WTF?!? Gabby Petito Disappearance - Latest Update, Gabby's Body Found and Initially Identified, BREAKING: Arrest Warrant Issued for Brian Laundrie

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Kathy in FL

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She does give off that "little girl" vibe, though...

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Does she? Or like Trayvon Martin it is just a perception that is being exploited in the MSM? We just don't know for certain. She held a job that required something more than "do you want fries with that". She was shacked up with a guy. Just because we see her in picks sans make up looking about 12 years old doesn't mean that she was a child or "little". So maybe she had good genes and the traditional definition of cute ... that still does not equate to "little girl."

I've known a who bunch of people who have been taken in by females that accentuate that type of feature(s). And I've known some that hated looking like that because it made people perceive them in a certain way. But since we did not know her personally what we do have to go on is the fact that she was 22 years old, could hold down a job, make a savings plan for a specific goal, etc. That does not say "little girl."
 
Kathy in FL

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WalknTrot said:
Well, yeah, she WAS little, and a heck of a lot physically weaker than the boyfriend. My thoughts this morning went to whether this guy carried, and I quickly concluded he wasn't errmm.....the type. Guessing if he killed her, it was by his hand..maybe even unintentionally. But physically..she didn't have a chance. Women who stay in these slap-fest relationships forget or ignore the physics and reality of that basic differential.
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So? All of that is irrelevant. She was 22 years old and an adult by any standard you want to measure by including holding down a job that didn't require the statement "do you want fries with that."
 
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Y'all keep going on about how she was totally the Victim. See my post above with the Cop. He notes they were stopped because SHE physically Assaulted HIM. Homicide could mean a lot of things, For all we know she was beating his ass with a stick or tire iron and he shoved her and she fell on a tent stake or something.
 
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Kathy in FL said:
So? All of that is irrelevant. She was 22 years old and an adult by any standard you want to measure by including holding down a job that didn't require the statement "do you want
fries with that."
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Kathy in FL said:
Does she? Or like Trayvon Martin it is just a perception that is being exploited in the MSM? We just don't know for certain. She held a job that required something more than "do you want fries with that". She was shacked up with a guy. Just because we see her in picks sans make up looking about 12 years old doesn't mean that she was a child or "little". So maybe she had good genes and the traditional definition of cute ... that still does not equate to "little girl."

I've known a who bunch of people who have been taken in by females that accentuate that type of feature(s). And I've known some that hated looking like that because it made people perceive them in a certain way. But since we did not know her personally what we do have to go on is the fact that she was 22 years old, could hold down a job, make a savings plan for a specific goal, etc. That does not say "little girl."
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Look, people like pretty young blonde girls. Its a fact. Deal with it.

They generally have more interest in what happens to them than they do fat older women or POCs (as they say)

It's just the way of the world.

I see alot of this on twitter. "Oh if she was black nobody would care" "oh a bunch of Mex disappear and nobody cares"

Well yeah, people need to get over it. If she was a fat middle aged white lady nobody would care about her either. She'd have been a blurb on the local news and gone by now.

So if you are old, fat, colored, ugly and/or poor you better have some family because no one else is gonna care. This is not new.

(and nobody should lose their shit over this post because I am not a pretty young blonde girl - nobody but family is gonna give a crap about me either)
 
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Josie

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Kathy in FL said:
So? All of that is irrelevant. She was 22 years old and an adult by any standard you want to measure by including holding down a job that didn't require the statement "do you want fries with that."
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I think where the confusion begins is that we are comparing this generation to our generation. Our generation had a whole chunk off fighting a war. By 21 and most certainly 22, most had graduated college and were out on our own. We fell down a lot but it also helped out emotional maturity. This generation has been coddled and told how special they are from day one. They've been given things they wanted on demand and have been encouraged to live with their parents well into adulthood. They've been wrapped in bubble wrap so when they fell down, it didn't hurt. No lessons were learned and maturity did not happen.

So the 20 year old of today, for the most part, is NOT as mature as the 20 year old of the boomer generation. I could see that in the few videos I watched of their adventures. She acted like she was about 16 and he acted like he was along for the ride.
 
