A rather horrible scene at a zoning hearing:
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071005/NEWS01/710050372
I feel bad for the guy, but to blow your brains out over this?
I wish I could have met him. I’d say “Nice shot, man.”
I’ve owned a small business that went under. That is a long slow torture that I wouldn’t wish on anybody.
If I had owned a gun, I might have done blown my brains out. I certainly thought about it quite a bit.
I only see an article at that link. Was there something more?
:::shakes head in disgust:::
Shabby, Mike.
I, also, had a business for about 20 years. I went under. While I never entertained offing myself, I was certainly clinically depressed. So much so, that a doctor/customer offered to write a script for me for some meds. His diagnosis was certainly correct. I was very depressed. But I declined. A horribly depressed person has little ability to diagnose their own situation. I probably needed meds.
I survived, as most people probably do, but everyone is an individual, and their response to adversity varies. Most get through it, some don’t.
There needs to be a filter for comments like this.
yeah but… now it’s a little late.
groan
From the article:
“Signs are posted in the chambers prohibiting firearms, said Missy Graham, communications director for the city, and the city will review security procedures for the chambers.”
The sign didn’t work?!? What about posting a sign saying, “If you wish to commit suicide, please do not do so during council meetings.”
Maybe that would have been better?
Like I said, I feel bad for the guy, but the more I think about the case, the less sympathy I have. The guy took out a loan for his business that left him in debt. So he expected the local gov. to bail him out by increasing the value of his property. Sorry dude, but the government is not here to change public policy to save your financial bacon.
So the guy dramatically offs himself in public. Yeah, that’ll show us. As far as I’m concerned, it saved the zoning board a lot of trouble.
I don’t understand from the original article. Was his property originally zoned for business, then changed, or zoned for residential, and this guy HOPED it would change?
It looks like, from the picture, that he is standing next to a busy highway. Seems to me that he should have kept his business, but a loss in a city council vote is NEVER a reason for greasing yourself, in public no less.
How many people did this guy traumatise for life because of what he did? Most people think a gunshot to the head is a little puff of smoke, some bleeding, and the shootee just lies down and dies.
No. The shootee usually twitches and shits and pisses himself while blood pours out of his nose and mouth and whatever wound he inflicted on his own head. Depeding on his accuracy, he may moan involuntarily for a few minutes…
I’m sure that some good parents brought their kids to the meeting. Fuck this guy for what he did…
The guy wanted to have his residence rezoned for commercial, not his business. His business was probably already commercially zoned.
From a response to the story http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:gmcvSiS03jEJ:tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20071005/COUNTY05/710050417/0/SERVICES+1517+madison+street&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us Scroll down to the “Story Chat”/first reply
I have to deal with the same situation (the rezoning, not the shooting) all the time at my job. We have in our comp plan what are known as “Site Location Standards.” In order to become commercial, you have to be within a certain distance of an intersection. The larger the intersection, (eg, two major arterials versus two local roads) the greater the commercial use one can put there. This is to prevent the growth of strip development and limit urban sprawl. In theory.
So this guy wanted increased profits at the expense of the community standards.