Sick

[whitelightnin_23]

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/102006/local_20061020007.php (http://www.theeagle.com/stories/102006/local_20061020007.php)

What would really posess someone to do this? Unbelievable.

[Mole]

I don't think I'm gonna check out that link. It's Friday and I'm feeling pretty good. I don't need a news story to bring me down.

[MarylandAG]

A typical characterisitic of serial killers, they typically start with cruelity to animals. I'm not saying that is what they are, just pointing out a fact. These guys were either incredibly drunk or incredibly stupid or quite possibly both! Pretty freaking worthless in my opinion, that is harsh, but I call a spade a spade!

[whitelightnin_23]

...I'm still feeling good. Ain't nobody gonna hold me down. Oh no...
I'll try to find some happy news for you.

[whitelightnin_23]

A typical characterisitic of serial killers, they typically start with cruelity to animals. I'm not saying that is what they are, just pointing out a fact. These guys were either incredibly drunk or incredibly stupid or quite possibly both! Pretty freaking worthless in my opinion, that is harsh, but I call a spade a spade!

exactly right. I did a research paper on serial killers when I was in school...seems they all have a desire for cruelty to animals, or other powerless/inferior things/people...

These kids need help...and something else to do. What ever happened to getting laid?

[Mole]

...I'm still feeling good. Ain't nobody gonna hold me down. Oh no...
I'll try to find some happy news for you.

Yeah I know it shouldn't get me down but somehow it always does. Seems like reading about bad things just darkens my mood. I follow the news pretty closely and as you can imagine it's all bad news all the time. After awhile I just have to step away.

[MarylandAG]

I read alot, one of my favorite places is the bargain bin at the bookstore. I read pretty much anything, the classics, thrillers, westerns (one of my favorites, and crime books (another of my favorites). I like reading about real crimes like Patrica Cornwell's book on Jack the Ripper, Helter Skelter (sp?), etc. anyway in all the reading I've ever done on serial killers, I found the same thing you did, animal cruelity is one of the first warning signs. How in the hell can you kill a horse with essentially a polo mallet and a knife then track all that blood to your apartment, sick bastards. Hell I hope they lock them up and throw away the keys.

[MarylandAG]

Double post! Yikes!

[whitelightnin_23]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/20/D8KSCOOO0.html

Here's some good news. Looks like Pyongyang has apologized for the nuclear tests.

You're right mole...seems like there is no good news anymore. Why is that? Does this have something to do w/ feeling so guilty for being a super-power that we can't "pat ourselves on the back"? Or is it more that good news doesn't sell...doesn't have the "shock value" of bad?

[polish]

MD which books have you read about the ripper. I think I've read them all that i've seen at half price books

[Pflugerville Ag]

Those guys are sick. Doing that to a horse b/c it chased you? I hope the Brazos County judge gives them the maximum sentence.

[MarylandAG]

Polish, I've read several I can't remeber the titles. The latest I read was Patrica Cornwells retrospect look, where she thinks she has solved who it was.

Complete History of Jack the Ripper I think is another one I remember

Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, is another, there are several others but I can't remember them all.

I really enjoy reading true crime books. Believe it or not, I found the Warren Report for the JFK assasination at Barnes & Nobles in the bargain sections. It is the official report will all the details, all they did is take the official documents and bind them, oh by the way I don't think Oswald did it alone, he just took the fall.

[Dustin00whoop]

Maybe they needed some glue for a school project. ;)

[SHAG69]

Sick Fu*ks!

[Mole]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/20/D8KSCOOO0.html

Here's some good news. Looks like Pyongyang has apologized for the nuclear tests.

You're right mole...seems like there is no good news anymore. Why is that? Does this have something to do w/ feeling so guilty for being a super-power that we can't "pat ourselves on the back"? Or is it more that good news doesn't sell...doesn't have the "shock value" of bad?

Good news doesn't sell. Period. Collectively we have a short attention span so they need something that will grab attention and make you tune in and stay tuned in.

I also think we are getting to be more of a Gladiator type society. We want to watch the freaks, the worst of the worse, because people are facinated by it.

Me I'm just tired of all the negativity. If you pour too much of this crap into your brain eventually it effects your outlook. I know bad things are out there but I don't need graphic detail to help me understand that.

[macduff93]

I'm glad to know you men have a hard time with meanness, too. When I hear of things like the Amish school killings, all I can do is cry. I just don't understand why people would want to hurt someone else, especially someone they don't know or a child. I guess I'm simple minded, but the evil of this world confuses me.

[Pflugerville Ag]

Maybe they needed some glue for a school project. ;)

That's what the WNBA is for.

[whitelightnin_23]

I think a lot of it is our "superiority complex" in that we have to focus on all the bad (both in our country & without) in order to make us feel "objective" & fair...after all we (as a country) can't be THAT good right?

We need more sunshine pumpers in the news...the world is bad...but the world I see isn't that bad...it is still a beautiful world (sing it Louie).

[whitelightnin_23]

That's what the WNBA is for.
:rep: for that...LMAO.

[CoolaidWade]

I'm glad to know you men have a hard time with meanness, too. When I hear of things like the Amish school killings, all I can do is cry. I just don't understand why people would want to hurt someone else, especially someone they don't know or a child. I guess I'm simple minded, but the evil of this world confuses me.

I have a hard time dealing with kids or infants who are seriously hurt too. Adults I have no problem with. I have seen that so many times that they can be mangled in pieces on the street and we'll forget about that before we get back to the station.

But when kids are involved it's a whole other story. I guarentee when we make fires or accidents and it comes through "confirmed that there are kids trapped inside" we are driving about 10 mph faster then usual (which already is as fast as safely possible so don't worry)

Thank God, I can only count on my hands the times that has happened to me so far and so far we have gotten them all out. Only once where I have seen a kid severly burned but we still got her out.

EDIT: and the amish incident was one of the worst things I have ever heard in my lifetime. Espcially when one of the kids was a martyr and offered herself to die to save the others. And she was under ten.

[whitelightnin_23]

most of my male family members are firemen...they all say the same thing.

[polish]

Polish, I've read several I can't remeber the titles. The latest I read was Patrica Cornwells retrospect look, where she thinks she has solved who it was.

Complete History of Jack the Ripper I think is another one I remember

Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, is another, there are several others but I can't remember them all.

I really enjoy reading true crime books. Believe it or not, I found the Warren Report for the JFK assasination at Barnes & Nobles in the bargain sections. It is the official report will all the details, all they did is take the official documents and bind them, oh by the way I don't think Oswald did it alone, he just took the fall.

We need a you do you think killed JFK thread :)

[Pflugerville Ag]

As a father of an 18 month old, stories of stuff happening to kids effects me alot more that it ever did a couple years ago.