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ManiacJoe

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37. Police definitions are often just as weird as the journalism definitions of items.

Reply to ellenrr (Reply #33)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 10:22 PM

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One male, one female dead [View all] philosslayer Dec 2015 OP

yeah, so now we won't know the motives, ellenrr Dec 2015 #1

When they're ID'd maybe some who know them can LiberalElite Dec 2015 #7

I wish the reporters would have asked tishaLA Dec 2015 #11

The FBI is exceedingly careful nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 #28

Terrorism requires a political motive for the mass terror. ManiacJoe Dec 2015 #31

The FBI have revised their own internal definition slightly nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 #34

There was also a bomb left behind. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #2

So that body on the ground WAS a female. Thought I saw a bra strap and a big tramp stamp. TwilightGardener Dec 2015 #3

Anti-tattoo bigotry? ETA, my apologies, I am sensitive about that term, it's used pejorativly too uppityperson Dec 2015 #5

Is there such a thing? I thought that's what those big tattoos across the lower back were called. TwilightGardener Dec 2015 #6

Uh. Huh. uppityperson Dec 2015 #8

That is actually the tattoo industry term for those tacky small-of-back tattoos. Chan790 Dec 2015 #22

The artist whose tattoo business I managed hated the term. I know others use it, but having helped uppityperson Dec 2015 #27

That actually is a common name for them. NutmegYankee Dec 2015 #10

It's been a commonly used term since the early 90s melman Dec 2015 #13

We call them "butt antlers" FSogol Dec 2015 #23

I've never heard that one. NutmegYankee Dec 2015 #24

It is the German term for them. He's not making that up...! nt MADem Dec 2015 #36

No problem. TwilightGardener Dec 2015 #41

I think the PC term is "909 birthmark" Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2015 #9

San Bernadino area code? nt valerief Dec 2015 #29

FBI says there is a third suspect, he doesn't know the 'disposition' ellenrr Dec 2015 #4

Did they find the 3rd suspect? Texasgal Dec 2015 #14

at one point in the news conference the chief said a 3rd person was in custody, ellenrr Dec 2015 #30

I thought you wrote "turkey" flamingdem Dec 2015 #20

Not murky one bit nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 #35

When was the last time a mass shooting involved a female suspect? LonePirate Dec 2015 #12

I'm really getting the feeling that this is gang related. nt retrowire Dec 2015 #16

Last year. Las Vegas. Cliven Bundy lunatics Nevernose Dec 2015 #17

The incident with the police officers at the restaurant? LonePirate Dec 2015 #18

yes, many oddities-- the fact that one suspect is a woman, makes me think of a ellenrr Dec 2015 #32

A lot may be revealed when their computers are examined. MoonRiver Dec 2015 #15

Yep. The one person I saw on Twitter was obviously a female herding cats Dec 2015 #19

I think they may have had time to change or discard their clothes-- TwilightGardener Dec 2015 #21

They went back to their apartment. Nevernose Dec 2015 #25

They're pretty dumb, then. TwilightGardener Dec 2015 #26

They went home herding cats Dec 2015 #39

shorts? The police said both dead suspects were in "military assault garb". ellenrr Dec 2015 #33

Police definitions are often just as weird as the journalism definitions of items. ManiacJoe Dec 2015 #37

The female on twitter was in shorts. herding cats Dec 2015 #38

I just saw this here and can link to it. It is graphic, be warned! herding cats Dec 2015 #40

Not graphic, but quite blurry. ManiacJoe Dec 2015 #42

Yep. I think it was grab from a video taken from a helicopter herding cats Dec 2015 #43

Syed Farook named as a suspect in attack that killed 14 MADem Dec 2015 #44