at this point there should be a special button in every A&H thread to only see
@Larry David's Opera Cape posts because of the consistent work and quality of the information he posts
on the other hand where would be the fun if life was so straightforward? embrace a little chaos
I truly appreciate all the thanks and praise. I'm just a working dog, I follow my nose and do my thing, because it's important to know the truth about things.
The more of these I work on, the better sense I get for the intangibles. So, for whatever it's worth:
Comparing this case to Crooks, the Trump shooter. That one, within 30 minutes of looking into it, I knew we would never know a damn thing about what actually happened, who this kid was, who else was involved. All the little subtle red flags that pop up when there's letter involvement were flying. I was absolutely certain that I could knock myself out for days on end and get nowhere with it, because it was set up that way on purpose. I decided to pull back and wait. And sure thing, eventually even congressmen were echoing that impression.
In this case, of course there were false starts, Sam Hyde memes, the usual, but I didn't see those red flags at all. I was actually in the process of comparing street views to the school boundary map when I saw someone local post the address on Twitter, and that was the last clue I needed to pull the rest together. Everyone involved was exactly who I expected them to be. With the problems that logically pair up with a troubled 14 year old boy.
This is a "good old-fashioned" act of senseless adolescent male violence with no fed groomers or handlers, in my opinion.
And this goes back to why it's important to know all these details, to be able to talk about them freely somewhere: we need to know the truth. We need a vast repository of truth to reference, so we can stay grounded, so we can compare and contrast and make sense of things that go on around us.
So it's just sifting, sifting out the static and the bad data and the trolling and the false friends, until you see what's really there, and nothing else.