The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Stephen King
(first lines)
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/man-shot-killed-by-police-airway-heights/293-568c3588-19ca-4255-a014-ccdc60245aa7
KREM2 CBS Spokane
Author: Emmalee Appel
Published: 4:06 PM PDT July 31, 2026
Man shot and killed by police in Airway Heights
The Airway Heights Police Department says a man was shot and killed by an officer after he allegedly confronted police with a knife while inside a vacant home.
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — A man was shot and killed by police in Airway Heights on Friday.
The Airway Heights Police Department and the Spokane County Sheriff's Office said Friday that both departments responded to the area of 1100 South Lundstrom Street around 11:45 a.m. for a report of a "suspicious man" who entered a vacant home that is up for sale.
When officers arrived on scene, they asked the man to leave the house. When the man refused to leave, officers and deputies went inside and claimed that the man began yelling at them.
AHPD says one officer deployed their taser, but the suspect then confronted officers with a knife. One officer with the Airway Heights Police Department then shot at the man.
Despite medical attention, the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/12/2003 ( premiere USA film "A Drink to Remember... a Drink to Forget" ) is 13889 days
Stargate SG-1
"Past and Present"
TV-series season 3 episode 11, 10/15/1999
(from internet transcript)
WOMAN
You don't know who Ke'ra is?
ORNER
She is Minister of Health, Science and Restructuring in the Vyus Transitional Government.
O'NEILL
Busy gal.
WOMAN
We're all busy.
ORNER
We would be lost without her.
(to the woman)
And you know it.
O'NEILL
Well. After you.
EXT—VIAS (DAY)
[SG-1 follows Orner and the woman out of the warehouse, onto what appears to be an industrial world.]
WOMAN
(to Orner)
You needn't flatter the woman when she isn't even in the room.
ORNER
I'll take them. You go home.
WOMAN
Well, don't expect supper.
ORNER
I never do.
[The woman marches off.]
INT—MEDICAL CENTRE, VIAS
[SG-1 enters what appears to be a makeshift medical centre. A woman attends to another who appears to have trouble breathing.]
ORNER
(to the first woman)
Ke'ra, there are some people here who want to see you…
KE'RA
They will have to wait for the moment, Orner.
[She holds a cloth underneath her patient's nose.]
KE'RA
Does that help?
WOMAN
No. I can't breath.
[Ke'ra mixes a substance in a wooden dish.]
KE'RA (to SG-1)
Those with allergies to foods can't remember them.
Pilot Movie 1: The Six Million Dollar Man
07 March 1973
Steve Austin: Look, I will not work for the OSO, period!
Oliver Spencer: Why? Why? Because you had an experience this afternoon that made you feel a little like, oh, some kind of a Frankenstein monster, eh? And now you hold the OSO responsible for those feelings simply because we gave you those two legs and that arm and that eye to see out of? That what you're talking about, eh? That's what you're feeling? Well, let's cut through this nonsense. We're pressed for time. If the OSO were an artillery outfit we would very simply pick up the telephone and call a foundry and have a cannon designed and built for us. We are not, however, an artillery outfit. We do need a different kind of weapon. A weapon that is potentially far more destructive than a cannon. It must be mobile and self-propelled in the field, under any circumstances over any terrain. It must be able to reprogram itself in the field on the basis of new information and altered circumstances. It must have superior strength, stability, and utter dependability. Now those were our specifications.
Steve Austin: And I'm the result.
Oliver Spencer: You are the result.
Steve Austin: One robot.
Oliver Spencer: No, actually, we would've preferred a robot. A robot doesn't have emotional needs and responses. You do. We have you because you are the optimum compromise in the present state of technology, Mr. Austin. A cybernetic organism. Part machine, part human being. The cyborg. Yes, we've had to settle for that.
Steve Austin: [ with his natural left-hand violently back-hand slaps the crap out of Oliver Spencer ]
Oliver Spencer: Mr. Austin. We didn't order you into the lifting body you were testing. We didn't order it crashed. We merely picked up the pieces and unlike Humpty Dumpty put you back together again. In some ways I think even better than before.
Steve Austin: If only these feelings of mine wouldn't keep getting in the way, right?
Oliver Spencer: Yeah, something like that.
Steve Austin: You know, you're more of a robot than I am.
From 3/7/1973 ( premiere USA TV "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Moon and the Desert" ) To 7/31/2026 ( ) is 19504 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/28/2019 ( ) is 19504 days
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 06:33 AM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 08/01/2026
