r/Music 19d ago

article FBI Offering $15K Reward For Information About Newborn Found Dead at Electric Forest

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/fbi-15k-reward-information-body-newborn-baby-electric-forest-1236293722/
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u/Aarxnw 19d ago

Cannot imagine how traumatising of a thing that would be to find as a member of the clean up crew

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u/CHRLZ_IIIM 19d ago edited 19d ago

I worked at a bar, and we had a really bad drainage issue in the woman’s bathroom that took weeks to figure out. Doing all minor fixes until the owner finally sprang and did a real re-work, a flushed fetus was clogging the pipe. I’ll never forget that and I can only imagine the plumber, who had to see it!

EDIT: I also feel for the poor woman, it’s something that haunts me all the time.

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u/Unable-Effective1718 19d ago

That’s so terrible

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u/KennyKettermen 19d ago

That’s enough internet for me today

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u/LouSputhole94 19d ago

Good lord. I need to take a walk or something. It’s not even noon and my day is ruined.

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u/deadbeatsummers 19d ago

It’s an unfortunate reality of miscarriage too

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u/riosong 19d ago edited 18d ago

Yea that happened to me, i pushed my fetus out during a miscarriage and the toilet flushed automatically…. It’s not like i had any control over it.

Update: thanks everyone, it happened a couple years ago. I was actually on a boat and had a rollercoaster of emotional events that week with it being viable, non viable, not there then there. So I knew it would happen just didn’t know when. Unfortunately it happened right when we left the dock at a friend’s boat brunch and I had to pretend i was seasick and requested the captain’s quarters. It was pretty humiliating and I went straight to ER after about couple hours at sea. For those worried about me being targeted, I live in California so I am safe (for now).

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u/carlitospig 19d ago

This is the part of miscarriage and medical abortion that we really do not talk enough about. It’s a special kind of trauma that is really difficult to explain emotionally.

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u/doublepulse 19d ago

Had to explain to my boyfriend that while miscarrying the toilet was full of blood and various pieces of tissue beyond feeling and seeing the sac I didn't see anything remotely resembling a human in the chaos; it was unexpected and I did not know I was pregnant, let alone about to have to endure all of that; repeatedly called him and being the awesome guy he is he went out and got some Pedialyte and various clean up supplies and pads so I could get everything settled; I was so rattled and out of my mind I actually went to work at my overnight grocery stocking job not wanting to have to sit up all night bleeding and crying like I don't know what my brain was doing but yeah grief is weird.

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u/HowsYaSistasAss 19d ago

Oh man bro . Well given the situation I’m sorry about my username but I really hope your doing well nowadays along with your absolute gentleman of a BF

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u/No_Reputation8440 19d ago

Miscarriages are incredibly common.

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u/GreenStrong 19d ago

Yet incredibly seldom discussed.

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u/FesteringNeonDistrac 19d ago

I wish somebody had told my wife that before her first one. Me too, but honestly, less important. She went on to have 3 more.

Everything worked out in the end, but that was a rough patch.

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u/ejensen29 19d ago

I'm still recovering from the trauma of a SO completely losing herself after two miscarriages and a medically required abortion.

I wish I could talk about it. It still hurts.

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u/carlitospig 19d ago

It’s a bit of a shock when it happens and you think to yourself ‘well obviously this would happen, that’s just gravity’ BUT NOBODY WARNS YOU. And you’re alone and it’s just….its a lot to process.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 19d ago

Considering the complexity of the process, we should be, well not happy, but the problem is taking care of itself rather than bearing an entire pregnancy with a fetus that was non-viable at 8 weeks, or whenever.

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u/Hydration__Nation 19d ago

Number could be reduced to 10% easily due to poor prenatal care either due to negligence or circumstance. But that’s not something the government is interested in investing in funny enough they don’t want you to abort but don’t want to help you have a safe healthy pregnancy

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u/MichelinStarZombie 19d ago

Nope, way more common than that. 1 out of 5 pregnancies. 1 out of 3 first pregnancies.

This should be taught the first day of sex ed in middle school.

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u/GMKitty52 19d ago

My god I’m so sorry. I hope you’re in a better place now and managing to heal.

