vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 i just got the RA newsletter . . . how come there is no article from mr. t-bone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 i just got the RA newsletter . . . how come there is no article from mr. t-bone? i don't even get the RA newsletter?! i just put up my rview for hernan. check the event review section and you'll see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 thomar is on his way to the pulitzer prize of club reviews! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 Bus hijackers could be AlbanianBy Karolos GrohmannClick to enlarge photo ATHENS (Reuters) - Two gunmen thought to be Albanians have hijacked a Greek bus with 23 passengers on board in Athens and demanded a $1 million (510,000 pound) ransom and a plane to fly them to Russia.As night fell on Wednesday, 12 hours after the early morning drama began, the gunmen had released 12 hostages in several batches through the day leaving 11 -- six men and five women -- still captive.Click to enlarge photo Hundreds of police officers, snipers in camouflage fatigues and special forces were in position around the vehicle. A hostage on board the bus said the gunmen had explosives.Negotiators were also on the scene as well as dozens of concerned hostages' relatives.As the standoff gripped the nation, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis postponed his departure for a European Union summit in Brussels by one day until Thursday."The figure of $1 million (ransom) has been mentioned in negotiations with the hijackers, but they have given no other details regarding where they want to go to," a senior police official told Reuters.But Stella Matara, a hostage still on the bus, told state-run television in a mobile phone call that the hijackers planned to release all women prisoners once a driver joined the vehicle. She said they wanted a plane to take them to Russia.The original driver, a ticket collector and a woman passenger managed to escape from the bus in the first seconds of the hijack when shots were fired during the takeover."THEY HAVE DYNAMITE""They want a police bus to leave from in front of our bus, as well as a driver to take them to the airport," Matara said."As soon as the driver comes, they will release all women. At the airport, they want a plane to take them to Russia, and then they will release the rest of the hostages," she added."They have guns, they have dynamite."There have been no reports of injuries, but live television showed one gunman approaching the front of the bus and firing off two warning shots.The curtains in the bus windows were closed, blocking views inside, and a police helicopter hovered above. Television pictures had earlier shown one man carrying a rifle and standing inside the bus near the front seats.After a visit to the hijack scene by Albania's ambassador and telephone talks between the law and order ministers of Greece and Albania, a senior police official told Reuters authorities believed the gunmen were Albanians."Unless we see their passports we can't be 100 percent certain, but we are operating now on the belief they are from Albania," the official said.Hundreds of thousands of Albanians live in Greece. Many came from the neighbouring country to help with construction work for the Athens Olympics.SEIZED ON MARATHON HIGHWAYThe bus was seized along a highway from the Athens suburb of Marathon, used in the Olympic race of the same name this summer.The first of the hostages freed, a grey-haired man who looked to be in his 50s, stepped out of the bus with his hands raised and walked to waiting police."My dad has a heart condition," Vassilis Bratsiakos said. "I am just happy he is well and far away from the bus."He was freed about five hours after the 6 a.m. (4 a.m. British time) hijack."I don't care what they are or who they are. I want them to release my wife," said an elderly man who was among dozens of relatives of hostages who rushed to the scene."She told me she is fine and things are quiet on the bus but she sounded terrified."The seizure of the bus was the first such incident since a spate of bus hijackings in Greece in 1999-2000.First police reports had said there were 26 hostages on board the bus but as hostages were released and police learned more about the situation on the vehicle the figure was revised first to 24 and then to 23.The last such incident was in November 2000 when a bus carrying 35 Japanese tourists was hijacked by a man who surrendered to a TV talk show host after a nine-hour standoff.Two hijackings by Albanians in 1999 ended with the two hostage-takers being killed by police. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 thomar is on his way to the pulitzer prize of club reviews!thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinybutterfli Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 when you coming back from your holiday break?jan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 Bus hijackers could be AlbanianBy Karolos Grohmannofficial told Reuters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 SANDER K is at Crobar on 1/1/05! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 is it me, or has crobar started recycling dj's? this is what, like the 37th time sander has been at crobar since it opened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinybutterfli Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 is it me, or has crobar started recycling dj's? this is what, like the 37th time sander has been at crobar since it opened?hey, its still better than recycling charles spinsbadly & dieselboy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 is it me, or has crobar started recycling dj's? this is what, like the 37th time sander has been at crobar since it opened?new residency dude! anyway, i'd rather have him than boris and waxman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 so how mant residents does crobar now have? 20? sander, sasha, waxman, roger s., boris . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 so how mant residents does crobar now have? 20? sander, sasha, waxman, roger s., boris . . .no- 5! 3 are my favorites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 you guys think we can reach 10,000 posts on TP by the end of the year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 you guys think we can reach 10,000 posts on TP by the end of the year?unfortunately, probably not. tiny is gonna be out. gk is always at his dad's house and never posts... that leaves the other 4 of us. maybe, but i doubt it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinybutterfli Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 do i have to pad this thread before i leave? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kken Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 *cough* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 unfortunately, probably not. tiny is gonna be out. gk is always at his dad's house and never posts... that leaves the other 4 of us. maybe, but i doubt itso we're almost at 9,600, that leaves 400 to go.400/4=100 each.100 each / 16 days left in the year = 6.25 posts a day each.everyone get to work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 *cough*do you need some medicine my friend?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 so we're almost at 9,600, that leaves 400 to go.400/4=100 each.100 each / 16 days left in the year = 6.25 posts a day each.everyone get to work! if we do it, it has to be w/ good posts. mr. penton does not take shorts and neither will we! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 if we do it, it has to be w/ good posts. mr. penton does not take shorts and neither will we!define what a "good" post is. we live in a fast food society, i advocate for fast-ready to digest posts. low quality, low price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomar Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 define what a "good" post is. we live in a fast food society, i advocate for fast-ready to digest posts. low quality, low price.you coming for sander or sasha? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 you coming for sander or sasha?that is a low quality post there thomar! i'm leaning towards sasha. is there anything going on the 31st worthwhile going to? if there is, i'd consider going the weekend of the 1st. anything decent at sullivan room or cielo? factory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 just announced. bought me tix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kken Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 bought tix to what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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