HS track athlete killed by another at Texas 5A-11 District meet

Veee Eyee Teee wrote:

article says it happened 10 am. that's not you were out in the scorching heat all afternoon and sought refuge. with a friend til your next heat. or stopped by the tent to hang. that's you were going to stay in our tent all day. and you just packed that knife.

if i had to guess the throwers are off checking out the event area or doing their first flight throws in the morning, come back looking for room in the tent -- the plight of anyone who doesn't immediately set up shop and stake their sleeping bag and pillow claim -- and have to deal with this. we personally would never have let friends, girls, or other teams set up in the tent because there's too little room already and there's a risk items sprout legs when you let anyone in the tent. and when i think why someone would be in the wrong tent and have a knife in their duffle......

personally i was UNDERprepared for most meets. hungry, exposed. memory serves my idea of planning was my spikes, lunchables, some water and cokes, an alarm clock, and a vague idea when my next heat was. and this kid as a knife?

one way of dealing with some of this, this is a tight geographic district. they don't need to travel far. our first state progression meet was 2 nights after class. akin to what college did. for area the drive was minimal. the field people get afternoon sun, which is not that hot in spring. the track events get running at dusk or in the dark, pleasant. and you get a day's rest for distance doubles or sprint/hurdle prelim/finals.

and, side benefit of an april night meet, less concern with shelter. i don't care if i am under the tent. i don't have to endure a day in the elements. i can hang with friends and family in the stands, including other teams. no intrateam conflict over sleeping bag configurations. none of this nonsense. the tent is maybe where my bag resides, or maybe it's with me. and as someone who was poor and often underfed and drained for meets, i can eat breakfast at home. i can have lunch at school. and then i can maybe last the meet off snacks then eat after. if it rains there's the bus.

i get the daylong ordeal for an invite meet, or if you're in, say, a west texas district (like odessa permian's) where some of the schools might be 2 hours from the host school. but this is a group of schools from the same medium size town and school district.

Where is my shank? wrote:

Veee Eyee Teee wrote:

boring troll crap.

"jumped" implies a right to be where you are, like you were walking down the stadium stairs minding your business. he was in the wrong tent and asked to leave.

"jumped" also implies you didn't see it coming or invite it, when we both know his response to being told to leave was to say come get me with a threat of unspecified violence right back.

and we will soon find out if he was even actually invited by a friend or is just claiming after the fact he met someone last year ergo had any reason to be there.

Whether the Black kid was or wasn’t supposed to be under the tent…..it wasn’t the White boy’s job to play cop. Once they put their hands on the young brother…all bets are off. The two white boys were used to bullying people and they happen to run up against the wrong dude. This falls under the category of phuck around and find out!! Also known as I can show you better than I can tell you! Hopefully, the surviving twin learned to keep his hands to himself. Classic case of self defense. Nothing to see here…move on.

an animal belongs in a cage wrote:

Imagine you are back in HS at a track meat.

Another kid from a different team comes up to you and tells you to move.

Let's assume they are extremely confrontational, and grab your stuff.
Let's assume they even put their hands on you to try to move you.

For even a second, would you ever consider pulling a knife out of your bag and stabbing them in the chest.
Of course not.

This person is not like the rest of us. They are inhuman scum whose instinct is to act like a rabid animal. And like rabid animals they belong in a cage. Luckily that is exactly what is going to happen. This person will rot away, spending the rest of his life being controlled by those in authority. He will be treated like the piece of filth that he is and good riddance.

Sorry it cost someones life to get this subhuman to where he belongs but he would have ended up there eventually and this way he had no time to do more harm to society.

Jed Clampett wrote:

an animal belongs in a cage wrote:

Imagine you are back in HS at a track meat.

Another kid from a different team comes up to you and tells you to move.

Let's assume they are extremely confrontational, and grab your stuff.
Let's assume they even put their hands on you to try to move you.

For even a second, would you ever consider pulling a knife out of your bag and stabbing them in the chest.
Of course not.

This person is not like the rest of us. They are inhuman scum whose instinct is to act like a rabid animal. And like rabid animals they belong in a cage. Luckily that is exactly what is going to happen. This person will rot away, spending the rest of his life being controlled by those in authority. He will be treated like the piece of filth that he is and good riddance.

Sorry it cost someones life to get this subhuman to where he belongs but he would have ended up there eventually and this way he had no time to do more harm to society.

But the murderer is also likely a human who if treated well in his life would have been a much kinder human being. No matter which party you belong to there is a ton of hate going around and lots of bad adult examples. Kids do not know how to behave anymore. Trump is a hero? Unbelievable.