Many would say 4/20 has something to do with smoking pot. But how many would remember the Columbine high school massacre that happened on this date in 1999?
I went to college with some kids who were there, but they never really talked about it.
The Date 4/20 has alot of events that happened on it. Sadly not many are very good. Everyone should take a moment to remember all those innocent lives lost at columbine today. Here are some other notable events that happened today none of which has to do with pot.:
1769 - Chief Pontiac of the Ottowa tribe is murdered by a member of the Peoria tribe
1841 - The first detective story is published, Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders at the Rue Morge
1871 - Congress passes the Ku Klux Act, allowing President Grant to use military force against the Ku Klux Klan
1898 - President McKinley asks Congress for declaration of war with Spain
1902 - Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium
1912 - Boston Red Sox play their first game in Fenway Park
1912 - Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, dies
1914 - Militias employed by Standard Oil and the Rockefeller family open fire on striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing dozens of men, women and children in what will come to be known as The Ludlow Massacre
1926 - Warner Bros. and Western Electric release Vitaphone, the first viable technology for sound in film
1945 - Allied forces launch Operation Corncob, airstrikes meant to cut off lines of retreat for German forces, as Hitler celebrates his birthday
1949 - Willie Shoemaker, legendary American jockey, wins his first horse race at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, California
1985 - Wham! are the first Western pop musicians to release cassettes in the People’s Republic of China
1999 - Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris kill 13 students and faculty members of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, then turn their guns on themselves
2008 - Danica Patrick becomes the first woman to win an IndyCar race at the Japan 300
2010 - The Deepwater Horizon explodes, killing 11 crewmembers and triggering the largest offshore oil spill in American history
I can still remember watching the events of columbine play out on TV, It’s sorrowful that these two kids took so many innocent lives with them that day.
Many blamed violent video games and graphic lyrics in music. Others wonder, ‘‘Where were the parents?’’ I heard it was because these two kids were picked on, and took out their anger and frustration by opening fire on students and teachers before killing themselves. It is a tragedy.
this is the kind of stuff id rather read about than stupid “lets smoke weed” bullshit.
Me, too. And I never knew 4/20 had a significant part in history. As cowbybill said, some not so good.
True Story.
I was working @ the Media Play just around the corner from the School when that happened. the morning they did this I was told by my Manager to follow these two kids around and keep an eye on them because “they looked like they were up to no good”. well it turned out to be the 2 shooters. … I can say that as sad as it was, there were some who made a bad situation even worse in the quake of that event by blaming everyone who was different. I knew some of the Kids who went to school with these 2 as they worked part time @ my store. they told me that the 2 shooters were harassed so much by other kids that it was out of control. there were times they were pelted with Full cans of soda from a moving vehicle and beat up almost every day. one one hope that the human race would evolve to a point where these things become only a distant memory of our ignorant youth as a society.
Its also hitlers birthday.
Life’s pretty rough in Littleton, man.
It was pretty tragic considering that the standard outlet for their personality types was only two months away.
Ugh, I remember that. I was a sophmore.
It made security issues hell for the rest of us still in high school at the time. Out came the metal detectors, resource officers (police detectives in school) random bookbag searches, drug and bomb dogs sniffing lockers. Post-incident security hysteria to the max. I frickin hated HS in the late 90’s, early 2000’s… and what those 2 kids did made life just that much more unbearable for the rest of us suffering through school. And I was pretty well liked, too. I was more of a Ferris Bueller type for my school, so I could imagine it being far worse for people who were socially actualized.
It’s weird, I mean, I wasn’t really bullied much because I was liked OK by most of my classmates. I mean, it did come to a time when no one would pay attention to me and I felt invisible, but that’s a whole other story. However, there were these three particular girls that always made it a point to mess with me, and although there were times when I just wanted to beat the ■■■■ out of them, I can’t see how anyone would want to go so far as to kill someone else, regardless of how horrible they might be.
However, I read an article the other day explaining that these two kids were pretty much bullies themselves, and that Eric Harris in particular had all the makings of a psychotic killer, meaning, maybe no matter what something like this was bound to happen because that’s where he was headed. If not in high school, maybe when (if) he went to college, or even well into adulthood. I’ll look for the article and post it, it was pretty interesting. This article was written on the tenth anniversary or something of the shooting, and according to the writer it was to include some facts that the FBI had kept concealed about the shooting that they are now allowing to be dispersed to the media.
EDIT: Found it (it was alot faster than I thought lol). http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm
I got pulled into the principals office (by the newly appoint cop/safety officer) and was told I had to be “detained from the masses” over a drawing I made in art class my senior year of high school. It was very Looney Tune-esque, with like some cartoon guy taking a cartoony blast in the face with a shotgun and still being alive kinda thing. This principal was newly appointed and obviously didnt bother to do any school history research on me: being a 4.0 honor student, an actor in school plays, holding officer positions in many class organizations including being elected graduation class vice-president, knowing teachers outside of school thru church/ community volunteering, my parents being active with the PTA, having several family members as past alumni from the school, etc. All that and being known by all my classmates that grew up with me all the way from kindergarten as the artist: recorded in the class yearbook as voted “most artistic.” “Detaining me from the masses” all the while that square-headed ■■■■ was boffing the school librarian. What a tight running ship he was keeping! And what a great world we live in!
I remember watching the administration go around and confiscate trench coats and dusters. What a bunch of lame ■■■■■. Then that whole “She Said Yes” stuff invaded the churches (even though it turns out the girl that became the icon for that movement wasn’t even the one who said it).
I remember everyone at the first Star Wars Celebration (at the Wings over the Rockies or whatever it is in Denver) freaking out when a buddy of mine dressed as Darth Vader. They told him he needed to be sensitive to the Columbine families and not wear anything black…and that I shouldn’t carry my heavy blaster while I was dressed as a Stormtrooper. Now, that was the biggest load of ■■■■!! Everyone knows it was Marilyn Manson that persuaded that…not the Empire. :roll: LOL
Derek
You will join the Darkside…
…and shoot up your high school.