TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: School Violence

  • No Apologies

    No Apologies

    A few weeks ago, a columnist named David Brooks for the New York Times wrote this column which is basically just him agreeing with this column by Dave Cullen.

    Mr. Brooks then started receiving E-mails from Tom Klebold, Dylan Klebold’s father, which led to this piece in Saturday’s New York Times.

    In it, the Klebolds refuse to apologize for what happened. Susan Klebold even goes as far to say, “I haven’t done anything for which I need forgiveness.” They also describe the day of the shootings as “a natural disaster” and the Klebold’s discuss the day as a suicide and not as a day when 13 random people were killed. Two quotes from the NY Times article jumped out at me…

    They believe that what they call the “toxic culture” of the school — the worship of jocks and the tolerance of bullying — is the primary force that set Dylan off. But they confess that in the main, they have no explanation.

    Yet, they didn’t kill any jocks, and I have yet to hear of the names of any jocks who allegedly bullied them. And then there was this…

    “I’m a quantitative person,” said Tom, a former geophysicist. “We’re not qualified to sort this out.” They long for some authoritative study that will provide an answer. “People need to understand,” Tom said, “this could have happened to them.”

    So it sounds like to me that they’re willing to let other people raise their child. People like Eric Harris. The impression I get is that the Klebolds are very self-absorbed. They must be to have missed obvious warning signs, which they regrettably admit…

    “He was hopeless. We didn’t realize it until after the end,” Tom said. Susan added: “I think he suffered horribly before he died. For not seeing that, I will never forgive myself.”

    Suffered horribly? At least he knew that he was going to die that day. 13 other people weren’t afforded such a luxury.

    As expected, parents of the true victims are not happy…

    “I’m horrified,” Dawn Anna, whose daughter Lauren Townsend was killed at Columbine, told The Associated Press. “I wanted an apology. I wanted a contribution to help us understand why it happened, so that it would never happen again. I didn’t hear it.”

    Brian Rohrbough, father of victim Daniel Rohrbough, said he was outraged that the Klebolds likened the day of the shootings to a natural disaster in the interview with Brooks.

    The best quote to sum this all up also comes from Brian Rohrbough who said…

    “This was murder,” he said. “In my opinion, what went on in their home led to Columbine.”

    Now if only the Klebold’s would pull their heads out of the sand and realize that.

  • 5/09/04: From the Mail Sack

    5/09/04: From the Mail Sack

    It’s Sunday, so you know what that means. It’s time to bring on the love from my adoring public. Only two this week. One is pretty much a repeat, and the second is just oh so good.

    First, the repeat from my entry about the Columbine Death Photos…

    you guys need to shut the fuck up. You know NOTHING about eric or dylan. Eric was a close friend of mine. Rest In Peace Brothers.

    -Mik

    Comment by Mik — Sunday May 9, 2004 @ 1:24 pm

    Again I say if Harris and Klebold had as many friends in life as people who claim to have known them, then they would have been the most popular guys in Colorado.

    How pathetic is your life that you have to make up stories about being the friend of a psychopath and a coward? The e-mail address the poster left was zyklon_brotherhood@xxxxxx.com. For those of you that may not know, Zyklon gas was the gas the Nazis used to exterminate the Jews. So now you know the mentality of these Harris and Klebold supporters. Racists and Anti-Semites.

    Now for the coup de grâce. This one came in through my mail form and is from one of my trolls by the name of Joey. He’s banned from leaving comments on the site, so he’s resorted to sending me mail. I’ll warn you the language is a little strong.

    Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by

    joey on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 00:47:21

    body: whats up cunt! fuck you and your whole organization!fuck you and everything you stand for,fuck you and your dead cunt grandmother,fuck you and your outlook on life,fuck you and your whole website fuckhead.fuck you ,you cunt.

    IF I EVER FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE TRENCH I WILL “GUT YOU LIKE FUCKING SWINE AND USE YOUR INTESTINES TO MAKE MY SAUSAUGE”I WILL “TEARE OFF YOUR SKIN LIKE WRAPING PAPER AND DECK THE HALLS WITH YOUR ORGANES” fuck you!

