August 26, 2003
Come for the killing fields, stay for the fun!
There's a fine line between love and hate, as they say. A woman in Alabama almost got away with murdering her husband to benefit from his will, had it not been for her stepdaughter's instance that something was amiss. Love was presumably not in the air when a Philadelphia man, 2 weeks out of prison, set fire to the home of the ex-girlfriend that wouldn't take him back. While he failed to kill the woman, he did manage to burn her four kids to death. It would also seem that motherly love did not play a role when a German woman decapitated her son in his playpen in front of her other two children.
A Texas man killed two prostitutes, forcing at least one of them to perform oral sex on him after he'd stabbed her; he's been convicted and is awaiting sentencing. At least when another Texas man held his mother hostage for four days while dismembering his stepfather, he managed to take some time out to care for his dog:
As he fled an intense manhunt prompted by the discovery of Raleigh William "Bill" Baird's dismembered body in Baird's southwest Harris County home on Wednesday, Andre Williams, 53, drove his Rottweiler to his ex-wife's home in the Dallas area, detectives said."He just said he did something bad, and he had to go, and would she mind watching the dog," Harris County sheriff's Sgt. T.E. Kiser said Saturday.
If a lunatic like that can still love a dog, then what the hell is running through the mind of a serial dog poisoner in North Carolina?
While it's probably in bad taste for Russian organized crime syndicates to promote World War II-era grave robbing, and just plain moronic to sell someone's remains to a thrift store accidentally, combining evil with stupidity usually leads to the worst decision-making. For example, a Canadian probation officer probably shouldn't have been pen-pals with convicted sex offenders, nor should their letters have been about rape and torture fantasies involving family members. It's also probably not a good idea to write out the lyrics to a song you're working on if it accurately describes how you butchered your classmate, as was the case of an Australian teen who dismembered his best friend and wrote a rap about it. As a side note, I'm not really sure what the Herald Sun is implying by pointing out that among the kid's collection of horror flicks, porn, and Eminem CDs, police also confiscated a Britney Spears video.
Despite these compelling cases, nowhere was the troublesome combination of evil and stupidity more stunning recently than in the revelation that the Cambodian government is planning to turn Khmer Rouge death camps into tourist attractions. Honestly, how many idiots had to approve of and support this idea up until now? How can they sleep at night?
Posted by stupefied
10:21 PM