Celebrity Death Thread

[Tony G]

This kid wasn't a celebrity but his passing and the sadistic way it happened really effed me up today.

Why did no one notice the boy was missing?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/2...boy/index.html

[Marko69]

I hope the father and stepmother are executed immedately. Can't believe we share a planet with such lunatics. Its after reading this sort of stuff that I go to my son and tell him he's a good lad and I'm proud of him, and I love him, ....., looks at me as if I've lost it,......, "yeah right dad"

Something needs done worldwide with the social services. A very high percentage are not doing their jobs properly.

[-Deborah-]

Man. How terrible. Hurts inside to think of a little boy enduring so much.

[DanO]

Absolutely horrible.

That poor child...and his sister as well. She has to live with this for the rest of her life.

GO LIONS "11" !

[Drew]

shit. die and eat shit.

[LionsFanInJapan]

I read that yesterday, and it made me sick. Just no words to describe how horrible that is.

[CGVT]

I'm not reading it. That shit upsets me too much. I'll take ya'lls word on how horrible it is.

[Nick Pappageorgio]

I hope the father and stepmother are executed immedately.

Not me.

I hope they stick them in a brutal maximum security prison with only the most violent criminals and tell everyone what they did. Someplace where the inmates like to play with their food for a while before they eat it.

A painless death is too good for either one.....makes me pissed off that cruel and unusual punishment is against the law

[Tony G]

Actually I would have no problem putting them in a dog cage, chaining their hands to the top, slowly reduce their food, etc etc give them exactly what they gave the son.

[Marko69]

Well I actually did want to say a few things about torturing the bastards but I didn't know if it'd be frowned upon or not......, psycho nutjob fi the 'burgh an that eh?!

There was a case in Edinburgh back in the 90's where a guys sister was raped. He hunted down the rapist and cut the bastards dick off......., and then he went to jail for about ten years for doing it. Took the law into his own hands......, I'm sure a higher percentage of people would like to deal with these psychos personally......., I know I'd kill any fucker who harmed my children, without any shadow of a doubt.

[DanO]

"I'm not reading it. That shit upsets me too much. I'll take ya'lls word on how horrible it is."
------------------I thought about that as well. Should have followed my thoughts.

"Well I actually did want to say a few things about torturing the bastards but I didn't know if it'd be frowned upon or not......, "
---------------------By some it would but I'm not one of them.

GO LIONS "11" !

[gjdodger]

Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died Friday at age 62.
A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he died in the afternoon at St. Luke's Hospital after becoming sick upon returning from a European trip.
"We're all sort of shattered," she said.
Scott-Heron's influence on rap was such that he sometimes was referred to as the Godfather of Rap, a title he rejected.
"If there was any individual initiative that I was responsible for it might have been that there was music in certain poems of mine, with complete progression and repeating `hooks,' which made them more like songs than just recitations with percussion," he wrote in the introduction to his 1990 collection of poems, "Now and Then."
He referred to his signature mix of percussion, politics and performed poetry as bluesology or Third World music. But then he said it was simply "black music or black American music."
"Because Black Americans are now a tremendously diverse essence of all the places we've come from and the music and rhythms we brought with us," he wrote.
Nevertheless, his influence on generations of rappers has been demonstrated through sampling of his recordings by artists, including Kanye West.
Scott-Heron recorded the song that would make him famous, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," which critiqued mass media, for the album "125th and Lenox" in Harlem in the 1970s. He followed up that recording with more than a dozen albums, initially collaborating with musician Brian Jackson. His most recent album was "I'm New Here," which he began recording in 2007 and was released in 2010.
Throughout his musical career, he took on political issues of his time, including apartheid in South Africa and nuclear arms. He had been shaped by the politics of the 1960s and the black literature, especially of the Harlem Renaissance.
Scott-Heron was born in Chicago on April 1, 1949. He was raised in Jackson, Tenn., and in New York before attending college at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
Before turning to music, he was a novelist, at age 19, with the publication of "The Vulture," a murder mystery.
He also was the author of "The Nigger Factory," a social satire.

[DeanUK]

Saw Gil Scott-Heron supporting Will Downing in the 80's. My old next door neighbour was a huge fan of his.

[Panoptes]

This death wasn't posted:

'Taxi' Star Jeff Conaway Dead at 60

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/05/27/taxi-star-jeff-conaway-dead-60/

[Marko69]

Watching Grease will never be the same again.

RIP JC