better living through homeland security...

conversation from about ten minutes ago:

randy: "i wonder if there are updates on the whole sniper situation downtown."
emily: "there's a sniper downtown?"
randy: "you didn't hear about this?"
emily: "in PITTSBURGH?!?!?"

so we checked the news to find out the latest on the possibly hostile situation a mere few miles from us that shut down pittsburgh's downtown area for the afternoon...a situation which may or may not have involved a sniper.

alas, it was not a sniper. it was just some guy who brought his pellet gun to work to scare pigeons. of course. this is completely reasonable.