Lynn Ann appears to live with her brother Larry; both of them resided with their elderly mother until her dementia and failing health demanded specialized care.
Larry is an odd guy himself - he pays people to kick him and stand on him because he likes the sneaker imprints, and takes pictures of random people's shoes on the bus. According to Lynn Ann's facebook updates, he brings her food, tells her she's beautiful, and urges her to get her anger under control. Larry was a staunch advocate for their mother's well-being, but it is unclear if he functions as Lynn Ann's caregiver in any meaningful sense.
Lynn Ann appears to live with her brother Larry; both of them resided with their elderly mother until her dementia and failing health demanded specialized care.
Ruse or not, this woman had some impressive bad plastic surgery or she does really good FX work. In either case, it's horrifying and that's why it doesn't matter if it's fake or not.
She definitely strikes as the type to have pathological body image issues; there's a porn star who looks about the same except she has giant cement beach balls for tits. (Can't imagine anyone getting off to that.)
Someone gave her a mug with Eric Harris's face on it. I would love to know the details behind this.
"Bitches don't know about my Eric Harris necklace."
"It's da crazy bitch! It's da crazy bitch!" Somebody was probably "bullying" her for liking Eric Harris and she decided to make a YouTube shrine devoted to her mass-murdering beloved.
I'm not sure how deep we can venture down into this rabbit hole without risking our lives. Also, judging on a video someone posted before, she seems at least have enough self-awareness to know that virtually every entity she comes into contact with is probably trolling her. The air is trolling her by flowing in and out of her lungs. That would make it difficult.
With that said, I think we can reasonably conclude that this woman is far from harmless. I hope she's under constant supervision in her little Eric Harris holding cell.
She's a walking paradox. She dresses and acts like an innocent little girl, she wants that innocence back, on the other she wants to slaughter bunnies with an axe and show us what she did.
I was just listening to the Last Podcast on the Left's episode on Columbine this afternoon and apparently the shooters being misfits no one loved was a myth.
She believes she understands Eric Harris because she believed the media and what they said about him. How he was "bullied" and "took justice in his own hands".
It's hard for me to take anyone who dismisses bullying seriuosly. Immediately following the event there were dozens of well researched and sourced reports (even quotes from the bullies themselves proud of it!). I specifically love the time article about it. A jock kid talked about how they dressed like 'faggots' and that's 'why we treated them like freaks'. Not quite sure why you wouldn't trust that.
Eric as a bully is laugh-out-loud material. He was weak, short, and incredibly awkward. So was Dylan. Were there kids they gave shit to? Of course. It was high school. But them as bullies? Not a chance.
There's a video where Eric and Dylan are walking through Columbine's mostly empty hallway with a video recorder. Four or five jocks walk right through the two of them, shoving them out of the way and knocking the recorder.
A great deal of misinformation - I responded to the top post in length, but the short version is that Cullen claims I didn't experience what I (and tons of other students at that school) experienced. He's going against medical records, police reports, FBI findings and more. So...take it with a grain of salt?
In case you are intrigued by this, here are a selection of interesting quotes from the Q&A. Or read the entire thing.
My family was the one who reported Eric Harris almost two dozen times to the police for death threats and various things which they never followed up on. After the terrible day, my family and I went to the press to show the world that the police botched this one up - and instead the police lied, saying we never did such a thing, then they began telling the media and the families that I was involved in the killing.
Yeah, actually. Fucked up thing? Rachel Scott [the first fatality that day] quit smoking at the behest of a friend that week. She would have probably been at the smokers pit (smoking area just off school property). Life is disturbingly strange.
The ones [cops] in charge left the force and went around teaching other cops how to properly react to shootings. Irony really, since thy responded so poorly that day.
Holy shit, that's a good summation of where my mind is now. [regarding what happened psychologically between Eric and Dylan]
Eric and Dylan essentially had a horrific feedback loop of hatred between them that grew. you nailed it. However, I still think the cops could have stopped it.
"What outside factors do you think contributed to it?"
Many. Bullying, the school administration, parents, the culture we live in, etc. Some are bigger factors than others, and they rarely come together just right - that 'perfect storm' of factors - to allow this to happen. That's why it is exceedingly rare.
Top two? Bullying and mental health. Eric was on Luvox and wrote about how he'd go on and off his drug often to gain 'greater self-awareness'. That's not healthy. Couple that with being the bottom rung of the school shit-list, and it's a bad thing.
I wouldn't say 'twist and spin'. The reporters I met honestly wanted to tell the truth. The nature of news, however, is that you have to make everything a sound-byte. If it isn't, it gets edited into one. So you can have a singular point of view on these shows, not a nuanced one. You actually learn to speak in 'black and white' terms, which makes the discussion go in one direction. For something like this, you never get anywhere.
"Could you give examples of the bullying culture at Columbine at the time?"
