CIA Agent/Mall Ninja Down?

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Houston PD shot a random old guy. His pals and family claim he's CIA. Apparently a big story in the Houston area.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou080430_tnt_chasefolo.b6bd990f.html?npc

[RevDisk]

Easy way to tell.

If they complain about the ten billion TPS reports they filled out and explained how boring their career was, they were probably in the CIA.  Bonus points if they're old codgers and they whine at length starting with "Back in my day..."   Extra bonus points if they sound disappointed regarding the fall of the Berlin Wall.  If they're rabidly misogynistic, it's a definite.

If they claim to be CIA assassains or try to sound like James Bond, they aren't.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

also extra points if they have extra cash around

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

If they claim to be CIA assassains or try to sound like James Bond, they aren't.

All you really need is a shaved head and a whisper. Everybody'll know you're a SEAL that way.

[crt360]

You know HPD just be shootin' the bro 'cause he's white.   

[seeker_two]

Another member of the "Grassy Knoll Society" silenced......Coincidence?......

[taurusowner]

If they complain about the ten billion TPS reports they filled out and explained how boring their career was, they were probably in the CIA.

QFT.  Just like how the guys at the range who are bad shots but love to brag about how they were SEALs probably wern't.  But the quiet guy who's a good shot, yet claims he was just a supply sergeant, probably was something else.

[Manedwolf]

The only time I'd seen a case where a retired SEAL showed they were a retired SEAL was when two thugs tried to mug an older gentleman at an ATM in Miami.

He was a retired SEAL. From the early 60's. He had not forgotten his training. I suppose both thugs were lucky to live, though both ended up in ICU. One had a broken clavicle.

There was also that WWII vet on a tour bus in Costa Rica about a year ago who killed a would-be bus hijacker with his bare hands. I wonder what sort of unit he was in? 

[MrRezister]

The most interesting thing about that article is that it said nothing whatsoever about what the person in question did that warranted killing him.  There is one mention of a high-speed chase, and the rest of the article is a bunch of nothing about "who was he"  He was a citizen who got shot to death.  Why?

The previous article in this "developing" series mentioned that he pulled "something shiny" from under his seat, and got himself dead.  It sounds like a case of an overactive imagination and possibly some sort of instability.  Altogether an unfortunate shooting.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

There was also that WWII vet on a tour bus in Costa Rica about a year ago who killed a would-be bus hijacker with his bare hands. I wonder what sort of unit he was in?

If memory serves, he was a Marine.

[The Annoyed Man]

There was also that WWII vet on a tour bus in Costa Rica about a year ago who killed a would-be bus hijacker with his bare hands. I wonder what sort of unit he was in?

If memory serves, he was a Marine.

That's what I remember reading as well. Reports on exactly how he killed the guy varies though, with one saying a broken collarbone pierced his heart, and the other saying he died of acute broken neck...