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#1 Rapture ribbing may have led to shooting at Eugene workplace
07-05-2011, 12:54 PM
Rapture ribbing may have led to shooting at Eugene workplace
Posted: Jun 28, 2011 7:55 AM MDT Updated: Jun 28, 2011 12:26 PM MDT
By Staff and AP reports
The motive in a workplace shooting in Eugene may be the ribbing one employee took from a co-worker after the predicted May 21 rapture failed to occur.
The mother of the victim told The Register Guard that her son said Dale O'Callaghan took it personally when he was needled about his belief that he would be taken to heaven by the return of Jesus Christ.
Eugene police say O'Callaghan shot Jerry Andrews on Friday morning at LHM Hydraulics, where they worked. Andrews suffered a fractured shoulder.
Police say O'Callaghan was still at the business when they arrived just before 7 a.m.
His mother, Robin O'Brien, says her son didn't want to speak with a reporter about the shooting, but she said O'Callaghan had expected to be taken up in the rapture.
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07-05-2011, 12:57 PM
That might hurt his chances in the future.
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In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.
In hockey, it means you have to sit in the penalty box for five minutes.
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07-05-2011, 01:21 PM
"Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings..." Patrick Henry
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07-05-2011, 01:23 PM
In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.
In hockey, it means you have to sit in the penalty box for five minutes.
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07-05-2011, 01:24 PM
Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.
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We could say they are spending like drunken sailors. That would be unfair to drunken sailors, they're spending their OWN money.
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R.I.P. Crockspot
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"Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings..." Patrick Henry
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