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The key concept to suicide is that you fucking kill YOURSELF. Why is it, then, that someone decides to take some other poor sap along for the ride? I personally have never understood the idea of wanting to make oneself dead. I've got too much of a survivor instinct. You're in a plane crash in the Andes with me, I will be using my pocket knife to make ass steaks. No doubt. But even assuming that there's a bona fide reason for shortening your stay on the planet, why include someone else in that? As usual, my question relates to a case I'm working on. Aside from being the vivacious bon vivant my friends all know and love, I'm an ATF-trained arson prosecutor. You'd never know by looking, eh? Oh, and I mean the training on how to investigate and prosecute arsons, not how to commit them. Just figured I'd make that clear, in light of that pesky ATF/Waco dealio. So I've got this case comes across my desk where one guy decides he's going to blow himself to bits. Efficient. I have no problem with that, as long as it's away from others. However, he decides to do it in his place of employment. Pulls out the gas stove from the wall, turns the radio on, and sits down for the long sleep. A neighbor boy, about 20, smells gas. He sees the guy and runs in to pull him out of the small building. Well, suicide king gets pissed and ends up igniting the gas...building goes boom. Boy of twenty now has burns over fifty percent of his body and may not live. Suicide king has burns, but of course, not nearly as serious as the poor kid who went in to save his sorry ass. The rub in all this is that 20-year-old good Samaritan's mother got to stand by the sidelines and watch her son's clothes burn onto his body. Right in front of her eyes. Man. No good deed goes unpunished. Sometimes it sure seems that way.
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WOW arson prosecutor! Arson cases are tough....I'm always amazed how the can collect evidence from arson sites.
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grim story.
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Secondly......Wow! The multifacited Cate! You never cease to amaze me! A mother, an artist, and a but kickin ATF lawyer!!! hehe! I imagine sometimes it would be hard not to be mulling it over at home....your's does not seem like the kind of job you can just "leave at the office".
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As difficult as some of these cases can be for you, I am glad to see that you enjoy attacking them with a direct detail-oriented fury and also that you have such strong empathy for your victims. It's a rare prosecutor that makes such a deep and personal investment in their cases. Cheers to you!
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The kid lived--in pain and disfigured, getting constant skin grafts, etc. The last I saw him, on some talk show or something, he still looked like a serious burn victim.
What a sick fuck of a person to do that to anyone, no less your child.
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>>Call me unevolved, but I could put a bullet in this prick's brain today and it wouldn't even raise my pulse rate.
Here here, well put. I didn't know that he only served 6 1/2 years. I just...cannot...believe it.
Have you heard anything about how David is now? He must be around 20 or something.
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Okay--now I'm impressed.
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