Kathy in FL

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SmithJ said:
Look, people like pretty young blonde girls. Its a fact. Deal with it.

They generally have more interest in what happens to them than they do fat older women or POCs (as they say)

It's just the way of the world.

I see alot of this on twitter. "Oh if she was black nobody would care" "oh a bunch of Mex disappear and nobody cares"

Well yeah, people need to get over it. If she was a fat middle aged white lady nobody would care about her either. She'd have been a blurb on the local news and gone by now.

So if you are old, fat, colored, ugly and/or poor you better have some family because no one else is gonna care. This is not new.

(and nobody should lose their shit over this post because I am not a pretty young blonde girl - nobody but family is gonna give a crap about me either)
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ROFL. You aren't saying anything original. Almost from the beginning I said this story got so much play in the media because of the victim's looks. It plays well in the "if it bleeds it leads and if it is pretty while it bleeds even better" media nonsense.

And I mean there are other stories like this out there just within the last day or two:
 
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I think where the confusion begins is that we are comparing this generation to our generation. Our generation had a whole chunk off fighting a war. By 21 and most certainly 22, most had graduated college and were out on our own. We fell down a lot but it also helped out emotional maturity. This generation has been coddled and told how special they are from day one. They've been given things they wanted on demand and have been encouraged to live with their parents well into adulthood. They've been wrapped in bubble wrap so when they fell down, it didn't hurt. No lessons were learned and maturity did not happen.

So the 20 year old of today, for the most part, is NOT as mature as the 20 year old of the boomer generation. I could see that in the few videos I watched of their adventures. She acted like she was about 16 and he acted like he was along for the ride.
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Personally I don't think that is a good excuse. GP was an adult and BL was/is an adult. In court they would be tried as an adult. Just because someone doesn't act like an adult on occasion doesn't mean they aren't one and shouldn't be held accountable as one.

Just as true to say just because someone is a ding bat or had mental issues doesn't mean they shouldn't be held accountable as adults.

They were shacked up together. We know that at least GB was able to hold a professional job, make plans, make goals, and do what it took to reach those goals. That's adulting. If anything, it is disrespectful and very ironic for people to run around calling her a little girl. Give the chick some credit for something other than her looks.
 
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Kathy in FL said:
So? All of that is irrelevant. She was 22 years old and an adult by any standard you want to measure by including holding down a job that didn't require the statement "do you want fries with that."
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HaHa! Don't see how it's irrelevant. These women (or little girls, nit-wits in my opinion, mentally ill or gluttons for punishment - what job she held down or her age says not much of her emotional immaturity) - stay in these physically abusive or mutually physically abusive (slap-fest) relationships, not thinking that the hammer is gonna come down hard or fatally at some point by the male. Thus my use of the term slap-fest. It's a matter of the physically inferior at the mercy of the physically superior. And yeah..she was little and showed a serious lack of emotional maturity or stability.

Would it make you feel better if I referred to the boyfriend as a "big boy"? Same difference. He's not showing any more emotional maturity than she did. When the slap-fest gets tiring or annoying for him and he seriously strikes out instead of absorbing the pokes and slaps, he's bigger/stronger by far, and probably gonna hurt her.
 
Josie

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Kathy in FL said:
Personally I don't think that is a good excuse. GP was an adult and BL was/is an adult. In court they would be tried as an adult. Just because someone doesn't act like an adult on occasion doesn't mean they aren't one and shouldn't be held accountable as one.

Just as true to say just because someone is a ding bat or had mental issues doesn't mean they shouldn't be held accountable as adults.

They were shacked up together. We know that at least GB was able to hold a professional job, make plans, make goals, and do what it took to reach those goals. That's adulting. If anything, it is disrespectful and very ironic for people to run around calling her a little girl. Give the chick some credit for something other than her looks.
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Oh. agree that if you do the crime, you do the time. The problem we are having is that LEGALLY a person is considered an adult at the age of 18 and that was decided long ago in a different time and place. Back in the '60's many 18 year old males were sitting in the jungles of Viet Nam, shooting and killing an enemy. That made you grow up fast. And that's when the voting age was lowered to 18...if you can fight for your country you are mature enough to have a say in it's running. This is a laughable argument now. Most 18 year olds have very little to no life experience other than an indoctrination diploma, to base decisions on.

