What the fuck is wrong with people (thread)
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Man, that's terrible, but I think your parental instincts are 100% on the money.
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1,000% this. And the "confessional" thing I wrote proved true for me, as I was able to relax enough after posting to fall asleep before 2:30, so, again, my thanks.
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That’s a lot for your family to go through but it sounds like you and Mrs. DSG handled it with the right level of care along with pragmatism. I’m glad hear they were able to have a good weekend under the circumstances.
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Just found out that a high school classmate was murdered in Florida over the weekend. She was riding her bike home from work Friday evening (I think it was Friday) and was attacked by a group of five people who beat her so badly she was hospitalized and subsequently died earlier today.
I didn’t know her very well to be honest, just kind of hits a little closer to home when it’s someone you actually knew.
I didn’t know her very well to be honest, just kind of hits a little closer to home when it’s someone you actually knew.
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Dsafe - the is an absolutely horrible thing to have to deal with.
I really hope that things are playing out as well as possible, but that is shocking.
I really hope that things are playing out as well as possible, but that is shocking.
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Holy shit.brian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:14 pm Just found out that a high school classmate was murdered in Florida over the weekend. She was riding her bike home from work Friday evening (I think it was Friday) and was attacked by a group of five people who beat her so badly she was hospitalized and subsequently died earlier today.
I didn’t know her very well to be honest, just kind of hits a little closer to home when it’s someone you actually knew.
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Horrible. What the fuck is wrong w people?brian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:14 pm Just found out that a high school classmate was murdered in Florida over the weekend. She was riding her bike home from work Friday evening (I think it was Friday) and was attacked by a group of five people who beat her so badly she was hospitalized and subsequently died earlier today.
I didn’t know her very well to be honest, just kind of hits a little closer to home when it’s someone you actually knew.
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WEll we're on page 27 and still haven't figured it out.bfj wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:01 amHorrible. What the fuck is wrong w people?brian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:14 pm Just found out that a high school classmate was murdered in Florida over the weekend. She was riding her bike home from work Friday evening (I think it was Friday) and was attacked by a group of five people who beat her so badly she was hospitalized and subsequently died earlier today.
I didn’t know her very well to be honest, just kind of hits a little closer to home when it’s someone you actually knew.
Sorry fellas that's bad stuff all around.
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Not sure I posted about it here. A couple of years ago, a high school roomate of mine (just one trimester) was stabbed to death in a home invasion in Richmond. Just totally random and awful. https://www.nbc12.com/2019/05/08/police ... are-check/brian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:14 pm Just found out that a high school classmate was murdered in Florida over the weekend. She was riding her bike home from work Friday evening (I think it was Friday) and was attacked by a group of five people who beat her so badly she was hospitalized and subsequently died earlier today.
I didn’t know her very well to be honest, just kind of hits a little closer to home when it’s someone you actually knew.
He was the kind of wise-ass funny guy that probably made a lot of people want to kick his ass. But I think this was just a random burglary.
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A Wealthy Teenager, a 5-Star Hotel and a Bizarre Defamation Fight
The trouble began in August 2021, according to the claims in an unusual lawsuit filed in July, when Theodore Weintraub was 17 and attempted something of an American rite of passage: buying alcohol with a fake ID.
He tried, and failed, many times. But instead of going into a bodega or Midtown dive bar, he repeatedly chose the bar in one of Manhattan’s most exclusive hotels, attached to a restaurant run by the celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, where a cheeseburger with fries costs $60.
Bartenders don’t see too many teenagers flashing fake IDs at establishments with a $14,500 bottle of wine on the menu, so Mr. Weintraub stood out. Again and again, staff members refused his increasingly aggressive attempts to buy a drink, the lawsuit said, until finally, in 2021, the hotel banned him entirely.
What happened next was at first annoying and then disruptive and eventually led to a series of events so bizarre and disturbing that the hotel, The Mark on East 77th Street on the Upper East Side, sued Mr. Weintraub, now 19, for defamation.
According to court papers filed late last month, Mr. Weintraub returned to The Mark earlier this summer, two years after his banishment, on a quest for revenge. It is unclear why he waited for two years to return, and he declined requests for comment.
Mr. Weintraub and another man, referred to as John Doe in the legal filings, became fixtures outside the hotel, the suit contends, chanting and holding protest signs saying “The Mark Denies the Holocaust,” “The Mark Spreads Disease” and “The Mark Supports Epstein,” in reference to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender.
According to the lawsuit, first reported by Patch.com, they physically accosted hotel guests until, finally, a video shows, a sidewalk brawl erupted in July between the protesters and fans of the rap star Drake, who was staying at the hotel.
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Just going to post that.
Kid's lucky he's rich (for many reasons) - poor black kid acts as deranged as that outside an exclusive hotel, God only knows what happens.
Kid's lucky he's rich (for many reasons) - poor black kid acts as deranged as that outside an exclusive hotel, God only knows what happens.
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So school starts Monday. Yesterday on the big middle school social media channel that pretty much all the kids are on...7th grader starts threatening shooting up the school next week. I live in a pretty affluent school district. Engaged parents, fairly democratic voting (the repubs basically send their kids to the Catholic school with the very good basketball team...son of Morgan Wooten is the coach). Police get involved and the school community email said it was a joke.....but not really the way you want to start the school year.
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Oh my god. This is horrible.BeckyHammon’s hoodie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:14 pm Just found out that a high school classmate was murdered in Florida over the weekend. She was riding her bike home from work Friday evening (I think it was Friday) and was attacked by a group of five people who beat her so badly she was hospitalized and subsequently died earlier today.
I didn’t know her very well to be honest, just kind of hits a little closer to home when it’s someone you actually knew.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Good lord, this one is even worse.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 12:47 am You don't need to read this. I'm writing this because I need to get it out and this place functions as a confessional of sorts.
I know that comes off as one hell of a fucking tease, but you don't need to read this. My family and friends are fine.
I'm sorry.
But, again, you don't need to read this.
Why the fuck am I reading back in this thread?
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Whole new world now but i'ma call that one middle school status quo
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She hung a Pride flag at her shop. She was killed over it, officials say.
When a clothing store opened in Cedar Glen, Calif., in the summer of 2021, the owner hung a Pride flag at the entrance, her friends recalled. Whenever someone would tear down the flag, owner Laura Carleton would raise another one.
But after someone complained about the flag on Friday, the encounter turned deadly.
A man arrived at the store, Mag.pi, around 5 p.m. and criticized Carleton’s Pride flag before he shot her, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Carleton, 66, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.