Lets see. One that stands out was covering the cafeteria floor in baby oil and laughing as people fell and hurt themselves, and throwing smaller kids into others like 'bowling'. more than a few injuries, but two guys got suspended for a day, so that's just.
Personally? Walking down the street and having a passing car full of jocks whip a baseball at the back of my head. hilarious, right?
One of the reasons I quit the activism thing is that I learned something (if there is a 'Law' or 'Rule' that explains this, let me know!) about people.
The schools I was invited to speak at were the ones where I was least needed. The ones where I was most needed wouldn't even talk to me. Preaching to the choir is gratifying, at least at first. It feels useless after a while.
When one of the shootings prior to columbine happened (I think it was paducah) people joked that our school was next. Uncertain if everyone in every school joked about that, but it seems odd in retrospect.
Thought he was a joke before, and even more of one afterwards. He would tell stories how I would go into his office and cry about bullying and he was there as a shoulder to cry on - but then he'd say bullying never happened. Odd cat.
They weren't trying to kill kids. They were trying to kill the school. They had shitty bombs that didn't go off (thankfully, my brother was near one), so they went in with guns. They didn't want to kill any specific person. They wanted to school to die.
'Where were Eric and Dylan in the school hierarchy?'
Unathletic, socially awkward. After Columbine I did an hour-long radio piece with the captain of the soccer team who graduated that year. He was a really great guy, but in the opposite position. We talked about how there was a hierarchy at columbine and that they were on the bottom. He thought Iw as in the middle, and he knew he was near the top. It's very strange as to why. I don't know.
I do believe that you have a point. Kids are not learning how to deal with real-world relationships which can be emotionally difficult. However, In high school if you punched me and I fought back, we would both be suspended. If that happened in the real world, you'd go to jail. The rules should be standard across all ages.
It's pretty far off. Basically, he claims everyone is reactionary and wrong about everything, and states the opposite with almost no sources. Sure, people were reactionary, but they were also generally right. Luvox, bullying, police mishandling, etc. He gets a bunch of stuff really wrong
I have as little trust in the government as the next guy (unless the next guy is Alex Jones). I just got to experience firsthand how retarded these cops were. I can see from the outside it looks orchestrated, but these guys were just dumb. The day of the shooting, the top sheriff locked his keys in his car, and a unit had to pick him up. took him an extra hour to get there. Yes, they're that stupid.
I get a lot. And its not easy to tell who's emotionally disturbed and who's just a nice girl writing me to say that my book made her feel better. Fine line, apparently.
In response to, "Do you think this tragedy will ever stop affecting you?"
As I told someone today - it gets easier, but never easy. No matter how long it is, I'll be walking through the halls at work, and someone will stop me and tell me that they loved my book. Or I'll open facebook and see one of 3 daily messages/friend requests from strangers or 'Eric and Dylan fanboys/girls'. It'll never get easy.
As a LindsayFan I am pretty familiar with Columbine tumblr, and even by that standard I do think this lady is unusual. I would say she is extremely extremely unlikely to commit a mass shooting though . She might knife someone in a paranoid freakout at some point, but that's about it...
I was looking to see if we had a thread on general Columbine enthusiasts/tumblr Columbine fans and I'm not seeing anything. I thought for sure we did, am I missing something? I'd like to read more about it.
I didn't think I'd come back to this thread since it creeped me out yet here I am.
Lynn Ann appears to live with her brother Larry; both of them resided with their elderly mother until her dementia and failing health demanded specialized care.
Larry is an odd guy himself - he pays people to kick him and stand on him because he likes the sneaker imprints, and takes pictures of random people's shoes on the bus. According to Lynn Ann's facebook updates, he brings her food, tells her she's beautiful, and urges her to get her anger under control. Larry was a staunch advocate for their mother's well-being, but it is unclear if he functions as Lynn Ann's caregiver in any meaningful sense.
Man, his instagram is so, so sad... poor guy had to watch what appeared to be clear elder abuse/neglect in several care facilities and posted what looked like a settlement from a lawsuit about said neglect, so it's clear he's got a big heart and losing his mom just killed him. Can't imagine what it's like having to live with his crazy-ass sister who doesn't appear to have any sanity or empathy left in her.
This made me laugh and cringe, from her Facebook page, the comment on one of the many photos of Eric:
Something about how innocently this person asks "who's he dear?" expecting a normal response like "this cute guy I've got a crush on at work" or something, juxtaposed with this fucking novel about Eric Harris, just tickles my funny bone (not without a shiver, though).
Man, his instagram is so, so sad... poor guy had to watch what appeared to be clear elder abuse/neglect in several care facilities and posted what looked like a settlement from a lawsuit about said neglect, so it's clear he's got a big heart and losing his mom just killed him. Can't imagine what it's like having to live with his crazy-ass sister who doesn't appear to have any sanity or empathy left in her.
