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TruenoBlues
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21 Apr 2007, 4:17 pm

Monday, April 16, Virginia Tech.
Friday, April 20, NASA shooting
Saturday, April 21, Blue Angel crashes into a neighborhood.

What is going on?!


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21 Apr 2007, 4:59 pm

on the 20th here, there were 6 car accidents (much higher than normal) and a fire at an elementary school (probably arson). It is weird...what IS going on?



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21 Apr 2007, 5:15 pm

The apocalypse is going on. Remember to duck and cover kids!!

I dunno, to be honest I do not really think that anything is going on. We just have a few more high profile instances of people dying. It probably won't impact the death rate significantly though. The US has a death rate of 8.3 people per 1000(which is a lower death rate than the world average and of a few 1st world nations, just making sure nobody takes a distorted view of this without evidence). If we assume a population of 300 million(it is now slightly more), then we end up having about 2.49 million people die a year. The deaths represented by posts here are a very small fraction of that.



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21 Apr 2007, 5:43 pm

TruenoBlues wrote:
Saturday, April 21, Blue Angel crashes into a neighborhood.


I never did hear that story. What happened?


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21 Apr 2007, 5:50 pm

Roxas_XIII wrote:
TruenoBlues wrote:
Saturday, April 21, Blue Angel crashes into a neighborhood.


I never did hear that story. What happened?


It just happend, so, I have almost no information about it.


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21 Apr 2007, 7:53 pm

April showers bring May flowers. Let's hope.



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21 Apr 2007, 8:01 pm

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April showers bring May flowers. Let's hope.


I like that. Oh, to add to the strange list of bad things, my friend just sent me a message on myspace. He said the police sent him and his neighbors a letter saying they found a bomb on Tuesday! This is all just coincidence this week, but still...


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21 Apr 2007, 8:06 pm

I believe the people in Bagdad have been asking this for the past 4 years....what is going on here?.....Life.


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21 Apr 2007, 9:50 pm

It's just a series of Unforutnate Events.


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21 Apr 2007, 10:18 pm

It seems to be the week loads of horrible things happen unfortunately:

Hitlers Birthday April 20th
Waco April 19th 1993
Columbine April 20th 1999
Oaklahoma city bombing April 19th 1995



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21 Apr 2007, 10:55 pm

There's bad mojo surrounding this week I'm afraid. No getting around it.


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21 Apr 2007, 11:10 pm

RadiationHazard wrote:
There's bad mojo surrounding this week I'm afraid. No getting around it.


I'll admit that's true.


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22 Apr 2007, 11:29 am

jimservo wrote:
April showers bring May flowers.


Right, except this time the showers are of bullets and airplanes. God knows what the flowers will be like.



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22 Apr 2007, 12:22 pm

It has been a horrible week!

I didn't hear about anything but the Virginia Tech shooting!

I hope things improve soon!


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22 Apr 2007, 10:31 pm

ripple wrote:
It seems to be the week loads of horrible things happen unfortunately:

Hitlers Birthday April 20th
Waco April 19th 1993
Columbine April 20th 1999
Oaklahoma city bombing April 19th 1995


Don't forget 4/15 - taxes (or the 17th this year).

Anyway, my theory is that between tax day and Hitler's birthday everyone goes nuts. I've decided that the entire country should shut down from 4/15-4/21.



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23 Apr 2007, 2:56 am

Half the kids didn't even go to my school on Friday due to a major threat that started three weeks ago. Apparently, someone had posted a hit list in the boys bathroom of everyone he wanted to kill because they all harrassed and ridiculed him so much. As I expected, nothing happened except increased security and the brand new installation of metal detectors. That's going to make it hard for me to bring my digital camera, my cell phone, my iPod, and my portable DVD player without getting caught...