Yeah, it's all a bit fucked up.

I have a mate who does economics at Monash Clayton, and he left the building 20 minutes before it happened. Apparently he's meant to have a tute in the very same room it happened in tomorrow arvo - so yeah, it's hitting pretty close to home.

Any ideas what the motive is yet?

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always makes u think how safe u really are when incidents like this hit somewhere near home (australia)

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Nothing's been said about a motive. All the news has talked about is a rampage. Police are confident it isn't part of some terrorist linkup or anything. I think the guy was just a nutter. When they checked out his home they found numerous handguns and weapons of all kinds.

What annoys me is how after the Bali attacks, the Indonesian military leader got up and said he is going to make sure non of this shit happens to Australians again in Indonesia and he will do his all to protect us. But really, he can try as hard as he can, but it still doesn't stop the randomness of the attacks. Intelligence might hear of plans for an attack, but they still have no idea when!! Same with these shootings - we have no idea when it could happen again. The world's fucked up, its come to the point where you really have to make a point of living everyday n loving ur family, friends n all. It aint getting closer to home anymore, shit....it's here

What the fuck is wrong with people these days!
SO many freaken crazy weiros and crap! This wanker in america who should have the scope of his sniper rammed up his ass! The ******s who bombed the Sari club, If only I had them I would . . . . . *static*
And now this dickhead who kills uni students! what kind of a sad bloody world is this!
I say what the F**K happened to capital punishment! I's sure theyd think twice if they knew there was a chair waiting for em!
Thats the problem! The victims are ignored and we look after the fricken criminal!

I'm glad you are ok Philby. Pretty unexpected tyhing to happen, especially at a Uni.
Feel sorry for the parents and friends too.

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Originally posted by Itchy i bet it was no aussie with the gun though

It's like that ey.

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This type of shit really makes you scared b/c its so close to home.

I know 4 friends who were in that honours class when it happened. One of them was air lifted to the Alfred, with shots to the legs and chest i think. I hear that he will pull through though which is good. My other friends are not hurt thank god!

The event was in the middle of class, and the guy (also a student)pulls out this potatoe gun and starts shooting. He then pulls out the real hand guns and then starts firing again. Apparently he had an honour seminar presentation to do later that day as well.

The shocking thing to know is, i've been in many classes with this guy before. Kinda quiet guy, who's English isnt very good at all, but pretty smart from what i can gather.
It's scary to know that someone who goes to the same uni as you is capable of something this sickening.

Hope anyone else out there who was hurt is pulling through.

it shits me to hear about this sorta stuff

glad to hear everyone hear is okay, sorry to hear bout ya mate mikkaa, let us know how he gets thru

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when i first heard of the shootings, i was driving home from uni listening to JJJ and they just said something brief at monash and a shooting and that was it...
so i channel surfed thru a few stations until i heard wat happened, my best friend goes to that uni and i know she had a tute in that building on that time, so i rang her
luckily she had a hang over from the night before and didnt go

its kinda scary thinking that someone can be walking around the campus with weapons.. ..
sorta brings you crashing down to reality, thinking maybe we aren't always safe in australia and we are heading like america with there collumbine (sp.) shootings

Although i will have 2 say the 1st thing that came to mind when i heard it was "drugs" Dunno Y, just did...
but watching the news im kinda thinking thats not the case nemore

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Originally posted by mikkaa This type of shit really makes you scared b/c its so close to home. I know 4 friends who were in that honours class when it happened. One of them was air lifted to the Alfred, with shots to the legs and chest i think. I hear that he will pull through though which is good. My other friends are not hurt thank god! The event was in the middle of class, and the guy (also a student)pulls out this potatoe gun and starts shooting. He then pulls out the real hand guns and then starts firing again. Apparently he had an honour seminar presentation to do later that day as well. The shocking thing to know is, i've been in many classes with this guy before. Kinda quiet guy, who's English isnt very good at all, but pretty smart from what i can gather. It's scary to know that someone who goes to the same uni as you is capable of something this sickening. Hope anyone else out there who was hurt is pulling through.

shit

hope you and your friends are ok, and i hope your mate makes it through hospital!

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Originally posted by InAcoma sorta brings you crashing down to reality, thinking maybe we aren't always safe in australia and we are heading like america with there collumbine (sp.) shootings

i know! i was thinking the same kinda thing, you hear about that stuff all the time but it doesnt really hit you until it happens to you

hehe glad your friend was hungover! sounds like a girl i know lol
everytime i see her at uni she got plastered the night or nights before. either that or i dont see her because she got too hammered she couldnt be stuffed turning up!

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yeah, was supposed to be in class @ 11. slept in, rocked up @ 11:30ish, fvcking surreal sight, everyone standing around, wailing of sirens in the distance and the loud, heavy drone of the choppers. looked around, found out what was happening, went home, called everyone i knew who went to monash...

This is soo wrong.

Sympathies to the victims and their families.

I gotta test tomorrow, wonder what thats gonna be like.

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im just hoping vut is not the next target!


dont wanna sounds bad but we got a lot of people at that uni that look capable of doing something like that

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Oh man, I find it hard to believe that stuff like this happens in Australia. I guess I’ve always thought of this kind of stuff as an "American thing". I guess we do take things for granted.
What brings people to commit such heinous crimes?! I guess there are some really fucked up people out there...

My sympathies go out to all those affected