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2014/12/14 23:48:04
Subject: Gunmen take hostages in Sydney cafe. seige over, some injured amid fire fight as police go in.
Pictures on Australian television showed people with their hands up against a window, and a black flag with Arabic writing.
The cafe in Sydney's central business district has been surrounded by armed police.
just in
New South Wales police have asked people to avoid the area.
An Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporter said that heavily armoured police vehicles had now arrived at the scene.
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Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
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Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
A number of hostages have been taken in a siege in Sydney's CBD.
At least three people can be seen with their hands raised through the windows of a cafe in Martin Place.
A black flag with Arabic text has also been seen hanging in the window of the Lindt Chocolat Cafe.
Dozens of heavily-armed police officers have flooded the area.
Witnesses have reported hearing loud bangs that sounded like gun shots.
One block of Martin Place has been cordoned off between Elizabeth Street and Phillip Street.
Police have urged members of the public to avoid the area.
The Channel Seven newsroom opposite the cafe has been evacuated.
Seven producer Patrick Byrne said staff at the network watched the situation unfold.
"We raced to the window and saw the shocking and chilling sight of people putting their hands up against the panes of glass at the cafe," he said.
"This was just extraordinary.
"Then, as we were looking wondering what was going on, it seemed to be like an armed hold-up, more police arrived at Martin Place.
"The area was cleared. People were kept back.
"It was then that gasps went through the newsroom as an ISIS flag was put up against one of the window panes."
Elleanor Gillard, who works in the same building as the cafe, said police have told them to stay inside and away from the doors.
"We've just been notifying everyone on the floors above - I'm on the ground - not to come down in the lift because the lifts open up right in the foyer between us and Lindt [Chocolat Cafe]," she said.
She said she saw a look of terror on the faces of two hostages who appeared to have been forced up against the glass.
"I'm just thinking about the guys in Lindt - the people we see everyday, go in and buy our coffee from them - and I'm sure they're terrified. It must be horrible for them."
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Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
Heavily armed police have taken position around the Lindt cafe in
central Sydney
Hostages seen with hands in the air inside the cafe
Black flag with white Arabic writing reading "There is no God but
Allah" and "Mohammed is the messenger of God" waved behind the
hostages
Martin Place and Sydney Opera House have been
evacuated
Studio 10
@Studio10au
Sydney Opera House has been completely evacuated and Sydney airspace closed. #siege
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Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
A café opposite a newsroom? Hostage-taking instead of the usual mass-shooting or suicide bombing? Screams 'publicity stunt' to me.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Avatar 720 wrote: A café opposite a newsroom? Hostage-taking instead of the usual mass-shooting or suicide bombing? Screams ISIS publicity stunt to me.
Hopefully they're not just waiting until everyone is watching to start killing people, and the police can stop them before they hurt anyone.
"It was then that gasps went through the newsroom as an ISIS flag was put up against one of the window panes."
Elleanor Gillard, who works in the same building as the cafe, said police have told them to stay inside and away from the doors.
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
Not jumping to anything, simply stating my opinion based on the current information.
EDIT: If it was just the 'ISIS' part, then fair enough, I'll revise that. What I read in the other, locked thread (I read that first and was directed here) said 'ISIS'.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
abc news Our Canberra bureau is hearing that the national security committee of cabinet has just wrapped up a meeting.
Statement coming shortly from Prime Minister Tony Abbott’'s office.
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
Ravenous D wrote: 40K is like a beloved grandparent that is slowly falling into dementia and the rest of the family is in denial about how bad it is.
squidhills wrote: GW is scared of girls. Why do you think they have so much trouble sculpting attractive female models? Because girls have cooties and the staff at GW don't like looking at them for too long because it makes them feel funny in their naughty place.
Although a caliphate does sound like it'd be a drink size at Starbucks.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
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Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
H.B.M.C. wrote: Just confirmed that my office building and the street its in are now in lock down. What a day to be sick, ey?
Your lucky day
We wouldn't want anything to happen to you.
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
H.B.M.C. wrote: Just confirmed that my office building and the street its in are now in lock down. What a day to be sick, ey?
Your lucky day
We wouldn't want anything to happen to you.
What he means is that he has taken 1 day of sick leave, however had he gone to work he would be back home and wouldn't have had taken 1 day sick leave.
[hypocrite] Maybe H.B.M.C. can get to paint some of his horde of unpainted tanks. [/hypocrite]
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
H.B.M.C. wrote: Just confirmed that my office building and the street its in are now in lock down. What a day to be sick, ey?
Your lucky day
We wouldn't want anything to happen to you.
Well, some people in Video Games might.
Maybe it's a false flag affair, by games workshop. And they missed him.
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
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