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Okeechobee teen Andrew Wheeler is charged after beating a 16-year-old with autism

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Obito, Aug 15, 2014.

  1. Obito

    Obito Contributing Member

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    http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/s...r-allegedly-beating-a-16-year-old-with-autism


    Video ruined my day, not something you might want to see just warning you.
     
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  2. Mr. Clutch

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    Okeechobee a new boy band or something?
     
  3. Mr. Brightside

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    I don't think you needed to include Okeechobee in the thread title.
     
  4. Buck Turgidson

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    Why do people post threads like this? What purpose does it serve?
     
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    What the hell is a Okeechobee? Is that a new sexual orientation or something?
     
  7. dharocks

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    As in Lake Okeechobee, I'm assuming. Which I only know of because that's where Dewey Crowe and his family from Justified hails from.
     
  8. hotballa

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    Is it that effing hard to write "16-year-old autistic boy". The headline makes it sound like autism was used to beat a 16 year old boy. Where the hell do reporters goto school?
     
  9. Dairy Ashford

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    In an alternate universe where not every noun has an adjectival equivalent, prepositions modify multiple types of grammatical objects and readers pro-actively interpret the difference between traits, conditions and physical things.
     
  10. dharocks

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    Next you're going to tell us that in this universe women don't give birth through their urethra :rolleyes:
     
  11. Obito

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    I mean if you guys really think the topic of Okeechobee serves more of a purpose than the actually story than i apologize for posting, dickheads.
     
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  12. Obito

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    I actually love the show justified so

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3eGJOqMHsDI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
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    "This ruined my day. Here, please watch."
     
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    The correct phrasing actually is a person with autism not an autistic person.

    Would you say "16 year old beats up 14 year old cancered boy."
     
  15. Mr. Brightside

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    op/sob wants to ruin my day too. what a prick.
     
  16. Cold Hard

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    This. I don't think people want to read about this kind of stuff.
     
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    . . . i bet the 'thug' lived through this . .. of course he did .. . he's _______________


    Rocket River
     
  18. Granville

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    As the father of 17 year old son with Autism, this saddens me on a lot of levels. You have a house where underage drink is going on. You have people who thought it was a good idea to let an Autistic person drink. Autistic people are often on psychiatric medication which would be a danger to the individuals health. Encouraging an Autistic person to fight is incredibly dumb.

    with as many people that I saw in that video and none of them had the balls to stop the mental and physical victimization of a young man with the challenges that accompany Autism my heart breaks at the mere thought of the heartless souls in today's society. WTF is wrong with people?

    I hope they throw the book at the thug in the video. He deserves whatever he gets. Our family dealt with a situation with our son that netted a 15 year sentence for the scumbag predator. Even though it's tough to do, I hope the autistic boys parents let justice work. Lord knows I had to get talked out of going after the scumbag in our case.

    Not sure what they can charge the bystanders with but they need to and I hope the parents who own that house get sued too.
     
  19. Xerobull

    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    It's what the kids are calling auto-erotic asphyxiation these days.
     
  20. wreck

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    It just makes me mad to see this. So I avoid articles like this
     

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