First off, don't address me as though I give two craps about some comment from an anonymous poster who by the way never met Jeff. Therefore doesn't have a true grasp of the entire situation. What's done is done. Every day I think about my friend and can only hope that his children know what kind of man their father really was and are well taken care of. Beyond that is no concern of mine. So save your lectures for someone who will listen to a random, anonymous person on the internet.
My name is Ryan Gregory, I have been a friend of Jeff's for over 23 years. Lets get that straight because kristen had accused Jeff's family for what I had written. I expected kristen to do what she did, I never held her with much regard. kristen never showed Jeff's family the respect they deserved. But Anubis to say you were such a good friend, you didn't show it prior to and especially after Jeff's passing. I hope some day we will meet Anubis. I have heard what was done and no friend of Jeff's would have pulled the crap you did. To inventory his tools a day after the man had passed is reprehensible. After being told that another neighbor had Jeff set up to see a counselor, and in your infinite wisdom decided to go against this neighbors wishes to just dump Jeff in that roach motel, you were no friend of Jeff's. I am a firm believer that people will pay for thier actions and let me say Anubis, kristen, & scott, you all have something coming to you.
I see I'm not going to get my question answered, so I will add another in case you look again. Anubis, do you think Jeff would have left you in that ghetto hotel by yourself on Christmas Eve & Christmas day? NOPE, Jeff would never have done that to any of his friends. So you just keep playing the helping hand to the oh so grieving wife. Maybe you both are buying what each other are selling, I'm not.
Anubis, one question for you. If Jeff was such an important friend of yours why did it take almost two days to get him bailed out & why did my friend end up in what I have found out to be one of the worst motels in the area. A lot of this doesn't make sense. In C.A. there would be too many people to count that would have bailed Jeff out immediately. And I can tell you that there is no way that I would let Jeff sit alone in a ghetto motel by himself, especially on Christmas eve, & Christmas. You don't have to answer, I know it is beneath you, but for the friends and family thousands of miles away, we know that we would never have left him alone.
Heartsick, are you a friend, family or the wife herself? If not, you have no idea what the life of Jeff was like. This man moved thousands of miles away from friends and family in order to appease his wife. I have known Jeff for 23 years, and have never heard or seen him ever in this state of mind. What I do know is that the wife was the only person in the entire state of P.A. that he had & she washed her hands of him within a matter of days. If this was a gradual spiral why didn't the wife call friends or family to seek help for him? I'll stick to the fact. The fact is the wife throughout this horrible situation starting over the weekend never called the friends or family to say Jeff needed help, was in trouble, or needed support. Friends & family were in the dark, just as the wife wanted it. I'm not saying that what Jeff had done was all the wife's fault, but she made the decision for Jeff much easier in his mind when she "TURNED HER BACK ON HIM", and "TOOK HIS SON AWAY FROM HIM ON CHRISTMAS DAY" maybe permanently. Heartsick, do you have a son?,daughter? both? What state of mind would you be in if someone wouldn't let you see your son/daughter? Not a justification but a realization that this man's wife might not have kicked him down this path, but a fairly good nudge was good enough.
How sad to blame the wife? You obviously never met this woman. This man went above and beyond to help this woman and her family. Mr. Diamond was not a wealthy man yet took a considerable amount of his savings to help his wife's mother out, along with allowing her loser brother to stay with them. This man had a heart of gold, he would help anyone out that needed it. If the wife couldn't see the so called "problems" how in the world is the family supposed to see it from where they are. Selfish, you want to talk about selfish? How about the fact that all this man wanted to do is give his son a Christmas gift and instead of letting him the wife calls the cops on him. I'm telling you, the wife overreacted (big surprise), Mr. Diamond would never intetionally harm his wife. Mr.Diamond loved his wife & son so much that the thought of living without them unfortunately caused a horrible decision. If I had a problem, my wife would stand by my side, not choose to throw me out, cut my child out of my life, & side by her brother. What the wife did was selfish, all the man needed was support from her, instead she will have to live with the fact that she was the only one with the power to save him & instead she turned her back on him. As far as prayers go, there will be one said for the son.
This all could have been avoided. The wife was never in any danger. The fight was with the brother-in-law. The wife then goes and takes the most important thing away, his son. She files a restraining order and does not even allow him to just have a little time with his son on Christmas day. Between the heartless wife, brother-in-law, and the ineptitude of the local law inforcement, this man never had a chance. Depression is bad enough for most, to add intentional pain is inexcusable.