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19 stabbed to death at disabled center in Japan.

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  • #32
    Alanhooly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Alanhooly


    Stop the world please, I want to get off...


  • #33
    BorneTobyWilde
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    bear1 wrote: »
    How eloquently put.
    Have you considered a job as a news anchor?

    I read that in an early report. I wasn't trying to be funny.
    He was a former patient who escaped and returned with a knife. I dunno if that's true or not but it was an early report.


  • #34
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    Just seen he was reported to have said "I did it. I want to get rid of the disabled."
    Mirror is not best source in the world - and even if true, if this was told to police why would it even be reported to papers now, the attack is barely just over.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sagamihara-stabbings-live-updates-crazed-8492845


  • #35
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,506 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Gatling wrote: »

    It just take 2-4 to rush and take down a single attacker ,
    A lot of places in America now are running self defense classs where they teach students how to rush an attacker


    A lot of staff were probably women as well when I think about it, nurses/carers. Might not have the physical strength to take him on.


  • #36
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    bear1 wrote: »
    How eloquently put.
    Have you considered a job as a news anchor?

    I heard it was an old folks home where he carried out his killings.


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  • #37
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭Stigura


    everlast75 wrote: »
    anyone else see that film "fallen" with Denzel Washington and Jon Goodman?

    Got it on my shelf. Great film!

    But; That's a film. This is fcuking rank :(


  • #38
    eeguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭eeguy


    19 people died on the far side of the planet.

    A million others have died on better and worse conditions as well.
    I don't understand why news agencies broadcast these stories while there are plenty other more varied and relevant things going on.

    Anyone going to Maker faire in Dublin on Saturday? Rte and the like would have been better to do a story on that rather than some Japanese event which has little bearing on anyone in Ireland.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    R.I.P to the innocent victims.

    I know that with the advances in technology coupled with around the clock news reporting, there is an element of truth to 'We're just hearing about more bad shít now, it always happened'. However, I can't help but feel that the value of a human life is ridiculously low in the 21st century.


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    I read that in an early report. I wasn't trying to be funny.

    I doubt any report referred to those being cared for as "retards" or referred to departure as an "escape". They are not criminals in a prison or animals in a zoo.


  • #41
    The_Valeyard
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    Wow, absolutely horrible news. Those poor people :(


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  • #42
    everlast75
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    Stigura wrote: »
    Got it on my shelf. Great film!

    But; That's a film. This is fcuking rank :(

    agreed - horrific stuff!!!!!

    but the premise of the film is what I am referring to. times like these, or the Batman movie shootings, or the Florida shootings, or Nice... that plot pops into my head

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #43
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    I read that in an early report. I wasn't trying to be funny.
    He was a former patient who escaped and returned with a knife. I dunno if that's true or not but it was an early report.

    I think posters had a problem with your use of the retard word. I know many people with disabilities find it a pejorative word that is hurtful and offensive.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #44
    Keane2baMused
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Keane2baMused


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    I read that in an early report. I wasn't trying to be funny.
    He was a former patient who escaped and returned with a knife. I dunno if that's true or not but it was an early report.

    Did the early report also use third word in your first post,or was that your little addition?


  • #45
    Keane2baMused
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    This makes me feel completely ill.

    So many lives destroyed :(


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    I think posters had a problem with your use of the retard word. I know many people with disabilities find it a pejorative word that is hurtful and offensive.

    It was the entire tone of it. The notion that disabled people might "escape" is also highly offensive, as if they are animals. They "leave"...


  • #47
    Dravokivich
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It was the entire tone of it. The notion that disabled people might "escape" is also highly offensive, as if they are animals. They "leave"...

    if someone in a care facility has left without a process for such being followed, such as leave or checked out, for all intents and purposes it is considered an escape. The word they tend to use is Flight, or Flight risk becuase it sounds...

    ...nicer

    it's the same fúcking thing.


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    if someone in a care facility has left without a process for such being followed, such as leave or checked out, for all intents and purposes it is considered an escape. The word they tend to use is Flight, or Flight risk becuase it sounds...

    ...nicer

    it's the same fúcking thing.

    To me, the whole "so a retard escapes" sounds like a bad line from an 80s joke or the start of those urban myths from back in those days, that has long since fallen into disuse. You may have no issue with it and it is only language. I think it's language that degrades and insults, that is all.


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