Letter Bombings

Post by **Hippy** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:09 pm

Looks like they've caught the guy who did the letter bombings the other week

<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/stor ... 54,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/stor ... 00.html</a>

If it's the same person i think it is, i went to school with the guy, he was a sad little geeky guy, short bright white/blonde hair, big thick rimmed glasses.
Lives round the corner from my old house

Post by **Trig** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:23 pm

Strangely enough I did think about you when they mentioned it being someone from down your way

Post by **Hippy** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:29 pm

Yes, it's a fair cop, i'm a letter bombing, train fare dodging tax evading Hippy!

Bah!

Post by **Claw** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:41 pm

If memory serves me well, little geeky kids with thick glasses normally only had the one or two friends, one of which would be a sweaty chubby kid with Heinz Beans sauce residue that would be on a different part of his chin every day. He would constantly talk about chess club... and you say you went to school with this geeky kid H....?

Wonder what pushed his button to start him sending the letter bombs...

Post by **Hippy** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:03 pm

Aye, he had one friend, a tubby guy called sam (i get the joke claw, i'm just mature enough to rise above it

)

I remember him being pretty clever, but definitely had a screw loose at school. He was bullied all the time

Post by **Claw** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:37 pm

Hippy wrote: Aye, he had one friend, a tubby guy called sam (i get the joke claw, i'm just mature enough to rise above it )

I remember him being pretty clever, but definitely had a screw loose at school. He was bullied all the time

If I didn't think you were big enough to see it for what it was Hippy I wouldn't have said it.

If we always took ourselves too seriously or didn't know how to settle differences properly then we'd turn into introverted geeks hell-bent on using our personally empowering geekdom to vindictively hurt others... they're sad and so they want everyone else to be sad too...

I'm not a psychoanalyst but he probably came from an okay/good home (ie, parents seem normal) and because his parents thought he appeared happy he was happy, thus the poor lad just got the ceremonial christmas/birthday attentions more and more kids are getting these days. Instead of growing through these inner issues as some kids manage to he locked them away only for life's maze to take him full circle to open that door again - but now he wasn't a powerless little kid...

Then again... who really knows what goes on in these peoples heads... bit scary when you think that one in four people have mental issues of varying degrees... how many people are sat in your office environment... are they really what they seem?

Post by **Clingy** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:18 am

He doesn't have a car and rides a bicyle???

Post by **Hippy** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:39 am

<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... omb319.xml" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... 319.xml</a>

Well, it's definitely him. Although i dont remember him being that cross eyed.

You're right claw, he was so quiet, nobody could have known what was really going on.
I sort of befriended him at school, i think more because i felt sorry for him than anything else, he had such a rough time and although i was never bullied, i sort of chose not to hang around with the trendy lot, so became pals with the geeks and weirdo's

Went to miles' house once, family was very poor, not middle class at all.

To be honest, i just thought he was a bit wierd, so unbelievably geeky! so didn't see much of him at school.

This news has spread around my old school friends like wildfire. Crazy

Post by **Jase** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:50 am

Hippy wrote: (i get the joke claw, i'm just mature enough to rise above it )

Since when?

Post by **Trig** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:02 am

Fat floats

Post by **Rasputin** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:07 pm

Must be quite a shock for you Hippy, Really going to school with someone then finding out that they were capable of some thing like that. I can't understand people like that at all,

Post by **Hippy** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:16 pm

More info in the cambridge local paper now

<a href="http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/ci ... d29e46.lpf" target="_blank">http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/ci ... e46.lpf</a>

Read the bit down the bottom, that's not me describing him, but that's exactly as i remember him.
Yes Ras, find this all a bit hard to take in.

I've got a few mates who have confessed to bullying him at school, i bet they feel great about themselves!
They're also a little worried they may get a 'present' through the post!

Post by **Human-Shield** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:18 pm

Hippy wrote: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... omb319.xml" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... 319.xml</a>

I sort of befriended him at school

Ok we can see were things start to go wrong in his life

Hippy wrote: i sort of chose not to hang around with the trendy lot, so became pals with the geeks and weirdo's

Hippy wrote: To be honest, i just thought he was a bit wierd, so unbelievably geeky! so didn't see much of him at school.

Yea because you dont hang around with geeks now

Seems a bit harsh chap but im sure that the way we are brought up so desensetised these days weve all probably got it in us. its just a matter of pushing the right buttons

Post by **Hippy** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:43 am

Hmm, dunno about that. I managed to live in the same house as you for over a year without blowing anyone up!

Post by **Jase** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:18 pm

Hippy wrote: I managed to live in the same house as you for over a year without blowing anyone

Something best kept to ones self me thinks