What is in the mind of someone like this?

[marval]

Someone has been posting on Facebook, claiming to be the drowned boy Dylan Cecil speaking from Heaven. What on earth possses someone to do this? Don't the family have enough to cope with.

http://news.sky.com/s...s-to-be-missing-dylan

[petal54]

sad individual

[tonyav]

There are some very sick people out there, marval.

[albaqwerty]

They do not have a mind. They do not have an iota of compassion. They are all about themselves, 'See how clever I am'
Vicious and sick, twisted evil-minded non-entities.
I hope when they are caught, they get the full wrath of the law, they'll get the full wrath of normal humans.

[marval]

Yes I agree Tony, I can't think what they get out of it.

[marval]

I hope they are caught Alba

[sandyRoe]

I wouldn't say they were sick. They're bad, heartless pieces of dirt, with no thought for anyone but themselves.

[tonyav]

I think they probably will get caught, marval.

[marval]

They deserve to be Tony

[Old_Geezer]

Some folk have weird sense of humour. But the example given might not be an attempt at humour anyway. They could easily be posted by someone who is trying to give comfort in a situation where they believe he is now in heaven. After all it says their is a shrine on the sea wall in his memory, so it sounds as if the dominant belief is that he has died. This could be simple misinterpretation of intent

[sp1814]

sandyRoe has just used a word that I've not heard (to describe a person) for YEARS.

They're 'bad'.

Think about that for a moment...it's true, isn't it? Some people are just genuinely...bad.

[ummmm]

Yes...some people are just 'bad'.

[joko]

it reads to me like someones misguided and naive attempts to offer comfort to the parents - as though to say dont worry hes in a better place and waiting for them on a rainbow etc.

i dont see any attempt to be cruel or sick in it at all ... nor is it a real attempt to pretend to be the child for real, as the headline implies.

when i read the headlines i thought it was someone actually trying to write like a 4 year old, and trying to pretend he was alive somewhere.

i woudl imagine this person is very young and will be horrified when they realise the upset this has caused to the mother.

[Gromit]

A strange thing to do but somehow I also get the impression it is misguided rather than 'bad'.

My guess a female teen or young woman perhaps not too bright.

[jno]

the posts sound kindly intentioned. Misguided maybe but I wouldn't have thought they came from anyone sick or bad. There's plenty of nastiness from trolls all round the internet and it looks nothing like this.

[baza]

facebook is not something that I understand, the more things are open to the general public the more the chances of misguided posts being made.imo.

[Baldric]

It doesn't read as a malicious post, more misguided than anything, as if someone was trying to offer comfort rather than cause distress, but had gone about it badly, strange one, I do not in any way condone those who set out to cause harm or distress on FB, but they are usually far more direct than this.

[sp1814]

Totally jumped the gun on this and havg read the Facebook comments, I withdraw what I wrote earlier (I assumed it was some sicko troll taking the mickey).

It actually looks like someone with good intentions, but it comes across and thoroughly wrong, because it's written in the first person.

Creepy and wrong, rather than bad.

[Prudie]

We really have no idea if it is malicious or from a well-meaning crank. Sadly this kind of thing has always happened, it used to be by phone and letter from people claiming to be mediums etc. I'm going to come across as fuddy-duddy but the last thing I'd want if I lost a loved one is a FB tribute page - absolutely invites this kind of thing and is the easiest way to do it anonymously.