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RIP Kobe Bryant

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Driftwood, Jan 26, 2020.

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  1. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Blue Suede with Orange stripe, Knicks colors.
     
    heyabbott, Jun 3, 2021
    #841
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  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Were those shoes frauds?
     
    Songbird, Jun 3, 2021
    #842
  3. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    MileHigh, Jun 22, 2021
    #843
  4. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    MileHigh, Nov 2, 2021
    #844
  5. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

     
    HanSenSE, Aug 24, 2022
    #845
  6. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Too bad the fuckhead cops don't lose their jobs and pensions.
     
    goalmouth, Aug 24, 2022
    #846
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  7. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Good. Never saw the pictures of my sister's family, but I read the autopsy reports and talked with first responders, search and rescue and coroners who were up there to know how bad it was. And I went up there after the site was cleared and was given a very open and honest assessment of how things happened and where their remains were found.

    And the Bryant crash had eerily similar circumstances to their deaths (spatial disorientation).

    Honestly, there's no figure high enough. It's deranged bullshit to do something like this. I feel for the families, having been there, but not in this exact circumstance because we dealt with the upmost professionals we ever could have imagined. All of them at so many levels went so far beyond what they needed to -- we are forever grateful to them.

    If we had to deal with THIS bullshit ....? Yeah, I'd be fighting these m-f'ers all day and night.

    She doesn't need the money.

    Make them pay every damn cent.
     
    MileHigh, Aug 24, 2022
    #847
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  8. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    This. This is what should happen.

    I understand the sentiment (as much as I'm able, not having been through such a thing), MileHigh. But, as you said, Vanessa Bryant doesn't need the money, and the figure of $31 million is so esoteric to most people that it seems to lose its impact, in my opinion. And also, "the county" paying it seems to depersonalize it, and again, lessen the impact. Goalmouth's way makes the penalty hit where/whom it really specifically should, and would definitely impact the actual people directly involved.
     
    WriteThinking, Aug 24, 2022
    #848
  9. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    The county isn't paying shit. The insurance is. The taxpayers are.

    As our lawyer has told me too many times, I've received a very unfortunate inheritance.

    I'd give every damn cent back to have them back.

    Alas ...

    IF I were in Vanessa Bryant's shoes AND IF I had Vanessa Bryant's resources ....

    Pay me $1 and those F-m'ers lose their pensions and lose their jobs.

    Sadly, it doesn't work that way. Even if it did, they would be hired in Barstow, Needles or Blythe.
     
    MileHigh, Aug 24, 2022
    #849
  10. Sea Bass

    Sea Bass Well-Known Member

    I don’t know the ages of the cops, whether they have kids, etc., but taking away their jobs/pensions (while they’d be otherwise unemployable) punishes their presumably innocent families. Which I don’t know would be right.
     
    Sea Bass, Aug 24, 2022
    #850
  11. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    YOU'VE GOT TO BE F***ING KIDDING ME.

    You know what they did, right? RIGHT??!!

    You're ... condoning what they did??? Because, shit, they have kids. We can't take away their jobs/pensions because, well, those are forever, no matter what they do?

    ARE YOU SERIOUS???!!!
     
    MileHigh, Aug 24, 2022
    #851
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  12. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    OK, I like your idea, too -- really -- to take a dollar and have those directly at fault lose their jobs/pensions. That is really the point. Nothing brings your loved ones back, and you'd give anything and everything to have them back. So, the money doesn't matter, i.e. loses its impact, in a very real way (IMO), even though I know that's the only recourse that there is for families who have lost someone in such a tragedy.

    Please know that I wish you could have them back if you gave it back.
     
    WriteThinking, Aug 24, 2022
    #852
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