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23-year-old Florida man allegedly shot and killed his dad after he kept telling him to stop playing video games and get a job
Not The Bee ^ | December 11, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 12/11/2024 9:20:56 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

When did Whoopi Goldberg become a cop?


41 posted on 12/11/2024 10:35:50 AM PST by donozark (If the intelligentsia are so smart, why are they always the first ones to be shot?)
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To: ridesthemiles

My first real job after paper routes was at 15. Had to get a Florida State Worker’s Permit. The don’t require those anymore......................


42 posted on 12/11/2024 10:39:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Florida has the Baker Act for a reason...

Sigh.


43 posted on 12/11/2024 10:41:13 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla

It’s not used nearly enough...................


44 posted on 12/11/2024 10:42:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

He could have landed an easy job as a practice dummy at an undertaking school.


45 posted on 12/11/2024 11:02:41 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Red Badger

Menendez brothers would be proud.


46 posted on 12/11/2024 11:16:25 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

Video games do not cause people to become violently disturbed. I’ve played video games since I was four, shooters since I was ten, and this is not something I’d ever do. My mom drives me nuts, but never in a million years would I hurt her.

He was already disturbed, I promise that. Like John Hinckley Jr., he retreated into fantasy to escape life and his mental illness, just through a different medium.

99% of us gamers are perfectly nice, normal people. It’s just a hobby. Besides, I can’t kill zombies anywhere else.


47 posted on 12/11/2024 11:17:33 AM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Red Badger

That he was 23 and still jobless and in the basement...there’s some level of ‘fail’ on the parents.


48 posted on 12/11/2024 11:17:51 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Deo volente

Yeah, it’s a real head scratcher.

btw is Whoopie now a part time LEO in this county?


49 posted on 12/11/2024 11:19:14 AM PST by A strike (death to taggers)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

More evidence the deemphasizing institutional care - closing of asylums during 1970s\1980s was a mistake.


50 posted on 12/11/2024 11:19:51 AM PST by Reily
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

“99% of us gamers are perfectly nice, normal people.”

That only leaves thousands of others.


51 posted on 12/11/2024 11:23:10 AM PST by A strike (death to taggers)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

Until your encrypted “Go” signal comes in:)


52 posted on 12/11/2024 11:25:11 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

“Besides, I can’t kill zombies anywhere else.”

Have you tried Pittsburgh? That’s where George Romero found them.


53 posted on 12/11/2024 11:28:52 AM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Red Badger

This is Florida so he doesn’t get a free pass.

I am thinking a job would have given him more game time for the coming years.


54 posted on 12/11/2024 11:41:47 AM PST by Tai_Chung
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To: Red Badger

I didn’t know the gates of hell ran through Florida, but he doesn’t look like a local.


55 posted on 12/11/2024 11:42:46 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: Red Badger

Well he won’t be playing video games now. And he will be out of thouse and meeting new people.


56 posted on 12/11/2024 11:45:19 AM PST by pas
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To: pas

In new ways......................


57 posted on 12/11/2024 11:46:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

As with snakes and gators, in Florida parents will need to call in the pros to get kids out of the basement.


58 posted on 12/11/2024 11:50:06 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Red Badger

Ambiguous headline. Which one was playing video games and who was telling him not to?


59 posted on 12/11/2024 12:08:40 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe,,)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

“ Video games do not cause people to become violently disturbed. I’ve played video games since I was four, shooters since I was ten, and this is not something I’d ever do. My mom drives me nuts, but never in a million years would I hurt her.”
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So when are you going to get a job and move out? /s


60 posted on 12/11/2024 12:37:04 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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