Too damn close to home…

I am really, really, really glad I changed my mind about going shopping at Ward Parkway Mall this afternoon. I had intended to go to T.J. Maxx and Target after I got my car washed, but at the last minute decided just to go get groceries and head home. Not very much later, the mall became “one big crime scene” following a shooting spree that left three dead, including the shooter. Details. The time line would have put me in that parking lot at exactly the wrong time. That’s “my” mall, darn it, and too freakin’ close to home.

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  1. kalimeg

    April 30, 2007 at 12:43am

    Quite — and the shooting was supposedly at the Starbucks near Maxx, too.

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  2. kosaginolegion

    April 30, 2007 at 1:23am

    Wow. I’m glad you didn’t go too. Unnerving to the extreme.

    Bannister road is a strangely familiar name. Is there a mall by that name that way? (I used to live in Harrisonville and Belton, MO)

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    • kalimeg

      April 30, 2007 at 1:41am

      Yes, but it closed. Over half the malls around KC have collapsed, and Bannister was the latest.

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      allisonstein

      April 30, 2007 at 1:52am

      Thanks, Kosa. Yes, you’re thinking of Bannister Mall, which is closing at the end of May for lack of interest. Ward Parkway Mall is a couple of miles west and about 10 blocks north of it.

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      • kosaginolegion

        April 30, 2007 at 2:14am

        It’s the way of things. I haven’t been in the K.C. MO area for over 20 years, so I’d be surprised if anything I remember was still operating. Like that little sandwich shop across from the Main Library. I have fond memories of that place during summer vacation.

        The satellite views of Belton/Richards Gebauer that I find on Google Earth are hopelessly different from my memory, too. *sigh*

        *avoids singing Memories*

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      allisonstein

      April 30, 2007 at 12:17pm

      HOw did they get that? And of course it’s to the rare instance when I use strong language.

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      • kalimeg

        April 30, 2007 at 1:58pm

        Isn’t there a special search engine for web logs?

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  3. fireguarder

    May 1, 2007 at 12:44am

    Ditto to what everyone else has said – we’re very glad you didn’t go!

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