Comments on: Sick at Heart for the Parents of Lily Burk, 17

By: H in SF

H in SF — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:43:21 +0000

There’s a lawyer lobby for this sort of vagrant who hides among the real poor — expect their shills to soon disparage Lily.

Lily was too trusting for having volunteered with the poor. So give your kids an “stress” codeword if they phone while helping in troubled areas. And have a plan to get them out of trouble esp. if a potential perp is listening in on the conversation. Ask your local police if they intend to respond to an in-progress event. If they want to wait because something has not “happened,” you are the first responder.

Your kid cannot identify (and neither can the cops) a friendly homeless person from a just-released criminal. That is true up here in SF as well as LA, these folks are just waiting to gain your confidence.

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:11:20 +0000

I was at the Valero gas station at around 5pm on Friday when the scum was getting out of the car (4:52 pm)…it haunts me cause I still wonder to myself if she was alive..and if I had noticed her then would have been a different outcome…but from all accounts she was dead by then…but that place was busy…and her car was a few feet away from all the hustle and bustle for 12 hours…people parked next to her car and didn’t notice her…it is all on the Cameras from the gas station…that is how they have an exact time of when scumbag got out of the car…my heart goes out to her friends and family. I will be looking in every car I park next too from now on. I am haunted by this!

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:11:04 +0000

I was at the Valero gas station at around 5pm on Friday when the scum was getting out of the car (4:52 pm)…it haunts me cause I still wonder to myself if she was alive..and if I had noticed her then would have been a different outcome…but from all accounts she was dead by then…but that place was busy…and her car was a few feet away fromm all the hustle and bustle for 12 hours…people parked next to her car and didn’t notice her…it is all on the Cameras from the gas station…that is how they have an exact time of when scumbag got out of the car…my heart goes out to her friends and family. I will be looking in every car I park next too from now on. I am haunted by this!

By: Peggy

Peggy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:20:02 +0000

As a parent, I too am haunted by this story. I was thinking this morning – since so many of these robberies occur at ATM machines, is there some sort of panic button that could be installed on machines or some way you could add emergency numbers to your PIN so that when they are pressed, 911 is alerted?

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By: friendly peace

friendly peace — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:31:39 +0000

Valley mom said that her kids know how to get money out of bank cards. I think most people know how to get money out of ATM cards. If this was a credit card and if there’s no PIN set, then there’s no cash to be had. But Valley Mom made a great point about having a secret safety word that Lily could have used to alert her parents. Lily can be our angel to make that conversation between parents and kids happen.

I’ve known Lily (and her parents) since Lily was in elementary school. This is tragic. I hope we can all help Debbie and Greg keep living… first step: breathe.

By: ruth Earnshaw

ruth Earnshaw — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:36:15 +0000

My heart goes out to the parents…only another parent who has lost a child can understand. We lost our son last year my hubands only child to a rogue wave in Australia. Blessings and prayers their way. (onetwentyone.com)

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:26:28 +0000

They are. Believe me. More soon.

By: KateC

KateC — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:59:49 +0000

I can walk to where she was found, and it’s a busy corridor. So, I’m guessing that the car was left there in the middle of the night, when it’s not busy. I hope the LAPD jumps on this with both feet.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:54:04 +0000

I live in Los Feliz, the same neighborhood as Lily. A week ago I was making dinner when I turned around to find a woman on drugs standing in my kitchen asking for a shot. I got her outside and called the North East division of the LAPD. I called twice and my husband called once to report a home invasion. The police never came. Later I called to follow up and they told me they had apprehended the woman on a street nearby. They never took a statement or anything and tried to tell me that I had never called earlier. This woman could have been very dangerous. I’m making this public in case there could be any connection. I am so sorry for the parents of this lovely girl.