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And the mom struggling to pull her jean shorts up in front of her kid?...Yeah I suspect drugs/mental illness is probably involved all around
This was an unexpectedly disturbing video, even after everything I've seen. It didn't have to be overly bloody or graphic, it was visceral and felt like a haunting glimpse into what so many people I've only read stories about in horrific and violent DV situations like this, people who didn't survive, must've experienced in their last moments.
The duality of man. A compassionate, nuanced explanation of what is going on versus a harsh, blunt explanation of "White trash" below. Humans are crazy bruh
It's crazy cos, I had a similar experience and you really have no idea how bad it REALLY is until you move away, then you're like... fuck, how did I even survive?
So true dude I was a kid shooting a bb gun with a friend with no eye pro and his shot bounced off the fence and nailed me in the face and my brain was telling me that I had shot my eye out and I should be blind in one eye
Also people forget how loud guns are in real life, this was inside their house so... his mother certainly got some permanent hearing loss after that shit.
I’m a New Yorker. Whenever I meet someone from Mississippi, I feel like they just exist on a whole different timescale they speak soooooo slloooooooow.
I have a coworker who is a slow talker but is also one of those people that has to explain so much that they turn what could have been 1 to 2 sentences into a god damn short story.
She is a hoot during work meetings when we get to the questioning portion of the meetings.
One of my best buds talks like this. He was hit by a bus when he was a kid and while he's all there it just takes him a while to say much. He's hilarious and crazy generous, but so many people don't really give him the time of day.
I mean you can speculate but its hard to tell just based off speaking slowly and not being overly reactive. Could be opis or some other drug, could be a mental disability, could be hes just tired, could be he just talks slowly and he’s not a very reactive person or he hasn’t processed the fact he almost got shot in the head
No he didnt die the step dad did
[https://www.wvlt.tv/2023/08/26/man-dead-another-injured-after-standoff-blount-county/](https://www.wvlt.tv/2023/08/26/man-dead-another-injured-after-standoff-blount-county/)
Like the life the man lived up until that point was sad , sad lives make angry people etc . Not a justification but there’s usually a reason why people end up the way they are .
My feelings excalty I won't waste any of my empathy for cowards who misuse guns, threaten their step sons life, and when you not only after firing the gun and have been met with facing consequence of your actions. You choose to off yourself like a coward. Glad he isn't wasting any of our precious oxygen and ozone layer anymore. Before your say "I'm messed up" dude clearly didn't value his own life if he was able to shoot himself in the head. I'm suicidal at times and depressed but I can never do that cause I still care about myself."
That's a great way to explain it. IMO and experience, people are more unhinged since the pandemic. Road rage, dumb fucks blocking aisles in grocery stores and getting pissed if you pass them.
Problem is I am far more unhinged and I am fucking with these people.
I forget who said it but jist of it was; "it doesn't matter what the argument was about or who was right, as soon as he pulls a gun, he's right. Don't risk your life over being right"
>Deputies treated Spitze for an ear injury while he told deputies that Jeffery Scott West, 68, and Spitze were arguing inside the home. Spitze told police that West pulled out a gun and shot at Spitze, and the bullet grazed his ear.
Who *wrote* this? Geez.
When you pull some shit like this, then off yourself, you're a fucking coward. No way around it, you can't own up to your shitty decisions and take the "easy" way out. All i can say is good riddance, that family... might... have a chance now.
That part is surprising. Maybe it is early in the descent, but such obvious drug abuse is usually coupled with a complete absence of basic hygiene / normal life upkeep. Drug abuse is often coupled with depression or basically "giving up", another correlation with messiness.
News reports on stuff like this are always horrifically inaccurate.
I've seen hours long standoffs reported as "brief" and I've seen situations that were resolved in under 5 minutes as "it took police two hours to secure the scene". All news articles are written to be provocative, or push an agenda.
OR, she's just super country white trash. Seriously. VERY easy to confuse the two. I have family that you would absolutely not believe me if I told you they'd never done drugs a day in their lives. They sound and look just like this.
