On May 16, 1986, a mentally disturbed man and his wife entered an elementary school with guns and a homemade gasoline bomb in Cokeville, Wyoming.
The man’s name was David Young, a former town marshal. He had been the town’s only police officer for six months in 1979. When he was fired, he moved to Tucson, Arizona. For reasons unknown, he and his wife Doris returned to Cokeville in 1986 and took an entire elementary school hostage. Their demands for the release of the hostages, over 160 children and teachers, were $300,000,000 and a personal phone call from the President of the United States.
Keeping everyone in a single classroom, the Youngs began a standoff that lasted 2 1/2 hours. When David momentarily left the room, the bomb accidentally went off instantly killing Doris. When he returned to the classroom and saw that his wife had died, he turned the gun on himself.
Bomb experts called out to the scene were stunned. They couldn’t figure out why the school was still intact when a bomb that size should have destroyed the entire building, killing everyone in the process.
After the incident, children began to tell stories of angels who appeared to them right before the explosion. Some said that angels instructed them to move to a corner because the bomb was about to explode. Others said they didn’t see anything, but heard disembodied voices telling them that they would be safe.
Adding to the mystery, one of the blackened walls covered with shrapnel was burned with the shape of a human outline with wings.
This is my favorite story ever
“Lilo and Stitch” 2002
Deleted Scene
Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.
IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU’D UNDERSTAND
I desperately need to understand
WHY
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
Was this scene cut from the movie??!!
Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people?? The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??
The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.
No, really, if anyone knows why this was cut PLEASE let me know.
oh man WHY WOULD they cut this, this is so great, holy MOLY
It was clearly something the crew was very reluctant to get rid of if it made it all the way to rough-clean (and in a few scenes clean!), fully inbetweened animation. That is like, thousands and thousands of dollars and weeks (months?!) of labour. Maybe a reluctant producer decided they would alienate their white middle-class American audiences by making them feel “too guilty” and pressed them to drop it? It’s unfortunate, it’s one of the most honest accounts of racism in a Disney movie (which is why it’s believable that someone got uncomfortable and made a case to get it chopped)
Designing entertainment by committee for maximum marketability is probably the most heartbreaking process in Hollywood.
I’ve been seeing this around my dash and think it deserves some more recognition!
This shit is hilarious, too.
NO WAIT SHIT
I GET IT NOW
I GET WHY SHE WAS PHOTOGRAPHING TOURISTS AS A HOBBY
SHE WAS BEING FUCKING SATIRICAL AND OBJECTIFYING
IT’S NOT BECAUSE SHE’S A DUMB KID WITH A WEIRD HOBBY IT’S BECAUSE THEY DO THAT TO HER AND HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY LIKE SHE’S SOME KIND OF FUCKING THEME PARK CHARACTER AND SHE WANTS THEM TO KNOW HOW IT FEELS
HOLY FUCKING DICKS DISNEY WHY WOULD YOU CUT THIS
