What are the odds of this being another William Freund?
Yes but to get that far he was clearly suffering from a mental disease so therapy and understanding from us but particularly people surrounding him in real life could have helped. Maybe not but i know of a few people that came out better from a little understanding and 'opting out' from life in an institution before. Theres really no point in anyone here feeling responsible because we only played a tiny part in his life and like lenny said it is where he was brought up, easy gun availability, himself and society in general that is in part to blame for things like this.
BeeBee note: I would like to keep all discussion of this topic in one thread. To that end, Lowfreq50 has agreed to allow me to move the following posts from another thread to here.
Freund's rampage is coming up on the news shorty
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No new information.
But, they did put his photo up and he is definitely 100% our own William Freund.
There are people like that everywhere. In schools, offices, on online forums. Everywhere you go there are people who don't care at all. That is precisely why people like WillFreund need professional intervention. When nobody who isn't professional will care about you all you have left is professionals. If a drug numbs the pain and therapy makes you feel like you've got a sort-of friend in the therapist, then it beats carrying on suffering at the hands of careless, ignorant people who can't take responsibility for their actions because they're too selfish and always will be too selfish.
arrr, actually I had already apologized to him in IRC.
Oct 18 13:37:38 bobalobaluga well i apologize for anything i may have said what was upsetting too
Oct 18 13:37:40 bobalobaluga btw
Oct 18 13:54:49 willfreund dont matter theres always idiots
Oct 18 13:54:52 * willfreund has quit ("{ GoPJirc } Front End for Plouf`s PJirc. PJirc forever")
God. I had no idea he was actually serious in his posts; especially the suicide one. It honestly did seem like a prank (he seemed to be asking for money, which was confusing to me as to how it could be in the context of a sincere cry for help as opposed to manipulation); but as I said, the incoherency took away from that idea and made it seem more likely that he was actually in need of help. I'm sorry I didn't believe him; his posts were so utterly confusing.
I almost wonder if WP should require that contect information be given, to be kept confidential- I doubt this would get past anything though and most people would BS it. Still, he was honest, he might have given out the info...
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I almost wonder if WP should require that contect information be given, to be kept confidential- I doubt this would get past anything though and most people would BS it. Still, he was honest, he might have given out the info...
His first posts here were asking for money donations for himself. It really pissed me off that someone would come on here and put up a PayPal link asking for hand-outs. There's enough beggers IRL, we don't need them online. So, right away I dismissed him as a joke.
This is the last time willfreund was on IRC:
Oct 23 07:04:15 * burnaoda ([email protected]) has joined #wrongplanet
Oct 23 07:04:25 t3chstep hi burn
Oct 23 07:04:41 burnaoda hi t3ch
Oct 23 07:05:08 newchum_wp hi
Oct 23 07:05:52 burnaoda anyone know what happen to katesmith or willfruend?
Oct 23 07:06:07 burnaoda this is anon_218
Oct 23 07:06:18 burnaoda was on mummm thursday/friday
Oct 23 07:06:22 t3chstep kate was here earlier
Oct 23 07:06:22 * ecstasia has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer))
Oct 23 07:06:43 burnaoda good ecstasia left, this is willfreund, I got banned form here
Oct 23 07:06:49 burnaoda its like whats the deal shesh
Oct 23 07:06:59 burnaoda dont mention my name when she comes back, just know who it is
Oct 23 07:07:04 * ecstasia ([email protected]) has joined #WrongPlanet
Oct 23 07:07:27 jrubio86 ecs is here
Oct 23 07:08:02 newchum_wp I made a couple of online friends recent, Kim who is 17 year old who posts on this discussion forum
Oct 23 07:08:06 jrubio86 burnaoda aka willfreund
Oct 23 07:08:14 burnaoda rubio do you have something against me?
Oct 23 07:08:20 newchum_wp and a 23 year old Chinese woman named Peipei
Oct 23 07:08:20 t3chstep lol
Oct 23 07:08:25 jrubio86 no
Oct 23 07:09:17 t3chstep one of my friends from back in the day is dating a japanese chick named Marney
Oct 23 07:09:30 ecstasia eep
Oct 23 07:09:35 ecstasia disconnected
Oct 23 07:09:40 t3chstep that must be a nickname though, shes definitely not amarican born-and-raised
Oct 23 07:09:54 burnaoda duh ^^
Oct 23 07:10:07 ecstasia woah, solid granite bathtub
Oct 23 07:10:18 burnaoda what?
Oct 23 07:11:02 t3chstep You watching HGTV now?
Oct 23 07:11:16 ecstasia no, found a site through google image search
Oct 23 07:11:26 ecstasia i imagine the granite would be a bit chilly on the skin
Oct 23 07:11:36 AZ_AS I remember when I was obsessed with that network
Oct 23 07:11:36 burnaoda well you use water ecs
Oct 23 07:11:58 ecstasia i know
Oct 23 07:12:06 ecstasia but it would take alot of heat to warm up the granite
Oct 23 07:12:37 burnaoda ecstasia do you moderate any other channels?
Oct 23 07:12:44 ecstasia not anymore
Oct 23 07:12:45 ecstasia why?
Oct 23 07:12:50 t3chstep probably looks pretty slick though
Oct 23 07:13:28 * ChanServ gives channel operator status to ecstasia
Oct 23 07:13:30 t3chstep because they found out she's assassinated a troll or two
Oct 23 07:13:42 silph wb ecstasia
Oct 23 07:13:57 * ecstasia sets ban on *!*@218.38.61.163
Oct 23 07:14:05 * ecstasia has kicked burnaoda from #WrongPlanet (hmph)
Oct 23 07:14:41 jrubio86 what happened
Oct 23 07:15:05 t3chstep long story
Oct 23 07:15:07 ecstasia willfreund is pure trouble
Oct 23 07:15:12 t3chstep he's a piece
Oct 23 07:15:21 ecstasia definitely
Oct 23 07:15:37 jrubio86 well he wasn't saying anything crazy now
Oct 23 07:15:47 t3chstep lol
do you think the media will find out that he was on WrongPlanet.net?
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And I think no, she did the right thing, considering that he was always endorsing suicide on there. Which is NOT what we need on the WP.net chatroom...
Alex, I'd probably place a bet on it. Look in the mod area for the stuff involved.
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"Endorsing"?? Like what exactly would he say? You can PM it if you don't think its appropriate to repeat something he said on here.
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