Sad News about a Fellow Huddler

[Hawk]

folks...I am sure there are many, myself included, that have questions and are wondering about how and why things went down the way they have. I do believe there is a time and place, I think in respect, that time might not be right now! Just my two cents worth.

[MadHatter]

Don't lecture me until you have spent hours at a humane society and seen the results of this kind of thing up close and personal. Seriously.

Meat.....

I am not lecturing anyone...nor am I telling anyone how they should feel. That is a very personal thing.

What I was saying is that this thread was an inappropriate place to voice that opinion. There are close friends and family members on this board right now reading alot of what is being said. Them reading that is not right.

You have the right to feel anyway you do about the situation. Just, please respect the feelings of others who are hurting bad with what happened. His family and friends deserve that much from all of us.

[rodeo]

I feel terrible for Clifton and his family. I'm sorry, but I feel worse for the animals. That's just how I am. They did nothing wrong. If you have multiple animals, people, and you can't care for them any longer, take them to the humane society. That's why it's there.

this is how i feel.

i don't know the guy and have never spoken to him outside of arguing in the tinderbox. but i would've driven down from VA and put those animals up somewhere at my own expense if the alternative was them starving to death. it's a horrifying thought.

and i don't find it disrespectful to bring it up. i find it more disrespectful to have everyone wondering and murmuring but not openly speaking about it.

i'm not passing judgment on him because i don't know him. he was one of the few people to always PM me something nice after tinderbox arguments to stay friendly, so it's obvious he was a nice guy with a lot of good in him.

[MadHatter]

this is how i feel.

i don't know the guy and have never spoken to him outside of arguing in the tinderbox. but i would've driven down from VA and put those animals up somewhere at my own expense if the alternative was them starving to death. it's a horrifying thought.

and i don't find it disrespectful to bring it up. i find it more disrespectful to have everyone wondering and murmuring but not openly speaking about it.

i'm not passing judgment on him because i don't know him. he was one of the few people to always PM me something nice after tinderbox arguments to stay friendly, so it's obvious he was a nice guy with a lot of good in him.

You won't find anyone here that does not feel terribly bad for the animals...myself included.

But to make a post saying that you feel more sorry for the animals than you do Cliff or his family....in a thread created to talk about his loss...is just insensitive. Plain and simple.

I am not telling you that you should not feel that way. All I, and others, are asking is to please respect his family and friends by keeping it to yourself right now. The wounds felt by his family are still new.

[pantherdad]

this is how i feel.

i don't know the guy and have never spoken to him outside of arguing in the tinderbox. but i would've driven down from VA and put those animals up somewhere at my own expense if the alternative was them starving to death. it's a horrifying thought.

and i don't find it disrespectful to bring it up. i find it more disrespectful to have everyone wondering and murmuring but not openly speaking about it.

i'm not passing judgment on him because i don't know him. he was one of the few people to always PM me something nice after tinderbox arguments to stay friendly, so it's obvious he was a nice guy with a lot of good in him.

Because this not the time or the place. have you know fuging respect? or are you just stupid? post it somewhere else, because this is the part of the forum where we are showing our respect for the loss of of a friend, not the situation leading up to his passing. nobody knows why that happened for sure with his horses, and nobody cares right now. thats for another time, in another part of the forum. like it was mentioned before, he has close friends and family reading this. like zod said yesterday, if you can't say anything nice, just move along....

[kittycat]

Again, thank you.

[Carolina Husker]

I agree with both sides.

But anyone who started a thread to discuss the actual events would get lambasted. That's fairly obvious.

[Darth Biscuit]

I agree with both sides.

But anyone who started a thread to discuss the actual events would get lambasted. That's fairly obvious.

They may indeed get lambasted... but at least that would be an appropriate forum for the discussion... hell, we go at each other back and forth all day in the tinderbox about all kinds of stuff.

All we're saying is have a little respect, and if you want to discuss it, take it elsewhere.

[Matt Foley]

Meat.....

I am not lecturing anyone...nor am I telling anyone how they should feel. That is a very personal thing.

What I was saying is that this thread was an inappropriate place to voice that opinion. There are close friends and family members on this board right now reading alot of what is being said. Them reading that is not right.

You have the right to feel anyway you do about the situation. Just, please respect the feelings of others who are hurting bad with what happened. His family and friends deserve that much from all of us.

I apologize.

[pantherdad]

I agree with both sides.

But anyone who started a thread to discuss the actual events would get lambasted. That's fairly obvious.

Yeah, I can't wait to see who that first ballsy mofo is......

[Jbro]

Did not see the Obituary posted...

MOUNT OLIVE - Clifton Boyd Jacobs, 43, formerly of Clinton, died Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. He was a Marine Corps veteran. Services: Funeral, 3 p.m. Thursday in Crumpler-Honeycutt Funeral Home in Clinton. Burial in New Bethel Baptist Church, Clinton. Visitation, 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Survived by: Children, Ashley, Hannah and Bryson; parents, Claude Faircloth and Mary Quigg; adoptive parents, Gene and Charlene; threes sisters; and five brothers.

They have a guestbook to sign also. http://www.legacy.com/gb2/default.aspx?bookid=7443317906610&cid=full

[pantherdad]

I mean, I don't wanna come out acting like a jerk off, but come on guys....the man hasn't been gone not even four days yet, hasn't even been buried yet....lets just keep some civility here, if not for clif, but for his family.

I'll admit, i'm pissed at the situation, saddended cause he's gone, but his passing has made me look at my ownself, how I should act, how I should treat other people. maybe some people around here should take some notes.

Clif had a heart as big as the world.....thats what I am gonna take from his passing, and that is what I am gonna try to do more in my life...

[Guest CatofWar]

The bottom line is a man is dead. At the end of the day, whether you like it or not, animals are pieces of property, and can be bought and sold as such. Is it right, no. Get over it. Nothing you can do about it now.

[2manytoys]

You know what we need in a situation like this.... A guy I once knew.....

He would know exactly what to say about all of this... Name slips my mind right now.. but he was one funny mofo... he'd probably cuss some out... and others he would prod with pm's and phone calls untill they went crazy.... but when it was all said and done.... you couldn't help but like him..