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vedderelfvedderelf Posts: 100
edited November 2007 in A Moving Train
One of the saddest things you'll read in a long time.

http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/articles/2007/11/13/news/sj2tn20071110-1111stc_pokin_1.ii1.txt
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  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    That story was just heart breaking. How utterly vile of the other child's mother to actually do that to a child. What the hell is wrong with that woman? It is a shame that she can not be prosecuted for her involvment in the whole affair.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    you know, as much as people say that kids grow up too fast these days, i think it is the parents that are incredibly fucked up in this generation.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    soulsinging wrote:
    you know, as much as people say that kids grow up too fast these days, i think it is the parents that are incredibly fucked up in this generation.

    dont be blaming ALL parents. :)
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    i'm really kinda speechless.....and i'm glad i don't have kids....although i worry about my nieces and nephews....
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    that is one the most heinous things i have read about. what the hell is wrong with a socalled adult that they'd do that to another child. megan didnt want to be friends with her daughter? so what. kids shed friends all the time whilst they grow up and find themselves.
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    What was the question? Why do school shootings happen?

    I think we have a lead with this story.

    But, this problem has been staring humanity in the face forever and we are still too fucking ignorant and selfish to realize it.
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  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    catefrances wrote:
    that is one the most heinous things i have read about. what the hell is wrong with a socalled adult that they'd do that to another child. megan didnt want to be friends with her daughter? so what. kids shed friends all the time whilst they grow up and find themselves.

    I agree. how the fuck did it even occur to this woman to think that by doing such a horrid thing to one of her daughter's "ex-friends" that she was doing something to somehow benefit her own child? it's a part of life for everyone that friends will come and go.

    I also agree with those that say that it's too bad that this woman can't be prosecuted for having done this.
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,229
    that is beyond my comprehension me being a parent of a 13yr old boy and 10yr old girl man i feel so bad thinking about that family poor girl ,damm the internet for all that is good about it i now ?? if the bad side of it is getting bigger ......i hate to learn from other people's tragedy's ......
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Is this a modern day Urban Legend... er... Suburban Legend whose lesson to adults is to monitor their teenager's Internet usage? I mean, it reads like a story, not a news item.
    ...
    i did a quick check and found the only news service that handled the story... FOXNews. ( http://www.foxnews.com/americasnewsroom/index.html ). The rest of the items came from bloggers (a.k.a. People on the InterNet).
    ...
    Can someone else find a legitimate source of this story?
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    Cosmo wrote:
    Is this a modern day Urban Legend... er... Suburban Legend whose lesson to adults is to monitor their teenager's Internet usage? I mean, it reads like a story, not a news item.
    ...
    i did a quick check and found the only news service that handled the story... FOXNews. ( http://www.foxnews.com/americasnewsroom/index.html ). The rest of the items came from bloggers (a.k.a. People on the InterNet).
    ...
    Can someone else find a legitimate source of this story?

    Funny, I thought of doing the same thing.

    I found the story originally broke on St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a division of Lee Enterprises.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Enterprises

    Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 56 daily newspapers in 23 states, and more than 300 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by A.W. Lee and is based in Davenport, Iowa.

    The company also provides online services, including Web sites supporting its daily newspapers and certain of its other publications. Lee also owns 82.5% of TownNews.com, an Internet service company. The company offers commercial printing services to its customers. Lee Enterprises is currently the fourth largest newspaper group in the United States of America. The company acquired Pulitzer, Inc. in 2005.
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    Here is the Lee Enterprises' Principles for Quality Journalism

    http://www.lee.net/aboutlee/principles.shtml

    Believe it or not.
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  • YoyoyoYoyoyo Posts: 310
    Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Here is the Lee Enterprises' Principles for Quality Journalism

    http://www.lee.net/aboutlee/principles.shtml

    Believe it or not.
    ...
    I was just wondering... because, is it just me or did the thing read like an Urban Legend?
    I mean... it was scary... completely within the realm of reality or belief.. has a twist and leaves us with a moral of the story.
    ...
    If it was true... it is sad. But, the skeptic in me... and all the things that are not real on the Internet (lonelygirl15, Obamagirl, etc...) makes me cast a jaundiced eye at the thing.
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    I was just wondering... because, is it just me or did the thing read like an Urban Legend?
    I mean... it was scary... completely within the realm of reality or belief.. has a twist and leaves us with a moral of the story.
    ...
    If it was true... it is sad. But, the skeptic in me... and all the things that are not real on the Internet (lonelygirl15, Obamagirl, etc...) makes me cast a jaundiced eye at the thing.

    I feel your pain. I ran this story by a co-worker and he exclaimed "I don't believe it for a minute."

    But I even checked snopes.com for this story and it wasn't there.

    At this point, I see no reason not to believe it happened and no bennefit, other than self-comfort to believe it didn't happen. My experience with suicide, mental illness and society inclines me to believe that a situation like this is in some respect inevitable, let-alone believable.
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    No mainstream news channels are carrying it, only blogs, yet it seems real!?

    This should be all over the main channels no?

    All I could find. She doesn't look fat to me.

    http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Megan_Meier


    oh wait... Fox has it:

    http://www.foxnews.com/americasnewsroom/index.html

    It's real....no doubts
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  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    No mainstream news channels are carrying it, only blogs, yet it seems real!?

