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spixxor posted:Not Wikipedia, but a post from these very forums in the Healthcare thread. I think it fits this one as well. Insanely Jesus Christ.
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story about what happens if you fall and can't get up...and no one finds you for a while.
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FrozenVent posted:It just gets bored and move on. There were feral cats in his neighborhood and he would put food out for them and they'd wander in and out of his house, if I remember the story. One day he found blood everywhere and one of the cats dead, and when they ran tests at the vet they found poison in the bowl of food he'd left out. It was a really nasty, painful death too, that poor animal really suffered. I don't think he wound up losing the court case, but killed himself while the protests were still going on, or so I heard. Really scary poo poo.
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That drat Satyr posted:Are we talking "killed himself", or legit suicide? I honestly think in this case it was legit suicide (especially considering his mental state like FrozenVent mentioned), but considering the kind of psychological torment he was put through beforehand I think they're at least partially responsible for pushing him over the edge.
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FirstPersonShitter posted:poo poo, olddirtybtard killed himself? Man, we were good friends for a while. I remember when his cat got poisoned, I was on irc with him at the time. Later on his other cat, one he actually owned , died of old age and he got really depressed. I dropped out of that community due to rl poo poo, but I really didn't think he'd actually kill himself Pretty sure, yeah. I never knew him personally, but as I heard (from friends of friends, because I was never involved in the Scientology protests and had nothing to do with Anonymous or the old guard) from people who attended the protests, it was just too much for him. For a while people did suspect a Scientology hit, but it does look like it was just him being pushed over the edge. 
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Going back a page or two to near misses with serial killers reminded me of this anecdote I read on b3ta years ago.http://b3ta.com/questions/decisions/post879014 posted:Makes me shiver thinking about it even now The idea that you could get so close to being another statistic on Wikipedia is really unnerving to me. I was at a bus stop about a year ago and some guy started a conversation with me. He was pretty aggressive in his tone even if he wasn't particularly physically threatening, but it was more what he said that unnerved me. A lot of stuff about how humans are inherently bad and there's no reason fighting it, we're all just violent, selfish beasts and so on. He brought this up specifically because I'd mentioned I volunteer full time for a nonprofit, so y'know, that was kinda unnecessary. Anyway he kept going, deliberately picking apart what I was wearing, the book I was reading and so on; I'm a slim 5'5" woman and was starting to feel pretty vulnerable. It was starting to get dark, my bus was now ten minutes late and I decided to tell him to go gently caress himself and went to a nearby store to call for a ride. I'm 99.9% sure he was just a lonely weirdo with absolutely no social skills who didn't realize how seriously creepy he was coming across, but it still sends shivers down my spine and I started carrying pepper spray after that.
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Rondette posted:There was an article a few years ago, I think it would have been 2009, the twentieth anniversary, which had survivor accounts. They were absolutely harrowing, and I remember reading it on the train and nearly crying. I can't imagine anything worse than what those people went through. loving hell. I was in tears reading that, what a horrific thing to have to witness. I knew about the Hillsborough disaster in passing, but I was young when it happened so I never knew much past it being a tragedy at a football game.
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Rondette posted:Go and watch Nightcrawler also, This guy sounds a bit like the character at the very start. I didn't like Nightcrawler when I first saw it, but the more I read this thread the more I'm realizing that it really was an excellent movie. It just seemed too unrealistic to me at the time.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Art critic Tom Lubbock kept a journal of his declining ability to communicate as a fatal brain tumour developed in the speech center of his brain. As his symptoms progressed, his writing style also changed. This scares the poo poo out of me because I was diagnosed with epilepsy a few years back, and when I was coming around from my first seizure I couldn't understand what my ex was saying to me. I could repeat the words back exactly an hour or so later, but right then it might as well have been a different language for all the sense it made. Since then, my language skills have deteriorated. I struggle to find the right words for things, and I'll use the completely wrong word in a sentence sometimes without realizing it until someone points it out (like Lubbock's "police steakhouse/police stakeout" example). It's really scary to just completely lose a word, it doesn't feel like it's "just on the tip of my tongue" or anything, it's just gone. And it's even worse when people laugh at my mistakes because they don't realize it's not just a simple accident but a very real deterioration that I have to be hyper aware of all the time. Brain disorders suck.
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