Why does God hate Fresno?

[displacedtexan]

Boy Scout leader killed by lightening and a scout in critical condition.

Just on MSNBC.

Scout camping trip in Freeperland.

Sad, but I always think of freepers when I hear "Fresno."

[smirkymonkey]

1. He's not the only one....

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Another Scouting death? Unreal. Those poor kids

[carnie_sf]

3. Because it sucks

[Le Taz Hot]

4. THIS

is one of the many reasons I haven't been at DU for a year-and-a-half. So much for the "big tent." Thanks so much. Class all the way. :banghead:

LTH
Fresno, CA

[Momgonepostal]

6. I hear ya, but stick around

I'm from Modesto, and we need to let people know the Central Valley isn't just one big barrel o' freepers.

I know we get it from all angles. People from other states think we're snobby, elitist Californians and many in the the Bay Area and LA think we're bunch of back woods hicks.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Try being a Kansan

It's not easy in any crowd these days.

[displacedtexan]

8. I remember you.

Not including freepers, who want to lynch us, starve us, bury us, and tell God that we died... would be a good thing?

You are way nice, Le Taz Hot!

[datadiva]

11. Please don't go La Taz Hot

I'm from Stockton, new to DU. Oh yeah, Stockton= #1 crime city in Calif. :hi: Also, Great American City 2 out of 5 years. Go figure.
Condolences to the families of these people.
Edited to include condolences.

[sysoprock]

14. AGREED!

I'm from Fresno also, don't hate.

[Momgonepostal]

5. Scouting trip NOW?

Do they schedule them during Jamboree? That's going on right now, and incedentally, the leaders killed in the electrical accident there were from Alaska.

[Lars39]

13. Not everybody goes to the Jamboree.

A lot of troops never go to anything "official", if they can get out of it.

[Momgonepostal]

7. Here's the link

Updated: 4:47 p.m. ET July 29, 2005
FRESNO, Calif. - Lightning struck a group of Boy Scouts taking shelter from a storm, killing the troop leader and leaving a 13-year-old Scout brain-dead, authorities and the teen's grandfather said Friday. Seven others were injured.

Ryan Collins, 13, was was being kept on a ventilator so that his organs could be donated, said the grandfather. "He would never recover or anything else," Bill Collins said....

<snip>

The Scout group from St. Helena, which Picavet said included five adults and seven teenage Scouts, was hit when a lightning bolt made a direct strike on one of the two tarps they had set up in a meadow.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8757108/

Saint Helena is in Napa Valley. Kerry county, most likely.

[etherealtruth]

9. This is truly horrific...

My condolences to all who loved and cared for these two.

[Momgonepostal]

10. I'm sure it was frightening for the other kids, too

Can you imagine? The whole thing is just really sad.