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Aerethan wrote:Not to sound like an ass, and absolutely not to diminish the impact the event had on MANY people, but 9/11 is just another day to me. The only way it impacts my life regularly is that 1-2 days a year History Channel doesn't play anything worth watching. It was a terrible event, yes. It affected many lives. Mine was not one of them. I didn't lose family, nor did anyone that I know personally. No one got drafted, no one that I know suffered any form of loss from it.

Well, you did indirectly have some of your freedoms infrigned as a result via the USA Patriot Act...

My knee still gives me a bit of trouble after myself and a friend were mugged last november. Boy tried to steal my phone and I chased him down. Only once the police arrived did I realise the fall on the escalator during the chase was more serious and I needed a hospital visit and stitches. It's healed up now, but sometimes is a bit stiff and it's very painful if I kneel on my knee. I don't think there's much I can do to remedy this.

being robbed at the age of 16 over a game of pool taught me to quit hustling pool.

the okc bombing was pretty crappy. I didn't know anyone who died (i live here still) but... it just sucked.. I remember lots of my friends from school losing relatives and loved ones.

9/11 had most impact on my tangible life though

 azazel the cat wrote:

Aerethan wrote:Not to sound like an ass, and absolutely not to diminish the impact the event had on MANY people, but 9/11 is just another day to me. The only way it impacts my life regularly is that 1-2 days a year History Channel doesn't play anything worth watching. It was a terrible event, yes. It affected many lives. Mine was not one of them. I didn't lose family, nor did anyone that I know personally. No one got drafted, no one that I know suffered any form of loss from it.

Well, you did indirectly have some of your freedoms infrigned as a result via the USA Patriot Act...

This is true in theory, but in practice I've not changed a damn thing about my daily life. I've flown twice since 9/11, and while checking in to the gate took longer than it did before, that was it. The government may have some new laws that allow them to do X against me that they couldn't before, but those things haven't happened to me personally, and therefore they don't impact me.

I don't stress over things that MIGHT impact my life, as that is wasted energy. When something finally does impact me, then I will deal with it, unless it is something that I can readily anticipate impacting me(like screwing with gun laws, taxes, getting drafted etc).

Hmmm.
National crimes, probably the Omagh bombing. The images of the street looked so much like the village where I grew up, and I was old enough to understand what it meant. It shook me, and made me start seeing a lot of what I had been told, taught and assumed in a different light.

Internationally, I suppose the Rwandan Genocide coverage equally disturbed the hell out of me and made me afraid.

Within my family, one of my cousins was murdered by heroin dealers and I have a fairly irrational hatred of drug dealers ever since. I'm not a violent or angry person generally but when I think about that I feel tension in my muscles. I also hold users in a fair degree of contempt even though I know it is not really all that different from my drinking beer.

To myself, well, during my nervous breakdown a few years ago I had managed to get access to a counsellor in the university. After my first session, I went a bit mad due to my niece going in for open heart surgery on the day after my girlfriend dumped me and I quit my PhD. I blacked out for a while, and then spent a few days numbly reading the new ork codex and dakkadakka. The morning of my next counselling session, I came out of my house to find my car had been stolen by some burglars. That was pretty good .

My dad got my car back though, because my dad is a legend.

I honestly can't think of anything that has affected me on more than a fairly superficial level. We used to get burgled pretty regularly growing up and I'm careful about checking doors and windows around the house before heading off to bed, but that's about it. That's just common sense.

 Albatross wrote:
I honestly can't think of anything that has affected me on more than a fairly superficial level. We used to get burgled pretty regularly growing up and I'm careful about checking doors and windows around the house before heading off to bed, but that's about it. That's just common sense.

This.
I haven't been affected at all.
Mostly because I live in a kind of remote and very quiet bit of England (Or did)

 Slarg232 wrote:
I would have to say when my parents were killed in the alley behind a theater. I've vowed myself to a life of vengeance ever since.

And Slarg wins in as little as 3 posts




To stay on topic. I wouldnt say any of these tragedies really affected me outside of "Oh man, that fething sucks. Those poor people, Ill pray for em" After that moment has passed, I go on with my life. If the day comes where Im involved in one personally then obviously THAT would impact me.

I'm going to have to go with yitzhak rabin's murder.

I was living in Israel at the time of the murder and contemplating making it permanent.
But after he was killed the atmosphere changed so drastically yhat I moved back to the Netherlands instead.
Where upon my return I was introduced to warhammer!

Emotionally no crime has effected me as I have not been the victim of any. To me a couple of planes crashing into a building thousands of miles away are no different to thousands of people starving to death in yet another African civil war. Probably the cloest would be the Bhali bombing as my wife lost a cousin there but they weren't close and I never met her so...

Economically and professionally it would have been 9/11 as I am in the military and I got a couple of 'holidays' out of it.

Small time: Had my identity stolen and someone in Brazil bought a bunch of videos with it. Lucky enough they only got that far since I only had, at the most, $100 in my account.

My mother-in-law bought me a present for my birthday from Chaosium and had her identity stolen because someone hacked their website. They didn't get much beyond one night in a cheap hotel in Paris.

