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hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…

Come and go but come more often than go.. To “socialize” and that is exactly the point. Why would any area of town want this kind of social center. If Pee Wee Loring's social center is the norm, then Lawrence is truly screwed up.

consumer1 (Anonymous) says…

What time is cocktail hour at the “drop in shelter ?? This whole place is nothing more than a very bad idea…

geniusmannumber1 (Anonymous) says…

Mmmmm….cocktails.

blakus (Anonymous) says…

Classic. For all those ripping the Community Shelter and the 'homeless' yesterday on the comment board, I LAUGH!!

cheeseburger (Anonymous) says…

If convicted, this clown faces 247 months in prison and a $300,000 fine for stabbing someone. Meanwhile, Joshua Walton got 30 days in jail for killing Ryan Kanost. Is our legal system just a little out of whack?

geniusmannumber1 (Anonymous) says…

“If convicted, this clown faces 247 months in prison and a $300,000 fine for stabbing someone. Meanwhile, Joshua Walton got 30 days in jail for killing Ryan Kanost. Is our legal system just a little out of whack?”

I don't think so. Walton faced 172 months in prison if convicted of a felony. He wasn't convicted. Where is the disconnect?

feeble (Anonymous) says…

This Mallamo kid is all over the internet. Do a Google search.

cheeseburger (Anonymous) says…

There seem to be a couple of disconnects. First, a stabbing earns 247 months, while a killing earns 172. I don't condone stabbing, but should the penalty for that be more than for killing? Secondly, Walton and his illustrious attorney had the wherewithall to 'beat the system', whereas Mallamo may not. In a system which is supposed to be fair to all, I wonder if it is. It galls me that people can do what Walton did and essentially get off scot-free.

geniusmannumber1 (Anonymous) says…

1) Intentional acts have traditionally been punished more harshly than unintentional/reckless ones. Anglo-American criminal jurisprudence tends to mete out punishment based on culpability rather than result. I'm comfortable with that, but I can see arguments against it, I suppose. It's certainly not surprising, though.
2) Your statement about Walton “beating the system” has no basis in fact. You are merely saying “I disagree with the unanimous decision of a jury, and my opinion should be respected over theirs, despite the fact that I am certainly not in as good a position to judge as they are.” I disagree with this. My information about the case comes almost entirely from the LJW. I am much more comfortable intellectually in deferring to the opinions of the jurors rather than making a knee-jerk judgment based largely in my own prejudices rather than in external fact.

Fatty_McButterpants (Anonymous) says…

Ironically, the following is a post from an Adam Mallamo (featuring a photo taken in what looks much like our beloved library downtown). The topic was when he was happeist & saddest.
“The world is at peace with each other and all war and anger Is distinguished and dealt with accordingly. I cannot pull through a problem that is solvable by peace and is solved some other angry or hateful way.”

He must have changed his view on peaceful solutions…

cheeseburger (Anonymous) says…

You may be right, but I think Walton deliberately and blatently acted in ways that would aid his defense, i.e. leaving the scene, concocting the story about how he 'must have gotten a hold of someone else's drink', etc. I rather wish I would have been a juror, and then I might know for sure whether it was ineptitude on the part of the DA's office, or brillance on the part of Tom Bath that earned Walton a misdemeanor conviction rather than a felony conviction. Neither is good, but I certainly hope it wasn't the latter.

hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…

If in fact this Adam is the one from Denver, then it is the same one who showed up here and has/had ties to Lawrence. Wanna bet the apartment is “subsidized”. This is another example of the Drop In Center being a magnet for nothing but trouble. Why isn't this 19 year old working? Why is this person not in Denver working? Why in Lawrence? Bring back the draft and Adam will boot camp will take care of everything that Adam cannot take care of. Welcome to Pee Wee Loring's playhouse. Apparently no one has figured out why the bond is so high? Hint: Maybe Adam's family wan'ts it that way until he goes to a rehab center just like the dude from Chicago. Just a guess!

hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…

And connected to the Mallamo's of Lawrence who moved here with a troubled son? Maybe? Read an article in Denver Westworld. If the same person, then this follows the norm for the Drop In Center and programs in Lawrence. Most of the troubled youth are from univ of kansas families, parents in social welfare, students who come to Ku and get whacked out on drugs and booze, then families leave them in Lawrence. I would bet that the Mallamos in Lawrence are connected. No teen has the guts to go it on his own. Those days stopped years ago. If homeless at the shelter then the parents threw him out for good reason.

Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…

Might be something as simple as this.
Something many families face all the time.
Single mom has three children. The oldest is 17, has a part time job that barely pays for the cheap vehicle they drive to work.Perfectly good kid, in high school, doing what they should, nothing bad, great friends all from good families. Other children are young, maybe even special needs.
The family receives a tad bit of cash help from TAF, and healthwave insurance.

Since the child is under 18, his/her income isn't included when SRS figures out the family's gross income total.
As I said, the job only pays a small amount, the child is used to taking care of their own car expenses.

The day the child turns 18, (I think even if still in high school), the child's income becomes part of the family income, when they figure the total.
The mom loses the cash help from TAF, yet no more money came into the family, and ends can't be met. The child can't come up with enough money to pay their portion of being an adult in the house.

So the parents are forced to kick the children out of the home, for the preservation of the younger kids homelife.
Young unworldly kids, with not enough to make do, forced out because of SRS policy.

Do you know the shame and horror of being an 18 yr old girl or boy, and have no where to go? The hate they feel for the mom that had to turn them out? All their friends are still at home, trying to make the transition to college, but they have to live in their car?
Bunk at a friend's parent's home?

hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…

My bet is that the dude is not from the single mom syndrome family which Lawrence loves to capture and have us read about. There are plenty of “teens” who move out of their family home and move into apartments that parents of other teens have rented for the no good child that the parent decided to move out of the house, because for the most part, the kid is on drugs, is abusive to the parents and they have had enough. Send this Mallamo kid to Ft. Leonard Wood for 8 weeks. He will come back and then he will remember exactly the “happiest” days of his life and the “saddest'. His “saddest” will be the first 8 weeks at Lt. Lenny and years later will realize they were his happiest. Lawrence is one screwed up social service rag of a town, catering to the likes of Pee Wee Loring's Playhouse and Bert Nash and the list goes on and on. Anyone remember the family in Kansas City who moved their kid to the Lawrence school system, the trouble child. Let Lawrence be the dumping ground. The whole town is becoming a Drop Off Center.

rabb (Anonymous) says…

“He can VOTE!”

“He is an ADULT!”

Too bad that “ADULT” couldn't buy a beer.
Sounds like he might have needed a drink.

hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…

rabb, and mix his drink with the meds, good choice, there is plenty of that going on at Pee Wee Loring's Playhouse.

igby (Anonymous) says…

I was told that the victim was trying to talk to the guy who stabbed him about his depression. The kid was talking about killing himself and the victim was trying to help him thought by talking him out of it and then suddenly he hit a nerve with the kid and the kid just stabbed him in the chest out of anger and hostility.

I don't think he had any realistic want to kill anyone but himself, sometimes people try to play therapist with other people and really have no idea whom their dealing with until something like this happens.

Hope no one tries to be his jail-house-lawyer, lol.

Imagine this example:

Tell the former CC candidate Carey Maynard-Moody, the train idea is bad, the green people are nuts and Bush is going to be in office for the next 10 years and then watch her try to kill you. Lol.

Case and point!

smitty (Anonymous) says…

****Henderson said the shelter only allows known homeless people to socialize at the shelter.*****

So says Henderson but that's not what a poster who is a client says on this forum. Who do you believe since this last violent incident?

A couple of weeks ago there were several “clients” camping out by the cedar tree at the corner of the alley on the city parking lot side. There were slight on hand passing of *something* going on. there were open containers of booze being consumed. There were empty vodka and beer containers all around. When I got back from my walk I called and reported this to Diane Morgan(she answered the phone, I didn't ask for the dog bone woman). If the agreement with the city and neighborhood organizations are followed this scenario would not be allowed to occur until a concerned citizen reported it. Why? The shelter is responsible to monitor what goes on outside, even on the alley just off their premise.

Quite often there are new bruises, abrasions, black eyes, etc on the regular porch dwellers. Violence is constant and carried into the rest of the neighborhood along with theft and vandalism.

Henderson and Morgan nor any staff monitors the behavior that is damaging to the neighborhood or the clients outside the structure, on of off premise. The PR spin in put in motion with the above quote by Henderson and nobody need believe him if they take the time to see what really goes on there between staff and clients.

shel234 (Anonymous) says…

I was interested in this article because I just found out about this stabbing tonight. I have actually meet Adam on several occasions before since he would come to an organization on Friday “Hot Dog” nights put on by Campus Christians on KU's campus. He happened to have a crush on a friend of mine and although he was nice when talking to him you could still kind of see a frightening side to him. In fact on one hot dog night he pulled out his switch blade knife to show us and stated how he never went anywhere without it.

I will tell you it is a very strange feeling when something like this happens to someone you know. I just hope the man who was stabbed will be alright, but also for everyone to realize that Adam wasn't exactly someone in a right mind frame and that he can learn from this mistake.