March 09, 2006

No Longer Can I Tolerate
FOUND by Ryan Caudill in Huntington, Indiana
I found this outside a gas station in my hometown... kind of scary.
Joan in Hamburg
Does anybody know whether this guy survived the next day?? Sounds like the note of someone who ended up in a frenzy... One of those psychopaths writing poems about the state of their sick minds.
+ January 25, 2007 10:19 AM +
Liza in outer space
I like it, it's very powerful!
+ February 02, 2007 12:07 PM +
Brandi in Mississippi
Scary, this reminds me of my ex boyfriend. He use to talk of the human race in the same disappointed tone.
+ February 02, 2007 08:05 PM +
Cat in minnesnowda
Hardcore. haha I like it.
+ February 12, 2007 01:45 PM +
Kristan in Sweden
It's not scarey to me, its honest and brave.
+ February 15, 2007 08:52 AM +
Blah in Boredomville
Kristan,
That's because you didn't have a few nutcases crash planes into populated buildings in one of your most populated cities, and then have a nut-bag President go postal to prove himself to Daddy and kill thousands of poeple (in addition to his own countrymen/women) who weren't even involved. If I lived in Sweden (lucky girl), I'd think it was honest and brave , too. But I don't.
+ March 07, 2007 01:54 PM +
R37r0 in who gives a rats ass
Blah,
i agree with Kristan. it's honest, it's brave and it's powerful. i think you need to get that 9/11 shit out of your ass already. everyone makes a huge deal about it all the damn time without realizing they're making it worse. the people whom it effected don't want to keep remembering or have it brought up, why does everyone else? because they have nothing else to do with their pathetic lives than continuously go over the same old shit over and over again, bringing it up every chance they get.
+ April 11, 2007 11:07 PM +
Hollie in At the other side of the world...
Wow, creepy. Sounds like a psycho serial killer person - the kind that does school shootings or something. Freaky. o_o
+ April 17, 2007 11:18 PM +
Hayley in Brisbane, Australia
Isn't this the same kind of stuff that the V-Tech killer was ranting about in his video?

Yeah, it is scary, and it's not brave.
+ April 29, 2007 11:07 PM +
Carrie in Michigan
What's scary is how many voices that note could represent. No one can deny how disregarded and/or degraded others are today. People are very ignorant everywhere about almost every imaginable aspect in life, but others choosing to judge without full knowledge is what truly scares me.
+ April 30, 2007 03:17 PM +
Carrie in Michigan
What's scary is how many voices that note could represent. No one can deny how disregarded and/or degraded others are today. People are very ignorant everywhere about almost every imaginable aspect in life, but others choosing to judge without full knowledge is what truly scares me.
+ April 30, 2007 04:49 PM +
Dave in Ohio
Yeah, I don't really think it's scary. It's gives a bit of an Ayn Rand message. Hopefully he didn't harm anyone, but instead just took a stand after being trodden upon for years.

But, unfortunately, if read at face value, this is actually pretty frightening.
+ May 02, 2007 01:17 AM +
ivona in oakland ca
Not scary at all. I agree with it entirely. The level of conformity in this country promotes extremely high levels of ignorance throughout the population. Americans do not question anything anymore, they just do what they are told.
+ May 04, 2007 01:41 AM +
Jenny in Winston Salem
I think someone didn't get hugged enough as a child.
+ May 22, 2007 01:28 PM +
jason in california
you people that think that is scary, are pussies. give me a break. kids pissed off at ignorant people, obviously trying to vent something off by writing it down, maybe was going to post this up somewhere, maybe he/she did and it was torn down. people that think this is "scary" im willing to bet are moronic pussies with no ability to get over any type of fear in their own personal lives. if i was this kid, and one of you told me this sounds like something a school shooter would write, or the vtech dude would say, i would beat the shit out of you. this sounds alot more thought out than the stuff the vtech kid was ranting about btw. pussies
+ May 28, 2007 03:06 AM +
Sid in Minnesota
Oh shut the hell up, jason.
+ July 07, 2007 06:17 PM +
SufferingBob in The Earth
All Soapbox Standers,

