Written by: djsparrow
It was December 29th 2006. My wife had been pregnant for three months and was about to end her first trimester. this was ultimately her last time to go out and party before the pregnancy really started to slow her down. We decided that we would go out to Sky Lounge, one of the more popular nightclubs in Austin.
Before heading out i was contacted by a GS.C member with the name "Spicy_truth". Now i knew he was from San Antonio and a member on the String-e-people website. usually that's not a problem, some of them are very laid back and fun people to hang out with. For those wondering why i mentioned that, for some reason or another the entire scene down here who has access to GS.C seem to have this fetish for calling me a biter, and a faker. why? My best guess is because i denied the culture and influences they try to force upon kids who want to start (i started in 2001 and was raised on GS.C) So ever since 2001 randomly at events and whatnot i'll either get "called out" to battle someone, will be recognized as a GS.C member, or they will actually KNOW me. Spicy_Truth had said he wanted to meet me, and wanted to talk some out. at the time i didn't know if that was a welcoming or a warning, so i told him to meet me at sky lounge.
We arrived at Sky Lounge around ten o'clock and went on to the main dancefloor. about fifteen minutes passed and then a Hispanic teenager about 5'4" tapped me on the shoulder and said,
"You sparrow?"
"yeah?"
"you're a biter dawg"
"do i know you?"
"Spicy... i wanted to tell you to your face you're a biter"
"how am i a biter? if i ever borrow any ideas i give the rightful respect to them"
"Bullshit dawg you're a biter straight up"
the argument continued for almost an hour, we had also somehow managed to wander over to the tables and sat down. no voices were raised, no fists were thrown, we even bought some drinks to quench our first to continue talking. Misty (my wife) and I had ordered water. Misty about halfway through th whole thing said she needed to go to the restroom and uickly excused herself. as she walked off i watched her make her way across the floor and my eyes were quickly drawn to the amazing lightshow going on at the Dj booth. Spicy interuppted my gaze by smacking the table with his palm and yelling "sparrow" to get me back to reality, and the conversation continued. Misty returned as the conversation ended with,
"alright whatever man, to GS.C you're a god, but to the rest of the world, you're a biter"
Spicy stood up and walked out to the dancefloor muttering out loud how i had ruined his night. he met up with three other guys that were standing off near a wall, and signalled that they were all going to leave. Misty and I finished off our drinks and went out to the dancefloor thinking nothing of this whole argument.
We made our way onto the dancefloor and i resisted the urge to string, as it was one hell of a party that night. Misty was up near the heart of the dancefloor, and i had strayed behind as i was caught in a circle doing a liquiding routine. when i was able to make my way out of the circle (maybe three minutes max) i started to look for her. i couldn't see her. dear god i had lost track of her and i had her phone. where is she, i need to find her. and i saw the most sickening sight i could ever imagine.
Misty laid sprawled across the floor not moving, people not even noticing she had fallen down. i pushed people out of the way to get to her, christ she had a shoeprint on her cheek, how long had i been in that circle? i picked her up in my arms, she was hot, very hot. i tried calling her name and gently nudging her, praying to god i could get a response. she remained limp in my arms. what the hell had happened? was it really that bad of an idea to go dancing while she was pregnant? why was she so hot? dear god how long had she been trampled?
I ran out of the club with her swinging in my arms. her breathing was so soft. as i sprinted out to the parking lot i dialed 911.
"9-1-1 emergency"
"my wife is pregnant and she's passed out"
"what is your location"
"we're down at sky lounge on congress"
"we're sending an ambulance right away"
I threw open the back doors and opened one of the water bottles i had in the back. covering her mouth, i poured the bottle over her face to hopefully wake her up and cool her down. nothing happened. i checked her pulse, her heart was racing. but if her heart was racing why was she breathing so softly? the ambulance arrived a few minutes later and i carried her up to the stretcher and we drove off to the nearest hospital.
