More details on Christmas Eve massacre [L.A.]

abc7 ^ | December 30, 2008 | Staff

[netmilsmom]

Oh believe me! That was not meant for you but for Pardo!

[Drew68]

Just wait; we’ll get some guys here in a second who’ll say it’s his ex’s fault...

When, after months of planning, you put on the Santa suit, spark up the flamethrower and start shooting children in the face, setting in motion an event that culminates in a blood-soaked inferno, you’re no longer allowed to use the sympathetic "evil bitch screwed me in the divorce." argument.

[GVnana]

One gun could have saved a lot of lives that day.

[Spktyr]

If they had, they wouldn’t be living in Los Angeles.

NOTHING is worth giving up the right to self defense, and that’s what you have to do in CA.

[BurbankKarl]

No, it is his ex’s and mom’s fault!

[peeps36]

There's no excuse for committing acts of violence against innocent people. I do believe the treatment men receive in divorce court contributes to the acts of violence we see. I watched my father get thrown out of his own house with the clothes he had on his back and $300 in his checking account. He worked two jobs all his life and gave everything he earned to raising four children. They treated him like dirt even though it was my mother who had an affair and filed for divorce. The system treated him like a criminal while it took 70 percent of everything he had. This could cause some people to act out in anger and frustration. My father went out and bought a convertible sports car and motorcycle, but sometimes good people lose control and turn violent.

[sarasmom]

Did it ever occur to you that often men are divorced because their wives eventually realise how sick and potentially dangerous they were?

First you say “There's no excuse for committing acts of violence against innocent people.”
The balance of your post excuses violence, because you can “understand” it, under certain circumstances, approved by yourself.

Care to make up your mind?

If you have a spouse, hopefully your spouse is paying attention to what you post online...

LOL!

[peeps36]

I’m not excusing the acts. I’m just saying what contributes to those acts.

[sarasmom]

No, you are not “just saying”.

Peep closely into a mirror peeps36.

This particular mass murderer was not a “victim” of an imaginary, evil, anti-male divorce court. Nor can his ex-wife be blamed for his evil actions.

Obviously.

The list of innocent victims includes his former wife.
And also his abandoned brain damaged child, and the mother of that child.

May I suggest to you that whenever you feel the urge to type “I'm just saying”....that you instantly stop posting, put the keyboard down, and back slowly away from your computor.

[SarahW]

Don’t compare your father’s case with Pardo’s. Pardo’s wife wasn’t cheating, and she didn’t ask for more than her due, in fact, she asked for far less.

FWIW, if you’ve been paying attention to updates, Pardo started planning his “Christmas party” in June. He wasn’t fired from his job ( for cause, for falsifying documents, an offense other employers also canned him for) until July.

In this case it wasn’t the wife’s fault; he’s the one who changed after marriage, and he’s the one who was the liar.

[La Enchiladita]

SarahW, thanks for filling us in on the timeline. I was wondering when these events happened in Pardo’s life vs. when he started the “planning.”

Also, was he ever married before, or just this one-year marriage at age 44? There has to be more background on this guy.

[SarahW]

Sylvia was his first marriage partner.

He, according to some published reports and some comments from purported former co-workers and girlfriends tended to play the field with younger women.
But he did get near the altar a couple of times.

He told one girlfriend that he had left a girl at the altar, and broken off an engagement with another (and seemed to be pleased with himself for doing so).

A co-worker seems to have a similar story - and posted that Pardo left one woman standing at the altar, ( coworker was invited to the wedding) to her shock an humiliation, never having let on to anyone, including her, that he wasn’t in love and wanting to get married.
He cleaned out their joint account they had a blew town for a month, (leaving her with bills and all the wedding expenses.)

He returned a month later to his place of work (JPL) and acted like nothing strange had happened, and could not understand that he no longer had a job there.

Another girlfriend from his much earlier college days says that Bruce was a fun boyfriend at first, but handled resentment at her refusing to sleep with him with passive-aggressive payback...setting up or agreeing to dates cheerfully, and then failing to show up. Never said when he was upset or mad...he just exacted his revenge. So she found him too frustrating a partner and quit dating him.

[La Enchiladita]

Those women, the previous girlfriends and fiancees (and their families), are fortunate to have escaped the cold-blooded killer.

I wonder how he finally got to the altar. Beware of persons who easily become resentful or nurture vendettas. I had a neighbor like that a few years ago, very vindictive re the slightest thing. I thank God he didn’t act out worse than he did. These types are powder kegs waiting to blow.

The TV news has stopped mentioning him, so maybe you found this about his past online?