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    DP
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    From an AP story out today entitled: “Arizona fugitive planned suicide by bear”

    FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A convicted killer who escaped from an Arizona prison had planned to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him, according to a sheriff’s report.

    Tracy Province told a sheriff’s detective after his capture that he had wanted to go up on a mountain, shoot up a gram of heroin and “be bear food.” As he was preparing the drug, a voice told him not to go through with the plan, and he changed course in favor of trying to hitchhike to Indiana to see family.

    “He called it divine intervention,” Mohave County sheriff’s Detective Larry Matthews wrote in the August report.

    It’s so weird. I cannot tell you how many times the exact same thing (or something very like) has happened to me!

    After being rescued from so many close calls, I can’t help but wonder whether God might not have some kind of Special Plan for me.

    –D.P.

     

     

    The author wishes to acknowledge that the following things are not joking matters:

    • Prisons
    • Prison escapes
    • Bear attacks
    • Suicide
    • Drug addiction
    • Arizona
    • God

    And yet, somehow, when you put all the ingredients in a bowl and stir them together on the Internet, something truly magical happens.

    #715364

    HunterG
    Participant

    Awesome, so this guy wants to get BEARS HOOKED ON HEROIN NOW?

    What has this world become? What will become of the BEARS!?!

    (Snicker….snicker).

    In all seriousness I know suicide is a heavy issue, but if you want that badly to kill yourself, I think you have every right to do so no matter how unfortunate it is. IN this case, I think “God” could have possibly been logic stepping in and taking the reins.

    By the way, does anyone else find it ironic that committing suicide is a crime? How exactly does one go about the sentencing?

    #715365

    redblack
    Participant

    dude. i stopped reading when you said

    As he was preparing the drug, a voice told him not to go through with the plan, and he changed course in favor of trying to hitchhike to Indiana to see family.

    freakin’ hoosiers. of which i is one. are. also, too.

    #715366

    DP
    Member

    Agreed!

    I would not trust no voice what told me to quit what I was doin’ and hitchhike to anywhere further away than . . . say . . . Eugene.

    Drive? —Sure.

    Greyhound? —Maybe.

    But hitchhike! NEH-VAH!

    —But then, neither would I trust no voice what told me to quit what was I doin’ and go build an ark of gopher wood “whose length shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits” blah blah blah blah blah.

    I’d be like: Whoa-whoa-WHOA with the cubits already! Just what do I look like to you, Mr. Voice? A Home Depot?

    Which is why it is so freekin’ odd that these parents of mine decided ta name me after one of them Bible oddballs what was always kibitzin’ with some Voice from somewhere.

    Granted, I did get a few good licks in against the Philistine that one time. That was badass.

    And that babe I swiped from her husband? Mm-mmm!

    But I paid fer that stunt later on, ya know.

    Oy, did I pay!

     

    #715367

    flowerpetal
    Member

    Suicide has unfortunate consequences for many. I made an acquaintance with someone who’s mother lept to her death from a balcony in NY. Sadly she fell onto passer-bys, one became physically disabled for life, the other died. Her two surviving adult children now live with the knowing that there mother took her own life, and another; and permanently wounded a third person. Suicide does have consequences.

    #715368

    bluebird
    Member

    And…this is why I don’t believe in god. Makes no sense whatsoever.

    #715369

    LeftWing
    Member

    Praise Jesus bluebird. Just praise him.

    #715370

    JoB
    Participant

    that voice in your head used to be called a conscience

    #715371

    bluebird
    Member

    I’m on it Leftwing. But how do I make the voices stop?

    #715372

    DP
    Member

    And…this [the existence of suicide] is why I don’t believe in god. Makes no sense whatsoever.

    —and yet . . . as creepy as it sounds to the rest of us . . . for some folks who really do believe in God, there’s a kind of logic to it. Suicide, that is.

    Fact (sort of): The Hamas organization in Occupied Palestine does not accept “suicide bomber” applications from people who are depressed or otherwise already inclined to suicide. They want only those who are of “sound mind,” have thought it over, and have decided to die “for the cause.” Namely: God.

    (Liberating Palestine is also important, of course. Just not as important as martyrdom.)

    So we see that suicide is why some people don’t believe in God, and precisely why others do.

       

    Now before anyone wastes any pixels claiming that I’m equating any particular religion with suicide, I just want to say (in advance) that you’re wrong: I’m not equating one religion with suicide. I’m equating them ALL with it.

    Intellectual suicide that is . . .

    I kid! I kid the Faithful! Some of the smartest people I know used to go to church.

    #715373

    DP
    Member

    JoB: If your “conscience” told you to hitchhike to Indiana would you do it?

    Of course you wouldn’t! Consciences know better than that!

    I tell ya, there’s gotta be something else going on with this suicide-by-bear guy. Something beyond the ken of mortals.

    #715374

    JoB
    Participant

    DP…

    if my conscience told me to hitchhike to Indiana there would probably be a good reason to do so.

    #715375

    redblack
    Participant

    jo: like a big ovular race track? soybeans? klansmen disguised as tea partiers?

    indiana is where ambition goes to die.

    #715376

    DP
    Member

    God has a message for all y’all, and He wants me to share it with you, see?

    But His laptop hasn’t been working, so you’re just gonna have to be patient . . .

    #715377

    JoB
    Participant

    redblack..

    Ok. so i admit

    i can’t think of a good reason to hitchhike anywhere these days..

    or a good reason to go to Indiana

    but i have confidence in my conscience

    it would never tell me to go there without a good reason :)

    so yup.. if that voice spoke to me ..

    i would would be shaking my head all the way to the hiway..

    or maybe not..

    if it was my conscience

    i should already know why i should be on my way…

    #715378

    metrognome
    Participant

    maybe he had this song stuck in his head …

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaQZcK_IS40

    #715379

    SpeakLoud
    Member

    Thank god I’m an atheist (my new favorite quote from Ricky Gervais-I’ll be using it alot so keep an eye out for me!)

    #715380

    JoB
    Participant

    speakloud..

    i have it on good authority that even atheists have a conscience ;-0

    #715381

    redblack
    Participant

    jo: since the only sentience on earth exists within our own bodies, conscience is all we atheists have, really.

    #715382

    mirabile
    Member

    Hey!

    Um, Indiana can’t be all bad. I can think of at least one good thing, namely…

    If someone told me to go to Indiana, I wouldn’t hesitate.

    ♫ Don’t stop believing… ♫

    #715383

    JoB
    Participant

    mirabelle…

    somehow i doubt my conscience would tell me to go to Indiana for Indiana Jones…

    but i will admit there is a part of me that responds pretty strongly ;-)

    #715384

    JustSarah
    Participant

    Also, don’t forget Gary, Indiana! Gary, Indiana; Gary, Indiana; Gaaaary, Indiaaaana… Let me say it once again.

    #715385

    redblack
    Participant

    ever notice how indiana jones spent very little time at indiana university?

    that was intentional.

    #715386

    DP
    Member

    r/b: Hoosier mama? Hoosier daddy?

    Hey, you know who else spent time at IU (besides me and Indiana Jones?)

    —David Letterman.

    That’s right.

    He established a special scholarship fund there for “C” students, like himself.

    Needless to say, I did not measure up.

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    Re: Gary

    Most famous native son: Michael Jackson

    Official City Motto: “What died?”

    #715387

    The Velvet Bulldog
    Participant

    Mom Bulldog is from Indiana–proof that that state produces some very fine individuals. Of course, it also encourages them to leave, for which I’m pretty grateful actually.

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