Stu Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 An American Tourist has been murdered in Beijing, another American and their Chinese guide were injured. The assailant immediately commited suicide by jumping off the Drum Tower Monument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Uh-oh. Now, some people were saying about Atlanta.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PYRROS2004 Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 And others about Athens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arwebb Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 I've also heard that a journalist from New Zealand has been attacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
code1390 Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Its one of those things the American media would jump on, but they are too busy with John Edwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted August 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 It seems the murdered and injured Americans were relatives of a member of the US men's volleyball team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiejie Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Details are still coming in, but it seems the 2 tourists were relatives of one of the coaches of the US Mens volleyball team. It is a shocking and sad event, and very strange for Beijing, as crimes with this sort of violence aren't that common Chinese-upon-Chinese, much less Chinese-upon-foreigner. The area of town is quite touristed and by no stretch of the imagination a "bad" area of town as we might define it in a western city. I walked past the Drum Tower with a Chinese friend not 10 days ago. I found out about this a few hours ago on the Olympic Green--I had just exited a gymnastics event and was waiting in front of the NBC live-broadcasting setup prepping for the Saturday Today Show. When they started, their lead story was about this, and you could see the foreigners in the crowd just drop their jaws and look with horror at each other...the Chinese seemed mostly oblivious (language barrier). Then the Today Show went on about...John Edwards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 The victim was a Mr. Bachman from Minnesota, father-in-law of the US Men's Volleyball coach, Hugh McCutchean, originally from NZ. His wife, Elizabeth, was a 2004 Olympian on the women's team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattygs Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 I've also heard that a journalist from New Zealand has been attacked. Yup. ABC's Steve Robilliard, who is covering gymnastics and something else for TVNZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympic USA Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 This is very sad and of course my thoughts go out to the families affected.....i'm suprised the media didn't start saying things like "Are our athletes in danger" or "Should our athletes leave Beijing" or some sort of crap like that, from what i've seen they are making sure to emphasize that it was an isolated attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 I am becoming more and more torn about these games and I feel really bad for the Chinese and for the family. Every time you hear from people that have been to China, they always say China is safe and friendly and this is terrible to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rav3n Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 If they cant protect a simple tourist to be murdered by a common assasin, what are they gonna do with a terrorist attack (specially when they have been threatened a lot of times). This supossed strong security of the Beijing 2008 olympics is a farce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 A nutter attacking a couple of tourists could happen in any country regardless of the number of police around. Blaming Beijing or China for this one is not fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nykfan845 Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 If they cant protect a simple tourist to be murdered by a common assasin, what are they gonna do with a terrorist attack (specially when they have been threatened a lot of times).This supossed strong security of the Beijing 2008 olympics is a farce What part of "isolated incident" don't you understand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 The poor Bachmans just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And since the assailant killed himself, that pretty much shuts the door on any logical explanations for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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