The Kingdom of Nyet with Heather Wade

[26 horses]

Thanks for reading and indulging me if you hung in there to get here. 

I did and your first instinct was right, way back there in '99, which now seems like eons of coppycat killings ago...sigh...
It was distressing to see ErrinF giving this year's suicided Columbine stalker (Sol Pais) air time and until we learn to quit venerating the k00ks there is diminished hope of growth.

So much of this matrix is imitative, agressively groomed TeeVee monkey see/monkey do. And until we learn to stop awakening monsters from the Id I fear we're doomed to ride this roller coaster straight off the rails.

Well shoot, that wasn't uplifting at all!

Happy Easter, and let's all switch the dial to positive video mimicry.

[26 horses]

Yes, well, unfortunately not at Parkland last year. School officer knew there was shooting going on inside and he waited outside, far away from the building, till other police came. Hard choice, yes, but if you're taking on that job, you need to be prepared to do what's necessary, I guess.

TBH I don't remember all the details about Columbine any more, and don't want to look them up.

The post script to that post is several years back, the mother of one of the shooters decided maybe she wanted to finally speak about it. A major magazine was preparing to interview her, and someone there remembered my comments years back (they also knew me as a semi-regular on that show). They wanted to be really responsible and not seek a sensationalist article if possible. I was asked to have a phone call with the mother to see if she felt comfortable talking to me as they wanted to do a series of three-way interviews: the mother, the journalist, and me. I did, and was not sure she was ready to deal with the media onslaught that absolutely would follow the publication of the interview. After a couple of responsible discussions among the mother, the journalist, the editor, and me, we mutually agreed to call the whole thing off.

The thing is, it was heartrending but fascinating to hear her talk about the past, and those events, even as preliminarily as she did in those calls. It would have made fascinating reading, I'm sure... and it was clearly and totally not the right thing to do for anyone concerned. As high and good as her motives clearly were, she would have been savaged in the media for sure, and we all agreed she'd gone through enough hell when the shootings first happened.

I felt relieved and glad not to have gone forward with that. End of story.

Your instincts are sound and sane - that matters!

[26 horses]

I recently saw that Klebold’s Mom had written a book.

Unfortunately, we had a bunch of our school’s close down earlier this week bc of a nutter from Florida who had made threats relating to the Columbine shootings.

She took out two states, yours and Colorado where she committed suicide.

Humanity has zero impulse control any more.

[26 horses]

I really don't remember much from my life around Columbine. I was about fifth-grade-ish I think. I do remember my school system contemplating things like clear backpacks and metal detectors though. Never came about while I was there.

Wow, so you actually lived there, how unique.

Do you recall the famed (at the time) county Sheriff whose career later went horribly wrong in so many ways?

https://www.denverpost.com/2014/06/19/disgraced-former-arapahoe-sheriff-patrick-sullivan-gets-prison-time/

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/03/17/former-sheriff-pat-sullivan-to-be-released-from-prison-wednesday/

I always wondered what part Columbine played in that life meltdown.

Rense has something of now discarded import on the incident:

https://rense.com/general18/tapes.htm

Brian Rohrbough has said he believes his son was shot accidentally by a Denver police officer, not by Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold, the two student gunmen blamed for the 1999 shooting spree. A witness claimed in a federal court deposition that, soon after the incident, an officer told her he feared he might have killed a student at Columbine.The father of a teen killed during the massacre at Columbine High School is going public with a tape he claims suggests a police cover-up in the death of his son.

[26 horses]

With the Columbine recollection by @Aquarius, I recalled my feelings...

I planned on moving to Littleton 80127 (yep, I remember the ZIP code) back in 1989-90 as an old boss relocated his business to that area and I wanted to be closer to the places I regularly visited as a musician and was appreciated more at...

Other than being uncomfortable with the nearby prison (that I wasn't aware of and nobody talked about) my car was broken into at the King Sooper.  3 or 4 days there and that bullshit really made me think that the place was a dump.  People all around in the daytime and nobody did nothing.  When Columbine happened, I immediately thought it wasn't surprising in their dumpy white trash community...

I left and ended up a couple of states over...

"dumpy white trash community"

Seriously?

Some innate bias loaded there.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Littleton-Colorado.html

Estimated median household income in 2016: $71,854 (it was $50,583 in 2000) Littleton: $71,854 CO: $65,685 Estimated per capita income in 2016: $41,935 (it was $28,681 in 2000) Littleton city income, earnings, and wages data Estimated median house or condo value in 2016: $375,836 (it was $183,800 in 2000) Littleton: $375,836 CO: $314,200

For population 25 years and over in Littleton: High school or higher: 94.4% Bachelor's degree or higher: 46.3% Graduate or professional degree: 16.8% Unemployed: 2.3%

Crime rates in Littleton by Year 2002

City-data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 280.5) 232.5

It's a pretty tidy suburban enclave really:

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[26 horses]

https://twitter.com/bart_ell/status/1119946353218654208

Let it go man, she certainly has...

[MaxPower]

Happy Easter, and let's all switch the dial to positive video mimicry.

Cute     The music sounded like it came from a Chewy commercial   

Happy Easter!

[Bluejay]

HAPPY EASTER!

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[26 horses]

Cute     The music sounded like it came from a Chewy commercial   

Happy Easter!

It had a wootacular whimsy to it, here, have a Peep:

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I'm...urkk...full....

[26 horses]

HAPPY EASTER!

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+1 back at ya Gifmeister - cheers!

[Spookcat]

Wow, so you actually lived there, how unique.

Do you recall the famed (at the time) county Sheriff whose career later went horribly wrong in so many ways?

https://www.denverpost.com/2014/06/19/disgraced-former-arapahoe-sheriff-patrick-sullivan-gets-prison-time/

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/03/17/former-sheriff-pat-sullivan-to-be-released-from-prison-wednesday/

I always wondered what part Columbine played in that life meltdown.

Rense has something of now discarded import on the incident:

https://rense.com/general18/tapes.htm

Brian Rohrbough has said he believes his son was shot accidentally by a Denver police officer, not by Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold, the two student gunmen blamed for the 1999 shooting spree. A witness claimed in a federal court deposition that, soon after the incident, an officer told her he feared he might have killed a student at Columbine.The father of a teen killed during the massacre at Columbine High School is going public with a tape he claims suggests a police cover-up in the death of his son.

No, I didn't live near there. I meant I don't remember much about what I was doing around the time.

[Bart Ell]

Let it go man, she certainly has...

Nah.
Still waiting for the apology video for asking her shut-ins to report my Kingdom Of Nye site, station and page.
The Bart likes it cold.

[PolkaDot]

She took out two states, yours and Colorado where she committed suicide.

Humanity has zero impulse control any more.

Uhhh, i’m Going to assume you’re being snarky here...not ignorant.

[Fancy Lady Boots]

Good point.

She started to lose me with the wallet story ...

[Jedimiller]

Happy Easter Heather.