16 February 2004

Ok so I'm sure that those of you who go to Wake have heard about the hostage situation by now. But for those of you who don't, here's the deal: The W-S police have blocked off a road on campus and evacuated a few buildings (faculty apartments) because there is a hostage situation on a street that backs up to that street. Apparently, the hostage situation is not on campus, but on a street that is directly behind campus. Someone has taken a member of his or her own family hostage in a house that backs up to Allen Easley Drive. This is rather disturbing, what kind of a person takes someone hostage to begin with, but much less, a person in their own family? That has to be one of the most cowardly things I have heard in a long time. I hope that the police can get the poor family member out safely and lock up the perp for a long time, because really, who takes a member of their own family hostage? COWARD.