Larger: 9/11. Lead to things like the Patriot Act which sometimes makes my job interesting at the library. Hasn't happened in a long while, but cops will come in with a court order and demand we turn over the records of a specific patron. We always refuse and they get sore because we have a responsibility to our patrons to protect the recorded items they check out.

Ignoring indirect things like the Patriot Act/911 type things, the only big event that really changed my outlook in any really meaningful way was the most recent round of shootings, I guess starting from the Dark Knight Rises and every one afterwards. It convinced me to get a conceal carry permit, and I'm working on paying off the pistol as we speak. The most recent events in Boston have only made me want to pay it off sooner. The odds of me ever being in a situation like that are astronomically small compared to getting mugged at gunpoint or something, but just because the odds of getting struck by lightening is a million in one doesn't mean I'm going to walk around holding a metal pole in a thunderstorm.

As for small time things, I can't really think of anything that really effected me in any way except for one. Had a road rage incident at 4am one morning where a man tried to run me off the road on a backcountry route for a good 10 minutes after I accidentally cut him off. I've never seen a man that angry, and the fact that he was threatening to ram me in a car half my size made me realize that there was no way I was going to pull over and try to reason with him. I got lucky and he eventually sped off in a rage, but not before he tried every trick in the book to make me stop. It made me a lot more weary of everyone on the road, that's for sure.

I live on the opposite side of the planet to pretty much everyone, so very little of these 'big events' ever affect any of us in a personal manner. I can say though that 9/11 made me feel scared. I mean actually scared.

Weirdly myself and my parents watched it unfold 'live', intermingled with the end of an episode of The West Wing (which made the whole thing kinda unreal at the start, if that makes any sense). Didn't really know what we were watching, but then those towers came down.

Again, it didn't impact me in any specific or personal way, but we sat there for about 3 hours just watching it happen before our eyes, and you knew that tomorrow would be a different world to the one we lived in that day.

Only reason I stopped watching is because I had school the next day. It was weird talking to people in the morning who had no idea what had happened over night, and suffice to say it we got nothing done that day at school.

Under-aged drinking, stealing food at grocery stores, jaywalking, vandalizing store products and smoking pot, oh also some teens (maybe young adults) tried breaking into my next door neighbour's house.

When my school went into lock down after a student killed another.

Prostitution.

That crime has really touched me....

D.......walk out the box and look back at what you post.......unless your getting pimped to DE females.....I don't want to find out later you had to show LEO where the bad man......or TV....or woman Dominatrix touch you repeatedly on a doll...hopefully the correct gender doll that represent you.....unless your at the tender mercy of the Dark Eldar Females......

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Money spent on GW mini's over 3K. Got the money back on tax returns since its PTSD treatment for me

Crime that pissed me off the most and a majority in my unit was on the same sheet of music concerning one individual. A NCO who was stealing from troops that were wounded and sent to Rammstein, GE. prioir to moving on to Wounded Warrior Units that was closest to home. Mainly Xbox 360 and PS3 games. No one caught on to what was happening till one of our troops came back from Rammstein when his eye infection was eliminated. DO NOT WEAR CONTACTS IN A DESERT ENVIRONMENT. Went straight to the First SGT after he inventoried his personnel belonging that was stored in Pelican cases and reported 20+ games were missing. He had documentation to prove it, He kept his High Item Value Sheet current. Marked his CD's with his initials using a permanent marker. Commander pulled a Health and Welfare inspection on the First SGT that would make a Drill SGT or D.I. cry. Next were individual platoon SGT's. Right down the ranks. Lots of porn were confiscated from external hard drives, DVD's, and mags. Till the games were "found". Then the real reason on why the Health and Welfare happen was made known to us. As for those who had porn...well the magazines and DVD's were burned. Those of us with external hard drive were quietly informed to bury the folder deeper in and not leave it plugged to the laptop. I was happy to see a NCO with 13 years in get chaptered out.....whew....oxycodone with antivan

When our house was burgled and the bads made off with our radio. bear in mind this is many years ago when i was little.

My father desiding to run off and join a group of maverick christians and taking all the money with him. Fair nearly destroyed my mother. If i ever find where he is i will rip his guts out and devour his still beating heart before his eyes.

bullies whom think its a good idea to pick on my little brother

Crack head druggys trying to offer my (at the time) 9 year old little brother drugs.

Friend of mine in high school was raped by her date. She went from being happy, cheerful, and laughing to haunted, skittish, and fearful literally overnight. After two months of it, she killed herself. She never pressed charges because she was afraid he'd come back and rape her again, but we all knew what happened and who did it.

The guy turned up beaten to death a few days after her suicide. Apparently he crossed paths with a street gang, according to the official police report. No less than a dozen individuals are thought to have been part of his killing. Needless to say, no tears were shed in school over him.

Since then rapists have had a very special place in my hate. Given the opportunity I would not hesitate to kill one, in cold blood or not. Watching that girl's spirit die in front of me was the most horrible thing I've ever seen... and I'll not permit it to happen in my presence, even at cost of my life.