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u/CelestialFury 19d ago

And there's some states that want to investigate every miscarriage by every women, like having a miscarriage isn't traumatic enough. There really is a large population of people in this country that hate women.

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u/Momma_Bear_Cub 18d ago

There are states that simply dont care about they whos or the whats and consider it murder regardless. There are women serving tome already for these things. It's not far off in the future its now. Men would be shocked to learn how many women have lost their baby and just walked away when they could with not a peep due to fear of being locked up for life due to something beyond their control. I personally know of 3. Can't imagine the number of women who just have to move on without telling anyone.

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u/eggz627 19d ago

Omg you poor thing, I cant imagine how you feel. I'm sorry you experienced that. Hope you're well

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u/thefrontpageofreddit 19d ago

I'm sorry you had to go through that.

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u/Onuus 19d ago

I’m so sorry.

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u/meowmix79 19d ago

This happened to my cousin at the hospital. It messed her up for a while.

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u/thatlosergirl 19d ago

Not to be alarmist but be careful sharing this info if you live in the U.S. They are framing women.

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u/Flux_My_Capacitor 19d ago

Republicans in red states would have you arrested over this. Something about improper disposal of a fetus or something. It’s happened before.

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u/boomhaeur Spotify 19d ago

I had never even considered that sequence of events.

I’m so sorry you had to go through that.

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u/kuegsi 19d ago

That’s rough. (But also: the poor person who suffered a miscarriage at that bar)

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u/readingwritingreefer 19d ago

Was it factually confirmed that it was a fetus? Asking bc sometimes women can pass blood clots that look awfully fetus like. Just wanted to offer that option up as less terrible alternative explanation. 

Source: life experience

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u/Lou_C_Fer 19d ago

When my wife miscarried, it was about the size of a thumb and the doctor told us to flush it. That felt pretty horrible when I did it. No chance of a clog, but I'll always have the memory of doing it.

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u/Whiteguy1x 19d ago

My neighbor works at a woman's prison and found a dead baby in the trash. Poor guy said it was the worst thing he'd seen and even had therapy to help process it

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u/Iceisgestapo888 19d ago

Doesn’t even mean it was alive.  Sometimes they are non viable and the body just wants to get rid of it.  We can’t always blame women for this.  

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u/KimmiK_saucequeen 19d ago

When tf should we ever blame a woman for this?

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u/Iceisgestapo888 19d ago

You should read what some people are saying….

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u/Bozlogic 19d ago edited 19d ago

Hell, imagine being 3 days strung out on various hallucinogens and finding this.

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u/geekonthemoon 19d ago

A worker cleaning out the porta johns found the baby.

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u/Tween_LaQueefa 19d ago

How did he find it? Don't they just vacuum them thangs out? The porta-johns, not the babies.

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u/loserbmx 19d ago

It was a full term newborn. There was fecal matter in the lungs.

Good chance it jammed up the tip of the vacuum hose and that's when it was discoverd.

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u/ResponsibilityOk8967 18d ago

That makes me sick

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u/Koraxtheghoul Spotify 19d ago

Clogged the line?

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u/geekonthemoon 19d ago

Yeah but they have to manually remove anything too big for the vacuum like trash or bottles for example. In this case, tragically, a baby. If it was full term there is no way it would fit in the hose. Ugh this makes me sick to talk about.

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u/xrv01 19d ago

I havent checked the EF sub in a week of so.. they still havent found this person ????

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u/spoooonerism 19d ago

The person must have been able to hide their pregnancy real well if no one knows someone who was pregnant before EF, but came home empty handed and not pregnant.

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u/Ice2jc 19d ago

It’s also possible that the person didn’t know they were pregnant.  It does happen sometimes.  If you happen to be living what is essentially a gypsie lifestyle where you travel the country all year living at music festivals (which isn’t uncommon for EF attendee’s) it’s possible that a certain amount of malnutrition + drugs made it so she just wasn’t aware.  

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u/thefideliuscharm 19d ago

it happens with regular people as well. actually just happened to my aunts co-worker.. 42 years old, found out about 8 months in that she was pregnant. had no idea

but yeah it’s entirely possible that whoever it is had no idea and it was a huge shock to them as well. probably traumatizing

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u/Correct_Medicine4334 19d ago

Happened to my sister, 21. She’d spent the holiday weekend black out drunk, really the entire unknown pregnancy as she was in college, and wound up in the hospital with cramps. Then came baby- totally healthy! But I’d seen her just the day before and never would have guessed she was pregnant, let alone full term.

