{"id":10253,"date":"2011-01-08T21:29:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T02:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/10253\/friends-nuts\/"},"modified":"2011-01-08T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T02:29:52","slug":"friends-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/10253\/friends-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Are your friends that nuts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t normally write blogs because I cant write all that good, so its just best to leave it up to the folks that can.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On this occasion though, I thought I would.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I got spell check on and it’s uncomfortable to say the least, but thought my stewbonics was a little inappropriate for this.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway\u00a0…..on with \u00a0the reason for this blog. <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m sure most of you have heard by now that nineteen people were shot this morning in Arizona.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Out of those nineteen,\u00a0at least five people are dead.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0John Roll, a federal judge and a nine year old child\u00a0are among those folks. <\/span><\/p>\n

U.S Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot through the head\u00a0 and survived\u00a0surgery.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Some of her staff members, Dave Zimmerman and C.J. Karaurgin weren’t so lucky, as they too are among the dead. <\/span><\/p>\n

This all took place at a Safeway parking lot\u00a0during a schedueled\u00a0public appearance.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A twenty two year old man named Jarrod\u00a0 (not clear on the spelling as I heard it on the network news)\u00a0 shot these people point blank.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So my guess is he was pretty damn close to them. <\/span><\/p>\n

It goes without saying\u00a0 that my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their family members.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not to take away from the devastation of this horrible incident but I have to admit\u00a0this<\/em> got my \u00a0attention for reasons I will explain.<\/span><\/p>\n

This twenty two year old wrote on his status at Myspace….. “Goodbye friends”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He had also posted some videos on you tube.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Knowing what I know now, I am guessing he probably was going to shoot himself after the massacre, but because someone over powered him it didn’t happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Usually when you hear that coming from a fellow myspacer, the first thing that comes to mind is that they are deleting their account and\u00a0 chances are, they will be back in a week.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have all seen this, a dozen times at least, from some of our\u00a0more\u00a0disgruntled friends , am I\u00a0 right? <\/span><\/p>\n

So imagine for a moment, that you were one of the people on\u00a0Jarrods \u00a0friends list.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would you be thinking that he was going to go out and kill a federal judge, and four others.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would you be thinking that he was going to critically wound a U.S. Rep?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would you be thinking he was going to shoot nineteen people before\u00a0someone finally\u00a0knocked him down and stopped him? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My guess is…probably not. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now to my point.. and I know\u00a0I’m all over the place with this but I will get to that point. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the course of\u00a0 three or so years, I have met some really\u00a0crazy \u00a0people.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I thought some of them might need a pill or two\u00a0to maintain a healthier lifestyle,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I kid you not!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For the most part, though, \u00a0I just thought the craziness was a part of their\u00a0on line\u00a0personality.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I wonder in Jarrod’s case, if he came off as just some freak a zoid online personality, when commenting or leaving status updates. <\/span><\/p>\n

Most of us \u00a0have all heard the expression,\u00a0\u00a0 “the new appropriate is inappropriate. ”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over time\u00a0 I have gotten used to this idea and chalked the psychoid\u00a0 behavior of\u00a0some of my friends to their disgusting sense of humor,\u00a0\u00a0and 99.9\u00a0 percent of the time, it probably is.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Here is my question, and more importantly, my point to all this babble above. <\/span><\/p>\n

Have we as an on line\u00a0community gotten so\u00a0desensitized to the craziness, that we wouldn’t recognise a\u00a0potential killer amongst us? <\/span><\/p>\n

Has one of your friends ever given you pause in regards to this issue? <\/span><\/p>\n

Give me your honest thoughts on this.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u00a0 have second guessed myself\u00a0 about three times during the writing of this blog, so I am really interested in what you have to say. <\/span><\/p>\n

thanks for reading! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t normally write blogs because I cant write all that good, so its just best to leave it up to the folks that can.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On this occasion though, I thought I would.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I got spell check on and it’s uncomfortable to say the least, but thought my stewbonics was a little inappropriate for this.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}