    Typical Harris and Klebold tactic. Sending cowardly threats through anonymous channels. Guess what, Joey, you’re not so anonymous. You see, every time you post a comment or send me an e-mail, it records your IP address.

    If I thought you were an actual threat, I’d have the authorities knocking on your door right now. Then how would you explain that to mommy and daddy? Then you might get kicked out of the basement. But more likely in your case, you’d be grounded, and your parents would take your bicycle and clubhouse away.

  • 5/2/04: From the Mail Sack

    5/2/04: From the Mail Sack

    It’s Sunday, so let’s bring on the love.

    From my entry about the Columbine death photos…

    You all except for NBK reb and reb the natural born killer need to stop bitching about Eric and Dylan… Christ you didn’t even know them. In truth Eric and Dylan were really cool (well at least Eric was i could care less about Dylan) sure Dylan had problems and Eric may have been a little too into bombs but all around they were really cool guys… I love REB and he will be in my heart forever and always… I LOVE YOU REB!!

    Comment by REB’S girl – Friday Apr 23, 2004 @ 9:01 pm

    I wish I had a dollar for every person who told me they were a friend of Harris’. If he actually had that many friends, he would have been the most popular guy in school. How devoid of meaning is your life that you have to pretend to have known a killer scumbag? Quit being delusional and go get a life.

    This was received through my mail form…

    Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by

    shady (juicyfruit26@aol.com) on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 at 17:59:43

    body: yo, i really like ur website u just need more pictures of dylan and harris that be cool then………

    No. No, it wouldn’t yo. It’s funny that you talk like someone that Harris and Klebold would have hated, seeing as how your heroes were racists pricks. Chew on that.

    And lastly …

    klebold 2

    u r the biggest dick on this planet with nothing better to verbally brutalise anyone with a different perspective keep sucking up that dog cum u faggot .. i weep with joy 4 the day u, ur slut wife and everyone u know is dead

    28 April 2004 – your town,lol

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the typical Harris and Klebold worshiping mutant. Lower than average intelligence. Unable to write complete sentences without resorting to vulgarities and threats. It’s good to see that your parents are doing such a stellar job of raising you. I say doing because no matter how old you are, I’m sure you’re still living in mom’s basement. Oh well. Somebody has to cook my fries.

  • A Sad Day of Death

    A Sad Day of Death

    Columbine tragedy spawns card game:

    Tip of the old hat to Darcie for bringing this one to my attention. This is just un-fucking-believable. Some assclown from Texas has decided to try and make money by making a card game based on the Columbine massacre. Check out his reasoning behind it…

    But Andy Richey insisted Wednesday he’s not trying to get rich.

    Instead, Richey said he wants to use the money from sales of “Columbine, the Massacre” to go out of the United States and buy a kidney for someone who needs a transplant.

    “It’s just to balance out my karma,” Richey said by telephone from Arlington, Texas, where he lives.

    Balance out your karma? You have to got be fucking kidding me. You’re just begging to have your ass run over by the karma train 13 times. There are other ways to raise money if it actually is for a foreign transplant patient. This is nothing more than blood money. I hope you rot in hell.

  • Columbine: Then and now

    Columbine: Then and now

    I got over 1,300 hits yesterday for obvious reasons and only one good piece of hate mail. Come on mutants. You’re slacking off.

    Anyway, I want to go over one of the articles I posted yesterday…

    The Depressive and the Psychopath:

    This is a great article, which goes with my theory that the alleged “bullying” had nothing to do with the shooting. The FBI team concluded that Harris was a psychopath and Klebold was a sycophant. Now, I do not condone bullying in any way shape or form, but how come we never hear any of the bullies’ names? We hear how they were supposed bullied, but we never hear the names of the bullies.

    According to the article, the aftermath of Columbine would have been considered a failure in Harris’ and Klebold’s eyes. So they were in death as they were in life. Failures and cowards.

    This one I saw yesterday but saved until today…

    Iowa teen arrested after Columbine-style threat:

    It turns out this mutant had no plans or weapons. It turns out he was a typical Harris and Klebold mutant. Just a punk who liked shooting his mouth off. When asked by his principal if he planned a school shooting, he said…

    “I don’t have to do things on the 20th. I can do them some other time.”

