You never know who you're dealing with-- a warning:

[ceetee]

My wife has a co-worker whose son just graduated high school. His entire senior year, he had been working part time. He figured that he should work full-time through the summer, so he could have some cash as a cushion, to supplement his academic scholorship to college this coming fall.

On his job, a friend of his came up a little short one week, and asked if he could borrow a hundred dollars. No biggie... So he loaned his buddy the hundred, on the condition that he'd get paid back next payday.

The next payday, his friend said he was still a bit short, and asked if he could pay him back from the next check. He said, "No problem, but then I'll really need it back, okay?" Okay.

The next payday, he asked his friend for the hundred back.

After saying, "Stop buggin' me about that hundred! I ain't got no hundred for you!" he shot my wife's friend's son dead.

He never saw it coming.

Everybody be careful out there.

 

[GunnySkox]

Jesus H. Hubbard, condolences to your wife's friend.

Honestly, every time I hear about something like this. Some murder over something so horrendously trivial, I get irate, not only is it horrifying that that scum-sucking, bottom-feeding, fat-rat-weasel-b*****d killed an innocent kid, he's probably not going to die for it, like he should.

*clenches fists, grinds teeth* I can't go on any more without getting a lot less High Road-ey. I don't understand how cops have the strength of character to resist drilling scumbags like that right on the spot.

Ugh, I gotta go cool off..

~Slam_Fire
"For these heinous crimes, this tribunal sentences you to death! You will be executed at dawn by firing squad. May God have no mercy on your unholy soul!" ~Archarbiter Janus III, My Imagination

 

[P95Carry]

I am about as cranked up on this as Slam_Fire .... words are hard to find ... at least, polite enough to use here!

That young scumbag should pay and dearly .... he should suffer all the pains of hell .... and more.

 

[larry_minn]

DAng that is sick. I have borrowed money a number of times. I make it a rule you MUST give me something worth more. I.E guy short on rent he gave me his Craftsmen tool set for the $100. He got the tools back when he paid me back. Another gal gave me her shotgun till she could pay me back. This kid tried to help and worthless POS kills him.
He had the gun that likely was worth more then $100. He could have sold the dang thing to raise money.
I hope the shooter........... Lets just say rules of this forum don't allow me to comment.

 

[Farnham]

Somebody just shoot that sonofabitch, don't kill him, just maim him, make him unable to fight back. Help a scumbag out, and he's still a scumbag. When he gets to prison for murdering a good man that willingly helped him out, I honestly hope the biggest, baddest, most "well equipped" inmate there introduces him to the foulest acts he will ever see, up until the day he is stabbed to death in an argument over a pack of cigarettes. The death penalty is too easy a way to go out.

My condolences to your wife's friend, ceetee, your wife, and you; that is probably the most wanton, disgusting, ignorant loss of a life I have heard of in years.

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Before any of you correct me on my lack of compassion for a murdering swine, or correct my profane manners, or accuse me of taking "the Low Road," which I've seen before, remember that there is a place for what Orwell termed, "rough men." That place may very well be right beside you someday.

 

[S_O_Laban]

ceetee, based on your story their must have been witnesses? Do you have a link to an article?

Very sorry your wife and her friend have to suffer though this.

 

[Henry Bowman]

Some murder over something so horrendously trivial...

This murder wasn't over $100. That was just the subject of the conversation at the time.

 

[thatguy]

My personal philosophy is that I never lend money unless I don't care if it gets paid back or not. Yes, you never know when you might be dealing with a crack addict, or a nut job, or a violent racist, or someone running from the scene of a murder. It always amazes me when people "flip me off" or curse me while driving because they don't know me or who I am or what I may be capable of doing. I could be some homicidal lunatic looking for an excuse to kill someone. I don't provoke strangers.

 

[mfree]

Yeah...screams of mental imbalance or drug abuse. Betcha 100:1 that the crime gun was obtained illegally as well.

Makes me wanna rehash some old techniques, you know, bamboo slivers under the fingernails, fiberglass powder in the daily moldy bread, etc.

 

[foghornl]

Nothing I can say here that is within 10,000 miles of "The High Road", other than being torqued of beyond any semblance of reason toward the shooter.

 

[sturmruger]

That is a sad story. l would also be interested in a news story to help fill in some of the blanks.

 

[Carlos Cabeza]

The very same sentiment here. It's sad that some people just don't have respect for others. My dad always said "If you loan someone twenty dollars and you never see them again, it was worth it" I'm not sure what he might say about a franklin. That punk will get the jailhouse shank that he's got coming.

 

[Gordon Fink]

An old neighbor’s son was murdered by his roommate in a disagreement over a dog.

~G. Fink

RIP, John.

 

[Anna G.]

This is such a pointless death. I am very sorry for the family. Things like that make you lose faith in the human kind a little.

It's sad that some people just don't have respect for others.

I agree 100%. I think this is what creates the bigger part of the problems of today. So many things could be avoided if the basic thing people learned as little is to respect the life, the freedom (in the expanded sense of it) and the dignity of the others.

Ceetee, do you know where he had the gun from?

 

[ceetee]

This story never made the news down here. We never would have known about it if not for the marked change in my wife's friends personality.

Normally, she was very boisterous and outgoing. It was not remarkable in any way that she called in sick a couple of days. When she returned to work, she had suddenly become quiet and reserved. Her friends asked about her health, and she just said she was okay, and that was it.

It spilled out of her in a quiet moment alone with my wife. I don't know any more about the story; only what I've reported here. Just thinking about it makes me sick in my heart, since my wife's friend is one of those "salt of the earth" types that you just want to be nice to.

I posted the story as a reminder-- Watch who you cut off, or speak roughly to, because you just never know.

 

[Monkeyleg]

How can it be so easy to take someone's life? I'll never understand it.

I hope your wife finds a way to deal with this, ceetee, and soon.

 

[thumbtack]

Truely horrible.