http://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/family-friends-mourn-mom-kids-killed-in-tisdale-1.2354277

I figure I should share this, at this point. Murder, isn't exactly common up here. And it's even less common in small towns. Tisdale is approximately 40 mins away from my hometown.

The murder suicide involved three kids and a woman. Three kids, one was hung and the other two had their throats slit along with their mother. The father then took pictures, sent them to the woman's ex, took his own kid, drove all the way to Prince Albert to another home, before deciding to kill himself and not his baby child.

Personally, I still don't have anything to say here. As a small group of interconnected communities, this hits hard.

Shit that's fucked up

There are some evil people out there

Quote from: Sandtrap on May 05, 2015, 01:38:18 PM

As a small group of interconnected communities, this hits hard.

I wouldn't give a fuck if my neighbour blew his brains out in the street.

If somebody who lived 40 minutes away pulled a triple homicide, followed by suicide, I probably wouldn't even hear about it. Why? Because we're not pansies. I live in a small town. Would any of these fuckers dying impact my life? Not a chance.

Also, lol, now the red headed girl can become bat-girl.

aww, cute kid. I wonder if there's anyone to take her in yet

>Not posting this on serious
You dun fucked up Sandy

Serious is a discussion board for controversial topics. Being honest here, this has been on my head for a while now. And I don't even know what to say about it. I don't even know what to discuss. But it is news. And it is big news for a place as small and connected as mine.

Quote from: Soʟoɴoɪᴅ on May 05, 2015, 01:49:25 PM

Quote from: Sandtrap on May 05, 2015, 01:38:18 PM

As a small group of interconnected communities, this hits hard.

I wouldn't give a fuck if my neighbour blew his brains out in the street.

If somebody who lived 40 minutes away pulled a triple homicide, followed by suicide, I probably wouldn't even hear about it. Why? Because we're not pansies. I live in a small town. Would any of these fuckers dying impact my life? Not a chance.

Also, lol, now the red headed girl can become bat-girl.

Then you're the sterotypical city/modern age dweller who's been desensitized to things. My entire province operates on a different level. While communities are scattered all across it, and our cities harbor most of our number, word travels quickly.

There's a level of interconnectedness to generally all the communities and even the cities. We aren't violent people. Something like this is generally unheard of in even in the cities. For a small town, this is big. And it's bad.

People know each other up here. Travel all the way out to Saskatoon, and you can bump into people from the same town as yours. Mention a family name and chances are, people will know who you're talking about.

My province, has one foot in the past, with interconnected and caring communities, and one foot in the modern age.

I care because these are people that live close to home. These were kids you could meet every day when they get off the bus. This was a person you could bump into on the streets and have idle talk with as two passerby.

When you live in relative isolation, when you have such a distance to cover between places, people mean more to you when you see them. People leave more of an impact on you.

Nope, lived in small towns my entire life.

Someone I've never met is a person I've never met, whether they live in china or the next block from my house.
I won't woe just because It's possible I could've run into them at the store eventually.

As for being desensitised, haha, no.
If anything, your people have become more sensitive with time.
During ancient times, everyone was even less sensitive than I am.

Hundreds of people get killed in my city (not 40 miles away) literally every day. I'm with Sol here, this isn't that big of a deal.

Gotta agree with Solonoid.

The infant, who is the child of Gosling and the suspected killer, is now in the care of family members.

Did anybody think the infant was the "suspected killer" at first? lol

Also, lol, now the red headed girl can become bat-girl.

How? She's dead along with the other three.

I live in a small town. Would any of these fuckers dying impact my life? Not a chance.

I also live in a small town. Some kid I went to school with died the year of graduation. I had no idea who this person even was until I went on the Facebook page for him. A person I used to hangout with ended up having their parents die in a car crash. Even though I was friends with this person that still didn't affect me since I had nothing to do with them. It was after school which they died that I was going to this persons house.

His point people is that just because you live in a small town doesn't mean you're going to be connected with every person that lives there. Even if you know the person it still doesn't mean their death is going to impact you. If it's some person that works at a place you go to every week. Them not being their isn't going to impact you in anyway when you just see that person in the checkout line.