    They locked his ass up after that. What gets me is this…

    The shirt he wore to school last fall had pictures of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 12 classmates and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves, and the phrase: “Always Remembered.”

    What gets me is that someone actually manufactured a t-shirt as reprehensible as that and is making money from it, and that his parents actually allowed him to wear that shirt. And to school, no less. If parents just did their fucking jobs, we wouldn’t have half the problems in school that we do now. These parents are just pathetic.

  • 4/11/04: From the Mail Sack

    4/11/04: From the Mail Sack

    Only one this week, and guess where it’s from. That’s right kids. It’s from my entry on the Eric Harris journal…

    Ich habe Eric und Dylan gekannt und war nicht ins wenigste ge?berrascht, als es alle hinabgegangen sind.. Sie waren Feiglinge und das derjenig, die gestorben sind, waren nicht unschuldig nicht.. Sie haben diejenigen get?tet, die sie n?tigen Tod gef?hlt haben.. Diejenigen, die niemann sagen, k?nnen entscheiden, wer lebt, und k?nnen voll von Schei?e sterben ist. Irgendjemand kann entscheiden, wer leben wird, und wird sterben, alles, das sie machen m?ssen, ist folgt durch damit.. Eric und Dylan haben gemacht, was mu?te gemacht werden und wenn sie nicht gehabt haben, h?tte jemand anders.. Ich gebe keine Schei?e, wenn ich Sie beleidigt habe, oder wenn Sie mit mir ?bereinstimmen, glaube ich blo? was ich erkl?re und wie ich f?hle.. K?nnen Sie Dylan und ewig Eric werden erinnert an f?r ihre Ausf?hrungen! (and I agree with ya Sarah… There should be 15 crosses atop that hill… Who gives a shit if Danny Rohrbough and anyone else doesn’t want them up… They both deserve to be recognized just as much as the other 13 so called “victims”)

    Comment by Das Hat Ein Verloren — Thursday Apr 8, 2004 @ 10:58 pm

    I guess I’m supposed to be impressed because you know German. The question is did you learn it before you became obsessed with two Nazi loving peckerheads? Somehow I doubt it. Why should Harris and Klebold be recognized along with the 13 true victims? As I keep saying they were not victims. They were cowards. Unintelligent cowards at that. They didn’t have the mental capacity to deal with their problems in a rational manner. And apparently neither do you. Have fun goose-stepping in your mom’s basement, fawning all over your cowardly idols while they rot in hell.

  • 3/28/04: From The Mail Sack

    3/28/04: From The Mail Sack

    Quick and dirty tonight, but here we go with the hate mail.

    As usual, from the Eric Harris journal entry…

    I think they had a right to do what they did. If people would have paid more attention and see whats right in front of there face then it could have been prevented. If they were to blind to see somthing like that and so mean as to treat people like that then they deserved it. They had it coming.

    Posted by: TeeJay at March 24, 2004 12:57 AM

    Hey TJ. Somewhere out there is someone who thinks you’re mean. Karma is a bitch.

    To keep the streak going, here’s another one…

    Those kids took years of abuse and harassment and shoved it into those kids and those teacher’s faces. Not only did they learn to shut the fuck up and stop treating ppll like shit, I think just about anyone living with the ability to understand the situation learned too. Im sorry people had to die but it was bound to happen sometime, if they didnt do it, someone else would have. I admire then for their bravey and Ill always defend them because they were treated like shit.

    Posted by: Alexis at March 23, 2004 09:50 PM

    Common-sense dictates that being treated like shit is no excuse to shoot 13 unarmed people. Again, it’s not bravery, it’s the most extreme form of cowardice.

    Ok, this one is from the Spain Bombing entry, but obviously the poster is a mental midget….

    OK what ever your name is the ass that writes this crap. You sir are a complete and total fool you know nothing. You spew bull shit on almost every subject. I cant stand your smart ass remarks such as ass clown and how Eric and Dylan are burning in hell. How the fuck do you know frankly you don’t have a clue no one does its something beyond your comprehension and you sound like an ass when you say these things. go ahead and pick apart my spelling and grammar and call me a mutant, freak or worshiper do that but just remember what an ass you are when you talk so much shit about something you cant understand something like death

    Posted by: NBK at March 22, 2004 03:01 AM

    You see, I and most people believe in this place called hell where killers go when they die to be punished for eternity. Therefore, Harris and Klebold are burning in hell 13 times over.

