tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post8933404487265153322..comments2024-02-11T00:54:20.373-08:00Comments on A Trail Runner's Blog: Trail Runner Robert Brown Kills Wife with HammerScott Dunlaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16096284778835123584noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-45029722300475250602013-05-02T12:03:00.928-07:002013-05-02T12:03:00.928-07:00Bit late to this but I think your account is colou...Bit late to this but I think your account is coloured by your shock at knowing a convicted killer.<br /><br />I had a different knowledge of Robert Brown - he was a neighbour of mine at the block of flats we both lived in at The Pleasance in Edinburgh around 13 years ago, and my only meeting with him resulted in me calling the police. I don't know whether I was more shocked to find out that someone with his personality traits and attitude was a pilot, or had committed murder. He actually struck me as a very volatile, uneducated and out of control person, and he left me in fear of being assaulted.<br /><br />I can only think the police didn't record this incident, as I may have been a useful witness.<br /><br />LJR Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-4327442285918470872011-05-28T21:30:02.985-07:002011-05-28T21:30:02.985-07:00Scott- I've been thinking and thinking for a c...Scott- I've been thinking and thinking for a couple of weeks about this post, and why it upset me. It took me a long time to figure it out, but I figured I would give it a shot, even this late. <br /><br />I usually love to read your blog; it's so easy to tell how much you love running and enjoy being part of the ultra/trail running/racing community. I like to think of myself as part of the running community, too, even though I do shorter distances, and I'm way slower! <br /><br />So when I read this post, it made me think: If my boyfriend or husband killed me someday, would someone like Scott, who is a part of my community and someone I really respect, write a post about it? And would the post maybe be a little flip or joke around a bit? What am I worth to this community? It made me sad, thinking that someday, I might be a joke in a blog- especially a joke that came from a place I thought I belonged.<br /><br />I hope that makes sense.JJ https://www.blogger.com/profile/13709043416663759186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-49287967235756831992011-05-23T07:27:08.251-07:002011-05-23T07:27:08.251-07:00Scott -
Thanks for reporting on this. It's un...Scott -<br /><br />Thanks for reporting on this. It's undoubtedly a tragedy, and a very serious matter. That said, I appreciate the fact that you can approach this material with a degree of levity intact, particularly as this is someone you have met and raced with. It's easy for many of us to forget, in the course of our comfortable modern lives, that such tragedies are sadly commonplace. Approaching them with our sense of humor intact makes us better able to cope and to live safer and saner lives ourselves.Ethannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-84351302149559300962011-05-16T07:33:20.120-07:002011-05-16T07:33:20.120-07:00Is there anything more smug than an anonymous comm...Is there anything more smug than an anonymous commenters that agrees with other anonymous commenters? <br /><br />Wouldn't you agree? (anonymously, of course)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-16613820779793260402011-05-16T07:30:30.966-07:002011-05-16T07:30:30.966-07:00Looks like Olympic Gold medalist Sammy Wanjiru als...Looks like Olympic Gold medalist Sammy Wanjiru also has domestic violence issues - although the result there was that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/sports/marathon-champion-dies-in-fall-from-balcony.html" rel="nofollow">he was killed when jumping out of a balcony yesterday</a>. <br /><br />Just goes to show how pervasive domestic violence can be. Such a shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-43721987576029604572011-05-15T15:04:08.339-07:002011-05-15T15:04:08.339-07:00Just to register a mass response here, I'm pos...Just to register a mass response here, I'm posting to agree with the other Anons. Jeez, crass! (But, thanks for the otherwise good work.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-81615751199173098542011-05-14T21:51:50.259-07:002011-05-14T21:51:50.259-07:00"Well, I've always thought trail runners ...<em>"Well, I've always thought trail runners are do-it-yourself kind of people that make the most of nature!"</em><br /><br />Really, Scott? A mother had her head caved in with a hammer, her arms and hands broken while trying to protect herself, with her kids in the house listening and cowering in fear. There is NOTHING remotely amusing about this story.Dustyhttp://www.dustydavis.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-69216095267429736912011-05-14T20:56:49.170-07:002011-05-14T20:56:49.170-07:00I never understand people using hanmmer to kill hi...I never understand people using hanmmer to kill his own wife! that is very stupid act!Markushttp://www.berlin-sofort.denoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-57079328088687948582011-05-14T14:52:12.071-07:002011-05-14T14:52:12.071-07:00Agree with previous comment .. stick to race repor...Agree with previous comment .. stick to race reports, which are awesome. Blogging about this (in this way) is lameAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-43690846559350320712011-05-14T10:07:25.898-07:002011-05-14T10:07:25.898-07:00This is awfully flippant for a post about a domest...This is awfully flippant for a post about a domestic killing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860166.post-80654080924503018782011-05-14T07:26:25.387-07:002011-05-14T07:26:25.387-07:00I forgot - thanks Michael Stoddard for the tip!I forgot - thanks Michael Stoddard for the tip!Scott Dunlaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16096284778835123584noreply@blogger.com