Shooting at Shanty Town

[Driven1]

thank you for the update janet.

[downtownparks]

I can vouch for his spirits. I saw him last night. He has his quirkly smart alec smile back, and you could just tell he REALLY wanted to bust my balls about losing the game to the eastside the other day. :-)

Fortunately for him, they have ESPN and the History Ch, so he is keeping his brain busy.

He is going to make a great recovery. You can see the determination in his eyes.

[jacksonvilleconfidential]

All of us at JC have him in our thoughts as well.

[BridgeTroll]

Donations accepted on Toms behalf...

http://www.macrisdirect.com/tom/

[Driven1]

Donations accepted on Toms behalf...

http://www.macrisdirect.com/tom/

i think this is well-known, but those huge medical bills are largely negotiable.  Tom will still need help, but I'm just trying to make sure every avenue is covered on the financial end. 

any update on Tom this week?  thanks.

[Eazy E]

I am not going to the benefit at Fuel, but i am sure as hell going to stop by an by two or more tickets.

[hooplady]

i think this is well-known, but those huge medical bills are largely negotiable.  Tom will still need help, but I'm just trying to make sure every avenue is covered on the financial end. 

any update on Tom this week?  thanks.

Yes, we are hoping that the medical bills will be negotiable and that large portions will be covered by various public/private sources.  Everyone was so nice who offered to take up collections, it didn't even occur to us to ask them the change the wording.  For some things it is better to be penniless than merely poor  - the less you have, the more you qualify for.  We didn't realize that we should be saying "to pay for everything else that he will need."

The evil nefarious breathing machine was banished from his room yesterday (I gave it the finger on its way out).  He still has the trach tube but hopefully that will come out soon and he will be able to speak again.  He's eating solid food which is a really big deal.  He's getting closer to being released from Shands so he can enter rehab, which will be basically like boot camp only harder. 

So, stuff is happening, slowly but surely.  I really look forward to seeing everybody at the benefit this Friday.  There's such a great buzz about this event.  Thank you Fuel!  Thank you Shantytown!

[jacksonvilleconfidential]

I will repost this on Jacksonville Confidential tomorrow.

[hooplady]

Wow...I guess I am still so naive that I believed they would look at the overwhelming evidence against them and just plead guilty.   

Sooooo hard to keep the rose-colored glasses on these days.

[Driven1]

they are counting on that "jury of their peers" to get em off.  aka - their peers are required to be as ignorant as they are.

[jbm32206]

It's not at all shocking, even when people have confessed to crimes, quite often they'll still plead not guilty...so don't let that defray your hopes of justice being served. Between the confession(s) witness accounts and other evidence, let's just pray that these thugs end up being put away for a long time.

[Lunican]

They aren't guilty of murder. That's pretty obvious.

[jbm32206]

From what I recall after they were arrested, the one confessed. Anyway, they're not guilty until proven so...(which we're sure they are) but it's our justice system that's in process...

[BridgeTroll]

I haven't been up to shanty since a week after this happened. How is Tom doing? (since the last update)

Here's the flyer for the benefit concert:

Dont forget... tonight is the event... cya there!

[BridgeTroll]

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