Using an obviously messed up person's TYPED letter as an excuse to wave your finger and your wounds at everyone is lame. At the height of this letter being typed, this person had us ALL dead. Period. There's nothing honest, brave or "pussy" about this letter. It's simply the written piece of a moment when someone hated everything, including YOU. It's not someone wanting to crash planes or be a hero to all the Honest And Brave people out there. They just wanted us all gone. Everyone relax.
+ July 17, 2007 03:56 PM +
km in Austin
It's a little Travis Bickle, isn't it?
+ September 14, 2007 07:49 PM +
homegirl in B-town
Oh my golly, you must be from Huntington, too, km. Small world. Despite the misspelling (it's B-i-c-k-e-l), your comment tickled me. Sort of like a Bickel tickles his little pickle. But only sort of. By the way, I'm wondering which gas station in Huntington. I'm going to either bet on Huggy Bear or Johnson's Junction on West Park Drive.
+ October 04, 2007 01:54 PM +
Alexia in LA LA Land
Geeze, hopefully this guy can keep his anger on PAPER.
+ October 10, 2007 05:08 PM +
Tori in South Cackalackie
Ack! I find this note chilling. It smacks of a pychopathic serial killer. You know the kind. They seem mild mannered and shy, then one day someone does something that finally pushes them over the edge, and they snap and go on a killing spree before finally killing themselves. <shudder>
+ October 11, 2007 10:31 AM +
Agree in g with Tori 100%
Sounds like someone's plotting a school shooting. Trench Coat Mafia, Nail in the Coffin... all the same angry outcast angst ridden teens. The majority of them are harmless and grow out of it. Some... well some go down in infamy, don't they?
+ November 02, 2007 11:48 PM +
In in Out Door
I disagree with all the doomsayers. I don't find anything at all cryptic in this message. It's very powerful and empowering. Although I really take offense at the phrase "you need to get that 9/11 shit out of your ass already", I think there's a point there. Anger is a human emotion. For some reason, Americans are especially prone to anger (myself included). This letter is a statement to a moment in time that the writer was feeling an intense amount of rage toward the world. That doesn't mean they bombed a school later that afternoon. That doesn't mean that they weren't hugged enough as a child. That doesn't mean that they didn't forget the whole thing by the next day. The note was found outside of a gas station. If this was a psychopath's manifesto I think they would have kept better track of it. Chances are it's somebody blowing off steam in the healthiest way possible...... by writing down their feelings. Expressing them so that they can cope with them instead of letting them build up until they can no longer control them.
+ November 21, 2007 04:03 AM +
Honest and Brave in Not in Sweden my friend
I agree with the author. No I am not a psychotic serial killer, nor do I agree with the trenchcoat mafia or the V-tech killer. Not everyone is satisfied with the tv-glazed and consumer-frenzied culture we (Americans) inhabit. While I may be better at keeping those particular emotions under control than this person--they are not less fierce than this. There are some days when I wonder if I am alone. . .turns out I am not. Now all the "patriots" will tell me to go live somewhere else, right? Right. No discourse, no rational thought, it's either emotionally fueled attacks, or apathetic complacency. That is the problem.
+ November 24, 2007 12:31 PM +
Optimus Prime in Texas
omg... how did my note end up in indiana? weird.
+ December 03, 2007 03:17 PM +
- - - in Delaware
This, is my favorite find. Ever.
+ December 29, 2007 02:27 PM +
Lex
I like it. It reminds me of me. I often have the same cynical view of humankind.
+ January 16, 2008 07:16 PM +
the colonel in uk
Sounds to me like some smartarse teenager who thinks he has the whole world figured out already and the rest of us are just sheep sleepwalking while he's the only one with his eyes open. He's probably seen Fight Club far too many times as well and took it much too seriously.
He probably never did anything that day either, maybe had homework or some chores to do or something, but the next day I'm sure he stood up and showed them!
Or maybe not.
+ January 29, 2008 09:18 AM +
john curd in greenwood, indiana
This is not scary. This is fantastic. This is prophetic. Look around people, it's like everyone's turned to fucking robots, working their hourly paid jobs, barely making enough to get by, after work, they turn on the tube to tune out and drown out their subconscious fear of dying without making a mark on the world. How long will it be before people realize that we can't go on like this.
+ May 09, 2008 05:26 PM +
LuxuryDiva in Chicago
This is what Fed up sounds like, I hope he didn't hurt anybody!
+ June 09, 2008 09:39 PM +
i sing anyway in Absentia
Oh those silly goth kids and their anger...
Really, this makes me laugh. If someone is so serious about the world sucking, then their world will inevitably suck; the writer needs to gain some insight and learn that this kind of complaining only stresses you out. Life should be lived more lightly, if you ask me.

