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September 03, 2008 |
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Alexa's Death Threat
FOUND by Jill Lauson
in Seattle, Washington
I found this outside my daughter's elementary school. It looks suspiciously like an adult has helped Alexa put this apology together. I wonder what she said and what provoked her to say it in the first place?
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
An excellent example of "closing the stable door."
...when I said I wanted to stab you 37 times with a butter knife then bury you in my basement, I meant it as make believe! I want to pretend I killed and buried you, like a role playing game. I promise to use a plastic butter knife if that makes you feel better, and I'll let you take a deep breath before I bury you(and only leave you there for an hour or two).
please, don't be scared of me. I promise to try hard to warn you before enacting a serial killer role play game next time.
p.s I'm standing right behind you watching as you read this, please don't be scared.
Nice interpretation, Monkey.
I think Alexa needs therapy. Or maybe her mother does. I wonder who she threatened to kill. Her teacher? I doubt that the parent (as assumed by finder) would have gone through the trouble of helping her to draft an apology such as this, if it was 'just' a fellow student.
Really, I didn't mean it! I mean I was just so mad about being your condescending comments about our print reports. I mean it's beneath us, you know.
Alexa had just read another faculty committee report about how print reports should be arranged. Unfortunately, as she sat down after the comprehensive 25-minute explanation of their recommendations, the principal heard Alexa mumble under her breath something like "Another meeting like this and I'll 'kill' the principal".
So she had to write this apology that would end up in her permanent file.
UUMMMMM....Alexa needs serious *HELP*. You don't go around telling people you're gonna' kill them, unless of course, you follow through.
Another coward...
said young Wednesday Adams.
My favorite line?
"I promise to try hard not to scare you."
But if I accidentally scare you, well, it was an accident. And if I do something which is only a little scary, but you get really scared, that's not my fault either. Also, if you accidentally die, it's not my fault.
I want you to be my friend.
1st rule of friendship: Don't threaten murder.
2nd rule: Always share, especially if it's cookies.
Also,
"Sweetness, I was only joking when I said, 'by rights you should be bludgeoned in the bed.'"
@ not just another mouth.
Great... Now I'll have Smiths tunes in my head all day.
I know this note is rather serious, but I couldn't help laughing when I first read it. What is the misunderstanding when one is threatened with death?
I'm with Lucky..my favorite line, too.
I hope the receiver of this note spoke to an adult about Alexis....and stayed far away from her.
YIKES! (Bridget Fonda in Single White Female)
When I said I was going to kill you what I really meant to say was: Would you like to come to my birthday party this Saturday? There will be lots of games and pony rides and cake and ice cream and prizes! See? It was a simple misunderstanding!
Wendy, I was just making believe when I said I was gonna bash your brains in. Bash 'em right the fuck in. Now gimme the bat.
Holly, what kind of help does she need? Psychiatric help, or teaching her how to follow through on commitments?
Threatening is a criminal charge, btw. I believe this could be used as evidence. Don't put things like this in writing. If its verbal, its hearsay. Not that i've threatened anyone... i gotta go... bye
No misunderstanding here.
You scare the shit out of me, Alexis.
The last time I played 'make believe' I got 12 years at Rikers.
This doesn't necessarily mean that Alexa's disturbed or a problem child.
Children often play games involving death or murder--while it may seem gruesome, it helps them to explore and understand the issues in a safe and familiar way. (Children playing army games with guns and tanks aren't disturbed, are they?)
It could just be that Alexa's friend is a sensitive, sheltered little crybaby, probably the product of over-protective and hyper-reactive parents who jumped the gun by responding the same way as many of the commenters here.
I think I should mention that when my cousin and I were six and seven, our two favorite games were "axe murderer" and "funeral."
I think President Bush has this same Word letter template on his computer in the White House.
You people are all too sensitive. Didn't you ever play a team sport where someone said in the huddle "OK, on this next play we're going ot kill these guys"? Or find yourselves on the losing side and say "Their offense is killing us"? Or didn't you ever say "This joke'll kill you"? Or tell someone using one pun too many "Stop! You're killing me!"?
When did you all become such literalists? Yes, there have been legit death threats that should concern everyone, but sheesh!
Sometimes "kill" doesn't mean "kill". Lighten up.
(background music: Roberta Flack singing "Killing Me Softly" [and, no, that isn't a veiled suicide threat].)
