UPS Shooter thwarted in Sunnyvale

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https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea...ested-Suspected-Of-Mass-Shooting-15101652.php

Authorities seized more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition, body armor and several guns this weekend at the home of a UPS worker suspected of planning a workplace shooting at the UPS facility in Sunnyvale.
Thomas Joseph Andrews, 32, was arrested on suspicion of criminal threats, weapons violations, evading police and driving under the influence Sunday night.
UPS notified the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety about 8 p.m. Sunday that they had received text messages from Andrews that threatened a mass shooting at the Sunnyvale UPS facility.
Andrews was the registered owner of four handguns and a rifle, police discovered, and officers started searching for him.
About 11:15 p.m., Sunnyvale officers spotted Andrews in the area of Fair Oaks and Maude avenues and tried to pull him over, but he led them on a chase onto southbound Highway 101

The California Highway Patrol assisted in the freeway pursuit and Andrews was taken into custody on Highway 101 near Bailey Road.



Sunnyvale detectives obtained a search warrant for Andrews' home and found more than 20,000 rounds of handgun and rifle ammunition, numerous high capacity magazines, five tactical-style rifles, one shotgun, three handguns and body armor.
In addition, several backpacks containing ammunition were staged at the front door of the apartment, authorities said.
Santa Clara County Jail records show Andrews is being held on $500,000
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Climber

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Saw that this morning. That was a close thing, he seemed prepared and was thankfully dumb enough to threaten them.
 
budman

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Whoa!!! Quite the stockpile.. :loco

Glad they nailed the dude... and he is a stupid fuck.
 
Bay Arean

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Delivery guys are some new subset of shooter nut probably because of the pressure they are under.

We have "Aggro FexEx guy" here at work. Makes weekly deliveries. Pounds the boxes so hard against the wall that it's like he's testing the sheetrock. Growls and snarls at anyone who would speak to him right up to our actual boss.

So weird. I blame Amazon for turning freight companies upside down. I know, too soon
 
KWeezyXB12

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Bay Arean said:
Delivery guys are some new subset of shooter nut probably because of the pressure they are under.

We have "Aggro FexEx guy" here at work. Makes weekly deliveries. Pounds the boxes so hard against the wall that it's like he's testing the sheetrock. Growls and snarls at anyone who would speak to him right up to our actual boss.

So weird. I blame Amazon for turning freight companies upside down. I know, too soon
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He wasn't a delivery guy he was a manager. I work in that building
 
FXCLM5

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weird, my ups and fedex guys were always super nice

and for whatever reason they always used our bathroom, it got so frequent I requested bathroom arrows all the way from warehouse entrance to hallways to 2 doors into bathroom/breakroom area
 
gixxerjeff

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I like how he had loaded backpacks staged by his front door.
...you know, in case he was running late one morning.
I hate it when I run out the door in the morning accidentally leaving behind my coffee, or cell phone...or kill kit bag.
Un-fucking-believable.
 
KWeezyXB12

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i had been noticing his behavior the last few weeks had been a little off. nothing threatening or hinting towards something like this. more like a idgaf anymore attitude rather than im gonna go on a rampage in this place. i think i probably wouldve been targeted tho had he gone through with it and i was there. ive had a few negative encounters with him to be recognizable. nothing serious but more of a supervisor who wasnt my supervisor telling me to do something that wasnt my job to do and i wouldnt do it type stuff.
 
bojangle

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He missed his calling at USPS. They can it going postal, not going package. :rolleyes

I'm glad he was caught in time. :thumbup
 
NorCalAthlete

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KWeezyXB12 said:
i had been noticing his behavior the last few weeks had been a little off. nothing threatening or hinting towards something like this. more like a idgaf anymore attitude rather than im gonna go on a rampage in this place. i think i probably wouldve been targeted tho had he gone through with it and i was there. ive had a few negative encounters with him to be recognizable. nothing serious but more of a supervisor who wasnt my supervisor telling me to do something that wasnt my job to do and i wouldnt do it type stuff.
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So this is something that has long been a thorn in my mind about how we frame the conversation around mass shootings.

Mass shootings are not usually about killing others, as counterintuitive as that may sound. And maybe I'm not articulating this well, but...here goes. They tend to be simply an extension or subset of suicides. We recognize "suicide by cop" when it happens. The main difference with mass shootings is they want to take others with them before the cops get them. They have no escape plan, there is no exit strategy.

This is why someone planning a mass shooting may exhibit the same behaviors as someone intent on committing suicide - the "IDGAF" anymore, made-my-peace-with-it-and-it-will-all-be-over-soon attitude.

I don't think there's been much study around this, just social psychologists and such making observations on the similarities there, but it makes sense to me from that perspective.
 
Bay Arean

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FXCLM5 said:
weird, my ups and fedex guys were always super nice

and for whatever reason they always used our bathroom, it got so frequent I requested bathroom arrows all the way from warehouse entrance to hallways to 2 doors into bathroom/breakroom area
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We are very friendly and helpful to our delivery guys but like I said, Aggro FexEx is like a legend; he is such an ass. Of course it's just one guy. But all delivery people just seem very overworked to me anymore because they are likely having their bar raised, no matter how hard they work.. I like to offer them water on hot days and of course point them toward the can. And even if this guy is not a driver, it still the same pressure cooker, I would imagine.
 
NorCalAthlete

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2strokeYardSale said:

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MrIncredible

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Weird-we have the nicest local UPS guy.

I came home one day and he was even helping my wife change the sheets. Really nice of him-I know how difficult king size sheets can be.
 
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