HEEEERe’s an interesting idea for a game!
(1) Post a quote from any story, Add a link to the original article (eg: Hyperlink the first word to the article). Perhaps the whole article, perhaps part of an article. (Please try not to make it immensely difficult for step 2 to take place).
(2) Next poster adds a new quote from any story, adding a link to the original article in the same way. There’s a catch. Read the rules.
(3) Repeat ad infinitum.
RULES
(1) Post must be 20 to 5,000 words long. (Broad enough?)
(2) The story must be nonfiction. (If it was fiction, you could write whatever you want and post it somewhere on the net. Too easy). You can quote from all sorts of insane sources. But there must be some sort of claim there (without a disclaimer) that it’s real. Even such as the word “news” in the website title. You could, say, take an article from the wikipedia in past tense. Or you could, say, take someone’s rant from a grungy site as long as that someone has some sort of obligation to give the truth and not directly give his own opinion. It might be fun to do a thread like this incorporating pure fiction, but we avoid that here in order to avoid cheating.
(3) The story must seamlessly move from the previous post to the next so that the reader can understand what’s happening in one comprehensive story. (Events of each following post must somehow seem like they could happen from the former post). Some creative touches apply such as if you need to add author’s brackets just to change a short thing (Eg: “Then John [Muriel’s husband] took the cup from the grocer”). If you can make the story make sense without having to paste up author’s brackets everywhere, go for it. To make it strict, let’s say up to 15 bracketed words. But basically just avoid them period.
(4) No talking about the story. You can start another thread, or work in another thread for that. If you don’t quite understand, PM someone or ask in another relevant thread. If you want to begin a new story, start a new thread. That’s more ideal than trying to kill all the characters and scene in order to start from scratch 
So I guess I’ll start . . .
The two students who gunned down 12 schoolmates and a teacher at Columbine High bragged about making pipe bombs and said they were looking for a “ground zero” two years before the bloodbath – and authorities knew it, the sheriff said Wednesday.
Authorities have said they knew about violent rants by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in 1998, a year before the shootings, and that a search warrant was not acted upon.
But Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink, who took office in July, said Wednesday that someone had called the sheriff’s office a year earlier, in 1997, to tip off authorities about a Web site run by Harris.
A deputy investigated the tip and forwarded a report and printouts from the Web site to a sheriff’s investigator in charge of computer-related crimes, Mink said.
The investigation of the Web site apparently stopped there, Mink said. The report was not found until last week, when a deputy came upon it as he was leafing through a training manual, the sheriff said.
On the Web site, Harris and Klebold described building pipe bombs from scratch.
“Now our only problem is to find the place that will be `ground zero,”’ they say, according to the report.
Some families have been sharply critical of the sheriff’s office and one of Mink’s predecessors – Sheriff John Stone – for the handling of the Columbine investigation. They have accused authorities of ignoring or missing warning signs that Harris and Klebold planned to kill.
Sue Petrone, whose son, Daniel Rohrbough, was killed at Columbine, said she was astonished to see the year 1997 on the report.
“That’s another chance that someone had to keep my son alive,” she said.
Some details about the Web site were released immediately after the shootings, including threats of violence and boasts about the teenagers’ ability to build pipe bombs.
Mink said he had asked Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar to investigate why the 1997 report had not been included in the hundreds of pages of documents that were reviewed as part of the probe into the massacre.
“The obvious implication is that the sheriff’s office had some knowledge of the activities of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the years previous to the Columbine shootings,” Mink said. “It is difficult to believe this turn of events, and difficult to stand here and discuss them with you, but I feel it is the right thing to do.”
Mink and Salazar met with families of the victims to discuss the report before it was released.