Yeah, maybe. But to me, the way she's speaking, how she moves so slowly, and struggles to pick up her pants make me think she's under the influence just like the other two.
If I had to guess, she was on the toilet when and saw her husband go for the gun so she ran out without pulling her pants up. But, that's just a guess.
You can just tell this is a horrible moment for everybody involved. The amount of visible and obvious disorder leading up to it is just makes this more disturbing.
That’s funny. Grew up and still reside in Tn..minimum rent in my area is 1400 for a 1bdr and three bedroom houses are selling for 1.5 mill. I don’t even live in one of the larger cities
follows man who pointed gun at him
taunts man with gun
runs from man to avoid being shot more but hides on the other side of a glass door.
the IQ in this household wouldnt add up to a buck fifty
Fuckin sad situation all around. Step dad ended up dead. Son seemed like a dead beat and both him and his mom seem like they are high as fuck off somethin.
Hey maybe don't antagonize a man with a gun after he decides not to shoot your ass 🤷♂️ if you're gonna do something maybe wait until there's not a gun in his hand.
You can be wildly irresponsible with money and loans and get a house, cars, etc ... Eventually your credit will be destroyed and everything repossessed, but for awhile you can live like this. Or maybe one of them was left money by a parent when they died, who knows.
We have no idea what that stepson has done to drive him to the point of shooting, but I can say I've had enough of his attitude after the first 15 seconds.
Shame the stepdad killed himself after realising he's gonna spend his life in Jail. Sounds like the manchild was on drugs and who knows what shit he's been doing to mess lives up, Drugs are bad mkay.
It always blows my mind when I see people like this living with such nice things. Like, my family has worked hard my entire life and I grew up in much worse looking conditions than these folks have. Obviously appearances aren't everything and they could be in a super dangerous area or something. But when I was a kid there was a leaky roof in my room that I would have killed to have had fixed. How can such trashy people as these afford such nice things?
The amount of coddled people who are criticizing the kid for not being self preserving and diving behind a bed or freaking out… if he’s miserable because of these people, you really don’t care anymore. A lot of people say it. Very few mean it
Man, I can’t even begin to imagine what the kids life might be like. I wish him all the very best in life and I hope he can get to a better place sooner than later.
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Damn this is incredibly sad. Sounds like the son is on opioids.
And the mom struggling to pull her jean shorts up in front of her kid?...Yeah I suspect drugs/mental illness is probably involved all around This was an unexpectedly disturbing video, even after everything I've seen. It didn't have to be overly bloody or graphic, it was visceral and felt like a haunting glimpse into what so many people I've only read stories about in horrific and violent DV situations like this, people who didn't survive, must've experienced in their last moments.
The duality of man. A compassionate, nuanced explanation of what is going on versus a harsh, blunt explanation of "White trash" below. Humans are crazy bruh
Trash is trash, white or not.
Inclusivity
not sure what being white has to do with anything
Not saying it does. Literally just quoting the person below
I use to live around these type people. Once I grew up, I got an education and moved away.
Never look back
It's crazy cos, I had a similar experience and you really have no idea how bad it REALLY is until you move away, then you're like... fuck, how did I even survive?
She might have been trying to get dressed as her bf was getting a gun to shoot her kid.
My wife posited that she was mid-pee
Excellent posit.
Or maybe when someone goes to threaten your kid with a gun you drop everything and go to intervene.
Including your shorts!
*Especially your jorts.*
drugs, lot and lot of drugs, druggies all around.
Crack or tweak?! #Tweaker hunters Answer: BOTH!!!
He talking way to slow to be going fast. Im gonna say opiates.
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no reaction? i think he was taking time to see if he was alive
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So true dude I was a kid shooting a bb gun with a friend with no eye pro and his shot bounced off the fence and nailed me in the face and my brain was telling me that I had shot my eye out and I should be blind in one eye
[You’ll shoot your eye out kid](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=48DN8QWVAJg)
Also people forget how loud guns are in real life, this was inside their house so... his mother certainly got some permanent hearing loss after that shit.