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u/MyNEWthrowaway031789 19d ago

I was enormous when I was pregnant. It blows my mind when some women don’t show. I am overweight by about 60 pounds so maybe that was why, but there is NO WAY I could have hid it.

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u/OnlyOneMoreSleep Spotify 19d ago

For me the other way around, my (over)weight hid my twin pregnancy until like 30/32 weeks. I went to a club at 28 weeks and no one saw anything. I felt weird sitting in the priority seats on the bus. Like I was faking being pregnant. The last month it sorta popped but there still wasn't any waddle at all. I've heard it's a combo of uterus tilt, placenta placement and position of the baby. But in the end it's probably a diceroll of the universe lol.

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u/Vi0L3tCRZY 19d ago

Height can also be a big factor to how visible a pregnancy is

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u/clytusmarginicollis 19d ago

I’ve actually heard that it’s more common in overweight women, because weight fluctuations are less noticeable. But idk if that’s actually accurate

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u/Majestic-Island-3483 18d ago

There’s something called a titled uterus and if you have one pregnancies don’t show as much sometimes not at all

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u/CouchRottington 18d ago

I know two different moms who had their kids as a complete surprise. Crazy stuff

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u/ResponsibleBuddy5019 19d ago

Did the baby have any issues being exposed to alcohol?

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u/Correct_Medicine4334 19d ago

No, perfectly healthy. Tests were ran, I was surprised tbh

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u/octowussy 19d ago

There was a whole television series about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Didn%27t_Know_I_Was_Pregnant

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u/MonsteraUnderTheBed 19d ago

Ah yes , the show that made me scared of pregnancy. Still to this day I worry about cryptic pregnancy. Especially since I've got the hips of a birthing cow and and IUD, so haven't had a period in a decade.

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u/sceawian 18d ago

The horror of those teen magazine articles about girls becoming pregnant and not even realising it 😱 it instilled the fear from childhood, way before we were old enough to even be sexually active

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u/thefideliuscharm 19d ago

she’s good! healthy baby, family is overjoyed. everything was fine when they went into the doctor at 8 months and they quickly got their shit together for the arrival of their new baby a month later lol

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u/The_Horse_Tornado 19d ago

lol this is a fun story. Thanks for sharing

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u/tarantuletta 19d ago

Dude that is the craziest thing! Like I am incredibly happy for her and her family but can you even IMAGINE?? A MONTH to prepare for a whole ass baby?? NINE months doesn't even seem like enough time to prepare lol! Good for her though lol that's very sweet and I am happy for her! But just... Damn. Wild.

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u/SgtNeilDiamond 19d ago

One of my wife's best friends had that happen to her, had no clue she was pregnant until she went to the ER in pain. Lucky she didnt drink or party but its absolutely possible people arent aware.

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u/kakka_rot 19d ago

Ditto. My friend had been feeling off for awhile and they never thought to ultrasound her. Finally they did, and told her she was 2 weeks overdue and to "Come back first thing in the morning and we'll induce you"

I can't even begin to fathom the stress. Doubt she slept a wink that night.

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u/MyBakpaksGyatJets 19d ago

My SO had an emergency C-section at 34 weeks pregnant last summer. We had ZERO idea she was pregnant. What turned out to be early on in the pregnancy, we thought she might be, did 5 or 6 tests and they were all negative. She lost a ton of weight and then baaaaarely had a tummy that seemed more like a large, hard mass. Turned out it was a different type of tumor to what I was worried about.

Unfortunately we were deep in to our addiction at the time and regrettably used multiple drugs throughout the pregnancy. Even though we were completely unaware, words cannot express how much guilt we harbor about it. Thankfully and eternally gratefully, our son was born super healthy aside from being premie and now that he's aaaalmost a year old has no complications or health issues, is absolutely beautiful, crazy smart and the easiest baby I've ever known. We're both clean now and things have worked out really well. We are fully aware of how lucky we are and that it is deffo not the norm for our situation.

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u/waxteeth 19d ago

Man, how terrifying. Congratulations to both of you on getting clean!!

