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they keep bringing up an interview with "kevin etheridge" , whose ass i kicked in badminton today
Ahhh, just make sure your buddy Kevin doesn't have you high on his list when he comes back to class brandishing assault rifles.
but its particularly shocking because these things dont tend to happen in my city, its sort of an upper class suburb compared to the ones surrounding it
Oh, but there's where you are wrong. Because you live there is precisely why this stuff happens. Columbine could have never happened in Richmond or East Oakland, for example.
Have you ever seen old reruns of Michael Moore's
TV Nation where they did an experiment based on the theory that all serial killers and mass murderers are described as "He seemed a nice, quiet fellow" by their neighbors?
The had a guy rent a house in an upscale neighborhood for about a month. Then he started to do suspicious things -- smashing things in the house, running around with flashlights on with the lights off, making moaning sounds. None of the neighbors (the neighborhood was caught on camera) lifted so much as a finger.
Then he started digging in his backyard by flashlight after midnight. Then he painted red paint all over a mattress to make it look like blood and left it out on the street for garbage pickup -- neighbors walked by with their dogs, who sniffed it, and kept walking on by.
Then they sent interviewers door to door to ask the neighbors about the guy, and they were all like, "Well, he seemed kind of to himself. I heard something now and then, but he generally seemed nice."
All I'm saying, Sebastian, is watch your back!