Wanna bet? I made my best friends mother laugh less then 8 hours after he died. Then we cried some more, continued to tell stories and laugh and cryAs a parent that has lost a child there is NOTHING that is funny after it happens.
Wanna bet? I made my best friends mother laugh less then 8 hours after he died. Then we cried some more, continued to tell stories and laugh and cry
Humor, laughing are perfectly reasonable coping mechanisms. More so, I encourage them.
I thought I was going to pull my hair out after listening to that idiot in the first 2 videos. He's talking about 1/3 speed and acting like he's fighting back tears. Get it together, make your video, then cry.
Guys... don't jump to conclusions - you do NOT know what was said in the background - heck someone may well have said something that cracked him up. Maybe it was a smart aleck remark about the press or something. It may have been nervous laughter - YOU DON'T KNOW and we never will. Any of you want to lose a kid and then have to talk to the national press about it? Sometimes when I'm under huge pressure, I relieve the stress by cracking jokes.
Anybody here an EMT or ER Doc or cop? Ask them about the gallows humor that develops - it's a coping mechanism that helps you get through what you have to do. When what you have to do is beyond bearable.
SO DON'T ASSUME. YOU DON'T FREAKING KNOW what was going on.
Why do I say this?
The parent in that video (and only for a few seconds) is Robbie Parker. He and his wife recently moved to Connecticut. They lived in Portland Oregon before that. They are a good friends with a friend of mine. A gal that I went to high school with. She went to church with them in Portland and taught the girl that was killed in Sunday School when she was 2 years old. They lost their daughter and that loss was and is very real. THAT MUCH I KNOW.
I didn't realize this until my friend Darlene posted it on her Facebook page.
That said I'm quite confident that it's the truth. So before you read too much in to one 5 second long chunk of video, please consider how much hurt you might be doing if that 5 seconds of video just might be taken out of context. And a Dad was trying to do whatever he could to make it through what he had to do. I would be slow to accuse him of anything. By all accounts, he's a reasonable human being. And I have that from people that I know to be trustworthy. Personally.
My friend's name is Darlene DeVoss-Yost and you can verify what I've said on Facebook by going back a few days on her timeline if you wish to confirm it.
Please, INGO, don't tell me you're buying the story. This guy who made these videos is calling to people detained by LE as shooters. Without any other evidence? Oh, yes, I know, I know. All the evidence is being secretly hush-hushed and swept under the rug. Well, there's no shortage of "evidence" for "proving" .gov was behind 9/11. So how about something more than detained individuals in the vicinity?I read somewhere that the "second shooter" that was arrested in the woods, was actually a parent that was trying to get to his kid by going through the woods to get to the school. It wouldnt be surprising to see police temporarily arrest the guy until it was confirmed whom he was.
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This.
I kept wanting to scream "Get to the point already!"
I read about this earlier today. Obviously as a father my heart aches for the families of those children involved.
The timing is just too conicidental though for an autistic kid to steal his mom's guns and go shoot up a school.
Father being investigated
Similar shootings in other locations with similar choice of weapons (AR15, Glock 9mm, etc.)
Fiscal Cliff debate in DC (what a wonderful distraction for the media to have)
etc. etc. etc.
Something is really fishy, and it stinks even worse because innocent children were killed in the process, and those that survived will be scarred for life.
To what end? Even if you want to manufacture a connection between Lanza and Holmes and the shootings, what do they produce? These wag the dog, false flag operations usually have an end-goal. What would be the end goal?
I believe the working theory is that both of the fathers were supposed to be testifying in the LIBOR scandal case. We're talking bazilions of dollars here. The end goal would have to be a warning shot to any one planning on testifying and talking to much about LIBOR? The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club or they'll make your family go berzerk.