Possible Vandalism/Message To Daddy on Wall of Hope

[captivagrl]

I am not horrified or appalled. The author(s) are expressing their feelings. I believe they may be teens. Could be taken as inappropriate, but I don't read it or see it that way. Young teens, but not malicious.

 

[txsvicki]

There are so many weird people running around. The note could even be from someone who thinks they can bring messages from the dead and have probably wasted some officers' time by calling tip lines with this. The wording sounds exactly like that to me. The police are surely aware and hopefully won't waste any time on this if it's not any sort of clue. Kyron's parents are probably more worried about finding out where Terri put him than they are about ramblings of a few people just looking for attention by leaving odd notes. The wall's probably going to have to be moved anyway when school starts. Many parents of little kindergarteners and first graders may not want their children to know right away that a little boy went to school and disappeared.

 

[funknut]

A man known to have mental health issues? Outside the school where Kyron went missing? Have we heard anything about this guy before?

Could it be one of us? I swear it wasn't me!

 

[sorrell skye]

I don't think the *author* of this message deserves any attention at all, in the media or otherwise, because IMO it only feeds their sick desire for attention & possibly encourages them in their actions.

But, then again, I responded to it in this post, so I guess that in itself is giving them the attention they don't deserve.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that they're no different than a troll.

If no one feeds them, they starve & go elsewhere.

IMO, it should not have been made public, but only reported to LE. Announcing it in the media only encourages the behavior.

 

[LillyRush]

The note is strange. But, I don't know. I'm undecided between thinking it is a flat out prank/vandalism or someone a little off in the head thinking they were sounding supportive but not being very adept at doing that.

Also, maybe I'm naive, but the couple of times in my life I've heard someone use the nickname "special K" I always thought it was supposed to be a play on the cereal of the same name? :waitasec: I am 34 and it seems like I've only heard this used jokingly by people in my generation...or maybe people within 10 years, give or take, of my generation. I work with children and teens and have never heard kids use that nickname.

Anyway....The part about the man with mental health issues in the area at the time is a bit disconcerting though. :twocents:

 

[Emeralgem]

It helps to remember I love love love occam's razor (even though I think there's an exception that proves every rule!).

The She the masses think responsible for the crime is Terri. I'm not so sure. Others have been tossing out other possibilities for the she... I should have just said it's Terri, but then I would have felt bound to explain, and I was trying not to. Yes, I think the person writing the note thinks Terri is the She.

Communication fail. My bad.

Thats NOT what I asked but thank you for replying anyways.

 

[LillyRush]

Oh, and I agree with you all about the cameras. That is really unfortunate if they've not been videotaping around this Wall Of Hope. Something tells me they've not been, based on how the "security" at the school was handled, but hopefully I'm wrong.

 

[rnmif]

Thats NOT what I asked but thank you for replying anyways.

Wow, double communication fail. That's a record, even for me.

Since I don't seem to understand what you're asking, can you ask again? I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes.

 

[rnmif]

Oh, and I agree with you all about the cameras. That is really unfortunate if they've not been videotaping around this Wall Of Hope. Something tells me they've not been, based on how the "security" at the school was handled, but hopefully I'm wrong.

I wonder if they do. I took my daughter out for a drive tonight, something we do when we are sad or stressed, drive and listen to music and sing at the top of our lungs. There is a Kyron billboard right outside her building, so whenever I pick her up, I get to stare at it, so I thought why not take a rose and a yellow ribbon and note. So we did. It was pretty late by the time I got across the bridge. We parked right next to the road, but I was freaked because I heard voices.

We left the note/flower and I took my dog across from the wall to see if he needed to do his business before the long drive home, and a sheriff car comes around into the parking lot, but shoots past us. He stops at the end of the drive. After a while he comes back and parks next to us. We're getting the dog back in, and he asks if we know who's car it is "up there". I couldn't see at the end of the drive, didn't realize there was a car. I told him I didn't know, but I had heard voices in the field. Someone walked up then from the field, and he barked at him that the school grounds closed at 10. Ooops. Our bad.

We left, but more Sheriffs were on the way. They must have known somehow, and he must have been looking for the folks in the field parked at the end of the driveway, not us, because he didn't give us a second glance, just went right up the drive. Only came back to ask us who's car it was, but it got there before us. Wonder how long though it took them to get there? Maybe a neighbor is keeping an eye out now and called?

There's a candle lit there. I think that has to be one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever experienced, and given what I've experienced in life, that's saying something.

Now I feel bad about going late, but I wanted to put something kind up there.... overwhelm all the yuckiness today, and just put some prayers and love back for Kyron. I just can't help but hope.

 

[mmmagique]

Just wanted to pop in and say I think this note was written by a left handed person. Reminds me a lot of my husband's writing (but not him because we're nowhere near Oregon). I tried to make the letter d and realized I would never make it the way the writer made it - but a left handed person definitely would write it like the letter writer. So it's more left handed than feminine to me. Probably a high school male, I would guess. But I'm no handwriting expert, just married to a lefty.

