Holy Fucking Shit

[obscuritan]

So I get back from LUMAS, after the usual sort of thing we do - I was playing my PSP throughout and my main concern was getting it charged back up so I could keep playing.

Then I find I have an email from Dad titled "Shooting Incident". Inside it states that he, mum and my uncle Ken are okay after the "whitehaven shooting incident". I had no idea

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[bonwor]

Jesus Fucking Christ. That's just...Oh wow. There are no words.

I'm pretty much speechless. Not at you, but at that guy doing the shootings. That's just. Holy shit D:

[obscuritan]

You just wouldn't think this sort of thing would happen (A) in the UK, and (B) in Cumbria, one of the most rural parts of Britain, would you? It'd be like Jihadists in Devonshire!

[bonwor]

I've been watching the news on BBC for a while now and jesus it's just so...it's weird. Everyone who knew the guy is like 'I didn't think he'd do this', like, veryone is saying that.

Makes you think scary things, events like this D:

[blue_aeon]

I was the last to hear about this in my house (my brother in particular was shocked I hadn't found out about it earlier) and I'm speechless. Cumbria's practically a second home for our family and for this kind of thing to happen there is just... Bloody hell. I still can't process it.

[obscuritan]

It's scary how easy it is to be out of the loop on these things - I didn't check my news feeds, and my mobile was off, and thus didn't know a thing. I can only pray that you didn't lose anyone today either.

[blue_aeon]

It turns out my dad didn't know about it either - I assume my mum told him as soon as he got home.

I don't know many people very well up in Cumbria, but part of me's worrying about the family whose holiday cottage we've stayed in since my brother, sister and I were babies and and knew us as we grew up. They live in Threlkeld, so right now I'm just hoping none of them weren't in the Western Lakes.

[stormbringer986]

:< That's really freaking scary. I saw an article about it on a news site I was on earlier.

Something kind of similar happened to me on 9/11. I was sitting there watching as it happened, on tv at school. Obviously it was horrible shit regardless, but then my mom came to pick me up at the end of the day and was like "You know your uncle works at the WTC right?" I was just like WTF NO OMG and freaked out. Thank God he turned out to be ok, but it was just a stroke of freak luck that he had bailed on the meeting he was supposed to go to that morning.

[obscuritan]

Glad to hear it :) Kinda hard to know how to react though, isn't it? Not only did the shit go down but everything was okay before you even heard about it - do you worry about how close it was or move on?

[stormbringer986]

Yeah it is. It was kind of like flipping out going "HOLY SHIT" and breathing a huge sigh of relief at the same moment, which was kind of a weird feeling for me. Just knowing how close something awful came to happening is scary. And for me, I still can't stand to see the videos or pictures from 9/11(hence my major problem with Robert Pattinson's last non-Twilight movie). I think that's more just the whole event than the fact my uncle had an extremely lucky escape though.