WBC - Just found out

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that my neighbor died a little over a month ago.

He was a single dad who's wife died in a car accident while 8 months pregnant.  His daughter was supposed to be in the car, but a last minute change of plans, she didn't go with her mom.  I met the daughter the first time when she was around 11.  She told me this whole tragic story the first time I met her.  Along with the obvious sadness for this girl, I kept wondering why she was telling me this, and more than that - why does she know this?  It seemed like a lot for a little girl to take. 

I think the dad told me the story three different times during casual conversation.  It obviously messed them both up.  He lived with his girlfriend and they fought like crazy.  I knew he had a drinking problem, but the way he died had to involve more than alcohol.  He ate a lightbulb.  His poor daughter, she is just now finishing 8th grade and has so much happen to her.

[TrickyBob]

He ate a light bulb?!  That sounds like a slow painful death. Poor man. Poor little girl!

[snickers]

That poor little girl..that is so so sad.

[bania]

OMG

[nightandday]

ate a lightbulb? That's a harsh way to go, i'm sure. That poor girl.

[julez]

Jesus. Wow. That poor family.

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I am hoping that she was just staying with the girlfriend to finish up school. I hope she has relatives that can take her and give her a stable home. The girlfriend is the type you see a couple times a week but never says hi or smiles.

All I could find was a one sentence obit on a website that looked as if they just made a death certificate into an obit. There wasn't anything in the local paper.

[Deleted]

So sad

[jane6672]

Ugh, that is terrible.

[AHappierHour]

Omg so sad

[WOT?*]

That poor, poor girl. She's lived through a lot at a young age.

[saraandmichael]

someone is full of shit because there seems to be a record holder of lightbulb eating, in both time and amount.

in short, i'm not sure that he would die from eating a lone light bulb.

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May 19, 2013 21:53:47 GMT -5 saraandmichael said:

someone is full of shit because there seems to be a record holder of lightbulb eating, in both time and amount.

in short, i'm not sure that he would die from eating a lone light bulb.

But this is like sword swallowing where you have to train.

I think if you just ate one it would cut you all up.

Such a sad story.

[saraandmichael]

May 19, 2013 22:09:14 GMT -5 @amoosed said:

May 19, 2013 21:53:47 GMT -5 saraandmichael said:

someone is full of shit because there seems to be a record holder of lightbulb eating, in both time and amount.

in short, i'm not sure that he would die from eating a lone light bulb.

But this is like sword swallowing where you have to train.

I think if you just ate one it would cut you all up.

Such a sad story.

actually, no. it seems that teeth can quickly grind the lightbulb into a fine, sand-like substance that won't kill you.

hell, a 3 year-old was eating them without being dead. 

abcnews.go.com/Health/rare-condition-drives-indiana-girl-eat-light-bulb/story?id=14750367#.UZmXNPW17QI

[angelaa73]

is ate a lightbulb code for blew his brains out. because who dies from eating a lightbulb???