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Personal Tragedy

malthumb

malthumb

Mar 25, 2001
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The Motor City
#1
I had made up my mind that I wasn't going to talk about this here. TB is where I come when I want to escape madness, but I need a place to vent.

Sunday one of my closest family friends was carjacked and murdered in our church parking lot. Bob was more than just a deacon at the church. He was like family to me, Melanie, and my kids, who called him Uncle Bob. Most weekends after church, Bob would drive over, with my mother-in-law, to visit with our family. He'd park the blue Impala SS in our driveway or infront of the house. Unfortunately, it was the blue Impala that led to this crime.

These cars are the thug car of choice in Detroit and other urban areas. So these two idiots saw their opportunity to cop one by jacking a guy in a church parking lot on a busy street at 4:30 pm on a sunny day. Bob willingly gave them the keys and just asked that they don't shoot him.

The good news is I just got word from a friend in the police department that they have apprehended two suspects. The terrible news is they are 13 and 17. There is reason to believe that at least one kids' parents knew he had the car and didn't say anything. What a world.

I'm not in the mood to end with my normal salutation.

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#7
:mad: sorry James, I cannot be sad... I'm too angry! Why do people think they can just *take* what they want with no regard for anything but themselves.

this kind of stuff is what keeps me from having children... when my days are done, the rest all y'all can do what you wish with this planet.

:( ok, I'm sad
 
#11
How terrible. I feel for you and all people affected by this. It's tragedies like this that remind you what a blessing it is to be alive.

The best way to remember him is to enjoy your own life, treasure the good memories you have of him and do good deeds you think your friend would have done. He won't be really gone as long as you keep his memory alive.
 
#13
Blackbird said:
How terrible. I feel for you and all people affected by this. It's tragedies like this that remind you what a blessing it is to be alive.

The best way to remember him is to enjoy your own life, treasure the good memories you have of him and do good deeds you think your friend would have done. He won't be really gone as long as you keep his memory alive.
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#15
What can you say to something so brutal and disturbing. That a man's life is worth less than a car, an insignificant human tool, is astounding to me. Is our society preaching a message of greed? Everytime I turn on a T.V. and see a rap music video (not to belittle what can often be a creative and valid genre), all I see is thugs flashing rims and expensive cars, selling an illusion to 17 yr old, and now even 13 yr. olds that money and things are life.
Such senselessness!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll stop ranting though, because it doesn't matter now. I hope you are doing well and that you can find time to focus on more positive aspects like family or the many joys of life such as playing the best instrument on the planet. Grieve well, especially through your music.
 
#18
Two teenage kids kill someone over a car?

Those kids should be tied up and drug behind that car.

Malthumb, I am so sorry that this has happened to your friend. At the same time, I am so mad I could chew nails.

I wonder why our society doesn't address this type of behavior, provide such hideous punishment and humiliation that no one would ever dream of doing such unspeakable things.

:hmm:
 

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