Weird Facts About The Columbine Massacre
- Eric and Dylan had both been in a juvenile diversion program, and Eric got out early for ‘good behvioir’. The judge even said Eric had a great future ahead of him.
- Dylan went to the prom with a girl who had a crush on him just 4 days before the massacre. The same girl who bought Eric and Dylan some of their guns at a gun show.
- Eric called his sawed off shotgun ‘Arlene’, after a girl from a video game.
- Dylan was wrote constantly about being in love with a girl in his school.
- Most of the library survivors were certain that the voice they heard answer Eric say: Do you believe in god? was Cassie Bernall, however all evidence says it was Valeen Schnurr. The song Cassie by Flyleaf is actually based off of this rumor.
- Eric turned 18 weeks before the massacre, but still asked his older friend to buy his ammunition from K-Mart even though he was legally aloud to. The night he went to pick it up, (the night before the massacre) his friend asked him: Are you going shooting tonight? And Eric responded: Maybe tomorrow.
- Eric Harris hated Jews, but didn’t realize Dylan was half Jew until just weeks before the massacre. They had known each other since seventh grade.
- Dylan nick named himself after his favorite drink, and would often uppercase his initials in the word: VoDKa. Eric nicknamed himself Reb, for the word Rebel, which was also the name for the school mascot. (Columbine High School; Home of the Rebels)
- Eric had been seeing a therapist, and had taken two different types of SSRI’s in the year before the massacre.
- Before the massacre, Dylan wrote a story about a man who shoots up a high school, explaining the details of his attack on the school, and turned it into his English teacher. When she confronted him, he said it was ‘just a story’.
- Eric got promoted to shift managers at Black Jack Pizza, where he and Dylan worked, just weeks before the massacre. They both took out their paychecks early, to get money to guy Dylan his shot gun.
- In the library, Eric and Dylan saw one of their friends (John Savage) and told him to get out of the school. Only after this funny exchange: Savage: what are you doing? Dylan: Oh, just killing people.
- if their bombs hadn’t failed in the cafeteria, there would have been more than 488 students dead. Columbine was not only a school shooting, but an attempted bombing.
- Eric had mentioned in his journal hijacking planes and crashing them into skyscrapers. (Mind you, this is two years before 9/11, so this idea was unheard of)
