The Observation Deck

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01 ... fbi_h.html

There was a guy buying drinks for the house at the reunion!

Stan Austin '67

Stan Austin wrote:http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/theodore_john_conrad_the_fbi_h.html

There was a guy buying drinks for the house at the reunion!

Stan Austin '67

Stan


I have read the hot on Lakewood numerous times, am I missing something?

What on earth was the tie to Lakewood, what alone making it a Story about the Class of 67?

Conrad had graduated, it was not done as a student, the crime happened in Cleveland.

While an interesting story, I do not see why LAKEWOOD appears in the headline.


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His girlfiend was a classmate of mine - St. Augustine '67.

sharon kinsella wrote:His girlfiend was a classmate of mine - St. Augustine '67.

Hey, my fiancee is St. Augustine '99!

Well maybe it was the converse of all the explanations that Lakewood crime is caused by Clevelanders. Just sounds like the other side of the coin. Back in '69 it must have been seen as the start of white collar crime coming downtown from the neighboring suburb.

Shawn Juris wrote:Well maybe it was the converse of all the explanations that Lakewood crime is caused by Clevelanders. Just sounds like the other side of the coin. Back in '69 it must have been seen as the start of white collar crime coming downtown from the neighboring suburb.

Shawn

My only question was, how does Lakewood become the headline?


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The headline or the first line of the story? Just my impression but it seemed to be more of a special interest piece than a journalistic article. Certainly every reader has the right to interpret the message however they wish but is it really a "(s)hot" to include the name of the high school in the description of the individual and to illustrate how long it's been by using a reunion as a frame of reference? Then again maybe it's a conspiracy to villify Lakewood.

Shawn Juris wrote:The headline or the first line of the story? Just my impression but it seemed to be more of a special interest piece than a journalistic article. Certainly every reader has the right to interpret the message however they wish but is it really a "(s)hot" to include the name of the high school in the description of the individual and to illustrate how long it's been by using a reunion as a frame of reference? Then again maybe it's a conspiracy to villify Lakewood.

I would suppose true, and can understand it. They just had their reunion.

Front page?

While you believe in chaos, I believe in chaos makers.

Which would explain volumes in our different thought processes.


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Chaos and chaos makers or just different levels of sensitivity to comments (real or imagined). I guess on this one, it just seems very strange that the person who is often first to point out and to focus on where a criminal resides or has once resided after they are caught for a crime in Lakewood, to be offended by another writer incorporating a suspect's alma mater into an article.

Shawn Juris wrote:Chaos and chaos makers or just different levels of sensitivity to comments (real or imagined). I guess on this one, it just seems very strange that the person who is often first to point out and to focus on where a criminal resides or has once resided after they are caught for a crime in Lakewood, to be offended by another writer incorporating a suspect's alma mater into an article.

Shawn


Please note it was not I that pointed out the criminal came from a different place, the night of the Richland Standoff.

I am just trying to understand where it plays in the story.

I mean read it again, I would have thought the guy was finally caught at the reunion. But it never happened.

The connection was very disjointed, like one of my thought processes. So when I think that! Wow.

On the flip side why would it seem odd, when you are usually the first person to point out when I do something odd.

So it would seem that Ted lives on---------

I have to agree with Jim. The story didn't flow, and the connection to the reunions I was waiting for while reading never came.

In retrospect it seems much easier to get away with big crimes back then.

A few of my own classmates committed acts of theft that left them in jail shortly after high school. They seemed like good kids. some of them were even in the marching band. And all they managed to steal before getting caught were small time cash register stuff.