Mag Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_...864b3b9682dcb19 Teenager Posts Suicide Note on Myspace.com New America Media, News Feature/Commentary, Milan Gagnon, Dec 01, 2005 Editor's Note: Suicide notes are usually written to intimates. In the case of one young man who just killed himself in Orange County, Calif., the suicide note was posted on a popular social networking Web site. PNS contributor Milan Gagnon reports as one of millions of people who followed the suicide online. Gagnon is a writer based in Prague.MySpace redCzech Republic--At 8:14 a.m. on Nov. 29, Joshua Anson Ballard posted his final bulletin on the Internet social-networking site MySpace.com. Ballard, who took the online identity "you BROKE my LIFE," followed his subject line, "do me a favore [sic]....", with a body that read: "call the police.Address... Abadejo, Mission Viejo, CA 92692.tell them to go down the hall to the bathrooom.im soo sorry<3" About 15 minutes later, according to the Orange County coroner's office, Josh, 17, killed himself with a gunshot to the head. Within minutes, MySpace, which promotes social interaction among young people and is popular with teenagers, was alight with messages about the suicide. Here in Prague, I saw a note about Josh on MySpace and checked it out. By 10 p.m. the night of his death, Josh was being eulogized. He killed himself over a girl "and other things," writes Flower King Of Flies on MySpace, who says the death was preventable. "This could of ben stoped," he says via a Myspace comment page that has become Josh's memorial. "All the people that knew didnt do crap. i had a good time with u in ceramics. f--- all your friends that did nothing." more: link above ^ ..........According to his words, Josh loved "girls who cry"; was married; was 8 feet, 11 inches tall and made $250,000 a year or more. Josh was a smartass. He posted self-portraits that featured him at his emo-kid best: shaggy hair, pouting lips, intentionally blank expression. He posted an ad for a clothing company called Emo Police that featured a man hanging from the P. Emo, a 20-year-old sub-genre of punk rock, didn't kill Josh, even if emo songs are mostly un-ironic paeans to self-pity. Kids kill themselves whether they listen to country or classical. The death-trip soundtrack can easily be Snoop Dogg or Slayer; on Josh's page, it's Senses Fail.I LOLed at that ^ but more importantly wtf lol but in any case, I sorta laugh even though I do feel bad for him (really I do), aside from that.. this is the reason why I dislike Myspace so much, and any other similar blog community sites (xanga, livejournal, etc). I rather express socially in forums than some blog community. opinions? oh and here's his profile on myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...03F262681520328 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 did he make a snuff movie of the incident? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 8ft 11, are you sure?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mag Posted December 4, 2005 Author Share Posted December 4, 2005 hahaa it turns out it was fake (someone got into his account?) well he dies as a emo kid but more importantly.. he was a stupid emo kid.. just wish all emo kids would just die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 I love the YTMND fad that's come out of this. Comedy gold. Here are the best ones: http://myspacide.ytmnd.com/ <- Originalhttp://vadersuicide.ytmnd.com/http://hitlermyspace.ytmnd.com/http://conansuicide.ytmnd.com/http://medievalmyspaceemosuicide.ytmnd.com/ <- My favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mag Posted December 4, 2005 Author Share Posted December 4, 2005 aw you beat me to it hehe here's more XD http://billnyemyspace.ytmnd.com/(Hhahahhaa)http://emoheadshot.ytmnd.com/(BOOM! HEADSHOT!)http://emoorangesuicide.ytmnd.com/(LOlololol)http://mathpwned.ytmnd.com/ (Hahahahah)http://slowfacialsuicide.ytmnd.com (a whole lotta Rofl) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucandrake Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 This makes me cry, no not the kid, the amount of stupidity the world has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 This makes me cry, no not the kid, the amount of stupidity the world has.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>either way drake = emo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucandrake Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 I'm not emo o.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 I'm not emo o.0<{POST_SNAPBACK}>oh, nm; I forgot about madi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 hahaa it turns out it was fake (someone got into his account?) well he dies as a emo kid but more importantly.. he was a stupid emo kid.. just wish all emo kids would just dieStill looks like it was real, someone just hacked his account.http://myspacekidowned.ytmnd.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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