Poor guy :( This makes it all even more tragic. KB Toys is long gone, now Toys R Us too. Goodbye, happy childhood memories. A few aisles in walmart or browsing amazon just isn’t the same, I feel bad for most future kids not getting to experience real toy stores.

Reminds me of Charles Schultz and how he died a few days after Peanuts ended.

Right there on the coroner’s report.

I’m pretty sure the private equity firms deliberately let it crumble, so they could redirect the modest income it made directly into those firms, before abandoning ship. That doesn’t make this any less sad (if you’re one of the people who felt punched in the gut by the TRU closing shop), but this wasn’t 100% a case of…

Toy ‘R’ Us is literally dead. So depressing.

Probably died of a broken heart seeing his empire crumbling.

Yeah, I want to see the trigger-happy cop face some sort of consequences. I want to see the person who made the call face murder charges. I want to see other swatting attempts treated as attempted murder. I’d also like to see 911 call infrastructure improved so it’s not so easy to fake emergency calls, and the…

Truly everyone in this story is shit, except for one person, and somehow he’s the one who ends up dead.

All true. I grew up in a law enforcement family.

There are rules, regulations, and training programs that pertain to trigger discipline.

They fail more often than they should.

That said, if the dipshit who made the call hadn’t been butthurt over a fucking game, this particular instance of awfulness wouldn’t have…

The SWAT officer who pulled the trigger is to blame. The person who called the fake incident into the police is to blame. The person who passed along the victim’s address is to blame.

It’s funny, I’m Armenian and you know what the two biggest representative of my culture are? The fucking Kardashians and drug dealers/gangbangers. Every TV instance of an Armenian is based on that. But yet, I don’t mind or care. I can’t help but think that these people condemning all these situations under the guise…

I agree with all of this except the comment on the Italian mobsters. To me, pretty much just reads as Italian-American bashing, which is pretty pervasive in our popular culture.

This is total bullshit. Apu is regularly shown as one of the few intelligent, competent, good-hearted people in a cast of dozens of insensitive morons. He helped Lisa understand that it was okay to be a vegetarian. He was a Pin Pal. HE WAS IN THE BE SHARPS, GODDAMMIT!

Topher wins the thread. :-)

Ok. THAT was funny

You magnificent bastard.

Hi there! It looks like you’re trying to buy Boardwalk. Wold you like some help?

This is some good Kinja. 110/110.

There will come a day when Miyazaki will have passed away and people will tell me that he will never make another film. And I won’t believe them then either.