Comments on: “We’re getting f***** the night” – teen tweeted before he died

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:45:07 +0000

No one is going to get laughed out of school for eating fudges.Your argument is so flawed because you don’t understand the humour of the younger generation today. Also, no one is claiming this lad never done drugs of any kind or that they didn’t kill or him or defending him or anything. They’re merely stating that he was misquoted horrendously regarding the fudge sweets and the lyrics. It’s frustrating at how oblivious to the actual argument some of these comments are.

By: Jock

Jock — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:04:52 +0000

Perhaps a bit of investigative reporting into the dangers of “legal highs” would benefit everyone more than slanted heresay.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:12:50 +0000

I’m not going to sugarcoat t coz the young lad died. There’s enough information out there about drugs and the effect they have on people so it was his own fault. He was 16 not 5. He should have knew better. What sort of friend or even normal human being such as Arron Foord did would come on a try defend the things about drug taking and yet say ”also had you have actually done any research into this, you would have found that you cannot buy 5 of what he was taking for a pound”? That has got to be one of the dumbest comments ever. Tries to defend drug taking by admitting that Billy was taking something. You can pick up any drug you want in Newtown. I do know this after living there all my life. I don’t care what numpties have to say on the matter. He should never have done the drugs, people have a right to inform others and they have the right to show drug use for what it is…A killer. I won’t be one of those people that will give the greatest of sympathy for someone that dies. I’ll save that for the family that lost a young boy through HIS AND HIS FRIENDS selfish actions.

By: anonnewtown

anonnewtown — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:24:23 +0000

Having read all these posts I would comment as follows. For those who are giving the newspaper a hard time…………you are wrong. You are allowing your emotions to cloud the issue, no one suggested he was a bad lad but reported that it is likely he died from being involved in drug-taking, which is pretty factual. Previous respondent got it bang on, if it prevents ONE youngster from ingesting this garbage then it is worth it. As for the “fudge sweets” issue, you must be incredibly naieve to think that anyone is going to believe that nonsense, “bought 5 fudges for a pound” ??? seriously, any young , hip and cool kid would be laughed out of school by his peers for talking about uncool sweeties. Death doesn t grant saint-ship the last post says, absolutely correct. He made an error the day he started taking non prescription drugs, simple as. I hope he is at peace.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:32:29 +0000

Death doesn’t grant saint-ship.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:30:09 +0000

This is typical Kelso response. Somebody dies or gets injured through no fault but their own and everybody jumps on the reporter saying THEY’RE the asshole. Who cares if they’re reporting the story? If someone decides to indulge, it doesn’t matter if they’re nice to you in person, they made bad decisions and that was their downfall. Don’t justify them by saying they were nice to you, people make their own mistakes. Drugs f*** s*** up weather the user means it or not. Oh they died, so god forbid we speak ill of the dead… Grow up. Just because they’re dead doesn’t mean they were saints.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:27:26 +0000

Dear Peter Laing and the Deadline News team,

All everyone wants is an apology directed at Billy Robson. We want you to recognise that Billy was not a drug-bender and that some of his tweets were about fudge sweets, not drugs of any sort. I appreciate you have to twist a tale slightly to get readers interested, but this was beyond a joke. Thank you for your time, a dignified response would be mildly appreciated.

Thanks, Alex.

By: JN Edinburgh

JN Edinburgh — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:15:43 +0000

If one person reads this EEN article, and rejects drug use, reporting the facts, distressing as it may be, is justifiable. The EEN are right to publish the truth, and not gloss over this drugs related death.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:23:57 +0000

I’m sorry but what ever happened to the concept of free speech. You can publish whatever you want, whether people like it or not or agree with it is irrelevant. the simple fact is this article contains no mis-quotes or ‘lies’. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and what your opinion of billy is can be anything. It is common knowlege Billy was involved with drugs along with others and was quite public about the fact. He didn’t know me but i knew of him and what he did ages ago. And i apologise but it was bound to happen to one of them. So don’t try and make out that billy was so innocent and never did anything wrong because that in it’s self is lying which was exactly what you were protesting about. Bit hypocritical?

By: anon

anon — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:18:42 +0000

also, people die and are dying all over the world at any given moment in time, why should this boy get any sympathy for ODing on an illegal substance? (there’s a reason it’s illegal you know) there are people out there who are far more deserving of the sympathy than him.