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Charizard
The completely sterile bedroom really creeped me out and puzzled me, too, at first. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I had the same kind of scenario. I had blackout curtains on my windows because I'd often fall into a bad sleep schedule and be up all night and asleep all day. The curtains didn't do a very good job of keeping out sunlight, which didn't bother me much, but I know some people can't sleep if there's even an ounce of light leaking in, so even though it's a crude and ugly solution, I can see the black garbage bags being effective. I also only had an old, outdated TV in my room because, due to the tiny size of it, I only used it for sleeping. Now I did have a lot of stuff on display, which his room really lacks, but then again I didn't have a multilevel house with multiple private rooms all to myself.
Based on the other pictures, it really looks like he lived in the basement (in the area with all of the Gundam Wing model kits on that shelf and the Xbox 360) and just slept in his room. I'll tell you, it was really ...I don't even know how to describe it....seeing my favorite game consoles with two of my favorite games (Paper Mario 64 and Goldeneye) displayed in this photos. I know Goldeneye is a shooter, but it's just so hard to think that someone who could enjoy a game as cute and innocent as Paper Mario 64 could do something like this.
What was really strange to me, though, is how that basement "gamer sanctuary" that I mentioned, with the old NES system and the 360 and the suspiciously-displayed "violent First-Person Shooters" like GTA CoD and Gears of War, seems to lack a TV. I mean, all of those fancy game consoles up on display and there seems to be no TV anywhere amongst them? Maybe I missed it, but I certainly didn't see one. Also that random giant stuffed Pikachu...I'm seeing all of the stuff I love in these chilling photos and it's corrupting them.
Edit: Another random, kind of weird thing that I noticed: In one of the bathroom photos there appears to be a box of disposable diapers? It was just him and his mom living in the house, right? Why would they have diapers?edit on 26-11-2013 by Charizard because: (no reason given)
TKDRL
Ok, went through the whole thing again. ...
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nighthawk1954
Here is some more new information,including a photo where Lanza shot his way into the school.
Link
TKDRL
Found this interesting, discarded mags with live rounds found in 3 different places. A hallway, room 10 and room 8
Charizard
What was really strange to me, though, is how that basement "gamer sanctuary" that I mentioned, with the old NES system and the 360 and the suspiciously-displayed "violent First-Person Shooters" like GTA CoD and Gears of War, seems to lack a TV. I mean, all of those fancy game consoles up on display and there seems to be no TV anywhere amongst them? Maybe I missed it, but I certainly didn't see one. Also that random giant stuffed Pikachu...I'm seeing all of the stuff I love in these chilling photos and it's corrupting them.
notquitesure
Can you please provide a link to information about the vote to tear down the school?
This is new information to me, although it may be common knowledge to others.
Also, when you say that "we've" asked the AP to not send any media, who made this request? Was this something else that was voted on, and who voted?
Thanks in advance for clarification, and thank you in advance for introducing some facts to the discussion.
Mikeultra
Newtown voted to tear down the school after receiving a $50,000,000.00 grant from the state. That's a lot of money to build an elementary school. Should cost $10,000,000.00 tops if that much.
The unofficial results Saturday were 4,504 for the grant offer and 558 against. The vote was essentially a formality since a task force of Newtown officials decided in May in favor of a plan to tear down the school and build a new one. Sandy Hook students have been attending classes at a school in neighboring Monroe.