While true that Gabby had a job...pharmacy tech...after looking the job up, it's more secretarial/clerical than technical. Meaning, if a pharmacists needed someone to help out, I could possibly walk in and get on the job training required to do it. But good for her! At least she was working. I don't remember reading what he did. Too many kids live at home sponging off of mommy and daddy and as a consequence, never grow up.

I still stand by my statement...their ages label them as adults with all the privileges that come with adulthood. Emotionally, they were still kids. And after reading the actions of both sets of parents, they were broken kids. Unfortunately, Gabby paid the ultimate price. The jury is still out on Brian but it doesn't look good.
 
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Worked a “blonde” (bottle) once. One day we went to lunch and she told me she played dumb so she could manipulate men. Who, in her eyes were stupid because they all fell for it. (Her words - paraphrased after all these years).

I was totally dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe that anyone would want to be perceived as dumb and would actually do it to manipulate people. This would have been back in the late 70s.

But, this kind of thing has been going on for the forevers. She would have been early 20s and knew precisely what she was doing. But after my alarms finished going off, I never got into a car with her again. So SHE was adulting. It was just a psycho adulting. Brrrrr. Still gives me the creeps.
 
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And I mean there are other stories like this out there just within the last day or two:
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Huge difference here. Two guys went out neither went home alone and kept quiet anout the where abouts of the missing.


Yes the media and nation are focused on this case. Mostly because of the oddities imo.
 
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Stupid thing is, if he'd have fessed up, and he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter (crime of passion) he'd likely be out again well before he was 35.

:shr: As they say...whaddever.
 
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FireDance said:
Worked a “blonde” (bottle) once. One day we went to lunch and she told me she played dumb so she could manipulate men. Who, in her eyes were stupid because they all fell for it. (Her words - paraphrased after all these years).

I was totally dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe that anyone would want to be perceived as dumb and would actually do it to manipulate people. This would have been back in the late 70s.

But, this kind of thing has been going on for the forevers. She would have been early 20s and knew precisely what she was doing. But after my alarms finished going off, I never got into a car with her again. So SHE was adulting. It was just a psycho adulting. Brrrrr. Still gives me the creeps.
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Bwahaha! So...are you a guy? I'll figure a guy since you said you "worked" a blonde. And because I'd have to say most if not ALL women know this is a common/successful tactic..and wouldn't be surprised/shocked in the least.
 
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And I mean there are other stories like this out there just within the last day or two:
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Huge difference here. Two guys went out neither went home alone and kept quiet anout the where abouts of the missing.


Yes the media and nation are focused on this case. Mostly because of the oddities imo.
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They still have families looking for them. But poor old guys can't get no play. Now if they disappeared with a pretty blonde then yeah, people would be going crazy and making assumptions.
 
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FireDance said:
Worked a “blonde” (bottle) once. One day we went to lunch and she told me she played dumb so she could manipulate men. Who, in her eyes were stupid because they all fell for it. (Her words - paraphrased after all these years).

I was totally dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe that anyone would want to be perceived as dumb and would actually do it to manipulate people. This would have been back in the late 70s.

But, this kind of thing has been going on for the forevers. She would have been early 20s and knew precisely what she was doing. But after my alarms finished going off, I never got into a car with her again. So SHE was adulting. It was just a psycho adulting. Brrrrr. Still gives me the creeps.
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gold-diggers and such and NOT just blonde
They are everywhere
they have character as deep as a petri dish
 
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She had 61,000 instagram followers, plus YouTube and TikTok. There were tons of pictures and videos and because everybody knew where they were going there are people who can report seeing them. The video of the van parked and the door closing, a whole video of the police pulling them over. I don't care if male or female or what color, most people disappear and there is nothing. Walking somewhere and never got to where they were going and story over. Disappeared without a trace. This has nothing to do with being blonde or white. It was a story of a cross country trip. If people are so worried about their missing Indian or black person or male then they can get an Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and post pictures, show pictures of last place the person was seen. Drive down roads, show SOME INTEREST for the public to follow the story.
 
