Archive for June 30th, 2009

Actually you do the opposite! Apparently...

The media never fails to mix fact with whatever the dick is relevant at the time. The only reason this story is worth mentioning is because of how it is spinned.

Here’s a story that brings home just how morbid this housing crisis can be: Heather Newnam of Tamarac shot herself yesterday instead of letting cops evict her for failing to pay her rent.

It’s a depressing tale, but perhaps what’s more depressing is reading what amounts to Newnam’s final public words on her Twitter account. Writing under the name rsangel04, bits of Newnam’s life played out in her posts.

This is obviously written to play off how terrible the current economy is. This woman couldn’t pay her rent so she SHOT herself in the head to avoid eviction. Read the rest of this entry »