  • 3/21/04: From the Mail Sack

    3/21/04: From the Mail Sack

    Ever notice there seems to be a recurring theme in my hate mail…v

    From: dariafanguy

    Location: Canada

    Its too damn bad that theres helll and jail if both of those things were not there i would go to my school and cap some people myself. But there is so i salute eric and dylan for living out there desires wich i wont be able to do because im afraid of punishement.

    It’s just school, kid. Take it from someone who’s been there. Once it’s over, you’ll wonder why you obsessed about it so much. Grow a set and stick it out.

    And as usual, from my entry on the Eric Harris Journal…

    OK,HERE IT IS,IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT READ IT. The whole jeffco school system is fucked up the Columbine teachers would watch Eric get beat up daily, watch eric get shoved into lockers daily and not do a thing about it cause he wasnt popular, and his parents didnt have conections The teachers at columbine still only stop about half of the fights that still happen at hour school, whereas if u even mention eric and dylan ur automatically suspended. before they reopened columbine they would give all the so-called “outcasts” an option of home school or back to columbine. they dont want any individuality in this school and its bull fucking shit. i dont condone killing the so-called “innocent by-standers” ( who,just for the record, were’nt innocent at all) they didnt got randomly shooting they got who they wanted. if u were there u would have know most of those killed did mess with Eric and Dylan on the regular basis. but i do believe a person can only be pushed so far there are 15 dead not 13 and there should be 15 crosses still on the hill…

    OH AND BRANDI.. IF THERE IS SOMETHIGN IN THIS POST THAT OFFENDS YOU HERES MY INFO SO YOU DONT HAVE TO GO THRU TO MUCH TROUBLE TRACKING ME DOWN..

    Name:Sarah

    Age:22

    Location, Littleton,Co

    HS: Columbine

    University: Denver

    Acc. with eric and dylan: Classmate/Friend

    im sure thats all ud need to track me down right?

    Posted by: Sarah at March 21, 2004 11:35 AM

    I actually removed her last name from the comment because some people don’t have any common sense. The spelling alone I’m sure makes the University of Denver proud. But I digress. OK, even though the Jeff. Co. school system was not doing their job, even if some of the victims actually did harass Harris and Klebold it still comes down to the fact that is that’s still no excuse to gun down 13 random people in cold blood. There should only be 13 crosses because Harris and Klebold sleep in hell.

  • Neb. School Shooting Averted

    Neb. School Shooting Averted

    Teen Charged in School Murder Plot:

    Malcolm High School student Josh Magee was arrested with 20 homemade bombs and a bolt-action rifle in his school parking lot. He was spotted in the parking lot drinking liquor from a flask and putting on a black overcoat. He intended to kill everyone in the school except for three friends. He wasn’t picked on. He was even on the cross-country team and a musician. So why did he do it? I think this quote explains it…

    Parents and school officials in this tiny town north of Lincoln said Magee often spoke about the 1999 Columbine shootings, in which Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.

    “He asked them in class last week if they knew who Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were,” said Julia Lostrah, whose daughter is Magee’s classmate. “Then he said, ‘I know them.’”

    Pure and simple, he’s a Harris and Klebold worshiping mutant. In my opinion, the only reason he wanted to kill people was for the sake of killing people.

    Thanks to the media, those two little fucknuts burning in hell have been made posthumous celebrities. The only thing that was missing was a little butt-licking lackey. Klebold to his Harris, if you will.

    Luckily, the school administration was on the ball this time and averted what could have been a slaughter that would have been more disastrous than Columbine.

    The kid is only 17 which means more than likely he would have graduated either this year or next. I hope it was worth the next 20 years of his life not being able to stick it out until graduation.

    Again, it has to be asked though why his parents didn’t intervene before this happened? I realize his dad is in Afghanistan on military duty, but if the whole town knew that his obsession was Harris and Klebold, why didn’t his mother?

    Word of advice to parents, if you hear your kids saying the words Harris and Klebold in a positive way, it’s time to step in and put a stop to it.

