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VG Cats Forum - "Cryptic message" found in a suicide note: "Teenage Suicide; Cryptic Signature Leave Authorities Guessing.
Miami, FL.
Trent Boozle.

A suicide note left by a troubled South Florida teen has sparked a extensive investigation into the meaning or identity of 'kthxbai'.

The parents of the teen have expressed nothing but puzzlement at the bizarre signature supposedly left by their son of seventeen years. '[our son] was always a good kid.' The boys mother said during an interview, 'though he did spend all of his time sitting at his computer'.

The case, which was originally concluded to be an obvious suicide, has recently been re-opened after the parents demanded a more in-depth investigation considering the seemingly random group of letters the teen used to sign his final farewell.

'At first we thought it was some kind of 'word jumble' our boy left us in his final farewell', said the boys father, 'We spent two weeks trying to figure it out, but it led us no where.'

Extensive Investigation
The Miami Police Dept. have enlisted the assistance of their computer crimes task force to find out if there is more to this situation than a standard suicide.

'This is one of the harder tasks that we've dealt with here, simply because the only person who knows
what these letters, [kthxbai], mean has taken this knowledge to the gr"

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Thursday, October 12, 2006
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Final curtain at CBGB

CBGB is closing for Good!

I went there back in 2004. It was a dive. But that's what made it so good. The posters on the walls were about an inch thick because they just put layer after layer on. Without actually taking the old ones off.

YouTube - Rigged USA Elections Exposed: "Rigged USA Elections Exposed"

It's Official - Google to Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock

Monday, October 09, 2006
ยป GDrive is Platypus | Googling Google | ZDNet.com

Wired News: WSJ: Google May Buy YouTube

Lightning bolt throws photographer in the air | the Daily Mail