Eric and Dylan made a girl freak out at King Soopers

...after 4/20, that is.

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More than a week had passed since Krystie DeHoff felt bullets and bombs explode all around her, since she ran in horror past young, dead bodies to safety. Now she was inching toward normality, shopping at King Soopers grocery, when the most innocent sound--a baby crying in his mother's arms--set the Columbine High School massacre in motion again, this time in her mind. Her heart raced, her muscles coiled. She heard not a baby, but her classmates, shrieking. "All I could think was: MAKE HIM STOP!" she said.

Josh Lapp was at Beau Jo's pizza the other day when a similarly ordinary noise--something dropping with a bang in the kitchen--flashed him back to the Columbine High library, with gunshots killing students all around him. "It's like I'm always there," Lapp said. "If kids are playing outside screaming, if there's a moan on a television show, sometimes just seeing friends brings it back."

No one thought this was interesting?

In one sense, Eric and Dylan got what they wanted ... for a long time, those who lived saw and heard them, or at least the sights and sounds of their crimes, everywhere they went.

You go to the supermarket ... you're standing in a brightly-lit aisle lined with Pop-Tarts and Cheez Whiz ... then, suddenly, a baby starts to cry, and all you can do is keep from screaming:
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(As an aside, does David Morse not look somewhat like Wayne Harris?)

Sorry. It was interesting. However, I think that except for a few like Craig Scott, this was a temporary effect.

PaintItBlack wrote:

Sorry. It was interesting. However, I think that except for a few like Craig Scott, this was a temporary effect.

Yeah.

But what an effect, though.

True, but now to my way of thinking not worth losing a lifetime and taking the same away from others.

PaintItBlack wrote:

True, but now to my way of thinking not worth losing a lifetime and taking the same away from others.

Oh, I've never felt that 4/20 was, in any way, shape, or form, worth anything at all.

Whether or not you believe that Eric and Dylan were evil or not, you cannot argue that their actions were anything but evil.

I agree that their actions were evil, but feel a lot of evil had been done to them and other students over time as well.
Just a different level of evil.
Sadly, E &D seemed to see this as some kind of crusade or cause.
But I can understand how their motivations must have started out all too well.

Evil as in planning to kill hundreds of people and then killing 13, trying to kill more? sure.

It sounds like she had a very severe case of PTSD.

I knew a Gulf War vet (the first one) who would nearly kick a table over at the sound of a loud crack or crash. We were sitting on a balcony at a cafe and a passing car backfired. He literally knocked our table over with his knee jerk reaction. The way he explained it was that it was like being placed in a time machine that instantly took you back to when the event happened.

radaddio wrote:

It sounds like she had a very severe case of PTSD.

I knew a Gulf War vet (the first one) who would nearly kick a table over at the sound of a loud crack or crash. We were sitting on a balcony at a cafe and a passing car backfired. He literally knocked our table over with his knee jerk reaction. The way he explained it was that it was like being placed in a time machine that instantly took you back to when the event happened.

Yeah heard about such cases during my university days with psychology studies.