[Diddle E. Squat]

What a complete waste. What a stupid and complete waste, 4 persons now dead. Sorry, but no one is born a loser, every one of these persons had great potential, all gone forever now. And just as clear as night and day, the outcome was created by a host of bad choices.

But heaven forbid that someone mention that maybe, just perhaps maybe, alternative morals and the questionable choices found in nearly every sentence of this piece might have been a factor. Yet let a love triangle murder-suicide involve a church-goer(yes, it happens in every side of society, though not in equal proportions), and there will be a thousand articles speculating on how the 'repressive', 'yuppie', 'suburban', 'conservative' environment may have played a role.

Everyone makes their own choices, and each person is ultimately responsible for themselves. But damn to hell all those evil Sirens, peddlers, liars, cons, snakes, and their protectors, who seek to entice Eve to bite every single fruit hanging from the tree. We are free in America to make our choices(as it should be), but we are also free to shout out warning of where the pied pipers lead.

No doubt the Chronicle doesn't feel the least bit of guilt about their loud and unceasing promotion of the sewers of temptations and moral deconstruction.

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[ikka]

What a waste. The only innocent: the child she was pregnant with.

The rest of them showed by their actions just how screwed up they were.
Saulter: I am sure he was nicknamed "Stonie" for a reason.
Maxwell: pregnant, overbearing, controlling, and a freak show.
Armantrout: not even divorced before he is moving in with a different girl.

The parents should be slapped around a little too. How can you let a 14-year-old get so out of control that by 17 she is in drug rehab?

[Hermann the Cherusker]

What a damned freak show! When's the TV movie coming out?

[okie01]

"No doubt the Chronicle doesn't feel the least bit of guilt about their loud and unceasing promotion of the sewers of temptations and moral deconstruction."

Indeed, I got the distinct impression the Chronicle expects us to take these people, their lifestyle choices and their self-inflicted problems seriously.

It's not like Buttafly and Stonie were fools or anything. Y'know?

[cricket]

"Around that time, she became close to Armantrout, a rising star in the tattoo art world who performed his first work at age 12 or 13. . ."

. . .this article/obit is truly a 'silk purse' in the making.

[jocon307]

"Justine with Danny reminded me of the early days of Justine and Stonie -- they were just as cute in the beginning," said her father, Fred Maxwell, 57."

and then there's

"A slide show with pictures of Maxwell taken throughout her life put together by her brother-in-law, HPD officer Clay Steele, was set to music...As the pictures flashed across a screen, folk singer Iris DeMent [sang] "Infamous Angel"

HELLO Texas, we in the mostly blue states count on you folks to keep our values true. This story is a sad commentary on our country.

Mr. Maxwell, and family, I am truly sad to learn that one LOSER lover of your daughter killed her, her unborn child, and her other loser lover, but CUTE should never have been a word that came to mind when your "Macy's baby" became a LOSER.

You see, you all blame NYC and LA for our nation's ills, but look at what is considered "normal" in the rest of the country. The attitude seems to be: They were just cute kids, let's remember them fondly, we never questioned their self-mutilating life-styles, and, well, now they are all gone, so we'll shed a tear and move on.

This story makes me sick on so many levels.

Sorry Texas, you dissed the Chicks, but if you find these dysfunctional, adulterous, murderous people acceptable, I'm sure Bush is ashamed to be from there.

[jammer]

Darned nice analysis of the article.

[detsaoT]

Could not agree with your analysis more, sir. You hit the nail on the head.

This story is a tragic example of what happens when one goes through life making irresponsible choices. Quite sad...

[Jeff Head]

Everyone makes choices. Every choice has a conseqence, which is apparent either immeidately, or later...many of the consequences are eternal.

This girl made a lot of bad choices and the consequences caught up with her. It is sad...tragic I am sure for the parents and family...but it is a result of those things she chose along the way irrespective of how the Chronicle or others wants to paint it. She chose to hang with the wrong crowd...and it contributed (greatly IMHO ) to her death and the death of her unborn.

People all want to be happy (at least all of the sane ones I know)...but sin never was and never will be happiness...just a cheap imitation that accumlates consequebces that sooner or later come to the fore.

Best regards. That was an excellent analysis you gave.

Jeff

[MinuteGal]

Ah, yes........ barrels of ink and anguish on the lives and times of born losers. This article was better than the famous death scene in "Camille" with Robert Taylor and Greta Garbo.

Too many writers today spend most of their time laboring away on the biographies of social misfits and then they inflict them on the public. They could save the ink, most of us are not biting.

Leni

[tom h]

Your analysis was right on. I live in California so I don't know much about the Houston Chronicle but it is clear that they do not intend to "judge" the wretchedness of the lifestyle the young woman chose, nor do they say anything about the seediness of the people she lived with or their predilections (drugs, tattoos, piercings). In fact, all these seedy characters sound like unfortunate darlings and victims of circumstance instead of scumbags and lowlifes.

The truth will become a lie, and a lie the truth. Never were such truer words spoken in the Bible and in George Orwell's 1984.

[tom h]

For those of you interested, here are some photos. Yes, she was a pretty white girl who was attracted to total opposites.

Boyfriend #1:

Boyfriend #2 (someone else's husband):

[Maynerd]

Textbook example of value free reporting. This reporter has a bright future with Reuters and the BBC.

A sad story of three total effups pissing away their lives. Their "bright" futures cut short in a tragic act of violence. Those damn guns strike again. I am surprised the reporter doesn't hold the NRA responsible.

[saradippity]

Please tell me the Houston Chronicle is an alternative newspaper. If it is you don't have to take the time to answer,but if it's the mainstream paper,in what section did this tripe run? Or were they sponsoring a summer contest for teen-age,short-story,writers?

[Rate_Determining_Step]

Boo hoo. Cry me a river. When losers do loser things "(#|^ happens" as they're so fond of saying.

Go Question THAT reality boys and girls.

-RDS
Official Freeper Hardass

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Interesting but typical, that the Chronicle would spin a soap opera article to celebrate the self-centered destruction of these people.

[sit-rep]

"Buttafly"??

IMHO, we needn't go further for the cause...

[RippleFire]

bump

[BettieBliss]

there are 4 souls that will never grace this earth again. a child, a father, a soon to be mother, and a scorned lover. they need to be able to rest in peace. their leaving was a violent and painful one. whatever their roles on this planet were, we need to give love to their families and loved ones. please let them rest in peace and not in suspision of whatever "we" think happened. much love to danny, justine, robert, and the baby.

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Gotta love those suffocating confines! Nothing worse than studying, dressing decent, eating three squares, and living by your parents' rules. Poor poor dear. Her parents should have bought the girl her own apartment and continued to pay her way - while allowing her the freedom to do whatever her young little stupid and ignorant heart allowed.