At an SFU bus stop after 45 minutes of waiting for a bus that never comes:
“When the bus driver says, ‘The next one’s right behind’, it’s like all the men who say ‘I love you’, but just want sex”.
Spoken by a flustered female Arts student. The bitterness meter just shot off the scale folks. Ah, it feels good to be used.
I find this comment left by an anonymous person somewhere in the blogosphere to be an accurate, if oversimplified description of people like the Montreal college slayer
I believe there are many people like Gill in the world. Living on the edge of reality and fantasy, they internalize their pain. Being bullied is a part of modern adolesence. Either you are a bully or smart and tough enough to deal with it or become a professional victim.
Professional victims often take refuge in the fantasy revenge world offered by violent video games and the fantasy world begins to sabotage their view of reality.
I have known quite a few people who have literally walked over the edge and embraced fantasies.
Some have become wonderful eccentrics, living a fantasy beyond simple art.
Some have fallen into a pit and try to drag anything around them into it.
This phenomena of the wounded victim loner merging violent famtasies into horribly obscene reality seems to be a symptom of our modern world.
As much as I liked Steve Irwin and all his antics with crocodiles and various fauna, nothing would ever prompt me to ‘exact retribution’ on stingrays. This just boggles the mind.
Irwin fans ‘in revenge attacks’
Stingrays have been found dead on two Queensland beaches
Dead stingrays with their tails cut off have been found in Australia, sparking concern that fans of naturalist Steve Irwin may be avenging his death.Mr Irwin, a TV personality known as the “Crocodile Hunter”, was killed while diving in Queensland when a stingray’s barb stabbed him in the chest.
Since then, 10 stingrays have been found mutilated on Queensland beaches.
Government officials said they were investigating the deaths and there could be prosecutions.
Two stingrays were found at a beach north of Brisbane with their tails cut off, while eight were found on another beach on Monday, The Australian reported.
Wayne Sumpton of the state fisheries department said it was not clear if the incidents were connected to Mr Irwin’s death.
He said fishermen who inadvertently caught stingrays sometimes cut off their tails to avoid being stung, but such a practice was uncommon.
‘Protect wildlife’
Mr Irwin was well-known for his work with Australian wildlife
Michael Hornby, a friend of the late naturalist and executive director of Mr Irwin’s Wildlife Warrior fund, condemned any revenge killings.
“We just want to make it very clear that we will not accept and not stand for anyone who’s taken a form of retribution. That’s the last thing Steve would want,” he said.
“I hope everyone understands we have to protect wildlife now more than ever. This is what Steve was all about.”
Stingrays are normally placid, but when they feel under threat, a sharp, poisonous spine in their tail flicks up.
A public memorial service for Mr Irwin will be held next week.
How exactly do you avenge someone’s death by going out and slaughtering other animals of the same species. This is the kind of thing maddened elephants do on discovering their offspring have been cruelly hacked in half by poachers. They go out and kill the first humans they can find. Are there people in Australia no better than maddened elephants?
Taken from here