Quote from: Sandtrap on May 05, 2015, 01:38:18 PM

As a small group of interconnected communities, this hits hard.

I wouldn't give a fuck if my neighbour blew his brains out in the street.

Me neither but it's not because I don't care about people I don't know. I just hate the fuck.

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Quote from: Sandtrap on May 05, 2015, 02:05:38 PM

Quote from: Soʟoɴoɪᴅ on May 05, 2015, 01:49:25 PM

Quote from: Sandtrap on May 05, 2015, 01:38:18 PM

As a small group of interconnected communities, this hits hard.

I wouldn't give a fuck if my neighbour blew his brains out in the street.

If somebody who lived 40 minutes away pulled a triple homicide, followed by suicide, I probably wouldn't even hear about it. Why? Because we're not pansies. I live in a small town. Would any of these fuckers dying impact my life? Not a chance.

Also, lol, now the red headed girl can become bat-girl.

Then you're the sterotypical city/modern age dweller who's been desensitized to things. My entire province operates on a different level. While communities are scattered all across it, and our cities harbor most of our number, word travels quickly.

There's a level of interconnectedness to generally all the communities and even the cities. We aren't violent people. Something like this is generally unheard of in even in the cities. For a small town, this is big. And it's bad.

People know each other up here. Travel all the way out to Saskatoon, and you can bump into people from the same town as yours. Mention a family name and chances are, people will know who you're talking about.

My province, has one foot in the past, with interconnected and caring communities, and one foot in the modern age.

I care because these are people that live close to home. These were kids you could meet every day when they get off the bus. This was a person you could bump into on the streets and have idle talk with as two passerby.

When you live in relative isolation, when you have such a distance to cover between places, people mean more to you when you see them. People leave more of an impact on you.

Nope, lived in small towns my entire life.

Someone I've never met is a person I've never met, whether they live in china or the next block from my house.
I won't woe just because It's possible I could've run into them at the store eventually.

As for being desensitised, haha, no.
If anything, your people have become more sensitive with time.
During ancient times, everyone was even less sensitive than I am.

Then perhaps it's the environment up here. People up here are just simply more connected. More....compassionate if you will. Maybe it's a customs thing. Talk spreads quickly around here. Personal reputations are a thing here. To such an extent that towns can know about you even if you've never set foot in them.

This province was founded on the very essence of being connected, and cooperation. The first settlers, German exiles, arrived here in the middle of winter. In order to survive, everybody had to do their part. And to some extent, today is still like that. You see somebody in trouble, you help them.

7 months of winter and temperatures that can kill you in under 10 minutes of exposure. You can't afford to overlook things or people. You see a stopped vehicle on the roads, and you investigate because it could actually mean life or death for somebody in the winter.

It's a silent, unspoken rule of my province. Hell, do you know what a custom is up here?

Waving. Passing by people, farmers, truck drivers, people will just automatically wave to each other as they pass on the grid roads.

So while no, the death does not personally effect me, it does strike to home because as I said.

Shootings, killings. They're rare up here. Especially for a small town of barely over 1000 people.

It's a culture difference.

In fact, it's so much of a culture difference that murder is almost unheard of.

In 2013, the entire sum murder rate for this entire province was 30. And that was high for this province.

Hundreds of people get killed in my city (not 40 miles away) literally every day. I'm with Sol here, this isn't that big of a deal.

It is when the murder rate in my entire province for a year doesn't even reach 50.

And you'd agree with Sol because you're you.

Quote from: Sandtrap on May 05, 2015, 08:13:14 PM

Quote from: SecondClass on May 05, 2015, 02:16:27 PM

Hundreds of people get killed in my city (not 40 miles away) literally every day. I'm with Sol here, this isn't that big of a deal.

It is when the murder rate in my entire province for a year doesn't even reach 50.

And you'd agree with Sol because you're you.

I forgot you lived in cantopia

Refresher course then. Most people are much friendlier up here. Murder. Not our style.