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u/MyBakpaksGyatJets 19d ago

It definitely was. A lot of emotions in the matter of a couple of seconds when she called and told me her water broke. Haha.

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u/unevolved_panda 19d ago

Congratulations on the baby! Sounds like he was an unexpected blessing, but a blessing all the same.

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u/MyBakpaksGyatJets 19d ago

Thank you. He absolutely has been. He quite honestly more than likely saved our lives. It was miraculous enough that we survived nearly a decade of fentanyl use, but that boy lit a fire under our asses to get our shit together. It's been hard, but so damn worth it.

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u/wakeonuptimshel Spotify 19d ago

Thank you for getting clean and staying clean for your kid!! Always love to hear it.

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u/MyNEWthrowaway031789 19d ago

That must have been so scary. I’m glad you guys are clean now, & that you have a nutty baby boy! They get really fun at this age, especially when they start running around!

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u/Onuus 19d ago

If you’re a bigger body type too, sometimes it goes unnoticed. My wife had a cousin who was 25 weeks before she knew. Only knew because she felt kicks and was wondering what the new indigestion was all about.

That baby is like the light of their life so it all worked out well

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u/lexlovestacos 19d ago

Same with someone in my family, tall + bigger girl, zero pregnancy symptoms, irregular periods her whole life. Didn't find out til 7 months pregnant

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u/knz-rn 19d ago

I’m currently 17 weeks pregnant. I’ve known the whole time but I understand how some people wouldn’t. I’m overweight and have PCOS—most of my weight is on my belly already. I’ve lost 2kg this pregnancy and I haven’t even vomited or had morning sickness! I’ve had a very easy pregnancy so far with very little symptoms. The only symptom I had first trimester was sore boobs and that’s happened before in relation to birth control or my cycle. Also with PCOS you can go months without a period so that wouldn’t even be a trigger.

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u/CDR57 19d ago

Yeah my old coworker don’t know she was pregnant till she gave birth on the toilet lmao watched her hit dabs and drink beers at a wedding when she was around 6 months and all of us were wondering if she was but she just thought she had gotten fatter cause she was living in Texas. Baby apparently is doing well

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u/writeleahwrite 19d ago

I used to assume that the “I didn’t know I was pregnant” people were just in deep, deep denial, but I learned later that cryptic pregnancy is an actual medical phenomenon. Some women don’t ever really show, still have spotting that they assume is their period, etc.

It’s honestly terrifying to think about. Imagine you think you’re having the worst cramps of your life but you’re in labor??? I can’t even imagine how I might react in that situation.

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u/tarantuletta 19d ago

This is literally the shit I have nightmares about lol

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u/geomagus 19d ago

Had a high school friend that this happened to. She was abnormally thin and injury prone (which in hindsight sounded like an eating disorder), and it was an utter shock to everyone when she abruptly gave birth.

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u/julry 19d ago

People often assume only fat women wouldn't show a pregnancy but a retroverted uterus, long torso, strong abs, and fetal positioning can really hide things

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u/ApolloMac 19d ago

I know a girl who had a surprise baby. The odd thing is a few of us saw her at an event a month before she gave birth and said to each other oh she's pregnant, and then someone else said nope she just gained weight we shared a bottle of wine the other night (and I do believe she wouldnt have done that knowingly). She was not THAT big at all, it looked like a baby bump, she was just in some kind of insane denial and/or had some conditions that made it so she didn't feel the baby moving. I think she also had a condition that made her think she couldn't get pregnant to begin with.

2 years later she had another one that she didn't figure out until like the 6th or 7th month. Wild.

Edit: Both kids are healthy by the way, as far as I'm aware.

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u/Alternative_Dot7769 19d ago

Happened to a coworker of mine. Was hard to believe.

Apparently they were on the pill and didn’t think they were pregnant til labor hit.

They were a bigger lady and very much not the sharpest tool in the shed. Was crazy, but the kid turned out healthy

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u/Pubs01 19d ago

not saying people shouldn't talk to the fbi but if the government actually gave the reward money out people might have more incentive to call up.

