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Some patrons who say they were there during the shooting described the scene on our KSL.com comment board.

Guitarsandrain wrote: "No one knew what was going on and it was total chaos and no one knew that the guy that was shooting was a cop. Everyone was scared. Everyone thought that were was a gunman running around the bar."

Smoothballer25 said: "It was a crazy scene. It's a horrible thing to experience."

You can't get a reporter to just get a quote from a human? Just pulling them off the message boards? I mean, I guess it's not that big a deal but... come on.

Edward R. Murrow would have done the verified that Smoothballer25 actually was a smooth baller. We're just supposed to take his word for it?

Dear The News

Once a year some town in Spain has a big tomato fight. We all know about it, and it's not that interesting in the first place. Please stop reporting on it.

RT @ the moon

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the local angle

The Headline:

National Fist Bump Day proposed
July 7th, 2009 @ 7:19am
By Mary Richards

Proposed by:

Congress? Obama? The National Greeting Council?

A Norwegian immigrant is trying to make today "National Fist Bump Day."

Street level reporting:

Jared Carter likes to make his fist bumps fancy. "I do the explosion thing where you hit it and your hand 'explodes,' " he said.

A man named Robert said, "I just think it's kind of dumb. I'm a more formal kind of guy."

Please cite your sources:

Some are promoting the elbow touch. Others like the high five instead.

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