After answering all of the questions the emergency care workers were asking, i looked at Misty. seeing my wife carrying our child in a dire state like that, i couldn't bare see it. i covered my eyes for i don't know how long. the ambulance came to a hault and the back doors were swung open. Misty was carried off to EU, and they said i could see her in a few minutes. this of course sent me into a fit of rage demanding to be by my wife's side, this was ridiculous i promised her i would never leave her side, and this was an obvious time that i needed to be there with her. it took them fifteen minutes of talking to cool me down and get me to just sit and wait. i watched that damn clock like a starving wolf, counting each second click past. a doctor was walking towards me, had the clock changed dramatically? the little arm was on eleven.
"Bourland?"
"yes"
"your wife, does she have any type of severe allergies?"
"no, only cedar fever, but it's moderate"
"Does she abuse any kind of drugs?"
"no, what do you mean?"
"well. there is an extreme trace of MDMA in her. enough to kill someone."
"Oh my god, is she-"
"no, she's alive, we lowered her temperature back down. but some things did occur"
"what. what do you mean?"
"Well we aren't sure what the MDMA has done to her mentally. you see MDMA affects-"
"yes i know, i've read up on it."
"okay, well the other problem. was. the child-"
"oh my god. no!"
"I'm afraid so."
She was released under my care that morning. Misty slept for three days straight. In the mean time the police were asking about what had happened, and i replied the entire situation to them. The police said they had nothing to go off of, all they had was an occurance and without anything hard to go with, it was a dead end.
That day Cleric and CynicDave messaged me. apparently Spicy_Truth had made a remark about all that had happened. Cleric deleted the comment that was posted on my video thread and sent it to me. CynicDave banned, IP banned, and traced where the message had come from. Spicy had posted the message from a San Antonio office supply store. i fed all of the information given to me from Cleric and Dave to the police and they said they would look into it. The next two days i worked as much as i could so i could start paying off the mounting bills from the hospital.
It was the first of the year in 2007 when i got a call from the police at ten in the morning. they asked me to come down and verify some information. i told Misty i would be back in a few hours, and took off.
Down at the police station they asked me to identify two men they had in captivity. One of them was Spicy, and the other was one of the guys he had walked away with that night. i told them yes those two were there that night. the office told me that Omar (spicy) had admitted to everything, and all i needed to do was sign a couple of papers, and i wouldn't even need to show up in court. Later that day i recieved another call stating that they had both been sentenced to 19 years each in prison.
All of that from a corrupt environment. is that really what it comes down from? you are willing to KILL someone to prove an opinion that someone is a biter, in an artform? My wife and myself will forever be emotionally scarred, and i will never have the child i could have had because of this. i want this to be a message to everyone, that this is a possibility to everyone, and every society. the culture down here is so corrupt that problems are no longer settled on dancefloors, its settled in hospitals. I could turn this whole story into one big "dont battle" message but i want it to be more than just that. i want it to be an exhibit of how bad society can get. how a culture you love so much, can become so volatile. Don't hate others, don't alienate others, don't call people biters, haters, fakers, or whatever comment you can think up. why can't we all be one thing, family? mine has already been destroyed, and the last thing i want to see is others have this happen. i swear to god, i want this to be the only incident to ever happen. i enver want to go on to GS.C and read that someone else has lost a family from the culture. and that's why i'm going to try and save what little there is to save out here. i know there are still members out here who share the same beliefs, and ideas as i do. i refuse to give up on the texas scene even though i've lost so much out here (credibility, my unborn child,and almost my wife) and i refuse to see it happen to anyone else.
sincerely,
Sparrow
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Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu
"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock
.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
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Normality is the playground of the unimaginative
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to all Hopper's for Hop being the warm, friendly place that it is.
Normality is the playground of the unimaginative
.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....
Normality is the playground of the unimaginative
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
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Written by: Pele
2. I am a bit concerned that only a few people seemed to question this. If someone can create this story and have so many (obviously not just on HoP) believe it, what chance do we have against "credible" media who can do it in a more convincing manner?
