Text 8149, 43 rader
Skriven 2005-01-29 08:18:35 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 8133 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: asshole in L.A.
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28 Jan 05 22:24, Jeff Binkley wrote to Alan Hess:

 AH>>I'm sure you've all heard about the schmuck in L.A. who wanted to
 AH>>commit suicide, but, not having the balls to do the act himself,
 AH>>decided to go for "suicide by train" by parking his SUV on the 
 AH>>tracks and waiting to be hit.  He then changed his mind and exited 
 AH>>the vehicle, but left it on the tracks, where it was indeed hit,
 AH>>derailing two trains, killing 11 people, wounding dozens of others,
 AH>>and psychologically impacting all the survivors, their families, 
 AH>>and the families of those killed.  

 AH>>Personally, I think suicide is the ultimate right of any human 
 AH>>being who decides he or she has reached his limit.  Fortunately, 
 AH>>most people never reach that point, and many who feel they have can 
 AH>>be helped by counseling.  However, if you're going to commit 
 AH>>suicide, you should do it in a way that doesn't physically endanger 
 AH>>or harm others.  There are countless ways for a person to end his 
 AH>>own life by himself (heck, the Internet has plenty of websites and 
 AH>>even newsgroups with how-to advice - I did a Google search out of 
 JB> curiosity a
 AH>>fter hearing this story.)  What this man did is no better than what
 AH>>terrorist homicide bombers do in Israel, Iraq, and elsewhere - he
 AH>>took people who didn't want to die along with him.  He will be
 AH>>charged with 10 counts of murder (rightly, IMO), and could face the
 AH>>death penalty (I wouldn't try for that - this guy wants to die, so
 AH>>the worst punishment for him would be life in prison.  The death
 AH>>penalty would just give him what he wants - suicide by someone 
 AH>>else's hand.)

 JB> I'd be ok if he were executed tomorrow.

It too bad we can no longer administer a little frontier justice to jerks like
this guy.  Had him dead to rights as far as being guilty.  The first cop on the
scene should've just popped a cap in his ass and saved society the cost of
twenty years on Death Row.

John 

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