, not the Massachusetts Turnpike, bubblers instead of fountains, grinders instead of sub sandwiches. And I remember "Route" being a NE thing, too. In Minny it's just numbers for the most part - "35W south ta 494 West ta Hiway 100, there." For some reason Hiway 100 is always uniquely identified by Twin Cities folks as "Hiway 100" or as many say "Hiway Hunnert."

[KamaAina]

27. Or expressway

which has a secondary meaning here in Silicon Valley. Our expressways are limited-access highways, all right, but with the infrequent intersections at grade level with lights rather than cloverleaf interchanges.

[bettyellen]

14. Nope, some people preface it with I-, but never the. You guys really say that?

[Codeine]

16. Always. It's sufficiently the norm that not hearing it

is quite jarring. My brain wants to append "the" before the numbers and it can't understand why you're not! My brain is stupid.

[bettyellen]

20. all of our brains are on auto-pilot to a certain extent, LOL. I miss hearing the I in front of 95

because that's what my Dad and brothers would say. But I think when it's three digits, you usually leave it off. 80 and 280 were always just that. Maybe because I 95 is very I?

[Adsos Letter]

29. In terms of California, I think this might be a southern California thing.

Up here in the Bay Area I've only ever heard them referred to as numbers: "He's on 5;" "She's on 80," "I'm on 101," etc. When my daughter went to college in Riverside she started using "the:" take the 405, take the 94, etc.

[REP]

17. In SoCal you say "the 101," etc. Up north, we don't - just - 101, 85, 280, etc

And we don't put straws in our hot drinks!

[Codeine]

19. Straws in hot drinks?!

I've never seen that. Sounds like a trip to the ER.

[bettyellen]

21. I can't get past people drinking cocktails through their stirrers. I don't like that.

[REP]

22. Apparently it's a very SoCal thing, especially with the youths

Every time I'm in Santa Barbara or Encinitas, I see people ordering hot coffee drinks and cramming straws into them.

But when I'm down south, my car and hotel room are crammed full of plants, so I don't point fingers about who's doing odd stuff

[Codeine]

23. To be fair, I live in the sweaty scrotum sack of SoCal.

All the cool kids live in LA and OC. The inland desert is always a year or two behind.

[REP]

24. LA is the sweaty scrotal sack of CA

I have a friend who's from here but lived in LA for a while. She's in for any movie in which LA gets blowed up. I've only been there a few times and have had to drive through it a few more and feel the same damn way.

[Eleanors38]

30. In Florida it's "A1A.". GOD, I remember when it was a narrow 2-lane...

Nuzzling the Atlantic, and the bridge over Mantanzas Inlet to Crescent Beach was wooden, and some of the creosote poles hung like stalactites from the roadbed! The load limit dropped from 8,000 lbs, to 5,000, to "No Trucks," to truncated fishing pier.

[Sheldon Cooper]

18. A couple of years ago, I watched an early episode of the now-defunct show Sullivan and Son.

Only because the star (Steve Byrne) is from Pittsburgh and the show was set in Pittsburgh. One of the actors referred to Route 28 as "the 28" and I laughed. NO ONE here says that - it's such a Hollywood thing to say. I'm surprised Byrne didn't call them on it, too - he would know that it's totally bogus around these parts.

[KamaAina]

26. You must be in SoCal

no numbers in the Bay Area, either. There ought to be signs somewhere around Bakersfield that say "You are now on the 5".

[tularetom]

28. I know, why is that?

We didn't do it here in Central CA until my granddaughter went to college in Santa Barbara, now it's "the 99", "the 80", "the 5".

Somehow she got us all doing it.

[chalmers]

5. Wonder if he was headed to DC

Sounds like he knew he was being reported on and maybe he thought going to DC would be a big splash. Just sick. That dude is a product of both American gun and media culture. If it bleeds it leads.

[City Lights]

12. WGN News just reported that he is alive, but critical. nt