Why are we so eager to believe these things?
I wish I had an answer to that last one actually.
Huh.
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
Written by: Naganootch
Dj Sparrow doesn't have anything to gain personally from this story. He's already a well known stringer on GSc so it's not gonna bring him anymore fame than he already has. He's been pretty straight honest with me about other things before and I dont see any reason why this would differ.
The person who did this to his wife at the club made a post the next morning in Sparrows video thread. It was an aweful post that i had to delete. I saved it first luckily. I checked the other post by the person and they were all promoting "SA". I called sparrow on the phone to find out if something had happened and he told me. I told him about the post and dave banned him and everything. We gave sparrow the place the post was made from etc etc. The info he got was enough for him to call the coips to give them someone to look for. The person knew his wife was pregnant, because his post said something to the effect of " you sparrow, your wife, and your dead kid"
Point your toes.
Many Smiles,
David
Love is Life
Written by: Pinkadelic
i didnt know like this happened in the usa.. its so different in europe...
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
We are defined by the choices we make
Do we sleep when we die?
Written by: Pele
Even in non-liquid form it isn't water soluble and requires chugging to get past the bitter taste, unless you are drinking something that masks it, apparently.
Written by: Pele
And if they were sitting there drinking together, when did he have the chance to slip it into her drink? Why not his drink? That makes no sense.
Written by: Pele
She was just entering her 2nd trimester, it's harder to miscarry. I've known people who've od'd and not miscarried beyond the first.
Written by: Pele
Not to mention that if they were that concientious to drink water, know that from here on out that it would be bad for her to go out, she wouldn't have taken a chance on a packed dance floor. The music is loud and studies have shown that it can damage the hearing of the baby enutero, as well as the chance of someone crashing into your stomach. I worked at a bar the entire length of my pregnancy and stayed far away from the dance hall area knowing it would be a danger.
Written by: Pele
Why would they confess to it? That makes no sense at all. Especially if "there was not enough to go on".
Written by: Pele
There was enough to go on. Threats through the internet. Threats in person. All of that is concidered to be cause for questionning at very least and he would have been brought in.
Written by: Pele
Even in pleas of guilty it takes more than a month for the hearing and sentancing. The charges here would have been Distribution of illegal substances
Possession of illegal substances
Attempted murder
Involuntary Manslaughter..and probably others.
Written by: Pele
That would get more than 19 years here in the U.S. and the friend wouldn't have gotten anything, unless he *knew* what was going on and supplied the drugs or something. There is *nothing* that brings him out as an accomplice.
Written by: Pele
People danced around her? Even believing that someone so devout and concerned over his pregnant wife would lose track of her so easily for his own dancing, I fail to believe that people would dance around her without noticing what they are tripping on, especially if were so crowded and it is such a PLUR scene.
Written by: Pele
There is also the way this was written. If this all happened within the past month, as it claims, there is no way this story would be told with the calmness that it has. This thing would be filled with rage.
Written by: Pele
I also did a search in the newspapers, as this *would* have made the news. It has all the facets for good news and getting people's panties in a bundle... a questionable subculture that a right winger can sink it's teeth into next election, a poor pregnant unsuspecting victim, drugs which have made the news many times over, "gang" style-underground crime, murder...No way in hell any paper missed this one. Hell, if it were written well, I bet you could sell the script to the Lifetime network for one of their weekly movies. Not to mention the whole pro-lifes getting up in arms. Oh no, this wouldn't have been missed.
Written by: Pele
And there was *no* news story that matched this in any of the searches I did. I asked a friend in Austin who's a spinner about it, and he said it didn't even make a buzz in the spin scene...and it absolutely would've.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Written by: DragonFury
and lastly, about the outpouring of compassion, I'd rather be in a community where there is compassion with out proof than a bunch of skeptics waiting for proof.
Point your toes.
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
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