This made me laugh and cringe, from her Facebook page, the comment on one of the many photos of Eric:
Something about how innocently this person asks "who's he dear?" expecting a normal response like "this cute guy I've got a crush on at work" or something, juxtaposed with this fucking novel about Eric Harris, just tickles my funny bone (not without a shiver, though).
Actually the FBI pretty much proved they were never bullied or at least not nearly as much as some of the other kids at Columbine, nor was this truly their motivation. There's a whole documentary about that, I forgot what it was called. Them being bullied is very old, weak sauce. (no offense) Eric Harris suffered from anti social disorders along with some psychopathy, where's Dylan Klebolt suffered from disorders that fit in seamlessly to have him follow, and be influenced by, Eric Harris. Although, don't get me wrong, Klebolt also had psychopathic and anti-social personality traits. Them getting together was just "blind luck" (read: misfortune) forming the perfect storm for something like this to happen.
Also, the camera run in, if you look closely you can see them not moving aside a little bit or giving in an inch to the guys walking up to them. This was their type of behavior. (edgy) Very often they went out of their way to show how "little they cared" and "how edgy they where", the black trench coats and them naming themselves "the trenchcoat mafia" was a perfect example of this. The way I understood it the trench coat mafia was already sort of a thing, which they took over and gave a really bad name.
True, not everybody wearing a black trench coat wants to be edgy (I own several myself), but in their case it was just one of these little things to show just how anti-social and unadapted they really were.
Look in to their writings, specifically from Eric Harris. There was an incident where he broke in to a van and feigned regret to the cops, he did this so well the cops, his parents and the judge all fell for that. He wrote a lengthy letter apologizing to the vans owner, then later on they found his own writings of being very proud (narcissistic traits) of him having fooled everybody, how he had absolutely no regrets, and how stupid he thought they all where. This was pretty much his whole view on life, him and Dylan wanted infamy. They wanted to do something terrible like that. The writings where beyond eerie, specially when compared to the apology letter which was nothing short of a twisted "masterpiece" of lies.
They where very close to graduation. Had it been bullying alone they had zero reasons to do it over that, with summer vacation and the end of school right around the corner.
Also during the shootings the ones that did survive all spoke about how much they enjoyed it all, laughing at the victims and venting racial slurs to anybody who wasn't white. Their demeanor showed no emotions and none of the victims even bullied them, so again, had the cause been bullying they would have at least gone for their "tormenters" and been emotional about it, showing at least anger. They however looked like their heart rate never went up a beat.
One more thing: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebolt had a former friend whom Eric Harris felt betrayed him (I THINK this was also about the van break in) and they tormented, threatened and stalked this guy so much his parents feared for his life. The parents of this guy always felt Eric Harris was capable of something terrible, and would, one day. They warned local police many times about Eric, but never got heard. Had they listened, had they just checked their rooms they could have prevented the shooting. Writings about Eric wanting to kill and torture their former friend where on his website, which the guys parents also showed the police.
Then there are also the infamous "basement tapes" that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebolt made and sadly never got released to the public, however law enforcement and families of the victims seen segments of these types that had anybody have any doubt about their motivations, they would lose them when seeing these tapes right away. There are some transcripts online of the tapes telling the tale of just how deeply disturbed they truly where. I am talking Anders Breivink, Ricardo Lopez, Richard Ramirez type dementia here. It is said these tapes shock people beyond belief. Again, the writings by them and transcripts of the tapes should paint a good picture of who they truly where.
One more thing: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebolt had a former friend whom Eric Harris felt betrayed him (I THINK this was also about the van break in) and they tormented, threatened and stalked this guy so much his parents feared for his life. The parents of this guy always felt Eric Harris was capable of something terrible, and would, one day. They warned local police many times about Eric, but never got heard. Had they listened, had they just checked their rooms they could have prevented the shooting. Writings about Eric wanting to kill and torture their former friend where on his website, which the guys parents also showed the police.
The person I quoted, Brooks Brown, was that guy. He was good friends with Dylan (visiting his family and stuff) since they were small children. Brooks shared classes with Eric and Dylan. Although Eric and Brooks sometimes hated each other, Brooks approached Eric on the day of the massacre and Eric warned him to get away from the school. I trust Brooks Brown more than I trust your source.
Obviously, no rational person has ever said bullying made Eric and Dylan commit the massacre. Individuals are responsible for their actions.
Indeed, harassing surviving relatives is exactly what she does. In this comments exchange on fb, she gloats about her confrontational interactions with Tom Mauser, mocking him and his deceased son.
She is always talking about bullying and how harmful it is, but she obviously does not see that she is bullying dead kids and their families. I wonder what her family thinks about her obsession with Eric Harris. She needs major psychiatric help because she seems delusional.
. She might knife someone in a paranoid freakout at some point, but that's about it...