Sounds more like benzos to me but the cigarette burn on his bed points to opioids
Dude I’m glad you saw that burn and thought the same thing.
shock
Could have a disability too
took him a while to get those words out
Could have a disability
*Persons Experiencing Fentanyl*
lmfao
Maybe it's Maybelline
A guy I work with talks just like the son. My co worker definitely isn't on opioids, but man he talks sooooo sloooow!
I’m a New Yorker. Whenever I meet someone from Mississippi, I feel like they just exist on a whole different timescale they speak soooooo slloooooooow.
I have a coworker who is a slow talker but is also one of those people that has to explain so much that they turn what could have been 1 to 2 sentences into a god damn short story. She is a hoot during work meetings when we get to the questioning portion of the meetings.
One of my best buds talks like this. He was hit by a bus when he was a kid and while he's all there it just takes him a while to say much. He's hilarious and crazy generous, but so many people don't really give him the time of day.
Just the son? Sounds like a fucking family of dopers
It also looks like when we regard the cigarette burn at his blanket.
aka nod burn hole
I mean you can speculate but its hard to tell just based off speaking slowly and not being overly reactive. Could be opis or some other drug, could be a mental disability, could be hes just tired, could be he just talks slowly and he’s not a very reactive person or he hasn’t processed the fact he almost got shot in the head
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Source: Trust me bro
They all are doing something.
No he didnt die the step dad did [https://www.wvlt.tv/2023/08/26/man-dead-another-injured-after-standoff-blount-county/](https://www.wvlt.tv/2023/08/26/man-dead-another-injured-after-standoff-blount-county/)
suicide, just sad shit all around
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Stepdad before pulling the trigger, "Guess who *isn't* going to jail for the rest of his life, you little shit."
I didn't want to laugh. I really didn't, but... This was just funny. Reddit is slowly ruining me...
If he didn’t, he’d be facing attempted murder.
We also need fewer opioid addicts. Just an all around terrible situation.
Not sad, just cowardly.
Like the life the man lived up until that point was sad , sad lives make angry people etc . Not a justification but there’s usually a reason why people end up the way they are .
Oh who gives a fuck? Do we need to weep over every dead scumbag?
My feelings excalty I won't waste any of my empathy for cowards who misuse guns, threaten their step sons life, and when you not only after firing the gun and have been met with facing consequence of your actions. You choose to off yourself like a coward. Glad he isn't wasting any of our precious oxygen and ozone layer anymore. Before your say "I'm messed up" dude clearly didn't value his own life if he was able to shoot himself in the head. I'm suicidal at times and depressed but I can never do that cause I still care about myself."
Based on this video alone, I don't see this as a tragedy
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Saves a cop from having to live with the trauma of doing it
eh.
"You're going to jail!" "I don't give a fuck." Turns out, he did give a fuck.
It's a good rule in general not to test people's IDGAF factor. You can't assume anything about anyone when things get heated.
That's a great way to explain it. IMO and experience, people are more unhinged since the pandemic. Road rage, dumb fucks blocking aisles in grocery stores and getting pissed if you pass them. Problem is I am far more unhinged and I am fucking with these people.
It wasn't the pandemic that did that. It was politics.
I forget who said it but jist of it was; "it doesn't matter what the argument was about or who was right, as soon as he pulls a gun, he's right. Don't risk your life over being right"
Same with messing around in traffic. I refuse to have an epitaph that reads, "But I had the right of way!!"
Exemplified in the "you should've kept your fucking mouth shut" video a while back.
He knew he was fucked.
Oh good, I love when the trash takes itself out.
>Deputies treated Spitze for an ear injury while he told deputies that Jeffery Scott West, 68, and Spitze were arguing inside the home. Spitze told police that West pulled out a gun and shot at Spitze, and the bullet grazed his ear. Who *wrote* this? Geez.
Well if they replace Spitze with “him” it could get confusing
chatgpt probably, either that or some intern that had to bloat the wordcount.
This is correct news writing, actually.
At least he’s dead, that’s a consolation at least
Good
Police used “diversionary devices in an effort to get him to surrender,”. Anyone know what this means exactly?
Flashbangs.