    This should be all over the main channels no?

    All I could find. She doesn't look fat to me.

    http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Megan_Meier


    oh wait... Fox has it:

    http://www.foxnews.com/americasnewsroom/index.html

    the neo con war mongers at fox have it? good for them. according your to link she died in 2006? ?? :confused:
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    jlew24asu wrote:
    the neo con war mongers at fox have it? good for them. according your to link she died in 2006? ?? :confused:

    Who knows, I didn't write it.

    I posted a link to the video of the story (second one)
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    No mainstream news channels are carrying it, only blogs, yet it seems real!?

    This should be all over the main channels no?

    All I could find. She doesn't look fat to me.

    http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Megan_Meier


    oh wait... Fox has it:

    http://www.foxnews.com/americasnewsroom/index.html

    It's real....no doubts

    That website is so wrong. Man, it's just wrong.
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Ahnimus wrote:
    That website is so wrong. Man, it's just wrong.


    Wierd eh? really wierd.

    The Fox vid link talks to the neighbor...he gave her CPR got her heart beating again, but she died the next day.

    You would think googling her full name would pull more mainstream news links instead of obscure blogs.

    It's borderline hoaxish though you;re right.
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  • Them-BonesThem-Bones Posts: 518
    Ahnimus wrote:
    That website is so wrong. Man, it's just wrong.

    Encylopedia Dramatica always gives me a good laugh

    I guess thats why I have no friends
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Wierd eh? really wierd.

    The Fox vid link talks to the neighbor...he gave her CPR got her heart beating again, but she died the next day.

    You would think googling her full name would pull more mainstream news links instead of obscure blogs.

    It's borderline hoaxish though you;re right.

    Yea, just the way that site was laid out was bogus.

    The story does sound true, but then again, nothing on the FBI site about it.
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Them-Bones wrote:
    Encylopedia Dramatica always gives me a good laugh

    I guess thats why I have no friends


    I didn't really read it much but this part floored me:

    "According to the article, Megan is was 175 pounds at 5'5½" after losing 20 lbs, giving her a BMI of 32.4, scientifically proving her status as a fat whore."

    That's just crazy wrong...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Yea, just the way that site was laid out was bogus.

    The story does sound true, but then again, nothing on the FBI site about it.


    It had hoax on it from top to bottom. Googling it was a chore as well...two dead giveaways.

    This story has absolutely terrible coverage.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    the OP's orginal link to this from the Suburban Journal. if you google it it's also found on the St. Charles Journal. both of those are part of stltoday.com which is the online version of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. these defininatly seem to be legit news sources.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Post-Dispatch

    oh and Ahnimus there wouldn't be anything on the FBI site about it considering that no one's been charged with anything and according to the law no "crime" has been committed. even if this was a crime or criminal offense, it all happened locally and it wouldn't fall to the FBI to have anything to do with it
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    prism wrote:
    the OP's orginal link to this from the Suburban Journal. if you google it it's also found on the St. Charles Journal. both of those are part of stltoday.com which is the online version of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. these defininatly seem to be legit news sources.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Post-Dispatch

    oh and Ahnimus there wouldn't be anything on the FBI site about it considering that no one's been charged with anything and according to the law no "crime" has been committed. even if this was a crime or criminal offense, it all happened locally and it wouldn't fall to the FBI to have anything to do with it

    Yea, I pointed out the story broke in St. Louis Post-Dispatch a division of Lee Enterprises which appears to be ligit. "The fourth largest" media company in the U.S.

    But, the article refers to an FBI investigation, so I thought something should be mentioned on the FBI website.
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  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Yea, I pointed out the story broke in St. Louis Post-Dispatch a division of Lee Enterprises which appears to be ligit. "The fourth largest" media company in the U.S.

    But, the article refers to an FBI investigation, so I thought something should be mentioned on the FBI website.

    maybe the FBI investigation had more to do with trying to find out about who was accessing her myspace page? just a guess
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    this is legit. i agree that the coverage has been terrible, but there are links on it on national news sources now. i live in st louis and this happened about 30 miles from where i live. this has been on the local news stations for a few days now. i think this story did not break when it happened in '06 because the mother of the girl who died did not want to reveal the names of the family who who created the myspace account for fear of retribution on that family and their teenage daughter. they were trying to take the high road.

    if it were my kid who died, i would have stated their names in the press for public consumption and if some "accident" befell them i would not lose a bit of sleep.
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    heres the one from msnbc

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21844203/

    the ones on usatoday.com and yahoo yesterday have been taken down.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    I saw in the local paper that the AP had picked up the story.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    this is legit. i agree that the coverage has been terrible, but there are links on it on national news sources now. i live in st louis and this happened about 30 miles from where i live. this has been on the local news stations for a few days now. i think this story did not break when it happened in '06 because the mother of the girl who died did not want to reveal the names of the family who who created the myspace account for fear of retribution on that family and their teenage daughter. they were trying to take the high road.

    if it were my kid who died, i would have stated their names in the press for public consumption and if some "accident" befell them i would not lose a bit of sleep.

    same here. fuck those pieces of shit.
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