N/S Sean Taylor's killers give details (2 Viewers)

[waswas]

just because you are a professional athlete does not mean you have loads of cash just sitting around your house or in a safe.

I you were rich would you leave it around your house where the guy mowing your yard could see it in plain site?

I dont think so.

Taylor dieing was a tragic but he could have protected himself a little better by doing several things. First keep your money in a bank where it belongs. the only people who have money laying around like that are drug dealers and gangsters who do not want their money being tracked through bank records.

I would like to hear from Drews gardener and see if he has seen money just laying around the house and if he has seen Drew hand people cash in a brown bag for a birthday present!


T

I'm guessing you're not "rich". I don't know too many people that don't keep "dead presidents" around. Safes at home, safety deposit boxes, etc. I have an alarm, cameras, and 2 safes wired into the alarm system. If someone gets in...I let them in. If people I care about are threatened...you can bet I can open those safes really fast! !!!! Like someone else said, it is not uncommon at all for an individual to have thousands stashed away at home. I have a nosy *** uncle, and capital gains taxes are a *****.

 

[St. PJ]

Look, I am enraged by this. Talk about biting the had that feeds you. These damn little thug punks have no respect for anyone. I have empathy with most people, but when it comes to unnecessary violence, and outright theft from someone who gives freely, I become mad enough to inflict violence. Only thing that would make me kill is someone sexually abusing my child; I know that isn't right in God's eyes, but I am sure He can empathize with a father's wrath. When I heard of this botched robbery/murder, I was extremely upset, and am still upset.

I have been jumped by two thugs who thought I was someone they had a "hit" on and nearly died. I never saw it coming, and never knew the guys. They simply saw me going to my truck and thought it was someone else's truck and thought I was that someone else. I nearly died and have steel plates in my face. You can't tell but I still feel it with the weather. At the same time, I don't harbor any hate towards their race. My best friend for 23 years is black.

I understand what it is like to grow up poor without much of a chance. I understand peer pressure and misplaced anger and many inequalities and environmental and upbringing issues that lead to this kind of thing. I can empathize with most things, but total disregard of human life, and stealing from someone who gave freely to you out of the kindness of his heart is some cold blooded, selfish crap that pushes me to say the word I really don't want to say. People in my family believe "there is a difference between a black man and a Nword". All my life I have been against that saying, and was angry at my grandfather and others for not understanding or seriously trying to take into account that such behavior is the "normal" in a lot of neighborhoods.

As much as I detest the term, things like what happened to Sean Taylor push me to want to say the word out of anger. It isn't right, but it is hard to reconcile, kind of like taking the Lord's Name in vein. I hope no one is offended. I believe we are all born with our own weaknesses and crosses to bear, and each of us have no right to judge, and that most of us are the product of our environment.

I can't say I am a better person than the next man or that I am better than "white trash" because I have no clue what the other person started with and what he ended up with, and how blessed he was along the way. All I know is I have failed repeatedly and am no where near what I have been created to be. All said though, and I still can't reconcile or understand senseless tradgedies like this.

I refuse to say Taylor had it coming flashing his money. White people do the same with super trucks and sports cars and rolex watches, and no one holds it against them when they are robbed. Aside from guys I was friends with growing up and in college and the Marine Corp, the best things that give understanding of what shapes individuals who do these things are movies like Boyz in the hood and Menace to society, Juice, scarface, ect. While these movies have been good in helping people understand, and while music by people like Tupac help us see and empathize with people who grow up without a good chance, they also in a way glorify the lifestyle, much the same as movies like Scarface, the Godfather, ect.

I don't know what the answer is, or how to get people to come together and respect life and one another; I just know that our society is flawed. Our moral fiber isn't that great these days, and the economy of social caste system is truly desigined to have the results and envirions that exists today. You simply can't have rich without poor, and poverty is everyone's responsibility; its an epidemic that we really turn a blind eye to when we focus on living excessively with our computers, cell phones, tupperware or whatever. I haven't lost faith in mankind, but man, I simply hate seeing things like this and hate not making a difference or doing anything about anything..

 

[SaintsJunkie]

Doesn't mean it's not a terrible decision. There's no reason whatsoever to ever have more than a couple thousand in cash, and even that is stretching it, no matter how rich you are. It would be stupid for Warren Buffet to leave $5,000 laying around, because not only is it not safe, but that money is losing value.

look the interest on a few hundred grand is not going to make or break these guys,

losing it won't hurt either, just not a big deal. just a matter of perspective.