Diddian
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This is also not an apology. If you stepped on my toe without meaning to, you still stepped on my toe.
I apologize.
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This is also not an apology. If you stepped on my toe without meaning to, you still stepped on my toe.
They probably made entry first, and when they discovered Harley’s belongings, that’s when they called in the cavalry.Another thought.
They saw the lockbox and thought “we should check that house....let’s get permission from the owner”...
... but shut down four streets and had BCI, a dozen cops and ambulances there for a routine check bc they saw a lock box?
Taking photos for 9 hours? Blocking all the windows? Nope. Nope. Nope.
You know, I am often a cynical person. I don't think Harley had the best parents or home life, and I have been suspicious of them. But I am willing to admit when it appears I've been wrong, and it is looking like I probably was. I can EASILY see a boy trying to access a locked home through a chimney. Those who say "Oh a 14 year old boy would never..." have probably never had or been a 14 year old boy. I've had more than one, and cannot even begin to tell you the stories. I also had a couple of brothers, and have heard stories from my husband, my dad and two granddads. Teenage boys get up to all sorts of antics even crazier than this sounds. It's beginning to look like a very tragic freak accident, and it some ways that is just as sad. Under these circumstances, I can only hope and pray that his demise was rapid.
If his coat and glasses were pushed through the flue you have to think he was head first, I’d say.
I don’t think he tossed them. I think it was the the flue the wind combo just yanked anything not secure off. It’s hard to explain without a visual example.I'm also struggling with a low income child being in trouble before for breaking expensive things.... tossing his glasses down a chimney.
I was a poor kid. You *knew* to protect your glasses or else.
"Police say that Dilly was climbing up an antenna, slipped off and into a chimney and was stuck."
Wow, what are the chances of that? I need to see an aerial view.
So if he slipped, not from the antenna but just went further or faster down the chimney than he had intended, his arms were likely above his head. He would have been holding on to the top of the chimney prior to slipping. He would have been trapped in that confined space with his arms stuck in the upright position. Obviously that would be terribly uncomfortable. I suppose it would be possible to wiggle out of his coat. If his coat wasn’t zipped (or maybe even if it was) it probably would have been pushed up anyway as his body was sliding down. He could have shoved it through the flue in a desperate attempt to escape, or be noticed, or maybe just to get it off from resting between him and his only source of air...the top of the chimney.
Well the risk taking 14 year old is home.
Would you try to go in the chimney?
Oh. Yeah. Definitely. Well probably not if I was alone. If it’s a vacant house why am I going to risk a chimney. I’d just get into the house another way. Find a video - Pick a lock. Break a window.
If you did go in the chimney....?
Well I wouldn’t just go. I’d try. See if I could fit. Stick my legs in it. But not like if someone wasn’t there. No kid would do that without a friend there to get you out when you get stuck.
So you think you’d get stuck?
For sure. I’d be like “I’m about to get stuck” right before I did it.
Also the fact Harley was allegedly meeting somebody of an unknown identity.
These coats are packable also so they are really warm even if they look thin. But they pack down super small.
a backdraft effect? IMOI don’t think he tossed them. I think it was the the flue the wind combo just yanked anything not secure off. It’s hard to explain without a visual example.