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General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend

Mogambo posted:

Meh. I don't completely buy his story - I seriously doubt he is as innocent as he claims to be. In any case, he doesn't seem AT ALL like a "bad kid" and worth the effort; seems like a nice guy, really, maybe just a little dopey. But great job police at wasting a ton of time and money to totally cock up his life.

Yeah, it was a waste of resources and all, but we only heard one side of the story. I think most of the guy's story was likely bullshit.

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General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
I thought it was lovely of the one woman to start an argument with her new husband for no reason with the "it bothers me that you wouldn't have been attracted to me when I was fat". What is he supposed to say? That's a no-win conversation for him. I understand that insecurity, but who does it benefit to bring it out into the open like that?

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend

in_cahoots posted:

This is pretty much how I feel. The "but he's an atheist" argument seemed particularly specious. Atheists have families too, just because they're dead and gone doesn't mean their secrets can't cause others pain.

There's just something unseemly about a paranoid mentally ill man calling up a reporter, and that reporter using it as carte blanche to reveal all the details of his personal life. Even people who are used to talking to reporters usually get briefed on what to say and what to expect, because it's easy to say things in the moment without realizing how they will come back to bite you. This man had no way of guessing what would come out of his conversations.

Maybe he should have thought of that (along with many other factors) before he killed himself.

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