Tag: Eric Harris

The Merciless & Merciful
Amanda Semm recounts her CHS car swipe with Dylan’s BMW
(She posted her experience on a Columbine forum a few years ago)

“In January/February 99 I was in the senior lot (for what reason i can not remember) I saw an open parking space and i was going to pull in and a black car came out of nowhere and i clipped the left side of the rear bumper. I got out of my car in tears thinking "that’s it my mom is gonna take away my car” (I had just got my license 2-3 months prior to that) the driver of the car got out and told me “its ok the other side has been hit many times you just evened it out”, the passenger however was not as thrilled. It wasn’t till I was watching the news when they were towing Dylan’s car out of the lot that I knew who I hit. Other than that I don’t recall talking or even seeing the two.“

 When asked to give further details:

 "I was in tears and kept apologizing over and over and over I told him I had insurance and I could file a report, it was my fault and that is when I was told it wasn’t a big deal the car had been hit so many times on the other side I evened it out. I started to calm down.

Then the passenger door opened and Eric started yelling at me, something along the lines of I was a stupid bitch, why wasn’t I paying attention to where I was going (I honestly do not remember all of it) I thought for sure he was gonna send his girlfriend to kick my ass or something. (I am a 5’7 109 pound girl most people think they can take me on, I couldn’t believe he was so mad and it wasn’t even his car) Dylan told him to get back in the car and they took off. I didn’t see them again till the news.

The thing is I was paying attention, I had just learned to drive my car (manual) so hopping into a parking space wasn’t a new site for people to see from me. They were flying thru the parking lot. I checked my right then my left and started to pull foward and BAM there was a ass end of a car….(he came from the right)

I was thankful that he did not want to file a report. I didn’t want my mother to take away my car. I am pretty sure that is one of the first times I was allowed to drive it to school after getting my license 3 months prior. I thought Eric was a jerk….but anyone who gets that mad for something that can be handled in a civilized manner puts off that image.”

Jennifer Paavilainen account as Amanda Semm’s passenger

I don’t want to say they were nondescript,” she says. “They were nice enough, but not enough to start a conversation. We had no connection after (shooting in the woods). They seemed a little weird, but they were just boys. I was only two years removed from their age. They seemed like boys playing their war games.

–Jessica Miklich (Mark Mane’s girlfriend) on Rampart Range target practice

“I am black/white mixed. And when the media is coming up with this thing that Dylan and Eric were racist, they weren’t. They were my friends. They were very nice to me, both of them. I don’t get this whole racial thing that people are coming up with.”

I have a friend, he doesn’t dress like everybody else. He wears heavy metal band T-shirts, black shorts no matter what the weather, and a black hat, and he has long hair. And friends who normally just come up to me and talk to me and are so nice to me — when I’m around him, they give me looks. And people come up to me after I talk to him, they’re like, “How can you talk to him? How can you even acknowledge his presence?’ I’m like, “It’s simple, he’s nice.”

That was the same with Eric and Dylan. I knew both of them. I went bowling with them occasionally. And they were extremely nice. They never showed any signs that they’d like to go off and hurt people.

Meg Hains (via peoplearesounaware)

Fly and Arlene: A Shotgun Love Story

My little silly speculation that Dylan named his double barrel “Fly” in echo to Eric’s pump-action Shotgun, “Arlene”. In a way, these two guns were the boys’ only, dependable girlfriends.  So, as referenced in both Eric and Dylan’s writings, the two hot ‘chick’ shotguns were mentioned as a pair and they chilled and hung out in a shuttle around the stratosphere together while their owners, the two ‘gods’, ascended to the after world.  Or, who knows.. maybe Fly was the boyfriend to Arlene?  😉  

Addendum: For clarification purposes, just so y’all know: ‘Fly’’ is the boyfriend to Arlene in Doom lore.. Although, we don’t actually know if Dylan christened a name of sorts for his double barreled shotgun because he never mentioned as such.  This post was just my initial speculation when I initially saw Dylan’s sketch above with ‘Fly & Arlene’s shuttle’ and knowing the fact that Eric dubbed his shotgun ‘Arlene’.) 