    And kids, it’s just high school, it will be over. It’s not worth killing over.

  • 2/29/04: From the Mail Sack

    2/29/04: From the Mail Sack

    Lots o’ mail this week. From the usual subjects, of course.

    From the Eric Harris Journal entry…

    I love Eric and Dylan. They were the best thing that ever happened in this fucking world

    Posted by: Samantha at February 23, 2004 03:39 PM

    Wow. Who could argue with that staggering logic? I can think of 13 people who would disagree.

    And again…

    I agree with Samantha I love them also on April 20th,1999 they broke a brand new ground for the world. I am in 8th grade now and I am home schooled now I was fucked with a whole lot in school. I was kicked pushed you name it they did it. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold put ther lives on the line. For all of us who have been teased and beat up on to show the world you can not do this anymore and if you look on the news they talk more about school kids getting beat up for no reason. I am sorry they had to shoot up there school I am sorry they had to kill themselfs but they did it for kids next to come behide them like me. I will be in 9th grade next year if they had not done what they did we would still have lots more shit. My mom saw there was a problem with me in school that I could not handle it any longer so she took me out and started to hiome school me. I am not into the whole Jesus and God thing but liek they say god will take care of it and he did he send Eric and Dylan they were to good for this world and they did something that kids like me should be thankful for.

    Posted by: Morgan at February 26, 2004 03:52 AM

    Harris and Klebold didn’t do anything for you. They only did it for themselves. They were two selfish little bastards who are now rotting in hell. The fact that you’re in 8th grade and worship these clowns is scary. Obviously, your mom isn’t doing the best job of homeschooling you, or else she’d put a stop to such behavior. If you’re in 8th grade, that makes you about 14. That means you were 9 when Columbine happened. You know nothing of which you speak. Those two scumbags were not too good for this world. The world was too good for them.

    And yet again…

    Ok listen, i am the one Katana you are trashin for wearing a trench coat, i am not going to stop wearing something just b/c people are fucking morons. I am not going to give up on my self bc some fucking eigger has the balls to say something…..also you said you went to my site, when i made that i have a broken arm so dont trash my typin….thank you very much…but going back to the coat, i am not going to stop doing something or wearing something i like because some dumnbass person or some fucking wigger or hick said something, it is not how i am…i mean come on you wwouldnt stop writing bc someone said something would you? no its stupid to think what other people say, i dont let it bother me, i let it fuel me, people who say shit give me things to rant about and make my site more intersting, the people who say shit give me the fuel i need for the fire to burn. But seriously i didnt submit shit to be trashed i liek our wite nad i beleieve in whats on it, so please dont trash me. thx later
    KATANA

    Posted by: Katana at February 26, 2004 02:20 PM

    That one is gonna make my spell check have a conniption. You want to keep wearing a trench coat to school, then that’s fine, but then quit bitching if other people are being assclowns. It’s called inviting trouble on yourself. Have a little common sense.

    From last week’s mail sack…

    Fuck you Trench . And fuck all your scummy , sheepy froends too. And Jim, you are just envious of Eric and Dylan and their beauty and intelligence. They are loved and admired by many, while people turn their eyes away from you on the street.

    Posted by: RebandVoDKaWorshipper at February 28, 2004 03:05 PM

    This is an old troll of mine. Everybody should have a troll. They’re fun to agitate, and they don’t eat much. Anyway, those two scumbags had beauty and intelligence? They were two weaselly looking rat bastards who didn’t have the intelligence to sort their own problems out. The spongemonkeys from the Quizno’s ads have more beauty and intelligence than those two scumbags.

    Same troll, different entry…

    Ha Ha! Take that Trench, you stupid fucker. You will NEVER keep all of us Eric and Dylan followers. Our numbers are growing everyday.
    Sit back with all your stupid, clone friends while E &D’s worldwide fame continues to grow and they pick up more and more fans .

    Posted by: RebandVoDKaWorshipper at February 28, 2004 03:12 PM

    Why would I want to keep all of you mutants? I wonder if you’ll keep that attitude once you grow up, little girl. I’d love to see what career you get into. I’m guessing flipping burgers. Nah, that takes too much intelligence. Drug addicted stripper or prostitute is what it probably will be.