"A plainclothes police sergeant fatally shot a 25-year-old street peddler on Thursday morning outside the parking garage of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square after the officer confronted the man, who he believed had been a part of a scam to use CDs to intimidate tourists, the authorities said. The slain man, who the police said opened fire first, was armed with a loaded Mac-10 automatic machine pistol, the police said. A major police response followed the shooting, which occurred around 11:15 a.m. at 46th Street and Broadway, a tourist-packed intersection, during a weekday morning when the streets were filled with shoppers." - Christopher Chung

Scary that the guy fired one of these in Times Sq: http://tacspec.org/weaponr.... From a lady in her hotel room with windows open: "“I heard it clear as day,” she said. “I’d never heard a gunshot before, but I knew it was a gunshot. Pow-pow-pow-pow — just like that. Then I heard a guy yell. Then sirens.” She added: “I froze. My hair stood on end.”" - Dan Hsiao

How do you use CDs to intimidate tourists? Were they of Phantom of the Opera? - Kevin Fox

holy crap kevin - seems all wrong that you made me lol at this post. must go hang head in shame - Felicia Yue