you guys okay

[copper]

According to US news reports, Australia is burning to the ground in Perth and Sydney has been taken over by terrorists.   

[The General]

According to US news reports, Australia is burning to the ground in Perth and Sydney has been taken over by terrorists.   

Magnificent day here on the Sunshine Coast Queensland. (Everything plant life is rich from some nice rain recently).

Watching the Hostage drama from afar like you guys. Viewed the three hostages escape. Know there is now phone contact with the lone gunman...another 15 hostages in our prayers.

[Fj.itis]

Yeah, thoughts are with the people still in there, now 5 in total have got out. Government has disarmed our whole country but that doesnt stop the criminals unfortunately.

[simi_ed]

Time for the Aussie SAS to step in ...

My best thoughts & prayers for the innocents involved!

[X-Ray]

Its a bloody farce , 11 hours on , 1 nutjob inside with hostages, a well positioned sniper could have taken him out 30 mins after it started, but apparantley  we don't do that here. We have to "negotiate", urrggghh.

[ken65]

have to agree with you ray, the media have turned this into a frenzy of some sort,  just shoot the f@#k wit.

  If one moron can dictate the whole worlds news , god help us if these neanderthals got fair dinkum..

[stua1959]

This guy is just a lone, muslim psycho with a political agenda. If he was a real terrorist there would have been 50 bodies there this morning. Terrorists dont negotiate either.
Joe Hockey must be rubbing his hands together, hardly a word in the media about his horror mid year economic update

[ZOA NOM]

[sarcasm] Wait... where'd he get a gun? I thought Australia confiscated them. [/sarcasm]

[flips]

Hey Guys.

2 Hostages + Gunman dead,4 injured.Hostages made a break for it at about 2 am and gunman started shooting.Police stormed in with stun grenades and shot the gunman.
My heart extends to the families of the victims.& wish a speedy recovery to the injured.
The Gunman was a criminal rapist scumbag who is implicated in killing his own wife and proven to have sent hate mail to the families of servicemen serving in Afghanistan.

1 less oxygen thief scumbag in the world.

Hats off to the police.

Cheers

Jeff P

[cclase]

Senseless and avoidable...prayers for the families of the lost and those injured, may they find peace.

[ribbert]

[sarcasm] Wait... where'd he get a gun? I thought Australia confiscated them. [/sarcasm]

Is it just me or is this cheap shot attempt at humour insensitive, unwarranted and poorly timed?

Noel

[Mark Olson]

[sarcasm] Wait... where'd he get a gun? I thought Australia confiscated them. [/sarcasm]

Is it just me or is this cheap shot attempt at humour insensitive, unwarranted and poorly timed?

Noel

I agree with cheap shot. 

[Fj.itis]

Sad day, best wishes to all involved. Not sure how this guy wasnt being watched by anti-terrorism task forces, well known to police and was out on bail, the mind boggles.

[ZOA NOM]

[sarcasm] Wait... where'd he get a gun? I thought Australia confiscated them. [/sarcasm]

Is it just me or is this cheap shot attempt at humour insensitive, unwarranted and poorly timed?

Noel

I agree with cheap shot. 

Poorly timed, and I apologize for that. I meant no disrespect to those who lost lives, and my comment should have been reserved for the gun subforum.

[mark1969]

This guy is just a lone, muslim psycho with a political agenda. If he was a real terrorist there would have been 50 bodies there this morning.

Blimey, not content with labels and sweeping statements you then seek to underplay his actions. Not sure the families involved will think he wasn't a 'real' terrorist as you so charmingly put it.

I mean...really?