Distraught Over President Bush's Re-election, Man Shoots, Kills Himself at Ground Zero

[Amused]

WTF is wrong with people???

This ties in with this:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...6078&enterthread=y

Man Shoots, Kills Himself at Ground Zero

NEW YORK (Nov. 7) - A 25-year-old from Georgia who was apparently distraught over President Bush's re-election shot and killed himself at ground zero.

Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A shotgun was found nearby, but no suicide note was found, Coleman said.

Newsday, citing a police source it did not identify, reported Sunday that Veal opposed the war in Iraq and was apparently distraught after the election.

Friends said Veal worked in a computer lab at the University of Georgia and was planning to marry.

"I'm absolutely sure it's a protest," Mary Anne Mauney, Veal's supervisor at the lab, told The Daily News. "I don't know what made him commit suicide, but where he did it was symbolic."

Police were investigating how Veal entered the former World Trade Center site, which is protected by high fences and owned by the Port Authority.

 

[mobobuff]

Wow.

I wasn't too excited either, but that passed the next morning. I don't know how someone could kill themselves over it... especially if you were about to marry? I hope there were other things bringing him down other than that...

 

[JulesMaximus]

Stupid fvck.

 

[PunDogg]

damn

 

[TwiceOver]

"Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, "

Good job on security there :roll:

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
"Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, "

Good job on security there :roll:

There isn't much to secure right now, is there?

 

[Mermaidman]

I too felt sociopathic after the elections, but just to break things, etc, not kill myself. Didn't you feel isolated after the election? I felt like the people trapped in the mall in Dawn of the Dead, surrounded by the undead.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
I too felt sociopathic after the elections, but just to break things, etc, not kill myself. Didn't you feel isolated after the election? I felt like the people trapped in the mall in Dawn of the Dead, surrounded by the undead.

Nope. Not at all.

I ask again, WTF is wrong with people???

 

[43st]

Originally posted by: MermaidmanI felt like the people trapped in the mall in Dawn of the Dead, surrounded by the undead.

Well said.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
"Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, "

Good job on security there :roll:

Well, in all fairness, there isnt' much to secure and the stupid fvcktard probably would have done it somewhere else anyway.

 

[George P Burdell]

bring on the Darwin award

 

[IamElectro]

I wonder if the Hollywood elite have started packing up their sh!t yet? Didnt some of them claim they would move out of the country if GW won in 2004.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
I too felt sociopathic after the elections, but just to break things, etc, not kill myself. Didn't you feel isolated after the election? I felt like the people trapped in the mall in Dawn of the Dead, surrounded by the undead.

I don't think I saw that movie, but I thought that Night of the Living Dead was a sensible paradigm for modern life. The dead walk among us.

I was watching the election returns and Dan Rather turned to his expert, who said the states expected to go for Kerry were going for Kerry, the states expected to vote Bush were going Bush, and the swing states were all far too close to call. I go, "yeah." A few minutes later it wasn't looking good for Kerry and I turned off the TV and went to sleep. All night my dreams were in the nature of "I make peace with the fact that the country's electing Bush for a second term." I live in the bluest of the blue, so I'm used to being outside the mainstream. At my polling place in Berkeley, I took a look at the voter roll tacked up on the door and had to scan probably over 100 voters before I spotted a Republican. I'm trying not to waste time worrying about all this.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Americans by and far are spoiled and don't know how to deal with not getting what they want.

 

[PingSpike]

Wouldn't it have been easier to just go to Canada?

 

[tranceport]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Stupid fvck.

 

[SaigonK]

An ass born every minute....

 

[Triumph]

I have no sympathy for him. For some reason, you're not allowed to post anything but a

in the P&N thread. Not much of a P&N thread if no comments are allowed, if you ask me.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
Americans by and far are spoiled and don't know how to deal with not getting what they want.

Probably pretty true. I think that you have to maintain that toughness to deal with adversity. American's like to think they have that, they celebrate it, but like you say, by and large they are softies. The commercial culture tries to seduce you into lethargy and an unrealistic feeling of entitlement to things that, in the words of Stevie Wonder, "aren't worth having." Yeah, the song is "DON'T YOU WORRY ABOUT A THING."

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: SaigonK
An ass born every minute....

Yeah, that's true enough but I'm not judging that guy. I don't know a thing about him. There's a proud tradition of people offing themselves for causes. Think of all the self-immolation - people dousing themselves with gasoline and striking a match to bring attention to political causes. I don't just go, "what a stupid fvck!" All the suicide bombers are doing something similar. I don't know how to judge such people. It's hard for me to put myself in their shoes. People have been intentionally dying for causes constantly for decades. It's not my bag.

 

[kreb]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Wouldn't it have been easier to just go to Canada?

He must have read that there is a one-year waiting list.. :disgust:

 

[Hyperblaze]

I can understand how some folks got pissed off that Bush got elected.

I was pissed off too...but killing yourself...is going a bit extreme.

On the bright side...after this next 4 years...Bush can never be re-elected

 

[Chaotic42]

I can't feel any sympathy for someone who commits suicide over a presidental election. If you have Bush that much, move out of the country.

 

[arcas]

Jero, nope. It'll be Jeb's turn.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: arcas
Jero, nope. It'll be Jeb's turn.

Jeb?