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A college student died in his dorm room. It took almost two months for anyone to notice.
www.sfgate.com ^ | Published 7:54 am PDT, Wednesday, September 25, 2019 | Teo Armus

Posted on 09/26/2019 7:51:25 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: centurion316

Did he vote, too?....................


21 posted on 09/26/2019 8:05:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: PGR88

We have grand kids on both sides of America in college.

My wife texts them once a day at least.

I text about once a week, and their uncle and his wife text them at least once a week.

Their answers are often a couple of 2-3 words of 2-3 letters.

When I was in college, my Mother joked that I called and came home when I need to do laundry and devour her meals.


22 posted on 09/26/2019 8:07:12 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Red Badger

That’s nothing. We’ve had scores of brain-dead students in our colleges for years and nobody seems to notice!


23 posted on 09/26/2019 8:07:41 AM PDT by golux
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To: HangnJudge

That’s so stinkist of you!


24 posted on 09/26/2019 8:08:01 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, that’s my understanding also, that it’s rare at the college level, that they would take attendance.

Also, if this guy was a “loner” type, nobody noticed his absence from class or any other activities at the college.


25 posted on 09/26/2019 8:08:03 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

He was also a freshman, so no acquaintances or friends yet......


26 posted on 09/26/2019 8:09:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Red Badger

I guess we know who won the title for cutting the most classes this year.


27 posted on 09/26/2019 8:09:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

Sad, but a result of the life he chose. I could not disappear for 1 day, even if I wanted to... too many people depend on me. There are a lot of people who have tuned out reality and gone deep into drugs, video games, porn, or whatever. So much wasted potential.


28 posted on 09/26/2019 8:10:03 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: HangnJudge
a woman’s dorm would not likely have tolerated it.

My daughter took me on a tour of an all-women's college she was thinking of applying to. The dorms were as messy and rank as any you'd find with men living in them.


29 posted on 09/26/2019 8:10:03 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s a sad case but not unthinkable. These sorts of cases — undiscovered deaths — pop up regularly. According to the original article he was known to go “off the grid for several weeks at a time.” There was a bit of a smell, but that’s not unheard-of in college dorms. It was only after the two-week vacation that it became quite noticeable. And one of the commenters mentioned that he was a foreign student. If he was, say, Asian, the Kiwis may have assumed he was simply a quiet, serious student, perhaps a bit shy, and preferred to keep to himself. I wonder what the cause of death was?


30 posted on 09/26/2019 8:10:46 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: SunkenCiv

A posthumous award......................


31 posted on 09/26/2019 8:10:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: billorites

I’m guessing a quarterly report from the grand pooh-bahs of school attendance informed them that their per student tax money would be reduced unless they got some of students back on a list which included you.


32 posted on 09/26/2019 8:10:58 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: PGR88

Family and whatever supposed friends never talked to him. Family wasn’t concerned he didn’t come home during break? He must have been a real loner with mental problems who decided to end it all.


33 posted on 09/26/2019 8:11:51 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Red Badger

They probably thought it was his dirty laundry.


34 posted on 09/26/2019 8:12:01 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The school would not care....as long as the check cleared.


35 posted on 09/26/2019 8:12:15 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office.)
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To: Red Badger

Sort of like Barry Obama . . . but, unfortunately, he survived.


36 posted on 09/26/2019 8:12:29 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: PGR88

Ditto, i bug my kids *all grown adults* at least once or twice a week.


37 posted on 09/26/2019 8:12:54 AM PDT by Ikeon (You can't be nice to them, you can't shoot them, you cant fix them- stupid is just stupid)
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To: billorites

My grandma’s idiot doctor called two years after she died to schedule her for an appointment.


38 posted on 09/26/2019 8:13:28 AM PDT by bgill
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To: glorgau

We don’t really here anymore, either.


39 posted on 09/26/2019 8:15:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; HangnJudge

One of my first real jobs as a teenager was as a janitor at a restaurant.

The womens restroom was always worse than the mens.

So, one day I decided to clean it from top to bottom, literally.

I connected a water hose to our huge water heater outlet, 140°F, and went in and hosed it down with soap and hot water. There was a drain in the floor, so it was ok.

The women who worked there thanked me profusely, and I got a raise!..................


40 posted on 09/26/2019 8:15:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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