My favorite game as a kid involved three watermelons, a battery, some C-4 plastic explosives and the neighbor's cat.
I don't think we were considered disturbed.
@alan ... we game played that too! Small world.
@ MONA- The help she needs...is probably *Help in finding friends and keeping them*, *Anger management*, *Physchriatic help*?? etc...
Just a relay reply to your 1st post, "Alexa might need some kind of therapy".
What kind of therapy do you think would benefit her, Mona?
Mind you...LIBRARIAN is right. It was most said in a joking manner,
"Like Malanie, this joke (or secret) is gonna' kill you when I tell you! But only between you and I or I'll frickin' kill ya'!"
I've said it (KILL)along those lines in my lifetime...to friends, family or whomever thinks I'm NOT crazy!
Although, you have to be a wee bit insane, to be sane...yes?
OOPPSS! ^^^Pyschiatric^^^...My bad!
Mona, my thoughs exactly...NEVER put it in writing.
s'aright, Holly, i knew what you meant.
insanity is what keeps me going, most days.
I dont really think she needs therapy, just positive attention. that can fix most things, early on.
Used to be, you could say things like "When my mom finds out I flunked History, she's going to kill me," and "if my son ever got a girl pregnant, I'd kill him". People knew you were just using hyperbole.
Now, absolutely nobody has any sense of humor about anything, and every little off-the-cuff remark is grounds to call in a hostage negotiation team, a counter-terrorist response unit, a squadron of psychiatrists, and the director of human resources.
What a pathetic bunch of sissies we have become.
She signs it "Sincerely" ... that just kills me ... so to speak. Ah, c'mon, give her another chance.
Insanity doesn't run in my veins--it gallops.
@ "Bob" - You are absolutely right. My son got suspended from school in middle school for trying to scare off a bully by saying 'i'll kill you!'. That was apparently a terroristic threat and he had to go to court and counseling just for uttering three words out loud. Post-Columbine apocalypto.
@ Flargy - Uh, it's kind of freaking me out that you said my name and then mentioned heads being bashed in. Are you terroristically threatening me? I can't figure why you used the name Wendy unless it's a song lyric I don't know.
Wendy, I would prefer that you call me Jack. And I don't think you want to talk to me right now anyway. All work and no play is making me a dull boy.
You figure it out. Otherwise, I'll...um...throw a marshmallow at you as hard as I can. Or maybe hit you over the head with a tissue - three ply, no less.
SHEESH! I just dropped my kids off at school! I hope Alexis isn't lurking around the corner with her sick version of make believe. "I triple dog dare you to climb into that hole and let me bury you alive." "Oh my, you thought I was serious? No silly, I was just kidding. hehehehhehehhhe"
Alexis does promise to "try hard". What more can you ask of a kid?
I think most people, including myself, can tell the difference between, "If you tell my secret I'll kill you" and "Tell anyone what you saw and you'll be sleeping with the fishes." Whether Alexa is overly dramatic or the girl she "threatened" is overly protected will remain a mystery.
at the end of the day, i love coming here and reading you all. thanks!
(hope i didn't scare you.)
When I tell people not to mess with my lunch box, I mean DON'T mess with my lunch box.
It was make believe! Like a fairy tale. Like a fantasy. Like a daydream.
-lmao-
Right when I started reading this "Happy Birthday" by The Birthday Massacre came on
xD
Wow that's one big misunderstanding...
But this girl in third grade told me she'd kill me by bashing my head in with a chair if I didn't play hopscotch with her.
I wonder if she's a serial killer yet...
She might have said, "give me 5 dollars or else I'll go home and get my mom's butcher knife and slice you open, then I'll play jump rope with your intestines while you stand there and bleed." How do you know she didn't say that?
This was a good find. I think she said, "If I see you holding hands with my boyfriend Im going to kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
We all know how serious 6th grade relationships can be
ik i do
The writing is really good for a little kid. I say at least middle school and knows the difference between fantasy and reality.
@A girl in a cube
I agree with you that kids tend to play games that involve death, guns, violence, etc (cops n robbers, cowboys n indians, mexicans n pinatas...u get the point) BUT (and this is a big butt) what separates a psychotic murderer (Manson) from a regular murderer (wife beaters) is detailed premeditation. Manson, Son of Sam, Zodiac, etc. all premeditated and were fascinated by killing. Whereas, a wife beater doesn't intend on killing his wife when she doesn't have dinner ready at 6PM...he just had to teach the slut a lesson. How was he supposed to know that wrapping his hands around her neck and squeezing would cause her to suffocate?
