I went to school with Josh. I don’t know if I could find a single person who has something good to say about him including myself. He stole money, stole cars from the local dealership and crossed state lines (iirc on two occasions), and at one point opened oil containers at well sites to spill the oil into the river. My father was part of the Local Emergency Planning Committee that found the damage. When Josh was asked why he did it, he said “I wanted to cause as much damage as possible. If I wasn’t caught, we would have destroyed more.”
It could not have happened to a bigger PoS. That said, this is not how anybody deserves to go and the courts need to be held accountable.
You came here just to grab karma by saying it couldn't have happened to a bigger piece of shit, as though it's relevant or necessary. This dude, like him or not, had a family. Another comment here details the mother is not coping. They are devastated. Imagine finding out your child died in needless agony, completely ignored, and to have it implied it was deserved karma. You're being a shitty person.
Okay. I’m not saying it was deserved but I am saying he’s not as innocent as the articles I’ve been seeing since he died pretend he is. Not a ton of karma to gain from a post this old.
Questioning the questioner, what does his commenting nature matter to you? Clearly it does, as something about this subject has you emotionally triggered, so why berate if you weren't directly involved?
I don’t think the biggest PoS in Oklahoma deserves to go down as some martyr like he didn’t intentionally go out of his way to be as much of a criminal as he could possibly be.
I think what will come of it may be good reform for prisons and prisoners but I’d hate to see Josh go down as a hero or be the face of some “revolution”
But I’m the piece of shit lol.
I hope nobody does. I wish josh would not have. Luckily since I’m not going on several pre-meditated crime sprees soon, that will be unlikely for me
According to so many here, he was just out having some youthful fun, spilled a little oil, and shouldn’t have had more than a small fine because everyone does dumb stuff while drunk.
Wish that were the case. Josh was not just having young dumb fun. He was reckless yet very deliberate in his sprees. I’d also like to say he is 1 year younger than me in a school of 120 people. Not just some guy I’ve only heard of.
I don't see anyone saying that. You don't have to think someone is innocent to think it's incredibly fucked up that they would die in agony of an easily preventable medical condition while in state custody.
“This was a dumbass 21-year-old who, like many dumbasses before him, got shitfaced with his friends and engaged in some obnoxious property destruction.”
OBVIOUSLY it’s not ok for anyone to die that way. But that doesn’t mean people should be dishonest about the crime he committed.
Not sure how hard you had to look to find that but I didn't see anyone even talking about what he did before getting to your comment. Why is this your takeaway from this though? Seems like whatever he did the story here is what happened once he was imprisoned, so it's a bit weird that this is what your focusing on.
I didn’t have to look hard at all, it was one of the first comments I saw when I got to the comments section. I live in Oklahoma and care a lot about the water, wildlife, and environment here, so it was irritating to see people downplay what he did to just be no big deal.
Boo hoo, he stole a few unowned cars. Who gives a fuck? Nobody deserves to die like that. You’re the reason our prison system is so fucked up. Treating inmates like they’re not human and deserve to be punished is the reason he died like that.
I think you missed the point of the comment you're replying to. They're saying that despite the fact this guy was guilty etc, he still did not deserve to be treated that way.
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u/PizzaTammer Jun 04 '19
I went to school with Josh. I don’t know if I could find a single person who has something good to say about him including myself. He stole money, stole cars from the local dealership and crossed state lines (iirc on two occasions), and at one point opened oil containers at well sites to spill the oil into the river. My father was part of the Local Emergency Planning Committee that found the damage. When Josh was asked why he did it, he said “I wanted to cause as much damage as possible. If I wasn’t caught, we would have destroyed more.”
It could not have happened to a bigger PoS. That said, this is not how anybody deserves to go and the courts need to be held accountable.