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Re: Sheet! What happened was This First, two bombs went off in the government quarters of oslo. 7 dead, many wounded. Than, one of the guys, who was involved with the bombs, dressed up as a policec officer, went out to an island, where it was a summer camp for young politicians, i mean 13-18 or something, and after a meeting to inform the youths what had happened, he stood outside, with the police unfiform, telling the youths to come to him, and that it was safe to go to him, he than proceeded to kill them. After that, he went on a rampage, and killed over 80, probably more, the number of deaths is getting higher every hour, Up in all this, before the first bomb went off, me, my father, a friend of him, and his son were driving home from visiting a friend of my dad. i heard a huge boom, and felt the car shake, we were about 100 metres away, than, we drove closer, and everyone was running frantically around, we rolled up the window, to ask someone what happened, and a lady comes over and shouts this "IT WAS A BOMB, EVERYTHINGS BROKEN, EVERYTHING'S SHATTERED, GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM HERE" So we drove, as fast as we could away, and when we we're not far away, we heard a second explosion... R.I.P, the around 100 people that died today..

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Re: Sheet! Man, that's crazy... I can't even begin to imagine what that must have been like for you, especially since you were so close to it. I'm happy that you're okay, but I feel sorry for the people who did get injured/killed because of that attack... It's horrible to think about.

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Re: Sheet! What were you doing when you heard them? It's so crazy what happened. Glad your OK. Hope you don't mind but I moved this to 'Off-Topic' as I think its a worth while discussion and everyone should talk about it if they want. Extremist Christians... Black Metal fans will have a field day over this. It over shadows church burning! Horrible. And Oslo is such a nice place, I would never have imagined something like this. R.I.P. the victims of this massacre.

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Re: Sheet! I dont mind at all :P When i heard ze booms, we were on our way home from a friend of my dad. when we heard the first one, and saw everyone go mental, and the lady who told us to get the fuck out, we drove like hell, out of the city.. And yeah, it's horrible..

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