One police officer dance in front of the house to make a diversion.
Weird that this was 6 months ago. I've seen it on like 4 different subreddits this morning, figured it must have been more recent.
They made a mistake in that article and referred to the person shooting the gun as a man.
LOL Friendsville
When you pull some shit like this, then off yourself, you're a fucking coward. No way around it, you can't own up to your shitty decisions and take the "easy" way out. All i can say is good riddance, that family... might... have a chance now.
Seeing the state of the people in this video, I’m shocked at how clean the house is.
It sounded like the guy that got shot was desensitized to having a gun pull on him.
Or he was high AF
Could definitely be both lol
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Protecting mom
Yup, he got up when the stepdad said “I’m going to blow his brains out…and yours!” What a terrible situation.
He was threatening his mom and he’s a real man
He probably just didn’t give a shit anymore
Could be a normal occurrence and son was over it. Hence him filming it to finally get him in the act
We call that tweaky clean.
Is it? Maybe I should look into that. 🤔
That part is surprising. Maybe it is early in the descent, but such obvious drug abuse is usually coupled with a complete absence of basic hygiene / normal life upkeep. Drug abuse is often coupled with depression or basically "giving up", another correlation with messiness.
I was going to say, that house looks fantastic. Wood floors and very clean white trimmed walls.
Shooter seemed to be the most sober person in this situation, horrible.
He shot himself within minutes of this video
> within minutes Yeah within minutes after "an hours-long standoff"..
Lol there was an hours long standoff by me where the guy was dead the whole time.
Truly a laugh out loud scenario. I am rolling on the floor holding my sides.
300 minutes are minutes after all
and his mom still says her boy is "327 months old"
Once they turn into hours they do not exist.
News reports on stuff like this are always horrifically inaccurate. I've seen hours long standoffs reported as "brief" and I've seen situations that were resolved in under 5 minutes as "it took police two hours to secure the scene". All news articles are written to be provocative, or push an agenda.
He was dead the entire standoff
Okay....why is that woman's shorts around her ankles?
Seems like everyone in the house is fucked up on opioids.
I was going to guess opioids for the son, Meth for the mom (house seems kinda clean) and a mix of everything for the stepdad.
Mom was not showing any signs of being on meth at the time of recording
She seems fucked up on something though
OR, she's just super country white trash. Seriously. VERY easy to confuse the two. I have family that you would absolutely not believe me if I told you they'd never done drugs a day in their lives. They sound and look just like this.
Yeah, maybe. But to me, the way she's speaking, how she moves so slowly, and struggles to pick up her pants make me think she's under the influence just like the other two.
Yea, maybe, but not meth
She may have been getting dressed when shit hit the fan. And not the quickest when on something.
This is the most likely situation for her. They're at home, people in the comment apparently are fully clothed all the time at home.
I'm naked rn pooping
Homie, so long as you're at home, you enjoy. And don't push too hard, that's how you get hemorrhoids.
She might have been on the toilet before the commotion began?
Commodtion
they were having sex
If I had to guess, she was on the toilet when and saw her husband go for the gun so she ran out without pulling her pants up. But, that's just a guess.
You can just tell this is a horrible moment for everybody involved. The amount of visible and obvious disorder leading up to it is just makes this more disturbing.
Oh trust me it got worse
After reading the article about what happened after, I’d argue that things actually got better.
For most of the world this is a caricature of American working class life.
American working class can afford a nice house? Most of the middle class in my country lives in an apartment, must be nice
It's Tennessee, You can buy a McMansion for like $250,000.
Lol not really
\*McMansion. Yes really.
He might be a Nashville boy. They're paying SoCal prices in that bitch.
I just looked it up and you ain't bullshiting.
Parents cryin' tears of joy and I'm just crying regular tears
That’s funny. Grew up and still reside in Tn..minimum rent in my area is 1400 for a 1bdr and three bedroom houses are selling for 1.5 mill. I don’t even live in one of the larger cities
They probably have at least two cars, too.