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Wow. 618 posts reference this one individual and nary a word said about the 100's of US citizens still stuck in Afghanistan. Do we cater to media a bit to much? Just goes to show, we here at TB2K are just a hair different than those who we detest on the other side of the spectrum. TB2K should not be facebook, but alas... in many ways it is.
 
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bw said:
That would be a different thread. Contribute to it.
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I would if it would make any difference. Most blindly follow the 'news' and contribute as one of the loyal followers. We like to think we're different here, but in most aspects, we are not. We just tend to bloviate more about our righteousness and how we're different than those 'gossipers' on the left side of the spectrum.... but we still follow the narative.

Usually the OP is the most important message in all things posted here... what follows, not so much. Including my editorializing.
 
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EMICT said:
Wow. 618 posts reference this one individual and nary a word said about the 100's of US citizens still stuck in Afghanistan. Do we cater to media a bit to much? Just goes to show, we here at TB2K are just a hair different than those who we detest on the other side of the spectrum. TB2K should not be facebook, but alas... in many ways it is.
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This thread isn't about Afghanistan, so no, you would have to read one of the other threads that have been posted about Afghanistan and all those left behind.
To say there are no posts on tb2k about the citizens left behind in Afghanistan, would be false.
 
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Lilbitsnana said:
This thread isn't about Afghanistan, so no, you would have to read one of the other threads that have been posted about Afghanistan and all those left behind.
To say there are no posts on tb2k about the citizens left behind in Afghanistan, would be false.
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I understand, but it's the volume of responses I note regarding the propaganda put forth by the main stream media... that's what I'm commenting on to my own demise. I just find it fascinating that one topic can generate so many comments when this is just a miniscule story when compared to areas like Chicago and the carnage that is happening there.

My post goes more to being led by the nose than what the content is actually about, and many folks here seem quite adapt at being in that group. This group is often referred to as 'sheeple'.
 
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EMICT said:
I would if it would make any difference. Most blindly follow the 'news' and contribute as one of the loyal followers. We like to think we're different here, but in most aspects, we are not. We just tend to bloviate more about our righteousness and how we're different than those 'gossipers' on the left side of the spectrum.... but we still follow the narative.

Usually the OP is the most important message in all things posted here... what follows, not so much. Including my editorializing.
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I am just blindly following this for no reason other than I am wasting time. I get up and have coffee and breakfast and read news here. I do not have a TV. I get my blood pressure up good reading about the border, Afgan's here raping, how we will all lose our jobs if not vaccinated, read about covid, covid, go out and feed my rabbits, pick some beans, pull some weeds, come in and read and waste more time, have fabric all over my table getting ready to cut stuff out and put my lunch in the oven, waiting for firewood to be delivered, put clothes in the washer, sit down and read more news about digging up southern soldiers, get more mad, so come read this. I have no care of this because it is not going to change our country. She is dead and tragic and he is on the loose. I loved the Fugitive TV show too. I have to go snap beans and bring in squash and then I will come back and see who is mad about men, women, blondes. LOL
 
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EMICT said:
I understand, but it's the volume of responses I note regarding the propaganda put forth by the main stream media... that's what I'm commenting on to my own demise. I just find it fascinating that one topic can generate so many comments when this is just a miniscule story when compared to areas like Chicago and the carnage that is happening there.

My post goes more to being led by the nose than what the content is actually about, and many folks here seem quite adapt at being in that group. This group is often referred to as 'sheeple'.
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Again, same as Afghanistan, we have threads about Chicago, lots of them.

No, it comes across as if you alone know what is worthy of being a topic and deciding which posts by other members are worth the bandwidth and not just "sheeple" posts.

Please feel free to post threads about all of those things. I have rarely seen Dennis or a mod get rid of threads.
 
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Mprepared said:
I am just blindly following this for no reason other than I am wasting time. I get up and have coffee and breakfast and read news here. I do not have a TV. I get my blood pressure up good reading about the border, Afgan's here raping, how we will all lose our jobs if not vaccinated, read about covid, covid, go out and feed my rabbits, pick some beans, pull some weeds, come in and read and waste more time, have fabric all over my table getting ready to cut stuff out and put my lunch in the oven, waiting for firewood to be delivered, put clothes in the washer, sit down and read more news about digging up southern soldiers, get more mad, so come read this. I have no care of this because it is not going to change our country. She is dead and tragic and he is on the loose. I loved the Fugitive TV show too. I have to go snap beans and bring in squash and then I will come back and see who is mad about men, women, blondes. LOL
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I'm cooking applesauce, and come here after I stir it to see if anything momentous has happened. So far the applesauce is winning.
 
