News stories that will ruin your day

[godofdeadlydeath]

So the other day I randomly googled Brad Delp after I saw a pretty sweet live Boston video from 79 on YouTube. I knew about his suicide and that it was caused by lighting two charcoal grills in his bathroom and dying from carbon monoxide poisoning, and that was a big story around these parts back in 07 or whenever he died.

What I did NOT know about his story was how he had apparently hidden a camera in his fiance's sister's bedroom (she was staying at a room in his house), and that the sister and her boyfriend were pressuring Brad to confess to the camera incident to his fiance or they were going to tell her by a certain date. Instead of admitting it to his fiance, he ended up writing a note to her, along with notes to his ex-wife, his kids, and the sister and her boyfriend, and they were all found along with his dead body.

That part of the story just made him seem even more sad and pathetic and it really bummed me out the other day when I read those details.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/s ... story.html

[kevin hash]

What a pathetic loser.

Boston sucks hard.

[Necrophilic Mallard]

What a pathetic loser.

Boston sucks hard.

Now they're even a little shittier than Journey.

[godofdeadlydeath]

The funniest part was that in all the initial news reports, the Boston Herald (the shitty right-wing paper owned by Murdoch) basically just said "He was depressed because Tom Scholz was mean to him and caused a rift between Brad and the rest of the members of Boston" and never bothered reporting anything about the roommate, the camera, etc. It was almost a year later when the Boston Globe uncovered all the court documents and told the REAL story of why he died, which is why I never heard about it because the news cycle had already moved on. But fuck the Boston Herald, Fuck Brad Delp, but fuck Journey more because Boston is the superior band of the two

[cxwx]

https://www.newsweek.com/report-10-year ... 4533?amp=1

10 year old girl who died of Covid had been put in charge of walking sick kids to the nurses office.

[Foot Foot]

officials in India are investigating four men who gang-raped, killed, cooked and ate a monitor lizard in one of India’s most protected forest reserves. It was the only monitor lizard in the park.

The incident took place on March 29 at the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. The forest’s camera traps, meant for tracking tigers, caught the accused men trespassing the reserve’s Chandoli National Park. Forest officials arrested the men between April 1 and 5, and found photos and videos on their phones of them gang-raping a monitor lizard, and then killing and eating it.

[FVBTVS]

first of all : holy fuck

second : did they bust inside and then eat it? like what kind of pussy rapes a dragon and pulls out

[cxwx]

Yeah that sucks.

I’m hoping the lizard comes back as a zombie and fucks all their wives while they are wearing stockings and high heels.

[Foot Foot]

A Louisiana couple is under severe scrutiny after their daughter was found dead in their home, her body so emaciated that she was described by investigators as having “melted” into a couch. Lacey Fletcher, 36, was severely autistic and non-verbal, WBRZ reports. According to local investigators, her parents, Sheila and Clay Fletcher, had not taken her to a doctor in a decade, and neighbors claimed years had passed since they had seen the woman. The New York Post reports that Sheila, a city clerk, called the police concerning her daughter on January 18 who encountered a putrid smell upon entering the home. Lacey was upright on a couch that was so saturated in feces and urine that the floorboards buckled, investigators said. The coroner ruled her death a homicide after finding sofa foam and feces in her stomach, nostrils, and hair. Ulcers afflicted her backside and there were maggots in her hair, the coroner said. She was also positive for COVID-19 and her body weighed only 96 pounds; starvation was ruled as one cause of death. NOLA.com reports that District Attorney Sam D’Aquilla described Lacey’s death as “so horrific” and will ask a grand jury to charge her parents, who a neighbor described to WBRZ as the church-going type, with second-degree murder. “On a murder, you have to have intent,” D’Aquilla said. “Did they want to kill her? I want to say yeah, they wanted to kill her.”

Neglected woman who died on parents' sofa starved to death, had not seen doctor in 20 years

[FVBTVS]

really wish i didnt read that

[FVBTVS]

most haunting thing i ever saw in a professional capacity were mere pictures of an apartment belonging to a woman arrested for child neglect. it was way worse than anything i'd seen in a movie. i'd seen tons of other gnary shit but the idea of a this little kid thinking that was his home was

[cxwx]

At any point in time if I think I’ve completely fucked up my own life I can alway count on people like this being someone’s father

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https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/08/07 ... -too-loud/

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries ... -rcna88376

[cxwx]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries ... -rcna88376

Brenda, Richard Simmons and the kid from Alf all dead with in days of each other but the big orange goblin manages to survive

[Introvert]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries ... -rcna88376

Brenda, Richard Simmons and the kid from Alf all dead with in days of each other but the big orange goblin manages to survive

Wasn’t there an old board poster that went under the handle of Thichard Rimmons?

[cxwx]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries ... -rcna88376

Brenda, Richard Simmons and the kid from Alf all dead with in days of each other but the big orange goblin manages to survive

Wasn’t there an old board poster that went under the handle of Thichard Rimmons?

[postaddiction]

Richard Simmons was a tortured poet and his passing was sweet relief

[FVBTVS]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christop ... 952a6ff32c

Dad Sentenced For Manslaughter After Forcing 6-Year-Old To Run On Speeding Treadmill

[cxwx]

https://nypost.com/2024/12/03/us-news/b ... f-lawsuit/

https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/picture ... -says/amp/

Girl bullied to the point of attempted suicide by hanging. Sources alleged one of the teachers joined in by pointing to the girl when a student asked "where's the roach?"

The bullies were also accused of sneaking into the hospital while the girl was in a comma and took pictures of her while hooked up to intubation machines and shared in amongst themselves on social media.

The school district claims to be immune from liability.

[godofdeadlydeath]

When I was in 8th grade, a 7th grade girl in my town killed herself by jumping in front of a train. One of her best friends, this chubby kid who played hockey and was bullied all the time, was devastated. The girl was not popular or cool but all the popular and cool girls pretended to be her best friend and it really bothered the chubby kid, and whenever he pointed it out, people bullied him harder.

That kid hanged himself within a month or 2 of the girl killing herself. And all the hockey playing boys who made fun of him for being fat and slow got to take the day off to go to his funeral even though they didn't even like him. I think this is partially why I've always had a bias against hockey players (that, and I lived next to hockey players my sophomore and junior year of college in the dorm and they were the most standoffish and incosiderate pricks in the whole school).

Anyway, that story about the bullied girl reminded me of those two suicides and how people just kind of acted like everything was normal and okay immediately after. The girl who jumped in front of the train, her older sister was in my grade and she was really nice and cute and I had a big crush on her in 10th grade when she was in my geometry class. Her family moved away unexpectedly during the middle of that school year; I'm assuming they'd been trying to leave town for 2 years at that point and finally got an out, but it was really sad.

[postaddiction]

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture ... hOnHc4c8bw

Death by peanut

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https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/madiso ... index.html

Finally, some gender equality in the space

[cxwx]

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/madiso ... index.html

Finally, some gender equality in the space

I don't like Monday's