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2005-03-14 Britain

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Posted by Elliot Swan 2005-03-14 8:43:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My bet is it's someone who should have been institutionalized but wasn't due to (a) Human rights issues (b)has only been arrested 49 times.

If it was a member of the ROP it will be covered up and hushed up. Count on it.

Posted by Sock Puppet Oâ Doom 2005-03-14 9:17:15 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-03-14 9:17:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 There can be only one.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-14 9:33:05 AM|| 2005-03-14 9:33:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Gimme the prize!

Posted by BH 2005-03-14 10:05:05 AM|| 2005-03-14 10:05:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "A man who lives in my building was telling him to put the axe down then two men grabbed scaffolding poles to try to stop him hurting anyone else."
"But he didn't respond to all the people shouting at him."

two men grabbed scaffolding poles ?

I know owning a gun is the highest crime in Britain, but don't they make cricket bats out of Aluminum????

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-14 11:34:12 AM|| 2005-03-14 11:34:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Lumberjacks--why do they hate us?

It's really disaparaging to read that account because it seems no one did anything more than shout at the guy to stop. Yes, guns are pretty much illegal in Britain and confronting a guy with an axe would be pretty hairy, but you'd think a few guys would have been willing to surround and gang-tackle the guy?

Posted by Dar 2005-03-14 11:44:01 AM|| 2005-03-14 11:44:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Nonono, you can't be the one if you use an axe. Only by using a sword can you be the One and escape prosecution. By using an axe, you simply become your local neighborhood axe murderer.

Posted by Silentbrick 2005-03-14 2:19:11 PM|| 2005-03-14 2:19:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Moose, that's damn funny.

Posted by Chris W. 2005-03-14 5:48:20 PM|| 2005-03-14 5:48:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Update:

...the "calm and precise" killer seemed unworried as he handed himself over to armed police.

Other witnesses had told him how the attacker shouted "you've had this coming for 20 years" before he bludgeoned his victim to death with the 2ft weapon. Two workers from a nearby building site arrived carrying iron bars to try to stop the attack but were too late.

The 61-year-old victim was married with children and lived nearby while the suspect was from the Camden area. Detectives are investigating links between the two men, who are thought to have been known to each other but were not related. ...

The suspect, aged 37, was taken to Holborn police station after being arrested at the scene. He did not appear to have a history of mental illness.

Scotland Yard said a post mortem examination on the victim is to be held at St Pancras mortuary. Police said he had suffered severe head and facial injuries but had not been decapitated.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-14 10:52:56 PM|| 2005-03-14 10:52:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 BigEd: I don't know what these scaffolding poles look like, but in that situation if I had to face a deranged axe murderer with a hand-to-hand weapon a bo would probably be my first choice.

Then again, I'm out of practice... so take that as you will.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-03-14 11:25:10 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-03-14 11:25:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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