 | Hatman
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Subj: Meh, same thing could have happened in the southern States. Might not have been automatic gunfire I guessPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 11:29:43 pm EDT (Viewed 393 times)
| Reply Subj: (Almost) real-time, first-person news from Iraq: HOLY FUCK CRAZY
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 at 02:57:31 pm EDT (Viewed 438 times) |
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> Me and my friend Rob - with whom I served when I was in the Navy, and who is now stationed in Iraq - were chatting on Yahoo! Messenger, just under an hour ago, when the following conversation suddenly took place.
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> Rob: shit gunfire
> Rob: a lot of it
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> Me: you need to duck and cover?
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> Rob: not sure....
> Rob: sounded like the alarm was about to go off
> Rob: ok we just got word
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> Me: you need to head out?
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> Rob: The fucking Iraq soccer team won a game
> Rob: it's celebration fire!!!
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> Me: ... WHAT
> Me: unfuckingbelievable
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> Rob: you read it here
> Rob: sounds like the fall of Berlin out there
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> Me: i'd think that, under the current circumstances, they might reconsider practices such as "celebratory gunfire"
> Me: just my thinking
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> Rob: apparently they did not
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> Me: heh
> Me: that woke you up, i bet
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> It's a wonder that part of the world hasn't managed to wipe itself off the face of the Earth.
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