How insensitive and cruel. Poor Kaine, my heart breaks even more for him. And I don't think TMH would go this low, but I do wonder if her son is a lefty. Hmmmm.

I've often been told I "write left handed, right handed". In other words, my handwriting (printing actually) looks like a lefty, but I'm not.

 

[mmmagique]

kappy50
Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Memphis
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SurfieTX
O/T question, but given this recent development, do you think the school will keep up the "Wall of Hope" once school resumes?

Gosh, I sure hope NOT!


Why not? I hope it is left up, as long as Kyron is still missing...

What if he's missing for two years? What if he's missing for ten? What if, (God forbid) they never find him?

I don't think little children (who are easily traumatized) need to walk by a reminder that someone just like them, disappeared from that school and was never (so far) heard from again. It would give me nightmares if I were a child attending that school.

The wall of hope is a beautiful loving reminder of Kyron; that being said, it's not appropriate to make the children who are still there walk by it and be reminded of it every single day.

These children have been traumatized enough (imo) and need to be alllowed to carry on as normally as possible.

 

[greenpalm]

Just going to add my quick two cents. (or maybe five cents)
I don't know precisely what the story is behind this note, but my gut says it's not sinister. Any of the non-sinister explanations offered by others is plausible IMO, and I read this entire thread. Could be misguided attempt at comfort, could be young people, the writing probably inconsistent letter shapes because of the vertical surface.

For what it's worth, my son's name is Kenneth. He's 10, and we've always called him "Special K." I hardly think we are original. We also call him "Copper Top" because he has red hair. So, he's breakfast cereal and batteries.

I find some of the far stretching theories really intriguing. Stuff that sounds much more like a TV crime show plot line than the reality of criminals. It'd be "fun," if all criminals were brilliant, clever, and liked Hanibal Lector Style riddles, but, nah, the real explanation for this vandalism is that it's likely not even meant to be vandalism at all. As always, MOO.

Also - I'm really struggling that they wouldn't have surveillance cams on that wall. I just feel that if they don't, it's because they see no risk in leaving it unattended. Meanwhile, they haven't taken their eyes or ears off TH. They must be pretty stinking certain she's the guilty party.

 

[tlcya]

Ugh. Some folks just plain have no common sense. I am sure this moron thought they were expressing a comforting thought while at the same time expressing their anger because they think Kyron was murdered by his stepmother.

This "message from Kyron" was just gross and highly inappropriate What they did was just creepy and uncalled for. *shudder* I am upset by this child who is missing in my community so I think I will go to the wall of hope and write a fuax message from teh child I presume is dead. How presumptous and well, creepy.

 

[tk71texas]

Whatever it is, IMO it's definitely feminine handwriting.

:waitasec: I agree, my 13yr old son doesn't even write that neatly

 

[Wondergirl]

One thing is for sure, regarding the author(s) of the note, IMO:

They "know" enough about the "case" to imply certain innuendos.

That, to me, says quite a bit.

 

[pdxWOHM]

Stopped by the wall of hope on my way into work today. Somebody has blacked it out with a big heart. I left my own message of hope (although, unfortunately, I don't have much hope for him at this point).

 

[cluciano63]

I think anyone in the Portland area knows by now that Terri is the person suspected of harming Kyron, so I don't take that note to mean anything as far as insider knowledge. Anyone who has even caught the story on the news knows that, as her photo appears right after Kyron's in every segment.

I still see this as an awkward attempt to add their two cents...very awkward perhaps, but not malicious.

I think LE should have a camera set up, I doubt the school does. Also, think it will have to come down in a month, when school starts, maybe just leave ribbons tied around a tree or something. But this is probably too much to have there everyday for...who knows how long...

 

[MimiWhatserface]

The note is strange. But, I don't know. I'm undecided between thinking it is a flat out prank/vandalism or someone a little off in the head thinking they were sounding supportive but not being very adept at doing that.

Also, maybe I'm naive, but the couple of times in my life I've heard someone use the nickname "special K" I always thought it was supposed to be a play on the cereal of the same name? :waitasec: I am 34 and it seems like I've only heard this used jokingly by people in my generation...or maybe people within 10 years, give or take, of my generation. I work with children and teens and have never heard kids use that nickname.

Anyway....The part about the man with mental health issues in the area at the time is a bit disconcerting though. :twocents:

Special K is also a slang name for a drug that is used by teens.

http://www.byparents-forparents.com/article6.html

 

[Haeve]

Sorry, I don't have time to read this whole thread, so this has probably already been addressed, but many people misuse quotation marks for emphasis, when they really mean bolding, all caps, italics or underlining. I naturally read quotes misused this way as unintentional irony, but I personally don't read anything into the "I" and "she" except poor punctuation skills.

 

[chasing.halos]

Sorry, I don't have time to read this whole thread, so this has probably already been addressed, but many people misuse quotation marks for emphasis, when they really mean bolding, all caps, italics or underlining. I naturally read quotes misused this way as unintentional irony, but I personally don't read anything into the "I" and "she" except poor punctuation skills.

(I am "really" sorry but I "cannot" resist: http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ )