Sooo Who thinks hostage situation in Alabama is real?

Uhm, he has no demands.

I think the guy is almost certainly a GLPer.

Then what is the point? Im confused as to a motive.

is that still going on? I have no reason to not believe it.

This is the 7th day.

7 days this has been going on for....

Yeah Dude runs on a school bus, demands a random child, shoots driver, locks himself in a bunker for 7 days now and has not asked for anything. Weird

Why take a hostage , which is certainly going to end in the suspects death or life inprisonment, and not have any reason? He could have sat in his bunker forever alone so why kidnap a kid?

I live one mile from the situation. It is very real. The kids name is Ethan. One side of the road is lined with news media and the other side (where the bunker is located) is filled with different agencies FBI Van, State Trooper Motor Home, Local police and Ambulances, two helicopters). The guy moved in a year or so ago and is a whacko. No one knows him around here. Was he sent here by the goverment??? Who knows. I just know that Ethan is really being held in the tornado storm shelter.

Ethan Who? Last name?

Have some respect for the kid's family, man. The last thing they need is 100 more GLP nutters hassling them.

This one i think is real. Not sure why, probably because I've seen people like this guy before. You can bet there is more to the story though than what they are reporting.

they could put sleeping gas down the vent hole
but the longer they talk, the outcome is looking bad
and i haven't seen them interview the kid's parents
it's all kind of hush hush

ex vietnam vet, prepper, gun owner fruitloop.... Maybe it is happening, but storyline is oh so convienent in this moment.

The little boys name is Ethan, his last named hasn't been released out of respect/privacy of the family.

Ethan turns age 6 this wednesday the 6th.

Dykes HAS made a demand. On day one, he asked to trade the boy for a reporter. He said he wants a reporter to "tell his story" to.

I totaly agree... If they wanted them out they could get them out.

So why in the fuck have they not gotten a reporter. Local newspaper has stated the sheriff has not said of any demands.

Somebody call Barbara Walters!

Well gee, I dunno, you think reporters are going to line up to be "traded" and go into this guys bunker? I doubt hostage negotiators make a habit of trading one hostage for another....

To save a 6 year old, scared, mentally ill kid, I would trade myself!

"Sleeping gas" doesn't work like that. It's dangerous. Pump it in a bunker and you'll probably just kill them both.

MailOnline has learned that Jimmy Lee Dykes made the extraordinary offer on the first day of what has now turned into a siege situation with the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team on site, emergency services and a host of media focused on the piece of Alabama bluff under which Dykes and the boy, Ethan, are holed up.

A source with the local sheriff's office has revealed that a CID Lieutenant spoke with Dykes for the first four hours of the hostage situation, communicating via a pipe sticking out from the ground – the only surface sign of the bunker’s location.

In those first crucial hours, Vietnam veteran Dykes attempted to strike his bargain – the boy in return for a reporter to tell his story of ‘how the government had screwed him.


Read more: [link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

Have we become so pathetic, and beauracratic that we cannot save a kid due to Negotiation rules or policy? Are journalist really that selfish these days?

Something is going on with the situation RIGHT NOW. "Breaking news" and all that.....

Ambulances wen't back to the site, were there for 45 minutes, and then came back out, with no sense of urgency. Police have now called a news conference.


Initial reports are the BOY HAS BEEN RELEASED and DYKES is DEAD.

Last Edited by JennOfArc on 02/04/2013 04:55 PM

Op, there are two real dead bodies in the bunker.

Apparently the boy has been released, and the old man is dead.

So the fact that the media lies to you daily wouldn't be a factor in thinking that this too may be staged like all the rest?

uh huh

your damn right reporters would go in, that's what they do, they'd be lining up around the corner.
This mans story will never be told. Not if it's real.

Boy released...kidnapper KILLED!

Just in from Cnn.. Dykes is dead, and ethan is safe....