What The? x2
August 3, 2008, Matthew Good Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more bizarre or horrific, police shot, injured, and arrested a man today on the Greek isle of Santorini after he decapitated his girlfriend and walked through the streets with her head.
After the police responded to calls from residents, the man threw the head into a police car, stole a police jeep, and tried to flee. A chase ensued, ending with the jeep crashing into a motorcycle on which two female doctors were riding. Both were badly hurt.
The man’s name, nor that of his victims, has yet been released.
Mark Twain once opined - “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t”. Man did he hit the nail on the head.
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And now the copycat Greyhound murders begin.
This is a joke right? This has to be a joke.
omfg
Do you think this guy was influenced by the greyhound murder? That story was high profile all over the world.
Geesh…and I thought I used to have it bad. All I got was a good old fashioned ass whoopin’ by my ex.
What the fuck is the world coming to?
Please, let me off now.
I doubt this is a copycat murder.
Mark Twain (who apparently had bipolar disorder) had this to say about madness:
…in one way or another all men are mad. Many are mad for money…Love is a madness…it can grow to a frenzy of despair…All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions, passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipience madness, and ready to grow, spread and consume, when the occasion comes. There are no healthy minds, and nothing saves any man but accident—the accident of not having his malady put to the supreme test.
One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the pleasure derived from being noticed. Perhaps it is not merely common, but universal.
–Mark Twain, The Memorable Assassination
Only extremely disturbed people will be inspired. And I will bet money is was copycat style.
At least this seems to be a crime of passion instead of just randomness. Still…not something you want to think about as you’re eating your Wheaties.
Wow…
That is very disturbing
“Gruesome” doesn’t begin to cover it.
I logged onto Google today and the headlines were, apart from this nightmarish story: Son charged after woman, dog set ablaze; Guardian charged in death of Toronto girl; 11 dead after K2 avalanche; Stampede kills 145 Hindu worshippers in India; Bodies sought after Quebec road collapses and car plummets into lake; and Police: Bus beheading suspect ate victim’s body. I mean… Jesus.
Damn…
[quote comment="60509"]At least this seems to be a crime of passion instead of just randomness. Still…not something you want to think about as you’re eating your Wheaties.[/quote]
I agree,
although there’s seems to be a motive, it’s just as horriffic.
Wow, if it wasn’t on BBC News, I would swear that it was made up. When you read the actual news article, it sounds so ridiculous that even a movie producer would consider it silly and unrealistic. I’m not trying to downplay the gravity of the incident. The last few days have really just gotten me reevaluating the distinction between possible and impossible.
Hopefully, this new “decapitation” tag you’ve created as a result of the “What the?” posts will not be used too often. I don’t foresee any circumstances in which I will be required to do a search for matthewgood.org “decapitation” entries. It’s probably preferable not to have an ordered archive of entries on such topics, yeah?
Decapitation = Canada’s newest hot export…
…which is why I bought an external speaker system/case for my iPod, and at least 90% of everything I put on it for my trip, will be Canadian.
Em’s cousins: “We heard about that killing on the bus in Canada…”
Em: “Have you heard of Broken Social Scene?”
Em’s cousins: “Didn’t the guy cut the guy’s head off?”
Em: “How about Buck 65?”
He might have had his reasons, but that’s sinking pretty low. Perhaps a copycat murder or something.
Not so many screams for justice or heated debates this round.
Perhaps we are used to it now…..
Watch No Country for Old Men.
Perhaps both beheaders used a coin to make their decision.
It really seems that easy these days.
Man my kids are gonna have it rough as they age.
Mark Twain was cool.
Peace
EveryEverybody get something to pretoect your heads, Crazy people are loose and they are cutters.
Sometimes I wish I was a cat, so shit like this wouldn’t matter to me.