Comments on: A sad and premature goodbye to Josh Rahn

By: donna

donna — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:07:10 +0000

sorry i am late in posting, i just found this site. i absolutely agree with zade. rip josh. i love and miss you.

By: Tim Luke

Tim Luke — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:04:23 +0000

Sorry to hear of your friends lost. Hope you all will remember him dearly, for all of his wrongs and rights.

By: jnanarishi

jnanarishi — Sun, 09 May 2010 03:11:17 +0000

Ok, here is what the police released. Josh did go into the house to “take money.” There is some speculation as to whether it was to “steal” or “get something he felt was owed to him or a friend.” Police – he entered the house with pepper spray and a stun gun. Two non-lethal methods of force. He waited for them (the drug dealers) to leave in order to avoid violence. When they didn’t, he entered believing they were asleep (agian to avoid violence). They were not asleep. A fight ensued. The person who stabbed him attacked with a baseball bat and a knife.

Josh was very wrong to even attempt such an act. Poor judgement through and through. He was not violent and the person who “referenced” his propensity for fighting, I’m not sure who you knew, but it wasn’t Josh. He did engage in “toe to toe” but that is a mutually agreed upon fight. And, for his “supporting himself with crime” Again, I’m not sure what you are referencing, but given that he was struggling financially, looking for “real jobs” constantly and had worked in sales for a while, if he did earn money by crime, it was obviously not his first choice. Also, he was never committed of any such crime, so in America innocent until proven guilty still stands last time I heard.

I ask you all this…Is there a difference between “who a person is” and “the choices that they make (behavior)?” I believe so. With that said, Josh made some bad choices. That doesn’t make him a bad person or erase the Indelible mark he left on so many peoples lives.

By: starbadger

starbadger — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:46:45 +0000

rejoice – he did not die at 70 in an ICU – as will all-too-many-boomers who never lifted a candybar

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Don’t tattoo that « Under the Mountain Bunker & Coffee Shop — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:32:34 +0000

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By: mucus marcus

mucus marcus — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:00:09 +0000

‘Miller, who was friends with the residents, was texting information to Rahn while he visited the residence Thursday night.’
So, the police have seen these texts?

And this right here, is bad journalism:
‘When the residents failed to leave the residence by Friday morning, Rahn decided to rob them anyway.’
‘decided to rob them anyway’? c’mon how ’bout an ‘allegedly’?

also,
fuck drugs.

i’m sorry for this loss.

By: Zade

Zade — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:12:57 +0000

Stephanie: You tube has some of it i know he is on there getting his eyes done and there is a Face-book Rest In Peace Josh Rahn that has a lot of the things on it that he has done. I am going to be doing machining work as well in order to raise money for Ogden. I made most of joshes gauges and jewelry so i am going to be taking in ideas if anyone wants anything made. All money made from it will go directly to Ogden’s trust fund. I can make more then just jewelry so if you have an idea let me know and i can tell you what i can do.

By: stephanie

stephanie — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:52:36 +0000

is there a way i can find the video of josh on the discovery channel and history channel or jus of him getting his eyes tattooed. on him.

By: Zade

Zade — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:28:28 +0000

I also agree if someone was in my home i would have to DEFEND myself and family BUT shooting them in the back or in this case stabbing them in the back while they try to flee isn’t self defense. The guys that killed him weren’t innocent either they had a lot of drugs in that house and josh was doing all of this to help someone. Was a bad decision on his part i agree and the news articles make him to be something he wasn’t. I heard what the D.A said and it doesn’t make sense still but it makes more sense then the articles that have been posted. Either way no one will 100% know what happen and arguing over it wouldn’t be what josh would have wanted.

By: coldclimate

coldclimate — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:29:52 +0000

rest in peace kidda.

By: skip

skip — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:22:15 +0000

just to clarify, i wrote number 27, but i did not write numbers 31 and 32. there must be two of us

By: Skip

Skip — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:48:07 +0000

I met Josh in NYC once.. a really nice guy in that brief meeting..

By: Skip

Skip — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:47:19 +0000

I met Josh in NYC once.. hard to believe this has happened… Seemed like a very nice guy in our brief meeting

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:03:02 +0000

BTW, I would be content to shoot a home intruder as well, but I would do so with a sense of great sadness, not a sense of “justice, fuck yeah!”

A series of bad judgments leading to someone’s death is always wrong, and should always be seen as a terrible outcome, even if it was the “right” thing to do. Very terrible and very sad.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:00:35 +0000

Mkultra, going with the assumption that this is what happened, it’s completely beside the point. Just because someone made a mistake, be it crime or be it a car accident or be it lifestyle-related disease like cancer or AIDS, it doesn’t mean that it’s not sad and it doesn’t mean they’re not missed. I’m sure we all have friends who’ve made mistakes, and really, I’m sure we’ve all made them ourselves from time to time. It doesn’t mean that our sense of “he deserved to die” draconian justice suddenly makes the mourning end.

By: MKUltra

MKUltra — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:03:01 +0000

Reap what you sow. Anyone who breaks into my house is getting shot, straight up. No sympathy.

By: skip

skip — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:04:37 +0000

I used to talk to Josh a lot in BME. He was a very nice guy tho i suspect a little dangerous. he loved getting into fights, he started stealing as a serious way of making money about 3-4 years ago, i suspect as much for the feeling of adventure as anything else. I remember commenting to him that getting a blue eye was probably not a good idea for someone who was starting on a career in crime.
Its probably absurd to say he was set up and its certainly early to refer to the guy or guys who killed him as murderers, he knew the risks he was running.But im sad hes gone.

By: SheriD

SheriD — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:56:03 +0000

It really is unfortunate, and I can completely empathize losing someone so abruptly and to such strange, uncharacteristic circumstances (such as the death of Andrew Niland last year following his disappearance). All my love and thoughts are with his family and friends. He’s resting well.

By: Hannah Cherry

Hannah Cherry — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:13:45 +0000

Josh taught me how to breathe fire…weather he was killed because of the bad choices he made or not its still sad seeing someone you were once close with die. who knows what really happened, i just feel so shitty now because we have been on bad terms for some time…it seems so dumb now. anyways, I’ll miss you josh.

By: Elee jones

Elee jones — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:15:17 +0000

My feelings.