And ugh, drawn-out ellipses. Ugliest thing to see in type.
+ June 24, 2008 12:17 PM +
Kristan in Sweden
I just read the response to my comment I made over a year ago...FYI "Blah" I AM AN AMERICAN. It is possible for us to live Sweden too. So please think twice before you get on your soap box about being a terrorist victim. Your thought process of somehow connecting terrorism to anyone who is honest and dares to disagree with the norm is only helping out OUR "nut-bag Presidents'" agenda. This note remains one of my favorite.
+ June 27, 2008 08:24 AM +
rummag in g around in the trunkful of Finds in the attic
Reminds me of that movie, Falling Down, with Michael Douglas. There's always just that one.last.insult... isn't there?

Fuck you. And fuck everything that your miserable mind can conjure up.

I like that line.
+ August 06, 2008 12:46 PM +
Allison in DC
This made me smile. I don't know where so many people got the impression this guy was going to kill anyone...to me it sounds like someone got sick and tired of being beat down by society and everyone he knew. He decided, this was the day he was going to break out of the mold and stand up for himself. More power to him.
+ August 08, 2008 05:43 PM +
BellaRae in Idaho? No, YOU da ho!
ooooooooooo....i like it a lot.

i don't think this guy (or gal) was about to go on a killing spree.

i VERY often think the same thing about mankind in general.

sheep. follow each other one by one over the edge....

i imagined someone printing out many many copies of this and spreading them throughout the city in which they lived.

powerful stuff, man.
+ August 12, 2008 03:01 PM +
Dr. Horrible in The Evil League of Evil
So that's where my manifesto went! Jeez, I've been looking everywhere for that thing.
+ August 18, 2008 10:01 AM +
Emily in Chicago
This is fantastic! I can really relate to it.

The person who wrote this has no intention of hurting other people. From his/her writing I think they would actually be against violence.

We need more people who are willing to stand up from themselves and put their foot down. This country needs a change. Silence often gets you nowhere.
+ September 12, 2008 09:51 PM +
ironcladhero
More than the obvious anger this person is harboring, the poor and unnecessary use of punctuation really bothers me. At first I thought the If could have come from accidentally spacing after the i and autocorrecting to I before backspacing to add the f, but then there are so many more unexplicable capital letters. Maybe they spell a secret message...

IPLS. Hmmmm.
Or maybe "Power" doesn't count.
ILS. Initials? Calling card? Moron?
I'm going with the latter.
+ September 24, 2008 11:36 AM +
Ripley in Buffalo, KY
This letter might be empowering and brave if not for the last sentence. It's very foreshadowing...looming. It sounds as if they were going to, or just contemplating, going on a killing spree, exactly. This is the kind of note from a disturbed mind that would have anybody alerted to a potentially dangerous situation.
+ October 06, 2008 05:38 AM +
Holden Cawfield in Texas
An angry white or asian kid wrote this. I can see someone taking this to a skinhead/KKK meeting.

It may have fallen out of his pocket on the way to a killing spree. Or it is a form of anger therapy and someone carried it around.

Looked at another way, this guy is about to begin some sorta transition and he has built himself up. Either horrifying or motivating. Pick one.
+ November 15, 2008 09:40 AM +

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