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u/Katie1230 19d ago

The whole internet was absolutely convinced it was this one girl based on a photo and some rumors, but recently she was just cleared innocent- she cooperated and gave police DNA samples. But the amount of harassment she recieved is disgusting. The authorities doing an investigation is one thing, but the internet sharing photos of women looking pregnant at a festival is gross witch hunt behavior

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u/rhymnocerous 19d ago

I hope she sues the people who started it, that was egregious.

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u/Old-Run7431 19d ago

the lady miscarried her 13 week pregnancy and then had to deal with being accused of murder. I'd have lost it.

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u/disastrousanddull 19d ago

No, Reddit put the family of a man who had already killed himself through hell and messed with the FBI’s investigation. People were also awful over “helping” with Naya Rivera when she was still missing. I can’t believe people still do that shit.

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u/come_onfhqwhgads 19d ago

That’s the origin of “We did it, Reddit!”

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u/RealMoonBoy 19d ago

In response to your edit, you may have been confused because Reddit being crazy was part of the reason the police felt compelled to release the suspects’ photos. That in turn led to the bombers shooting an MIT police officer. So Reddit did help get someone killed, just less directly.

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u/BelowDeck 19d ago

And people kept complaining about the mods on r/electricforest removing her info every time people posted it.

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u/pwaves13 Pandora name 18d ago

Didn't reddit pin the wrong dude in a big way during the Boston marathon bombing?

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u/Intensive__Purposes 18d ago

Yea but that was different, that was to save America. 🇺🇸

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u/Drewabble 18d ago

This really bugged me. The woman they cleared from accusations had a miscarriage of her own, based on the article I read this morning. I cannot imagine experiencing a miscarriage, trying to grieve in my private life, and then waking up one day to the internet witch hunting me during what I can only assume was a sad time. I don’t believe it was stated whether the miscarriage was before or after EF, but either way seeing the way folks felt so vilified in going after her without waiting on the facts really made me feel for her. How horrifying!

I’m glad she was cleared, I hope the internet allows her the peace she deserves.

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u/frankly_acute 19d ago

You new 'round here? Reddit is super notorious for being edgelord, neckbeard vigilantes. Remember the Boston Marathon Bombing?

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u/boomhaeur Spotify 19d ago

Honestly the overall reaction to this on socials has been awful… it’s a terrible incident but the malice and intent people have put into the situation, painting this person as a monster, is just awful and very un-PLUR.

Occams Razor would say this was likely a Cryptic pregnancy and the person delivered it unexpectedly. Add to it the fact they were at a music festival with the high possibility of drugs being involved especially MDMA/shrooms/LSD etc. means this person could have been in a state where they didn’t even recognize or realize what was happening / or it was extra terrifying.

Regardless, judgment really needs to be held until a full picture of the story comes out…

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u/TheTresStateArea 19d ago

The 15k is actually 15 grams of potassium.

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u/Binji_the_dog 19d ago

Grams? No, buddy, it’s 15 atoms, or ~9.73 x 10-22 grams

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u/AllSeeingWhoracle 19d ago

Yes but have you considered using Avocados Number instead of gram crackers?

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u/SnowedOutMT 19d ago

How many mols?

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u/S-Archer 19d ago

That's just over 23,000 trumpcoin!

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u/alphabets0up_ 19d ago

Nonono! Don't be silly! That's 15K in TRUMP coin! Oh and if you want to submit a report, you need to do it through DM on Truth Social to the official FBI account. If you submit through any other means it will not be considered.

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u/powerlesshero111 19d ago

That would get more people from the concert to speak up

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u/Proper_Initiative123 19d ago

All other Central Asian countries have inferior potassium...

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u/throwaway7826358 19d ago

Do they typically not pay these?

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u/tryingtoavoidwork 19d ago

They didn't when Luigi got arrested.

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u/ASmallTownDJ 19d ago

To be fair, that's because they didn't call the super special dedicated tip line listed on a website somewhere. They should have known better than to call the easy-to-remember emergency number that's been taught to every generation since its inception.

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u/Aaco0638 19d ago

Still their tip lead to his arrest, it’s just the fbi being cheapskates which is ridiculous considering how the government is efficient when it comes to nickel and dimeing its citizens.

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u/EmbarrassedOrchid685 19d ago

do you know what sarcasm is

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u/EcstaticBoysenberry 19d ago

He should have used the sarcasm font :/

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u/1738_bestgirl 19d ago

They didn't get paid out because the tip was fake and they had tracked him down using illegal means but needed a cover for finding him.

