Posted on 04/06/2021 2:11:51 PM PDT by Stravinsky
The two Texas brothers accused of slaughtering four family members before killing themselves said they easily got weapons because gun control is “a joke” — and were sent off the rails partly from watching TV’s “The Office.”
In a rambling 12-page note initially linked to his Instagram page, Farhan Towhid, 19, said that he and his 21-year-old brother, Tanvir Towhid, were united in manic depression and all-day TV watching sessions.
“The first and most important show we watched was ‘The Office’,” Farhan wrote in the note that started, “Hey everyone, I killed myself and my family.”
The Steve Carrell comedy was one of “four very important issues I encountered throughout my life,” Farhan claimed in the online note police confirmed to CBS DFW is linked to the gruesome bloodbath.
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“People say the finale makes up for it, which is a complete lie. Sure it was cute, but it doesn’t justify the last few s—y seasons we had to deal with,” he wrote, saying he had “a lot more I want to say but hey, life is short.”
“We kept watching until February 21, 2021. That’s the day my older brother came into my room with a proposition: if we can’t fix everything in a year, we’ll kill ourselves and our family,” he wrote of the show.
They soon changed that to just a month, with Farhan saying, “We eventually realized we were just biding our time. Waiting a year was way too long. Why not wait a month?” he said.
“The plan was simple. We get two guns. I take one and shoot my sister and grandma, while my brother kills our parents with the other. Then we take ourselves out,” he wrote.
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“The first and most important show we watched was ‘The Office’,”
Did they attempt to get into Cornell?
Diversity is our strength.
In lovely Allen Allen TX
“...all-day TV watching sessions...”
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Well, there’s your problem, right there.
Did they watch the US or UK version?
If they Thought the Office was absurd....they’re in Dante’s lower ring of Hell now, WISHING for Groubdhog Day.
Allen, TX is lovely. But bad things happen in good places sometimes too.
Beware. Some people stuck with Dr. Who longer than they should have in the later seasons...
NBC’s viral marketing campaigns are getting weird.
The Office is a comedy based on fictional characters in a fictional office setting. I’ve worked in an office and have never encountered a Michael. No one would work for that maniac. Except, maybe, the Towhid brothers.
Please, (original brothers who committed murder/suicide)stop trying to blame your mental health issues on a tv show.
Unhappy?! These kids were programmed narcisstic monsters and probably made that way by the school system and media.
Farhan and Tanvir Towhid. I just love those old fashioned Texas family names.
Garden variety insanity.
Steve Carrell seems like a good man. He doesn’t deserve to be associated with this.
And the perps sound like losers and a$$holes. Bet they’re uncomfortably warm right about now.
Six more COVID19 deaths, no doubt.
Straight out of the heartland...
Andy will forever be associated with Cornell.
He could, and should, speak at their graduation ceremony.
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