http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1871007,00.html

I don't think I even saw the brakes flash once.

lol, this reminds the time my car got hit. Was in a radio shack with my buddy and we started hearing some bad noises outside, looked out the store window and saw this suv with one door open going about 10mph across the parking lot hitting shopping carts and lurching over those cement parking things.

He started from all the way from the other side and I watched in slow motion horror as he made a direct line to my car and plowed into it. If I had hadn't just stood there like an idiot I might have moved my car, but in retrospect he would have ended up going through the big plate window and into the Radio Shack.

So many cars and he had to choose mine.

Turns out he was on crutches and had wedged one of the crutches into the accelerator. He panicked and didn't think to simply just TURN OFF the car!

These kids are so smart, expressive and eloquent. I wish more of my friends were as sharp as these kids.

Could someone please tell me who does the music?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/08/BART.shooting/index.html

Excerpts from above link:
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"Protests erupted shortly after a young man killed by a subway police officer was laid to rest in Oakland on Wednesday night...The Oakland Police Department made 105 arrests, including a mass arrest of about 80 people at 11 p.m., said Officer Jeff Thomason. The charges include inciting a riot, vandalism, assault on a police officer and unlawful assembly, he said."

"A BART spokesman has said there is more to the story than what can be seen on the grainy images"

"David Chai, chief of staff for Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, said Dellums was "out and about" in the streets Wednesday, urging protesters to exercise their frustration productively. Dellums also announced that the Oakland Police Department was conducting its own investigation into the matter."

"Thomason said Oakland police will either work alongside BART in its investigation or take the probe over, but no decisions have been made."

"District Attorney Tom Orloff told CNN on Wednesday the incident is a "pretty clear" homicide and his office will focus primarily on Mehserle's mental state before the shooting."

"The Grant family attorney, John Burris, is pushing Orloff to press criminal charges against Mehserle. Burris has also filed a $25 million claim with BART, alleging wrongful death."

"A statement Wednesday said BART "will continue to seek and examine all available evidence and will continue its full cooperation with the ongoing independent investigation by the district attorney."

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The DA publicly stated that it was clearly a homicide - First time I have seen a DA make such a statement during an ongoing investigation. It's misleading, he didn't say "Criminal" Homicide. Obviously someone died. I think captain obvious made the statement for reasons other than stating a fact.

Pretty much at this point I would only trust an FBI investigation, the quicker they get involved the less this thing gets even more F'd up. The longer they wait the harder it will be to get clean testimonies, witnesses and evidence.

Step 11: tell him to never, ever, wear socks in bed again.

For sleeping, ok, but for business time, nuh huh.

An ex girlfriend would complain that she was cold... told her ok, then I get to wear my ear muffs and let's see how sexy that looks.

*discard

For me the most interesting part was the segment showing the capsule hotels. What a cool concept, totally reminded me of the movie the 5th Element - when they go to sleep on the transport. Now I'm going to have to look up more info on capsule hotels. Has anyone slept in one before?

Thanks for what you said! Btw, what software do you use for your 3D and animation? I used to use Maya (have to reinstall it) and have been doing a lot in second life with 3d and some animations.

Thank you Trancecoach, that is def the best up close vid. I posted an update on with a few more thoughts on the other vid they have here on videosift, I will just put the section I added here:

last and final update: I saw some other vids from other angles, one of them had a pretty clear pic. I don't think he was chambering, I now believe that he did not properly handle his firearm. He probably has a nice little welt on the thumb of his left hand. he seemed to be a bit flustered, he tried unholstering from a sitting position which can be tricky - police holsters are designed so that they only come out at a certain angle so that someone from behind you can not take your firearm out in a grapple. I tried thinking of a scenario where I would pull my weapon in this scenario: The only thing I can think of is that during a pat down... if something was felt to be a possible weapon (we would have called out "possible signal zero"), at which point I might have drawn and covered till the search was complete. The other officers though, didn't seem very alarmed and were taken by total surprise by the shot.

I just can't see this being anything other than an accident (and total incompetence). Hopefully they tested his blood for possible intoxication and also checked his left hand.

lol!, "wish you were here"

She needs to convert that one into a postcard.

Trancecoach, the footage on your article link is from an angle I have not seen before, and it's a lot clearer too (you can make out a lot more and noticed some new things). Looks like lots of people were filming this. I think from now on I am not going anywhere without at least a camera.

*discard

One other possibility for the movement of the left hand would be improper placement and having the gun pinch the hand on firing. I have had that happen before, and I don't see that causing the hand to come directly back like that. Would like to hear from others who shoot a lot and know about the pinching.

Another example of an accidental discharge is out there with some officer in a school talking to students. In that case the slide was in the open safe position, he released the slide and appears to have been putting it back in the open position when he had an accidental discharge.