Rash of suicides lately

[WLJ]

Two of the Parkland survivors committed suicide in a space of less than two weeks and now one of the Sandy Hook parents this morning.

Emergency: Second Parkland Suicide in Two Weeks
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2019/03/25/second-parkland-suicide-in-two-weeks-n2543664

[makattak]

When people think that this life is all there is, it can be easy to lose hope. Because our world looks pretty hopeless.*




*(Un-ironically said in the midst of the greatest material wealth for the greatest number our world has ever seen.)

[Firethorn]

Two of the Parkland survivors committed suicide in a space of less than two weeks and now one of the Sandy Hook parents this morning.

Emergency: Second Parkland Suicide in Two Weeks
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2019/03/25/second-parkland-suicide-in-two-weeks-n2543664

Statistically speaking, some of these people were going to commit suicide anyways, but I will acknowledge that the shootings were probably a factor.  All the more reasons to figure out how to identify these people BEFORE they rampage.

[Perd Hapley]

The conspiracy bro's at work tell me that a bunch of the Las Vegas shooting witnesses just happen to have died. Of course, there were a whole lot of witnesses...

[BlueStarLizzard]

I don't mean to sound callous, but teenagers + traumatic experience ending in suicide isn't really all that surprising. Nor is parent losing child committing suicide.   

The fact that it's making the news is just because the original events were all over the news. You don't see them reporting on all the kids that had other traumatic experiences or the parents that lost a child from cancer or car accident or whatever. 

[zxcvbob]

Suicides are contagious.  People should have been watching for this after the first one. (perhaps they were)

[RoadKingLarry]

Obviously the fault of the NRA...and plastic straws.

[lee n. field]

And what's come to be the definition of "survivor" could be someone there in any of the buildings.

[Hawkmoon]

And what's come to be the definition of "survivor" could be someone there in any of the buildings.

Or anywhere in the neighborhood on or about the day of the incident.

The shooter went to a McDonald's after he left the school. By the way some news media report these things, anyone in that McDonald's while the shooter was there is a "survivor." [Yes, they did this -- there was an incident in, I think, a McDonald's somewhere, and the local media interviewed people who were in an AutoZone store next door as "survivors" of the McDonald's incident.]

[BlueStarLizzard]

And what's come to be the definition of "survivor" could be someone there in any of the buildings.

*snort* According to one idiot who moved here after the shooting, anyone who was a teacher in Florida at the time of the shooting is a survivor.

We felt sorry for him until we found out that he wasn't actually a teacher at Parkland!

And then the obnoxious bastard skipped out on his bill.

[Hawkmoon]

*snort* According to one idiot who moved here after the shooting, anyone who was a teacher in Florida at the time of the shooting is a survivor.

We felt sorry for him until we found out that he wasn't actually a teacher at Parkland!

And then the obnoxious bastard skipped out on his bill.

Can you put a mechanic's lien on a dog?

[BlueStarLizzard]

Can you put a mechanic's lien on a dog?

It was two cats and by that point we knew we weren't going to see the money so getting them out was more cost effective than holding them until he coughed up the money.

Unfortunately, dealing with living, breathing critters that require a certain amount of care doesn't give us a lot of options in these situations. Especially since we can't legally just dump them on the shelter. To do that, we are required to have the owner officially surrender the animals.

He did show up every couple weeks for a few months to make "payments" on his bill, but $20 or so at a time wasn't coming close to the couple grand he owed. The guy was a real moron. The worst part was he wouldn't just send a check by mail. He'd get an Uber to the shop to pay cash and we couldn't figure out how he was so stupid that he couldn't figure out that the money he spent to get a ride could have been used to PAY HIS BILL.

[lee n. field]

It was two cats and by that point we knew we weren't going to see the money so getting them out was more cost effective than holding them until he coughed up the money.

Unfortunately, dealing with living, breathing critters that require a certain amount of care doesn't give us a lot of options in these situations. Especially since we can't legally just dump them on the shelter. To do that, we are required to have the owner officially surrender the animals.

He did show up every couple weeks for a few months to make "payments" on his bill, but $20 or so at a time wasn't coming close to the couple grand he owed. The guy was a real moron. The worst part was he wouldn't just send a check by mail. He'd get an Uber to the shop to pay cash and we couldn't figure out how he was so stupid that he couldn't figure out that the money he spent to get a ride could have been used to PAY HIS BILL.

He wasn't a Parkland teacher, but he was a teacher?   

I should boggle, but now so much anymore. 

[BlueStarLizzard]

He wasn't a Parkland teacher, but he was a teacher?   

I should boggle, but now so much anymore. 

Yes, and when he first came in to leave his cats while he was searching for a place to live, he sobbed all over Katie about how traumatized he was by the whole thing. So traumatized that he couldn't continue to live in Florida.

He cried on my, too, every damn time he came to visit his stupid cats. Stereotypical overly dramatic gay "queen" and he wore tank tops and short sports shorts, plus he was always sweaty and he wanted to hug. 

I almost belted him a few times. He was so bad that if you saw him coming before someone else did, you pulled a runner and "disappeared" before he came in. Katie called rank once and skipped into the back before I could say anything. The bitch...