Last month, Marjorie posted a video of pranksters pulling "the old slip 'n' smash" where kids would pretend to slip in grocery stores and smash plastic jugs of milk on the ground. According to the comments, YOU DID NOT APPRECIATE THIS BEHAVIOR. Well quit shaking your cane, Grandpa—because the cops have identified the kids criminals, and are filing charges! C'mon, let's all "tsk-tsk-tsk" along with this news anchor!

Ahhhhhh... now you can die happy.

After days on the run, and a manhunt that included L.A. cops mistakenly shooting at a vehicle that looked like the one driven by the suspect, the L.A. Times is reporting that fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner was in an alleged shoot-out with Big Bear officers this afternoon.

The shooting occurred after Dorner burglarized a home, tied up a couple and stole a white pickup truck, sources said. San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller confirmed deputies responded to a vehicle theft about 12:20 p.m., and the resident who reported the theft said the suspect matched Dorner's description.

The U.S. Forest Service confirms there was an exchange of gunfire between officers on foot and the suspect, in the Santa Ana River drainage, north of State Highway 38 and south of Big Bear Valley. At least one officer of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife was involved, said John Miller, San Bernardino National Forest spokesman. That officer is not believed to be injured.

Dorner's status was not immediately known as the gunfight continued.

The most recent updates claim that Dorner is inside a cabin, surrounded by police. More updates to come.

UPDATE 2:25 PM: More details from the L.A. Times regarding Dorner's chase with authorities, and how he is currently in a cabin surrounded by police.

Dorner crashed the truck during the ensuing chase and exchanged gunfire with the officers as he fled into another cabin, where he was quickly surrounded by San Bernardino Sheriff’s deputies. One deputy was hit as Dorner fired out of the cabin and then a second was wounded when Dorner exited the back of the cabin, deployed a smoke bomb and opened fire again in an apparent attempt to flee. Dorner was driven back inside the cabin, where it appears he is pinned down, the source said.

The extent of the deputies’ injuries is unknown.

UPDATE 3:25 PM: From the L.A. Times twitter feed:

UPDATE 3:45 PM: One of the deputies who was shot during the shootout with Dorner has died from his wounds.

UPDATE 4:25 PM:

UPDATE 5:50 PM: From the L.A. Times:

According to a law enforcement source, police had broken down windows, pumped in tear gas and blasted a loud speaker urging Dorner to give up. When they got no response, police deployed a vehicle to rip down the walls of cabin "one by one, like peeling an onion," one law enforcement official said.

By the time they got to the last wall, authorities heard a single gunshot, the source said. Then flames began to spread through the structure. Then, they heard gunshots likely set off by the fire.

Dorner's body has not been found.

UPDATE 6:05 PM:

The Glenn Beck lovers at The Blaze think this sign will single-handedly save us all from mass shootings.

The comment thread is an accurate example of the conservative pro-gun blogosphere right now: Detached from reality, highly political, and riddled with the belief that the only way to save yourself from a nut with a gun is to give guns to all the nuts.

I bet no one try’s to rob his place!

Will drive extra miles if I have to just to patronize any business that posts this sign. Love it!

The only thing worse than a Child Molester is a Liberal. the only thing worse than a Liberal is a Democrat. the only thing worse than a Democrat is a Progressive.

u s army veteran, loves that sign, just wish michigan would o same

Lincolin shouldn’t have armed the North; he should have armed the Slaves.

Hummm. Me thinks me will plagiarize hehehe

Already have this posted at the cabin.

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A child found a loaded gun in a Tillamook movie theater during a junior high school field trip Wednesday morning to see "The Hobbit." Tillamook Police Chief Terry Wright said it was a small, semi-automatic weapon with a round in the chamber and the safety off.

Had the student picked up the weapon and squeezed the trigger, Wright said, "it could have been catastrophic." But no one was hurt.

[...] Early Wednesday evening, a local man came by the theater to ask if a gun had been found. He told Tillamook Police he noticed his gun was missing after he left the theater Tuesday night. He tried to call the theater but got no answer, so he drove to the movie house in hopes the gun was in the theater's lost and found. He had a concealed handgun license for the weapon.

Of course, had the child picked up the weapon and accidentally shot himself or somebody else, I suppose that would have been a small price to pay in exchange for our freedom to carry concealed weapons into movie theaters.

Wow, Charlotte Allen:

There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K–6 school), all the personnel — the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the “reading specialist” — were female. There didn’t even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza’s knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers. The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, seemed to have performed bravely. According to reports, she activated the school’s public-address system and also lunged at Lanza, before he shot her to death. Some of the teachers managed to save all or some of their charges by rushing them into closets or bathrooms. But in general, a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm. Male aggression can be a good thing, as in protecting the weak — but it has been forced out of the culture of elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel. Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high-school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza.

And, of course: "The first two sentences in this Charlotte Allen piece contain five factual errors."