Today is your birthday and i still miss you like crazy baby. I can't wait untill i get to see your wonderful smile and hear your goofy laugh of yours I love you Gregory Todd Choate

Janet I am so sorry about your son. I couldnt beleive this when i heard it. It seems like just yesterday when you lived at the a frames and we hung out with josh miller and rode the bus to school. Just be strong I have suffered great a great loss myself my kids father was hit by a train on his way to work in 07 just before christmas and he was laid to rest at heaven of rest. I know Todds birthday is coming up real soon and this holiday season will be real sad my prayers are with his kid and anyone else that knew him may God bless you and keep you strong.

It is what it is.

For the person who made the comment about Calhoun making dreams turn into nightmares, please realize that it's not the lack of opportunity in Calhoun that is the problem. It is the lack of motivation of the majority of the people in Calhoun to educate themselves that is the problem.

To "Iseeretartds" (who seems to be the most inteligent of the posters up to this point), I guess you were right. You got your "rambling, incoherent, un-punctuated reply" that you were expecting!

This entire thread of posts is serving to make Calhoun look bad on the worldwide forum of the internet. It is showing what naive and uneducated people there truly is in this otherwise fine town. Kind of reminds me of that Jeff Foxworthy joke when he's talking about the people the news reporters choose to interview... "I SEEN IT ALL!!! IT WAS PANDELERIUM! I THOUGHT WE'D BE KILT, OR EVEN WORSE!" It's a shame that this kind of image is what is most notable out of this town.

Mel, please try to help us shed this reputation. Your last post had somewhere between 3-5 sentences with no punctuation or capitalization. This makes it very difficult to read and gives the impression that you are less intelligent than you are.

And finally, to everyone making threats.... Come on, that's just dumb.

(and if anyone has anything to say about it, you can call me at 706-629-DUMB).

thank you very much for not sayin something mean this time no one will ever understand what i feel i mean ive lost both my parents my gradfathr and my cousin 4 weeks ago and now the best thing that i ever had was taken from me just like that and the only reason i put my number up is if any one wants to know what really happened i was there

Okay, I lied..I did come back and read the follow-up posts (hey, I'm off today and to be honest, I'm bored!!) To Melanie(?): I did hear the rumor of a fight being involved in this wreck from someone at work before the story was even posted here...I didn't give it any credit then and I don't repeat gossip, but I know a lot of other people with nothing interesting to say about themselves will pass along any story (usually adding their own fabricated "facts") just because they crave a little attention. I'm sorry for your loss and I understand your feeling of needing to defend yourself, so lets just say this: Hi, my name is Melanie and I had a loving relationship with this person for seven years. I'm going to miss him terribly. I understand that some ugly rumors are circulating about the cause of his accident and they are just that...unfounded gossip and lies from people who have nothing better to do than make up stories. Please, out of respect for him, do not believe or repeat them...it also hurts my feeling to have to hear these lies.

BTW, it's not a good idea to be posting your phone number on a message board..it's just an open invitation for all the crazies to give you a call.

Okay, I lied..I did come back and read the follow-up posts (hey, I'm off today and to be honest, I'm bored!!) To Melanie(?): I did hear the rumor of a fight being involved in this wreck from someone at work before the story was even posted here...I didn't give it any credit then and I don't repeat gossip, but I know a lot of other people with nothing interesting to say about themselves will pass along any story (usually adding their own fabricated "facts") just because they crave a little attention. I'm sorry for your loss and I understand your feeling of needing to defend yourself, so lets just say this: Hi, my name is Melanie and I had a loving relationship with this person for seven years. I'm going to miss him terribly. I understand that some ugly rumors are circulating about the cause of his accident and they are just that...unfounded gossip and lies from people who have nothing better to do than make up stories. Please, out of respect for him, do not believe or repeat them...it also hurts my feeling to have to hear these lies.

BTW, it's not a good idea to be posting your phone number on a message board..it's just an open invitation for all the crazies to give you a call.

If any of you truly loved this person you would not be carrying on like this in a public forum. This kind of behavior is disgraceful and disrespectful. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

i am so very so this was not an arguement of who loved who first i am tryin to defend my own about people thinkin all this was my fault becasue it was not and i know it does not matter what any one thinks and i am sorry i even said anything becasue i know how much he loved me and i love him that all that matters

Well...I don't recall anyone asking you what you "think". That's some fine advice...to "grow up and get a life", you may just want to think about doing that!! In case you haven't noticed, this is a NEWS website...not exactly the proper forum to post an online argument over who loved who first. The story was about someone being killed in a single vehicle accident, it made no mention of their first love, a fight being involved, or of them being drunk. While it's sad that someone died, if they were indeed driving that intoxicated, it's extremely lucky that an innocent bystander was not killed along with them. Just for future reference, when you post an address or phone number online as a thinly veiled attempt at a threat, you FAIL...not only is it ineffective, it also shows poor judgment. While I'm almost positive that some rambling, incoherent, un-punctuated reply is sure to follow, please forgive the fact that I will neither read nor respond to it...I already feel somewhat dumber for having read the previous post. To the family of the person who died, I can only say I'm sorry for their loss and for the fact that these people choose to memorialize him in such poor fashion.

I think all yall need to shut the hell up all of yall need to grow up and get a life melanie love's todd to death she has been with him for 7 years and only todd and melanie knows the truth and if yall have anything to sayy bout it come to my house and tell me to my face 201 west dr nw calhoun ga

I didn't know there was any other version of Jerry Springer. :-/

you people are heartless and you must not have known him i wish every one would mind their own business and leave everything alone things are bad enough

I THOUGHT this was a news site, not the redneck version of Jerry Springer...you all really need to take this crap back to MySpace where it belongs.

You guys sound like a bunch of hillbillies. LOL. "We was not fightin he was drunk..." Haha.

hi i am the one todd has been with for the past 7 years and he was also my first love and i loved him very much i wish people who dont know what they are talkin about would stop runnin their mouth if you got anything to say my number is 706 676 2049 this was not my fault we was not fightin he was drunk please every one stop

Janet,

This came to such a shock to me.

We are twin cousins and our boys were also.

My heart breaks for you sweetheart.

Please Call me if you need me.

My prayers are with you.

I Love You!

Elaine

He was my first true love and if its tru that he was killed after leaving mad at his chick sham on u girl such a shame calhoun is such a terrible city too bad he never upgraded to a bigger city and got away from the town where dreams turn to nightmares for real.