But.
I ..
Digress...
In short, Alexa is on the path to becoming the next Manson. Her "misunderstanding" was probably a highly descriptive 'make believe' story of how she would rip out her friends eyes and pour kool-aid through the holes.
So I must agree with the majority...Alexa is a psycho! A little part of me is scared that she will read this post, track down my ISP address, and show up at my door ready to play 'make believe.'
BTW, girl in a coffin, you also scare me. When you played axe murderer did you plan every incision or was it just a chaotic massacre...i hope it was just a chaotic massacre.
@Flargy: I got it, laughed in my head a little.
"I'm sorry to differ with you, Sir. But you were the caretaker. You have always been the caretaker. I ought to know. I have always been here."
That doesn't even LOOK like my handwriting... and I've got a .37 special at home to back me up. I mean, don't be scared or anything...
Creepy. And some of you are getting into this a lil too much.
Based on the writing - which looks like an adult's - and the staccato delivery of the apology, it seems obvious to me that this was a daycare/preschool/kindergarten thing.
When my son was almost four, he pushed another boy - his best friend, actually - down the slide, and the other boy had to have stitches. At that age, though, there's only so much you can do or say about it - they simply don't have the attention span necessary to go through the proper "making amends" processes that adults would use. So, we sat down with a piece of paper and - with much prompting from me; "What would you like to say to Cody? How do you feel about hurting him?" - wrote an apology. It was in my handwriting, obviously, but his words.
And yes, I DID make an overblown big hairy deal out of it, because the entire point was to impress upon him the fact that you can't just go around pushing people who you think aren't moving quickly enough. (Or at least, I'm not allowed to do that, so dammit, he's not either!) The little boy could have been very seriously hurt if he'd been pushed all the way OFF the slide, so I really wanted to pound it into my son's head that this was not the way to handle things.
Seems to me that Alexa took the "use your words, not your hands" mantra of early childhood to an extreme and then one of two things happened: Either the daycare staff spoke to the mother and said "We can't have kids saying that kind of thing because the other kids will go tell their parents and then all hell will break loose" and Alexa's mom used the same approach I did to try to get this idea across (and keep Alexa from getting kicked out of the daycare); OR Alexa's in kindergarten or pre-K, created a disturbance in the classroom, and was sent to sit with a teacher's aide to dictate this apology so that the other kids would see that there are immediate consequences, and not pick up the habit.
Just doing my part to prove Night In Gale absolutely correct ("getting into this a lil too much").
I didn't really mean it about killing you. It was just a joke, honest.
Hello?
Hello???
I agree with insomniac. I've helped my now-six-year old write a few of these since he's entered school:
"Dear Ryan, I'm sorry I threw sand at you..."
"Dear Matt, I'm sorry I pushed you into your cubby..."
"Dear Freddy, I'm sorry I hit you with my lunchbox..."
I can see how a girl's problem may be verbal rather than physical. Young kids lack impulse control, period. They say and do things and it is our job to help them see their actions have consequences. Even my son's teacher said to me after one of these incidents, "it's just kids' stuff." I don't think Alexis is psycho.
When my pre-K son does things like kicking other boys in the head or pushing other boys down, I try to make him verbally apologize to the child when I go to pick him up. Then, I take his Playstation away for the evening and the next day. Even though he doesn't play it all that much, it KILLS him not to be able to play it because I said so.
@Mahalia in cognito
"..he just had to teach the slut a lesson. How was he supposed to know that wrapping his hands around her neck and squeezing would cause her to suffocate?"
"how she would rip out her friends eyes and pour kool-aid through the holes. "
Those lines sooo just made my day
=]
Mother?
Yes, Alexa.
I want to KILL you, mother.
Mother?
Yes, Alexa..
I want to
FUUUUUUU*UUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!
too funny....
Now thats just scary!
I feel I must join the "chill the hell out" contingent.
Honestly, those of you who think there's something wrong with Alexa, haven't you ever gotten mad and said "I'm gonna kill you?" I have many times, especially as a child and young teenager, and have also had it said to me. All it means is "I'm very angry with you." Hyperbole, yes, but NOT a literal threat.