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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nuke on October 05, 2006, 12:49:01 am
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_re_us/amish_school_shooting
god damn humans are sick ****s.
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Yeah, I heard about this. Honestly, the Amish are pretty much the most innocent people around, they don't deserve this ****. AFAIK, there's still no motive that's been ascertained. I guess there's no immunity from the troubles of the modern world.
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Yeah, I heard about this. Honestly, the Amish are pretty much the most innocent people around, they don't deserve this ****. AFAIK, there's still no motive that's been ascertained. I guess there's no immunity from the troubles of the modern world.
Apparently the gunman had molested family members 20 years ago (he was 12 and they were 5) and had been dreaming about it (with his young daughters) again; reportedly he was prepared for a seige and had a 'kit' including a ****load of ammunition, stungun, pliers, wood, rope and (no joke) lubricant. There's also a suggestion the death (miscarriage, I think) of his infant daughter 3 years ago was a partial trigger.
(this is at least 3 days old, BTW, how come it's only been posted now? Surely it's been all over the papers and news in the US as with the UK?)
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i guess everyone was buisy with bush and north korea to care.
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(this is at least 3 days old, BTW, how come it's only been posted now? Surely it's been all over the papers and news in the US as with the UK?)
I was wondering that myself, seen the story crop on a bunch of other forums far earlier. Seems like HLP is starting to get a little slow these days.
Anyway, terrible thing this is and what what. I kinda feel bad for making a joke to myself when I heard the wounded Amish girls were taken to hospital via helicopter, for obvious reasons.
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Anyway, terrible thing this is and what what. I kinda feel bad for making a joke to myself when I heard the wounded Amish girls were taken to hospital via helicopter, for obvious reasons.
Oh, great - now i'm imagining a wooden horse powered chopper.....
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Davinchi's spinning in his grave.
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Davinchi's spinning in his grave.
Excellent, hook him up to George Orwell and we'll have perpetual motion machine :D
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Lovely, now Carnot's spinning in his grave, too! :rolleyes:
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That's why they call it perpetual ;)
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Oh, great - now i'm imagining a wooden horse powered chopper.....
Where would you get the wooden horses from? I hear the Trojans are fresh out.
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Sorry, I really just don't care. There's too much pain in the world and in the news to allow somebody to live a happy life if they care about every sick thing they read. For my sake, I just stopped reading those things a long time ago.
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Just for a political commentary, I recall reading a report on this a few days after it happened, where it mention that this was something like the third school shooting in as many weeks. Only in America, eh?
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Just had an on-demand writing about school violence yesterday, it's pretty obvious what triggered that.
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Sorry, I really just don't care. There's too much pain in the world and in the news to allow somebody to live a happy life if they care about every sick thing they read. For my sake, I just stopped reading those things a long time ago.
I only wish I was so lucky. I tend to pay attention to everything. That's my problem. It certainly doesn't help that I live about an hour from where the Amish shooting took place.
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Sorry, I really just don't care. There's too much pain in the world and in the news to allow somebody to live a happy life if they care about every sick thing they read. For my sake, I just stopped reading those things a long time ago.
How can you measure the good things in life if you don't have the bad things as a yardstick?
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Sorry, I really just don't care. There's too much pain in the world and in the news to allow somebody to live a happy life if they care about every sick thing they read. For my sake, I just stopped reading those things a long time ago.
i find that posting sick articles promotes world destruction. indirextly of course but every little bit helps. :D
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i find that posting sick articles promotes world destruction. indirextly of course but every little bit helps. :D
And I find the use terrible spelling and grammar promotes suicide amongst English teachers. :p
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i find that posting sick articles promotes world destruction. indirextly of course but every little bit helps. :D
I find you are a very miserable bastard who should probably have a nice scone and possibly some jam.
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The school in Colorado where the shooting occured is one of those small, rich, schools where no one expects this kind of thing.
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The school in Colorado where the shooting occured is one of those small, rich, public schools where no one expects this kind of thing.
Would you expect it any other school?
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Montbello? Yeah... there's somone stabbed fairly regularly there. Overland? Not usually, but I could see it.
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Montbello? Yeah... there's somone stabbed fairly regularly there. Overland? Not usually, but I could see it.
You'd actually expect a school shooting? (serious question)
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In some High schools, I wouldn't expect, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. Montbello in particular is basically gang run, and it isn't the worst.
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Just for a political commentary, I recall reading a report on this a few days after it happened, where it mention that this was something like the third school shooting in as many weeks. Only in America, eh?
Only the second in three weeks in America. The other was Canadian.[/nitpick]
That aside, apparently they can't actually confirm that anything the guy said on the phone to his wife was true. It appears he might have been talking out of his ass, so the motive is still up in the air.
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In some High schools, I wouldn't expect, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. Montbello in particular is basically gang run, and it isn't the worst.
I find it baffling to have a situation, in any country, where a shooting in a school would be anything less than utterly shocking. Hell, even a school stabbing is major news here (of course, the smaller UK population means we have less opportunity for such a thing to happen).
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Only the second in three weeks in America. The other was Canadian.[/nitpick]
There was another one where a 15 year old kid walking into his school and shot his principle.
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You sure you're not thinking of April 2003, the Red Lion shooting? The kid was 14, and I would know. I went to school there.
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http://www.startribune.com/462/story/710040.html
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I was listening to the raido on my way to work when they played a tape with an interview with a woman. This woman said those dead amish girls deserved to die. I wanted to reach through my radio and hit that *****. They did nothing to deserve what they got. People make me sick.
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I was listening to the raido on my way to work when they played a tape with an interview with a woman. This woman said those dead amish girls deserved to die. I wanted to reach through my radio and hit that *****. They did nothing to deserve what they got. People make me sick.
:wtf: How did she justify that reasoning?
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I imagine the same way people justify saying that homosexuality is responsible for US army deaths. "God did it".
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I was listening to the raido on my way to work when they played a tape with an interview with a woman. This woman said those dead amish girls deserved to die. I wanted to reach through my radio and hit that *****. They did nothing to deserve what they got. People make me sick.
:wtf: How did she justify that reasoning?
She really didn't. I think she was some kind of religious nut. Even after the interview said something about some of the girls being put on hooks and raped, she still said they deserved it. After the tape, the radio host had to take a break. He was getting very emotional and started to cry, and this was on a rock/metal station.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that she was one of those Westboro Baptist ****ers. I don't think I'm the type of person that could be easily driven to commit murder, but if anything could do it, it'd be some of the vile **** that those people spew.
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Every religion has its share of radicals...
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And thats why I'm glad not to be part of a religion and not having religious beliefs either.
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Of course, there are collectively more non-religious radicals than religious ones, so that just makes you more likely to be one. Catch-22.