# AUSSIE DOPERS! ARE ALL OF YOU OK?? Emergency thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221 "2002-10-21T13:16:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/1 "2002-10-21T13:16:53Z")
Look here– > **[Gunman opens fire on university campus](https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2002/10/21/Gunman-opens-fire-on-university-campus/49391035181867/)** > > A gunman opened fire Monday in a building on the Monash University campus, killing two people and injuring at least five others, police said. Are all of you OK? We get a lot of University students on this Board. I hope you’re all OK. Check-in in this thread. Please bump this thread, so the time zone effect won’t sweep it 'way down the Board before the Aussies see it. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/2 "2002-10-21T13:31:49Z")
bump ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/3 "2002-10-21T13:37:14Z")
**Hawthorne** is at Monash, but has checked in. I’m not aware of any others there. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/4 "2002-10-21T13:57:58Z")
I’m sitting here thinking that I got nothing done today and I haven’t got time for this. And how I just don’t know how I’m going to feel walking in there tomorrow or what the hell I’m going to say to my students. I don’t think it’s sunk in yet. I’m not aware of anyone else here in the Ming Wing either. Thanks for your concern, it’s much appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/5 "2002-10-21T14:54:54Z")
Hugs for Hawthorne, and the others at your Uni. Best wishes. ---
**Author:** ![abogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@abogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abogan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/6 "2002-10-21T15:13:38Z")
Hawthorne and all the rest. Keep cool and keep safe. Although in this world that is geting very hard to do. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/7 "2002-10-21T15:25:16Z")
I’m at Melbourne University and we found out about it this morning. I spent a frantic 10 minutes or so ringing people at Monash - especially since my cousin would have been in that building just an hour later. A friend of a friend was in a tutorial just a couple of doors down and they had locked the doors and were holed up in their room. They’ve got the guy in custody - I don’t think they know why he did it yet. {{hawthorne}} for today and tomorrow, and whenever else you need it. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/8 "2002-10-21T17:28:12Z")
What the hell?!? You know sometimes I don’t think I want to be human any more, wonder if I can get transfered to the cat dept. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/9 "2002-10-21T23:08:08Z")
Oh my goodness… does anyone know what Uni Cumber goes to? I know he does so but I hardly talk to him anymore cuz he’s so busy… ---
**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-dopers-are-all-of-you-ok-emergency-thread/133221/10 "2002-10-22T01:09:25Z")
Me and **nefertari** go to Monash, and were in nearby building when all this happened yesterday. We’re both fine - thankfully, due to the actions of a couple of the academic staff, the entire incident was confined to one room and (from what I gather) probably less than a minute or so in time. Of course, no one in the rest of the campus knew that at the time, so there was a sort of bemused confusion for an hour or so after it happened, as people tried to work out what exactly was going on. Today, there’s certainly a weird mood about. Superficially, almost everything’s back to ‘business as usual’, but when something like this happens in such physically and psychologically familiar territory, it’s hard to get right back into your daily routine.