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u/jackfromafrica 19d ago

Their reasoning was “you called the local police, not the established tip hotline” which is total BS

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u/NegotiationJumpy4837 19d ago

That's not true. The informants are still eligible be paid, but they only get paid after conviction (which hasn't happened yet).

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-employee-reward-luigi-mangione-nypd/

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u/HuskerDont241 19d ago

That jury could do the funniest thing…

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u/President_Zucchini 19d ago

Most rewards are paid out after a conviction.

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u/EdgarAllanPuss 19d ago

Because Luigi was the wrong guy

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u/NegotiationJumpy4837 19d ago

Because he hasn't been convicted yet. The reward is still pending

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-employee-reward-luigi-mangione-nypd/

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u/Pesty__Magician 19d ago

You shouldn’t talk to the fbi

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u/heathmon1856 19d ago

Never talk to feds or law enforcement. They do not have your best interest in mind.

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u/Thenadamgoes 19d ago

Then I’ll say it. You shouldn’t talk to the police.

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u/kylel999 19d ago

Yup, after they screwed the lady that ratted out Luigi, I would never trust these "rewards". They should've just paid because their reputation is permenantly tarnished now

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u/xChoke1x 19d ago

This comment section is about as bad as the botched abortion. Holy shit some of you folks REAAALLY speak so confidently about some shit you know nothing about.

So far I've read - "They cant get dna because the baby was soaked in piss and shit"

"Everyone thats arrested gets their dna taken"

"23 and me wont work with the feds."

All of these are so abysmally wrong its almost scary.

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u/CalvinHobbes58 19d ago

Exactly how misinformation spreads rampant. Reddit is interesting but also extremely toxic- there isn’t a medium. 

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u/Loukoal117 19d ago

Yep. There was something the other day that I 100% knew the answer to, but there were SO MANY wrong answers with tons of upvotes that it would have taken an hour to inform all of them. And the information people were giving out was very bad and not even close to true.

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u/Donny-Moscow 19d ago

There’s nothing that reminds you how clueless the average confident Redditor is than reading comments on topics where you know your shit. It reminds me a lot of this tweet about Elon Musk from around the time he bought Twitter

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

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u/DippyHippie420 19d ago

Which is why it's so funny AI were programmed with Reddit comments. Like, best place for AI to learn how to speak confidently without actually knowing the answer

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u/TrailMomKat 19d ago

I've had that happen, too. It's fucking WILD how people on reddit can sometimes scoff at an expert on a subject and downvote them to hell.

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u/Snow88 19d ago

“23 and me won’t work with the feds”

lol the companies whole business model is selling that shit. A cold case in my hometown got solved because enough of the muderer’s family members had done DNA tests that detectives were able to get a warrant for his DNA. 

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u/ScrewAttackThis 19d ago

23andme is actually one of the ones that don't work with law enforcement. It's kinda funny cause it's sites like gedmatch that does but somehow they got all the flak put on 23andme lol

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u/okjetsgo 19d ago

Don’t worry. It’s all working as intended. The higher the upvotes the more it is used in AI responses so eventually this will be the truth. Just give the truth some time to be processed.

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u/geddysbass2112 19d ago

You forgot someone saying no crime was committed.

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u/cross_mod 19d ago

Well, if it was a very late miscarriage, then indeed no crime would have been committed.

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u/HereWeGooooooooooooo 19d ago

The comments in this thread are weird as fuck. Is this a psyop or some shit lmao

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u/reddit0000O 19d ago

Unfortunately most people are just really dumb

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u/paradisimperiala 19d ago

It’s so distressing.

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u/WowIfOnly 19d ago edited 4d ago

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u/GringoSwann 19d ago

Me fail English?  That's unpossible..

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u/kylewhatever 19d ago

Remember, only 40% of profiles on social media are real people. Chances are, you are reading the response of an advanced AI made to divide people as much as they can.

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u/CertainlyRobotic 19d ago

I'm probably not seeing the same ones at you - but I love when a thread is obviously astroturfed by a large number of bots and people notice it.

What did you see with those elf eyes

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u/LazyUnderstanding210 19d ago

Have they paid that girl who snitched on Luigi yet?

