The mall near my house is on fire. <.<

[Violette PureHeart]

I live a couple miles from the mall.

I could easily walk there if I actually enjoyed the place.


It's on fire right now. <.<
Some guy came in the Gamestop with a gun and told everyone to get out, so hit lit the place on fire and barricaded himself in the bathroom.
They got him out, but he no longer had his backpack...so they couldn't let the firefighters in to work on he fire until it was found....

The fire is out of control right now. Rumors that a bomb went off.
I also heard a caller on the radio say he knew the guy and he apparently burnt his grandmothers house down recently.

Kinda scary s**t. but still crazy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFyQRtHUlp4 <--not my video
(that isn't even it at it's worst!!!)

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/21/3122388/roseville-galleria-mall-standoff.html

EDIT: Okay. it wasn't his grand mothers house. It was a WalMart. <.< That was verified by a police officer.




http://www.rocklintoday.com/news/templates/community_news.asp?articleid=9383&zoneid=4 <---This is live.  

[Archon of Aegis]

SAVE THE OLD NAVY!  

[comfylove]

A mod friend of mine was JUST telling me about this. She lives by there too. Scary D;  

[Violette PureHeart]

@Vin: I have noooo idea why he started it. But he is crazy. @.@

It all way insane. My aunt works there, my cousins fiance' works there. Friends work there. Luckily EVERYONE got out safe. Westfield has an amazing emergency..thing. The security there is just amazing.  

[Saucey]

I can see disliking a store or hating it.
But I wouldn't trash it or burn it.
Especially at a mall... thats like destruction everywhere.
lol ******** gamestop
I hope the mall will be okay.  

[Nexus Carbuncle]

People need to realize that if you're going to go apeshit for no reason, you should probably do it on your own time, in a manner that's not going to inconvenience everyone else.

 

[Junimaia]

Sounds more like an overblown pathetic cry for help than just random store rage. Why else would he barricade himself in the bathroom after yelling at everyone else to get out? ...while the place is on fire. And he keeps setting really public places on fire that inconvenience a large body of people. That's sure to get him noticed. This whole thing just screams pathetic and sad to me.  

[Lychee Fruit]

The hell kind of loser would reuin a perfectly good Gamestop?

Doesn't he care that people could lose their jobs, or at the very least be put on suspension until that s**t is fixed?  

[Rinoa Hatake]

Oh the Games! The GAMES! What they ever do to anyone!?
Great... another thing to blame, and say how bad video games are for people... *sigh*

In all seriousness though... It's good no one got hurt and that they caught the crazy dude...  

[de.Lici.ous]

Crazy kids, what is the world coming to?  

[Violette PureHeart]

No one died, thankfully. Everyone got out safe.

But yeah. He was claiming it was a cry for help. I guess he had been kicked out of his home recently, and the way he mixed his meds (all sorts of medications. ugh) he just...snapped. He wasn't getting the help he needed and this was the way he felt he could get it.

It's really sad seeing the video and pictures. So many memories of that part of the mall (it's part of the original structure. They've done a lot of adding and remodeling) Spencer's, Mrs. Fields... FYE.....all surrounding Gamestop. gonk

What sucks the MOST is that the Galleria brought $3.2million/year into Roseville. It's a MAJOR MAJOR economic problem now. Jobs have been lost. Tourism (You'd be surprised hoe excited people get to go there....)
I have a lot of friends and my aunt who have lost jobs because of the fire. It's just...really really sad to see how much this really has effected everything. sad



Edit: The Govonator even declared a state of emergency because of the fire.... <.< It effects our economy THAT much.