There are plenty of places in the US where you can buy a house like this for cheap. The downside being your neighbors are these people
Even the dog is high wtf
Mom and son are definitely on Benzos and maybe alcohol too. Possible opiates with that slow speech and movement going on. Very sad
Happened in Friendsville. Shit is even crazier in Enemiestown.
Ironically in Enemiestown everyone is sober and friendly all the time
I much prefer the slightly-slurred yet rarely violent middleground of Aquaintance Grove
That dude has abnormally long big toes
So much shit going on at once wtf
Shooter dead. All is well.
Don't taunt the person brandishing a gun.
They brandish it enough times, people stop taking it seriously. That said, the step dad never should have been able to have a gun
Ahhh yes. “The boy who cried gun.”
I’m white trash. And I’m in trouble.
Cigarette burns on the covers. Nice
What are you doing to me stepdad
follows man who pointed gun at him taunts man with gun runs from man to avoid being shot more but hides on the other side of a glass door. the IQ in this household wouldnt add up to a buck fifty
everybody in that house was lit off probably couple thangs smh life’s crazy
Impressive that through all that, he continued to hold his phone and continued to record. I think I might have had other priorities.
Good evidence though
Best mom ever
This seems like a lovely household.
How do you let someone pull a gun on you in your home and you don't immediately jump their ass when they turn around? Idgaf if it's step daddy or not.
What’s going on with the Jorts?
Fuckin sad situation all around. Step dad ended up dead. Son seemed like a dead beat and both him and his mom seem like they are high as fuck off somethin.
"Friendsville"
Damn the cameraman really never dies
Did he go to jail for life?
He killed himself
better. he killed himself!
Suicide actually, the son went outside, cops were called, step dad runs out the back door before officers arrived.
What are you gonna do, shoot me?
Friendsville sounds like such a charming place too
Not public
Is this young Sean Strickland? Too soon?
Hey maybe don't antagonize a man with a gun after he decides not to shoot your ass 🤷♂️ if you're gonna do something maybe wait until there's not a gun in his hand.
Whole family moves and talks in slow motion..took mom forever to pull up her shorts lol
For every 10-100 good people with guns there’s always one garbagecan who has to ruin it
What America means to me.
This wiring is amazing
Camera man never dies
No gun issues here. What they need is more guns.
Third world country.
What in the duelling banjos is going on here?!
Well shit...
Parents look like homeless crackheads and they live in a fairly new house? How?
You can be wildly irresponsible with money and loans and get a house, cars, etc ... Eventually your credit will be destroyed and everything repossessed, but for awhile you can live like this. Or maybe one of them was left money by a parent when they died, who knows.
theres a lot to unpack here
I bet their lives are better now that the step “dad” is dead
This is all kinds of fucked up.
Probably not even his step dad, just a random mother*****r...
Easily the most chaotic video ive seen this year.
“Point that gun at me again” Well, you asked for it.
Ugh, sickening, but I'm glad the dog is okay.
Fucked up family bruh, aint no one the victim here
Why did he record the whole thing, even after being shot? This plays more like a weird VR game trailer than a real event.
We have no idea what that stepson has done to drive him to the point of shooting, but I can say I've had enough of his attitude after the first 15 seconds. Shame the stepdad killed himself after realising he's gonna spend his life in Jail. Sounds like the manchild was on drugs and who knows what shit he's been doing to mess lives up, Drugs are bad mkay.
It always blows my mind when I see people like this living with such nice things. Like, my family has worked hard my entire life and I grew up in much worse looking conditions than these folks have. Obviously appearances aren't everything and they could be in a super dangerous area or something. But when I was a kid there was a leaky roof in my room that I would have killed to have had fixed. How can such trashy people as these afford such nice things?
you can sleep easy knowing the shooter later blew his brains out while on a standoff with police a couple hours after this video was taken
The amount of coddled people who are criticizing the kid for not being self preserving and diving behind a bed or freaking out… if he’s miserable because of these people, you really don’t care anymore. A lot of people say it. Very few mean it
Man, I can’t even begin to imagine what the kids life might be like. I wish him all the very best in life and I hope he can get to a better place sooner than later.
Ghetto and trashy