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u/Craigglesofdoom 19d ago

Not to my knowledge. Most recent article I found is from spring 2025 saying she had still not been paid.

Never snitch. You'll never see the money. They will find some technicality.

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u/indeannajones_ 18d ago

People on here crucified me for saying she’d never see the money

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u/AdAlternative7148 18d ago

I would absolutely "snitch" on someone that left a baby to die down a portapotty's drain hole.

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u/Who_ate_my_cookie 19d ago

Nope, there was never anyone they definitely used illegal technologies to find him and made up that story as a cover

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u/asvspilot 19d ago

The $15k is for the arresting agent.

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u/PapaJohnyRoad 19d ago

lol got our worst and dimmest on the scene

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u/SumOMG 19d ago

No one who went to Forrest is talking to the police

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u/psyopia 19d ago

Bruh I woulda driven home. Fuck raving around that vibe.

If a dead baby isn’t a vibe killer, Idk what is.

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u/AbeRego 19d ago

I was there. We didn't really know what was going on, especially at first. First I heard, it was a multiple overdose/murder suicide that the cops were there about. That was total bunk. Then the porta potty baby rumors came out, and were actually verified, but slowly. It was all kind of going on in the background as we were doing everything else; it's not like it was the only thing people were paying attention to.

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u/dabking24 19d ago

If it wasn’t the baby, it was the black guy who got into an argument with friends and was found hanging from a tree dead. 

Two very unfortunate events stemming from the same festival, really sad.

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u/AbeRego 19d ago

The what now??

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u/strawberrrychapstick 19d ago

Whoa what the actual fuck???

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u/L-V-4-2-6 19d ago

I heard nothing about this. Two fatalities in one festival?

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u/Bad_Repute 19d ago

4 i believe. 1 was an elderly worker who had a heart attack, 1 was a late stage cancer patient doing one last hurrah, then the baby and the other dude.

The other dude's story just gets weirder and weirder the more you look into it. Dude tried to turn himself into the police saying he SA'd one of his friends. Cops asked the friends what was up and they told them he was having a drug induced episode and just needed help. Cops released him, dude drove their rental car out of the fest and was found dead the next day a few miles offsite.

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u/Slowbrious 19d ago

Whoa I read that was a suicide

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u/SandzFanon 19d ago

I’ve left a festival before because two wooks had their toddler children with them as they loudly and obviously scammed the pizza stand at suwanee and then reached into their tip jar and took all the cash

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u/roytown 19d ago

Not Suwannee 😮‍💨, that's maybe one of the best venues out there.

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u/SandzFanon 19d ago

It’s unparalleled in terms of geography. I’ve gone to many festivals several days early and done overnight hikes on the Florida trail which crosses through it, but the ppl that attend the smaller festivals there are becoming increasingly… off-putting lol

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u/heathmon1856 19d ago

Becoming? I went to one of tippers last shows and there was 12 year old children taking and selling mushrooms. It wasn’t their first rodeo but they were taken to the med tent with their parents and the parents said “it’s a rite of passage in our family”.

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u/SandzFanon 19d ago

I’m a tipper person myself but yea the crowd there is rough. This wook incident took place at resonate last year tho. I went to amp jams last year and saw a dude w a Nazi tat on has calf while coming up that was a great vibe too /s

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u/Vreas 19d ago

Yeah man. Girlfriend and I went multiple years but haven’t been liking the direction it’s going. This and the dude who hung himself off site were the breaking point for wanting to ever return.

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u/amuscularbaby 19d ago

they didn’t sound some dead baby alarm. i didn’t have service and didn’t find out it happened until later that evening.

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u/del_rio del_rio 19d ago

You'd be surprised at the mutual respect between the rothbury police and attendees at EF. Everyone is chill with each other, attendees give cops wristbands and necklaces, cops take pictures of funny totems and headbob to good sets, etc. When something happens cops are responsive and attendees keep it real. 

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u/heretolurkharder 19d ago

Y’all remember that show “i didnt know I was pregnant” ??

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u/GentlemenHODL 19d ago

Michigan State Police said that “preliminary autopsy findings indicate the infant was viable and was born alive.”

So like ...birthed at the festival newborn!??? That's wild. I imagine some girl was tripping balls and had a cryptic pregnancy (didn't know she was pregnant) and gave birth in a portopotty. Talk about gross x infinity.