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Lilbitsnana said:
Again, same as Afghanistan, we have threads about Chicago, lots of them.

No, it comes across as if you alone know what is worthy of being a topic and deciding which posts by other members are worth the bandwidth and not just "sheeple" posts.

Please feel free to post threads about all of those things. I have rarely seen Dennis or a mod get rid of threads.
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I changed my identity to fall in line with this post. Unfortunately, I will always call things as I see them...
 
Texican

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Gabby Petito autopsy stated cause of death as a homicide.

The cause of the homicide has not been released.

Why?

Texican....
 
Kayak

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I love to read murder mysteries.

I'm an author, but I don't write murder mysteries. I want to, but I sit down to plot one out and it just doesn't flow for me, so I've (thus far) stuck to the genres I write in --- but for my free-time reading, over half are murder mysteries.

When this story first popped up I couldn't understand why the media was focusing on it, but then details started clicking and the next thing I know, I'm invested.

But even more than that, is that this story is kind of a Rorschach test for the general public. Some see Gabby as the abuser, others see her as abused. Everyone is seeing it through the lens of their own experiences.

For me, I'm following the story and the emotions of it, but I'm also following how the general public views it. People who see the same body-cam footage sometimes report on it as if they saw something completely, one hundred percent different.

And then there are the people who understand that as of now, Brian is free to live wherever he wants, and they don't understand why there is this huge manhunt for him, and others who feel that Brian and his parents shouldn't be afforded the right to remain silent at all, even though no one is under arrest.

At first glance, perhaps it seems like a gossip-type story, but once you dig into it, there are all kinds of things to see. The reporting and the responses to this story are a mirror to middle-America, I think. Those who understand the legal system and constitutional rights, and those who are operating solely on feelz. It's been an educational experience, so far.
 
Kayak

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Texican said:
Gabby Petito autopsy stated cause of death as a homicide.

The cause of the homicide has not been released.

Why?

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Because if they question someone who slips and knows she was strangled, when that info hasn't been released, then they know that person did it. They'll keep that kind of thing quiet as long as possible.

ETA: I'm not saying she was strangled, just using that as an example.
 
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EMICT said:
Can't wait for the oracle's response....
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You might read the first post on this thread.

ADMIN - Sniping and nasty exchanges on the forum - FF to post 324

:fprt :fprt :fprt I posted this on another thread, but it needs to be seen by everybody. Take heed. Ya know.... This has been an increasing trend around here. Thread drifts (fairly normal thing) turning into nasty exchanges with personal jabs. It's going to stop. I understand that...
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One person is already spending some quality time in the cooler.
 
Kathy in FL

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Texican said:
Gabby Petito autopsy stated cause of death as a homicide.

The cause of the homicide has not been released.

Why?

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Because tests for drugs, etc. have not come back. If it is the same as other autopsy times, it will be weeks before the report is finalized. If it doesn't take weeks then you know her was "special" because someone said so ... or because someone's butt was on the line because they screwed up and they are on the phone every blessed minute pestering the coroner's office.

But they better get this right or the courts will chew them up and spit them out ... along with any defense attorneys involved.
 
EMICT

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Millwright said:
You might read the first post on this thread.

ADMIN - Sniping and nasty exchanges on the forum - FF to post 324

:fprt :fprt :fprt I posted this on another thread, but it needs to be seen by everybody. Take heed. Ya know.... This has been an increasing trend around here. Thread drifts (fairly normal thing) turning into nasty exchanges with personal jabs. It's going to stop. I understand that...
www.timebomb2000.com www.timebomb2000.com


One person is already spending some quality time in the cooler.
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"This is gabbys thread ack im n a phone what a drag", and you think this will be a kindly response? Please remove me from this forum. I'm done.
 
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