The Dragon Rampant: There are these days on which I start to wonder about some of the more…

thedragonrampant:

There are these days on which I start to wonder about some of the more trivial stuff.. such as Dylan handing that scrap of paper with Eric’s website written on it to Brooks.

Was it simply, as many seem to believe, Dylan growing a pair and deciding to let his old friend know what a new friend was…

The Dragon Rampant: There are these days on which I start to wonder about some of the more…

I’m not a trendy a$$hole.

When I first read Zack Rissmiller claimed Dylan tore off his BMW emblems I took it with a grain of salt – that is, until I saw the contents list of his BMW glovebox. This speaks volumes about Dylan to me. He did not wish to be associated with status or snobbery in a way, shape or form to the extreme point of ripping off his own car’s emblems – front and rear. I can only imagine what his dad felt about his son’s extreme statement since Tom’s hobby was collecting old, luxury type cars and fixing them up with his son. The culture at Columbine with it’s elitist, snooty, rich kids turned Dylan off, and over the years, disgusted him to such a degree that it was too revolting to drive through the school’s parking lot feeling comfortable..or even remotely proud.. displaying the associated “status” symbols on his own car. It was not what he was about and he wanted to make sure the school knew it. What better way to make a point? I doubt Eric wouldn’t have done as such since he would have likely been proud of a German derived car.

Gun
I’m gonna spit a hell of a lot of buckshot out of my barrel into this pansy’s face.  – REB / Indigo 

 I am a Gun
 A wildey 45 semiautomatic. I am a god.  I kill people. I was never made for hunting, just to kill humans.  When someone needs to die, I kill them.  There was this bald guy once, He was gay & arrogant & superficial & had a false sense of power.  I blew off his head with one shot.  I am god. he died.  – VoDkA / Green

E & D’s creative writing class exercises are always an interesting comparison. The differences in expression and personality really come across.  Eric is blunt and to the point; Dylan paints a comical picture.

Difficult and Rude

Michelle Hartsough, a friend and co-worker, told investigators that she had learned a lot from her father, a pyrotechnics expert.

Hartsough showed Harris and Klebold how to remove “black,” or explosive powder, from fireworks and use it for other pyrotechnics effects, she said. Littleton fire officials have said some of the killers’ many bombs were made from fireworks explosives.

For a year, Hartsough listened to the boy’s tales of killing the jocks but said she never took them seriously.

“She said they both talked about a senior prank that was going to take place April 20, 1999,” the report said.

When the kids were bored, they would buy dry ice at the nearby Baskin-Robbins ice cream store and make little bombs they detonated behind the Blackjack. Harris used fireworks to build a “trip-wire bomb” to keep kids from going through a hole in the fence.

Klebold was once briefly fired for bringing a pipe bomb to work, the report said. He was hired back when the owner needed workers. 
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The Dragon Rampant: Some things about 4/20 I need to discuss with you boys..

thedragonrampant:

Why didn’t you testdrive your own schedule for 4/20 to see if everything worked out timeframe-wise? (Surely you’d have to know if you could make it from place to place doing all the stuff you needed to do in that time..)

Why put off buying that damn propane until the last morning? What the fuck…

I think the gist of all your points here translates to the fact that though intelligent for their age, they were young, naive, idealistic and miscalculated many things. Their tardiness on the day of may have been subconscious hesitation and vacillation.

The Dragon Rampant: Some things about 4/20 I need to discuss with you boys..

: i think people are afraid of those who can empathize with eric and…

landbeforeslime:

i think people are afraid of those who can empathize with eric and dylan because it’s people like us who aren’t afraid to come forward and say that while eric and dylan committed monstrous acts, they themselves weren’t monsters. they were human beings, with quirks and interests and weak spots and…

Truth.

: i think people are afraid of those who can empathize with eric and…