If this is what an everyday bloke is, then there's something terribly wrong here.

Many things can cause a person to snap and do something out of character.  Maybe the vast predominance of women walking out on their marital relationships through 'not feeling validated' need to share some responsibility.

This society has a lot to answer for with its treatment of men to 'equalise' women.  You can trust me when I say that the day will come when it does answer.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 6^th, 2016 at 6:47am:


Here you go.  http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/tributes-for-young-port-lin...

He was suffering from depression, apparently.  I read yesterday that there was a gun in the car when they dragged it up.  Nothing about it in the above article that I could see, but there are pictures of the man, wife and 2 sons.

Very sad.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 6^th, 2016 at 6:47am:



Sorry. Was very busy with the kids.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/01/06/port-lincoln-father-battled-mental...

Relatives of Port Lincoln man Damien Little have visited the spot where he took his own life and the lives of his two small boys as details of his battle with mental illness emerged.

Early on Monday, Mr Little drove his car off the main wharf in the Eyre Peninsula town and into 30 metres of water, killing himself and his two sons, 10-month-old Hunter and Koda, 4.

His family has now revealed the 34-year-old had suffered with mental health issues for the past three years.

"We had noticed a change," his mother Sue told the Adelaide Advertiser.

"We tried to help him, we all did. But you can't help somebody who can't help himself.

The revelations of Mr Little's troubled life came as others who knew him said he was respected and well liked.

"It's just a shocking thing to have happen out of the blue and for no reason that we knew of," Wheatsheaf Hotel owner Peter Watherston said on Tuesday.

"He and his brother used to pop out for a beer."

South Australian Commissioner for Victims' Rights Michael O'Connell said the heart-wrenching incident had caused anguish for the family and friends.

But he also urged people not to rush to blame Mr Little, even those who might find murder by a parent to be among the "cruellest of tragedies."

"We do not know the reasons Damien did what he appears to have done and speculating helps neither the family nor the people of Port Lincoln," he said.

As well as tributes on social media, locals have created a makeshift memorial of flowers, teddy bears and other items along the edge of the wharf.

In writing on a football jumper one mourner wrote "RIP Little Legends".

Mr Little's parents and other relatives visited the site on Tuesday as police released two family photos which appeared to show a happy couple and their children.

In one, Mr Little and his wife Melissa are sitting on a beach with their two smiling young boys resting in their laps.

why does it always come down to depression....??

really... its not as if depression is something NEW...it isnt..what was wrong with his life to be depressed about?????..he sounds as if he was very successful in what he chose to do....why take the lives of two beautiful children... that you have no right to take.

how can anyone say depression made him want to kill his own children???

it sounds more like he hated them....or his wife who now has to find a way to go forward after the unspeakable.....he left a long suicide note......he had time to seek help or answers......but chose not too..

cods wrote on Jan 6^th, 2016 at 7:46am:


My dear sweet Cods, you're trying to make sense of the internal processes of a seriously depressed person.

I don't think you'll get far.

Lisa Jones wrote on Jan 6^th, 2016 at 7:48am:



its as bad as comparing a broken vase isnt it??...

its murder.....in this awful case two children.....


I will never understand how any murder can be  linked to a horse or a vase to be honest.

cods wrote on Jan 6^th, 2016 at 7:53am:



not "linking " it to a horse
i am saying that completely unexpected suicides occur when the mind is lost.
and that this could be reduced if we taught people how to "use their mind " properly.

the mind can be exercised like any other muscle.

if you live in a durrrrrr state and dont exercise it , it gets weak and can break ,
if you dont exercise your back it gets weak and can break.

preventative medicine innit