Posted on 08/24/2011 6:52:37 PM PDT by Alistair Stratford IV
It’s the ABERDEEN PATCH - it’s a local paper (Aberdeen, MD - home of Cal Ripken) meant for local audience. It’s in MD, and is recognizable to most of us natives.
There are updates - check it out again:
“WBAL-TV (note: Baltimore station) reports that his death may be a suicide.”
>>WBAL-TV (note: Baltimore station) reports that his death may be a suicide.<<
Thanks for the update (sad though it is).
I guess I was a least expecting the reporter to say “this is preliminary and more info will be reported as it becomes available.”
Aaah, I guess it’s just a small-time local yokel reporter. I’ve seen lots of glitches in various local reporting here on FR.
I hope it wasn’t suicide. It seems strange he was not far from home, rather than far away or in it.
>>I hope it wasnt suicide. It seems strange he was not far from home, rather than far away or in it.<<
Suicide has its own set of pathological.
Should it be true, it leads us all to the question “you had it all, so few people even come close — WHY???”
I agree in the hopes that it wasn’t suicide.
But a death in someone so young is always a tragedy.
Used to ride my bike down sherwood road which is a block away or so; the library was there, and I’d ride over from the Springlake community (up Pots Springs Road), and then come back down york/warren road. My wife is from Cockeysville, and there’s a nice little diner across the street and down a little ways from there.
Didn’t know Flanagan still lived there; I used to ride my bike past several of the Oriole homes; Ripken didn’t live too far from my house at one time.
Sorry to here this — he was too young.
Be patient. This barely happened less than 12 hours ago. And he’s not a world figure or well-known celebrity, so Geraldo won’t be reporting outside his home. Remember this is real life, not TV where everything is figured out in 60 minutes less commercials.
Also, I doubt suicide. People that commit suicide don’t usually do it in their front yards. But I could be wrong.
>>Also, I doubt suicide. People that commit suicide dont usually do it in their front yards. But I could be wrong.<<
No matter how it happened, it is a tragedy.
Yes, we must wait for more information.
“People that commit suicide dont usually do it in their front yards.”
That’s what I was thinking with the 1st report - but this was updated later:
‘The body was found on a trail “some distance from the house,”’
So now it doesn’t sound like it was in his yard at all.
I gave this some thought and I can now understand why someone would commit suicide outside of their home, especially with a gunshot. It’s possible he wanted to spare the family of seeing the gruesome scene and having to deal with the clean-up. It also allows the family to think of happy moments spent in the house without associating them with their loved one’s death and makes it easier for the family to continue living in the house, if they choose to do so. I would have a hard time living in a house after something like that happened in it.
In our newspaper it said that he was having financial troubles, even though he was still broadcasting games. What a tragedy.
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