I thought hunting season was dangerous in our area

Fla._Deadheader · November 28, 2004, 04:36:05 AM

  Sadly, looks like we were near-witness to the same type thing, yesterday. We were headed home from the camp. We were traveling through a wooded area, and Deer season is on.

  We rounded a bend, and saw a Police car parked just off the road, in a dirt road. It had a Yellow Caution tape strung from it to a tree close by. One door on the Police car was open, with the tape tied to it. There was a White pick-up parked just in from the Police car. ALL doors were open.

  On the ground was a body, covered with a sheet. It was nearly ALL red stained. The body WAS wearing boots, but, no sign of anyone around the area. Not sure where the lawman was ??? Kind of spooky to see the cover and no live people ???

Buzz-sawyer · November 28, 2004, 09:32:17 AM

I looked for more info in your news papers but got goose egg...any update?

Fla._Deadheader · November 28, 2004, 09:42:17 AM

Nope. It would be in a newspaper in Palatka. That's in Putnam County. It's 180 miles from where we live :

???

Fla._Deadheader · November 30, 2004, 06:01:12 PM

Update:: Suicide. Guy was very depressed. Lost his uninsured boat in the Hurricane. Had Alzheimers settin in. Some other things, also. :( :( :(

DonE911 · December 01, 2004, 04:57:06 PM

FDH,

Glad you wazn't cruiz'n by there when that guy was in the mood... some of our suicides take others with them for no reason at all.

Timber_Framer · December 02, 2004, 07:54:26 AM

Suicide :-/ has to be the ultimate selfish act. I've had to start from ground zero three different times, never comptemplated it, I don't understand giving up I guess.

Buzz-sawyer · December 02, 2004, 08:13:00 AM

Timber Framer
I just think some folks have a weak outer wall, once it caves in they panic as the onslaught of troubles seemingly rush in and over take them.........(ibelieve it is NEVER as bad as it seems)

One thing I HAVE learned when it got really ugly in life, was when I felt God nudge me and say, "Tommorow the sun will shine, youll have another chance, and things WILL get better"

8) 8) 8)

Timber_Framer · December 03, 2004, 08:22:21 PM

I think my love for my family always kept the concept from my mind no matter how hard things got.
I mean some of the worst times I had already hurt or worried those I cared about enough that adding that burden was inconceivable.

slowzuki · January 05, 2005, 06:01:06 AM

I'm certainly not pro suicide as I love living but watching my grandfather die from alzhiemers and the effects on my grandmother and father... It is a brain wasting disease, my grandfather was dead long before he died.
Ken

redpowerd · January 05, 2005, 06:09:47 AM

God decides how we go, its not really our lives to take. i sometimes wonder if my friend getting killed was an act of suicide, its a real scary thought.

slowzuki · January 05, 2005, 12:53:36 PM

My grandfather would have never have lived naturally to the age where alzheimers took him. Triple bypass surguries and hundreds of dollars of drugs a month bought him extra years from when nature called.

In the end he was put in a special care home. It was so stressful he died of a heart attack a couple of days after he went in. It was hard, he didn't know his name, who his wife was, his children, anything. For 4 years he sat in a frustrated fog all day under medication so he didn't get violent.

Ya wonder how much we are actually meant to tamper with the naturally aging process.

EZ · January 12, 2005, 01:10:03 AM

The neighbor put one in his head a few years ago. Young guy, nice guy, did a few drugs and alot of drinken. Did'nt know God, I guess, still kinda bothers me cause we did'nt have any idea he would have done this. Kinda scary cause the girls use to walk threw part of his land to get on the school bus. Thank God he did'nt try anything with them.
EZ

Corley5 · January 12, 2005, 08:11:46 AM

My brother in law hung himself 2 years ago this coming August. If the little b#!^*$% was still alive I'd choke the life oughta him myself for what he is still putting his siblings, parents, wife and children through. Suicide is in my opinion the most selfish act that a person can do. He'd been on anti-dpressants too but quit taking them because he didn't like being "so happy" There are other circumstances involved in this whole situation one involves the pastor of the church that the family attends. I hold him as responsible as anyone in this matter. Michael should have had medical care not spiritual care but the clergyman chose to "play god" >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( O.K. that's enough this is still a pretty sore subject with me. Mike was a friend, we got along good but the real affect on me was dealing the grief of my wife and her family. Christmas is still and I'm afraid always will be hard for them. Coming home from their place Christmas Day I didn't even think about it and took the shortcut by the cemetery where he's buried. Big mistake on my part. Dee was a basket case the rest of the evening :( :'(

Jeff · January 12, 2005, 08:58:27 AM

One of my friends and co-workers killed himself 12 years ago. During that week, someone at the mill said it sure takes some guts to point a rifle under your chin and pull the trigger. I went off on him. What bob did was cowardly, it takes zero guts. What takes guts is facing your problems and troubles. What takes the most guts is to live.

MULE_MAN · January 12, 2005, 09:31:42 AM

I agree with that Statement a 100% Jeff !! Shooting yourself is the easy way
out. Facing your problems & not giving up take guts !!! Allot of prayer doesn't
hurt either !!!

Murf · January 13, 2005, 06:48:36 AM

Yup, it's the coward's way out fer sure.

A real good friend of the family when I was a kid, a real nice likeable fella, a drunk through & through mind ya', but a good guy did himself in when I was about 12 years old. He had 2 girls my age that I went to school with. He worked for the Province and the boss had apparently given him one last chance to dry out. He did good for a couple months and then fell off the wagon, hard. He figured rather than get fired and all he would just do himself in.

His two daughters, 10 & 12 found him in the garage when they got home from school, he had put the hose off the vacuum over the exhaust pipe and into the car window.

They & the wife were devastated. The worst part was because he had killed himself the family got almost no insurance money at all. Suicide is not an accident so they don't pay.

Real nice way to leave the ones you love.

chet · November 09, 2005, 09:28:28 PM

the sentence

sawguy21 · November 09, 2005, 10:25:56 PM

"All of you should be proud of us," he said, later adding that his sentencing was the "most happy day" of his life because he no longer needs to worry about mortgage payments, taxes and child support bills."
So he accepts no responsibility and sees the sentence as a ticket to a free ride? I have a real problem with this.