To: af_vet_rr; PhiKapMom
Considering that PhiKapMom heard the OK Home Security Director say this a "large investigation" with "puzzle pieces", I won't put much faith in CNN at this point.
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10/02/2005 4:26:06 PM PDT by
hispanarepublicana
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To: hispanarepublicana
Considering that PhiKapMom heard the OK Home Security Director say this a "large investigation" with "puzzle pieces", I won't put much faith in CNN at this point.
Look at it another way - if the guy killed himself with a knife or a firearm, or sat in a running car in a garage or hanged himself, you would have never heard of it. The only reason the OK Homeland Security Director person cares is because a bomb was involved.
That fact is, a lot of suicides are done publicly to gain attention.
I don't know if your familiar with "Hands on a Hard Body" - a local contest here in Texas in a small town (although I've heard it's spread). It gets a lot of publicity around Texas - you basically win a truck if you can keep touching a pickup longer than anybody else.
The one that just occured recently - one of the contestants stopped touching the truck, walked over to a store, stole a shotgun and some shells and blew his head off in front of some cops and onlookers.
I doubt it got much press outside of Texas.
Had he done it with a simple little pipebomb, there would probably be a 1000 reply thread here on FR :-/
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