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SKIPPACK, WA - A community college student planned a school shooting, but apparently lacked the motivation to follow through. Carl Wesley Edwards was taken into custody Wednesday morning after his stepfather reported him to local police. The man became suspicious of his stepson when he was searching through the twenty-four year old's basement bedroom and found a hand-drawn map of the school, a case of .22 caliber ammunition, and a half-written manifesto. "The boxes of bullets is what really did it for me." says Edwards's stepfather. "He started a paper route earlier this month, but then he quit. I think he was saving up to buy the gun."
When asked about the incomplete manifesto he found, Edwards's stepfather stated that he was not too worried about it. "Well, it wouldn't be the first time we found some of Carl's unfinished work. He started a novel last winter. I don't think he even got past the first page. Boy couldn't even finish a grocery list."
Known in cyberspace as "CarlSaysFTW", the majority of Carl's social life existed online. Several of his internet "buddies" were contacted during the investigation but only one replied by saying "Carl seemed like a pretty normal guy. The only thing I didn't like about him was that he always signed off in mid-conversation." He frequented video game and film message boards as well as several social networking sites. The "about me" section of the young man's myspace page states "I'll think of something cool to put here later."
According to one of Edwards's neighborhood friends, Brent Lesman, Edwards mentioned the idea of the planned school shooting several times. "Yeah, he told me he was thinking about doing something crazy like that a few weeks back, but I didn't really think anything of it. I mean, two years ago he told me he was writing a screenplay, and nothing ever came of that." Lesman claims that he could think of no motive that his friend may have had for plotting the small-scale massacre. "I can't imagine that he had time to make any enemies. He only had class twice a week."
Though the potential for Edward's to actually complete his mission was apparently lacking, his stepfather felt that a crisis was avoided. "If I hadn't been searching around the basement for the laundry detergent, I never would've found this stuff and several people would've died. I thought I'd rather be safe than sorry. I always told my wife, if that boy ever learned to apply himself, he'd be dangerous."
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Posted: 8/20/2007 8:28:37 AM
I don't know if it's because it's too soon, or because it's Monday, or maybe it's because I just got engaged over the weekend and I am feeling the impending doom that the action entails; but I did not find this article very funny.
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Posted: 8/20/2007 9:53:14 AM
How can you sympathize? The kid had .22 ammo. .22! What the fuck was he half-ass planning on doing? Pissing people off? He might as well had planned to attack with a BB gun. That is one of the few funny details of the article. Rule #1 of planning to go ape-shit on an institution now a days should be Shock Value. We are too desensitized with all the school shootings. You have to take it up a notch if you want that kind of attention. Go in there with a 50cal. Make sure you really splatter some people; otherwise you might not even make it to the 6 o'clock news.
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Denver, CO
Posted: 8/20/2007 10:07:08 AM
Did this actually happen?
I can sympathize with the procrastinator, why do something today you can put off until tomorrow. I have had a busted sprinkler head for 3 weeks but its been raining enough to keep my lawn alive and I only have one more month of watering to go anyways.
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