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Originally Posted by Magic Dirt
But what a good idea you've come up with, shooting mentally retarded people on sight.
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To be fair the person was EATING the victim... So action needed to be taken.. But I agree killing him was not right though..
But still, I have only read the first article as I am pushed for time right now, and will read them later. I have never been on a Greyhound bus before, would everything have been in full view of everybody? Because by that first article it seemed that one bystander had only heard screams and that it had happened.. May just be how I was reading it...
If it was in full view of everybody, why didn't anybody do anything? A man starts stabbing someone to death, they even hear a scream, didn't anybody try to pull the guy away straight away? I guess it's just another sad case of bystander behaviour, like that Kitty Genovese incident but magnified to the extreme. But don't grill me over this if in the second article it describes how everybody tried to pull him off and got pushed back by him or something... I will read that article later.
About the Zorro movie, I agree that it is irritating when people try to state that movies / games cause insanity. In this case however it may have been relevant to mention... If I recall correctly this film has a scene of a beheaded mans head in a jar, a pretty disturbing scene if I recall... I might be thinking of another Zorro movie, but if it was this one then I can see how this scene might have triggered a psychotic episode in an already disturbed, psychotic and insane individual... But it wouldn't cause a normal, sane person to leap into killing action, but it may have been enough to flip an insane, unstable person, carrying a hunting knife and fighting the urge to kill, to suddenly leap into a killing frenzy. But thats not to say it was wrong of them to play Zorro on the bus, as people would be under the assumption that the people on the bus were not insane and intent on killing people.
This is a very sad case indeed.
EDIT - Have read all of the articles linked up here now... What I said still stands, but it seems like the people fled fromt he bus, but that some people waited at the door to stop him coming out and hurting anybody else. A case of panic probably, you don't know how you will react when you see someone stabbing an innocent right next to you.. You'd think you'd try and intervene, and the sheer number of you would stop him, but you realy, do not know.
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