Sep 27, 2006 09:38 am How selfish...
Terrell Owens attempts suicide
Posted on Sep 27, 2006 09:02 am
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www.nfl.com/teams/story/DAL/9689202
DALLAS (Sept. 27, 2006) -- Flamboyant Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens attempted suicide by overdosing on pain medication, even putting two more pills into his mouth after fire rescue personnel arrived.
A Dallas police report released Wednesday morning said Owens told rescue workers "that he was depressed." The report was first released by WFAA-TV.
The rescue worker "noticed that (his) prescription pain medication was empty and observed (Owens) putting two pills in his mouth," the police report said.
The worker attempted to pry them out with her fingers, then was told by Owens that before this incident he'd taken only five of the 40 pain pills in the bottle he'd emptied. The worker then asked Owens "if he was attempting to harm himself, at which time (he) stated, `Yes."'
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Sep 27, 2006 11:05 am Taking 5 painkillers is more of a terrific way to spend a Saturday night rather than an attempt to kill oneself. Hell, throw in a J and some gin and you've got 50% of my weekends of the past 5 years hahaha
Nature has a way of preventing people from overdosing on oral pain medication...its called vomiting. Not that and OD impossible, but difficult nonetheless.
If T.O. hasn't had his football coffin nailed shut yet, then this stunt at least drives yet another rivet into that pine box. I bet Parcels was overjoyed that his Prima-Donna reciever was in the papers again.
I'm an athlete with a rare gift, I'm a millionaire, I've got fame and notoriety. Boo-hoo, I'm so depressed that I think I'll get high on 5 painkillers and call it suicide. Maybe he's just generating some more material for his next book.
Sep 27, 2006 11:29 am If i read the article right, he took 5 of the pills all together, before his suicide attempt, so when he tried to od he took 35 pills.
Sep 27, 2006 11:36 am hmm, at first I read it like tad, then after loki made his point, i think he may be correct.
my question is, why was there a rescue worker at TO's house? Did he try and commit suicide and then have second thoughts and call 911? or did they just show up for the heck of it?
but honestly, this guy needs help, he's needed it for a long time.
Sep 27, 2006 11:56 am most likely it wasn't a real suicide attempt. He got depressed, tooka bunch of pills, and called 911. Most "suicide attempts" aren't really such. I mean really, if the dude wanted to kill himself, he would have done it. There was most likely some sort of subconscious desire to live that prevented him from killing himself. It's like an attempt by cutting yourself. If you really are bent on killing yourself, you;ll do it. It won't be an attempt. Just my two cents though.
Sep 27, 2006 12:17 pm there's a news conference soon. at 1:30 ET. i guess owens might speak.
Sep 27, 2006 01:19 pm waiting for the news conference before i start working on my freelance assignment here, i discovered an audio-related question.
fox news just screwed up and played, for a few seconds, one of the 'standby' feeds--colorbars on hold for incoming video. it said:
fox news
-18dBf
and then some other crap
what does the -18dBf thing mean? i was talking to a friend who's making a film soon about sound for film and broadcast, and i was explaining how limiters set a ceiling appropriate for broadcast. i said it was probably close to zero db. and i said that when those 'annoyingly loud' commercials sometimes come on cable channels, that those commercials are using a different, louder limiting scheme than the network programming is.
how wrong am i about all this stuff? does the -18Dbf mean that the fox ceiling for limiting is -18 db? or am i way off with this? i've been wondering about this ever since i began noticing these volume fluctuations on cable between certain commercials...
Sep 27, 2006 01:36 pm haha bill parcells is defensive and knows nothing at all
Sep 27, 2006 01:38 pm 'i dont know any of this. what are you..why are you going there for? i dont know anything.'
Sep 27, 2006 04:14 pm looks like it wasn't a suicide attempt after all, i bet he was gettin' f#$*ed up and just took a few more than he should have, his g/f saw him all messed up and called 911, and in his f'ed up state of mind, when they asked him if he was tryin' to hurt himself, he said yes....he now says he dosn't even remember sayin' that (understandable)....so yeah, looks like a one person party gone bad....'if one feels good, two must feel better'....rule #1 know the drugs you're taking! sheesh.
Sep 27, 2006 04:22 pm Strangely enough, for Vicodin, that addage does hold true :-D
Sep 27, 2006 05:26 pm hehe, i'm not much of a pill person at all, it seems every time i take one (usually while drinkin') i just black out and am not able to remember anything, infact i don't think i've ever taken one while not drinkin', so i guess i really don't know what it's like....not my cup of tea. and speakin' of tea, i'm havin' a fungus party here on sunday, it's gonna be good times! gotta love psychoactives!
Sep 27, 2006 05:28 pm alright enough of that guys, lets keep this on topic please.
Sep 27, 2006 05:41 pm Quote:
looks like it wasn't a suicide attempt after all
According to him...lots of conflicting info so it all depends on who you listen to...or who you choose to believe. Terrell, well, not a trustworthy, honorable person in my book, but then, I don't care if he tried or not really, I just found it an interesting story.
Sep 27, 2006 10:44 pm -nevermind
Sep 27, 2006 11:00 pm I sold T.O. pharmy's .. its my fault. Sorry NFL fans.
Sep 27, 2006 11:11 pm a few years ago when I was actually studying psych, it was a general assumption that many suicides were actually self mutilations that got out of hand...
I can think of 7 people I know off the top of my head that either, cut, OD'd, or shot themselves. Only the ones who shot themselves were wanting to die and only one was successful... both used shotguns at point blank with buckshot. The one that was successful actually had a good reason to want to die, as he was terminal with skin and prostate cancer.
Sep 28, 2006 02:06 am On first reading this, i thought the Dallas Cowboys were a band and this was about one of the band members...
Shows how VERY little i know about American Football....
Then again I'm from Steve Irvin country..
You may laugh at me at will...
Sep 28, 2006 06:19 am i'm a huge steve irwin fan. but i couldn't resist making this today (don't worry, i think steve would like it)
Sep 28, 2006 06:24 am I was too, I watched part of 20/20 with my wife last night who was a much bigger fan than I. Personally, while I feel horrible for his window and his two young children, I am tired of exploitation of his image and family right now and find it sad that Barbara Walters (who I find to be scummy) uses the tragedy for her own ratings and income.
Sep 28, 2006 09:07 am Did anyone hear the interview with his publicist?
She says "...when I see a man of his statue..."
Bahahahahaha
Sep 28, 2006 09:14 pm i haven't seen any exploitation, though i didn't see the walters interview. she is scummy. but the news coverage seems to be fair and good. people genuinely care about irwin, and i've seen that reflected in the news.
Sep 29, 2006 05:15 am Most of the news has appeared fair, I agree with that, just too much of it.
Sep 29, 2006 08:26 pm All I know is I'm watching my FF team news and switching him out if they determine he isnt fit to play. I think I need to dump him and pick someone else out of the few scrubs left un picked.
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