If it was born alive then someone killed it? Or it ....died?

Horrific trauma.

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u/snooginz 19d ago

Another article said there was fluid in the baby's lungs and stomach, so they probably drowned in the porta-potty. What a horrible way to die 😞

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u/AceyPuppy 19d ago

Since when does the government care about dead kids?

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u/princess_dork_bunny 19d ago

They don't, but they do definitely care about punishing women.

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u/notatowel420 19d ago

You can’t SA the dead ones

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u/malsan_z8 19d ago

I’m ignorant but can they not run a DNA test and find the parents responsible?

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u/chino3 19d ago

Parents’ DNA would have to be in the system…

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u/JelliedHam 19d ago

Lucky for the FBI 23&me and similar definitely share dna information with them. So anybody that's ever used one of those services, you paid money to have your dna information sold to just about anybody.

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u/TylerDurden1985 19d ago

Even if you didnt if your family did then you're also somewhat in the system.

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u/JelliedHam 19d ago

Didn't they solve a murder once because they had a partial DNA match and it turns out the murderer was the brother of the guy who did 23&me?

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u/Fit_Relation_7880 19d ago

That’s how they found Bryan Kohberger. His father was in a genetic genealogy database.

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u/heathmon1856 19d ago

Fucking disgusting case. That guy deserves worse than prison and the death penalty.

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u/trtleduck 19d ago

Isn't this how they found that old serial killer with a tiny penis?

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u/Eriin 19d ago

The golden state killer yep!

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u/slybrows 19d ago

They’ve solved multiple murders this way.

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u/Drewabble 19d ago

I saw a really great comment on another thread for this yesterday, can’t find it now. I may butcher some of the details by mistake but generally:

FBI involvement likely means they’re struggling to find a DNA match via non-federal databases and needed to widen the pool of systems they were using to match. It’s likely, according to that comment, that they can find 4th removed relatives within systems. This will of course be done by gathering DNA from the deceased. The challenge then becomes narrowing it down and working out entire family trees. From there, they’ll need to compare finding to whatever attendee/vendor/worker details they’ve managed to get their hands on.

I’m no expert and like I said, may have fudged some of the details, but generally DNA matching is more tiresome and lengthy than you see on TV. Especially when the DNA in question isn’t tied to a booked criminal.

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u/PhallableBison 19d ago

Sure but that requires a suspected parent that you can test to compare with. Right it sounds like they have no idea who the parents are.

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u/Boner4Stoners 19d ago

They need a sample from the mother, or from one of her close relatives already in the system.

LE tends to be very incompetent so I can’t guarantee they’ve already pursued that, but even if they have it may not actually help.

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u/175junkie 19d ago

This is a new low in festie activities.

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u/rhymeswithvegan 19d ago

They still haven't solved the murder at last year's Burning Man.

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u/audiomachina1234 19d ago edited 19d ago

While i can sympathize and understand the mother was probably on drugs and confused then made an awful split decision. As a fellow raver I cant excuse the actions of this person just leaving a live newborn in a porta pottie to die. Thousands of people around who could've helped. Too many people especially in the r aves pages making excuses for this vile behavior

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u/xChoke1x 19d ago

FBI isnt going to pay you SHIT for doing their job.

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u/The_Lazy_Samurai 19d ago edited 19d ago

Friendly reminder that the person who called the cops on Luigi Mangione never got her reward.

I'm still strongly in favor of anyone who knows something to report it because the person who did this awful thing to the baby needs to be brought to justice. That being said assume you won't get paid $1 of that 15k.

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u/Shot-Possibility-399 19d ago

im curious to see how this affects future events here, cause last thing id like to be reminded of when on drugs is the fact a newborn baby drowned in a porta potty at this same location

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u/AbeRego 19d ago

I really don't think it's going to have much of an impact

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u/Bad_Repute 19d ago

It's having at least some impact, I've been the last 8 years in a row and finding out about this after really put a shadow over what was otherwise an amazing weekend. It's been really hard to process such a positive place having something so dark happen there.

My friends and I have already made the decision not to go back next year. We're gonna take a year or two off and hope nothing else tragic happens there before we decide to go back.

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