Aaron Hernandez Catches Body #4, Kills Himself in Prison Cell

Early bird gets the worm. It was about 6:30 AM when the news station I had on gave a breaking news alert that Aaron Hernandez had killed himself in his jail cell. After being taken aback for a second I did the obvious and turned straight to twitter. By 7 there were already something like 50,000 tweets about him.

Honestly, I’m slightly annoyed at how many people I see saying “rest in peace.” He deserves no peace, he deserves no sympathy. The dude was a scumbag that undoubtedly killed three people. His whole story is tragic but it’s very hot where he’s going so he’ll get no pity and no meaningless RIP tweet from me.

I’m usually up for any and all conspiracy theories but not so much here. Maybe the rumor that he did it to help his family financially is true, maybe it’s not. Maybe he was finally sick of being locked up, who really careseither way. I think this is just a case of a millionaire psychopath that was once on the brink of super-stardom realizing that he now has to spend the rest of his life locked up in a box while his daughter will grow up fatherless. He took the easy way out, but what else do you expect?

RIP Odin Lloyd.

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