Only in America.......

live2thewire · 12-04-2009 06:21PM #1

Not so, following up from their recent school shooting, their polar bear fiasco and now kid kills his family.

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090412-18589.html

The teenager whose entire family was found shot dead in their home on Friday was detained on Saturday evening, suspected of killing them with his friend.

The 18-year-old himself went to the police on Friday to report having found his mother, father and two adult sisters dead in their house in Eislingen, Baden-Württemberg.

Although police initially described the killings as mysterious and that they were not ruling out the involvement of an outside party, they soon focussed on the son of the family.

He had told them he had spent Thursday night at the house of a friend and returned home on Friday to find his family murdered.

But police spokesman Rudi Bauer said there were no signs of a break-in at the house where the four were killed – and that nothing had been stolen.

The teenager was also “very taciturn and withdrawn” during questioning, Bauer added.

He is a member of the local shooting club, although does not have a licensed weapon. The small-calibre handgun used to kill the family has not yet been found.

He and his 19-year-old friend were brought before a judge in Ulm on Saturday evening, who decided to detain them in investigative custody while investigations continue.

in my opinion incidents like this are down to american media dominance which must be erradicated and banned under EU law. vast budgets should be given to european media to grow. I laugh when people say the eu will dilute european individual cultures, lol the usa is way way ahead on that front.

My name is URL · 12-04-2009 06:23PM

Everyone knows ze germans are crazy. It's just not PC to talk about it these days.

*goose-steps out of thread

liah · 12-04-2009 06:24PM

So you're blaming American media for some German eejit murdering his family?

How does that make any sense? The kid was mental. Very little to do with media.

tony1kenobi · 12-04-2009 06:25PM

I read that wrong.

live2thewire · 12-04-2009 06:26PM

ok maby not ban all american media but only the good stuff should remain. this kinda crap hasnt come to ireland yet but very very soon i see it happening and i'm quite aware who i'll be pointing the finger at(UNCLE SAM)

tribulus · 12-04-2009 06:28PM

Americans are fat/stupid/guncrazy/rulingtheworld thread #28835

Mr. Frost · 12-04-2009 06:28PM

live2thewire wrote: »

in my opinion incidents like this are down to american media dominance which must be erradicated and banned under EU law. vast budgets should be given to european media to grow. I laugh when people say the eu will dilute european individual cultures, lol the usa is way way ahead on that front.

I see where you're coming from. It's still quite a silly thing to say and mean though.

tommyboy2222 · 12-04-2009 06:29PM

So what tv shows influenced the Holocaust ?

seanybiker · 12-04-2009 06:30PM

how can ya blame america for someone from a totally different continent kills their own family. I would blame the killer to be honest.

The Pontiac · 12-04-2009 06:36PM

live2thewire wrote: »

Not so, following up from their recent school shooting, their polar bear fiasco and now kid kills his family.

I thought it was innocent till proven guilty?

Mr. Frost · 12-04-2009 06:37PM

live2thewire wrote: »

ok maby not ban all american media but only the good stuff should

Yeah and let's not watch movies with violence in them either and block out any news stories involving murder, rape etc from the UK and Ireland and pretend that we all live in a Neverland.

live2thewire · 12-04-2009 06:39PM

zudo wrote: »

I thought it was innocent till proven guilty?

it must of been the pet cat i suppose:rolleyes:

listen i don't blame america for such incidents but i think you'd be hard pressed to find incidents like this before american media began to thrive. it is of little coincidence that bonnie and clyde were glorified spree killers a fact alluded to in NBK, and in what country? the land of the 'free'

live2thewire · 12-04-2009 06:42PM

Mr. Frost wrote: »

Yeah and let's not watch movies with violence in them either and block out any news stories involving murder, rape etc from the UK and Ireland and pretend that we all live in a Neverland.

the violence in american film has absolutely no basis or logic. compare (insert any american film) to in bruges and you will see a stark difference.

Manic Moran · 12-04-2009 06:45PM

liah wrote: »

So you're blaming American media for some German eejit murdering his family?

How does that make any sense? The kid was mental. Very little to do with media.

I thought he was being satirical?

That said, there is a theory that says that all the media coverage given to such killings merely has an encouraging effect on others to do the same thing, feeding a vicious cycle.

NTM

liah · 12-04-2009 06:47PM

live2thewire wrote: »

it must of been the pet cat i suppose:rolleyes:

listen i don't blame america for such incidents but i think you'd be hard pressed to find incidents like this before american media began to thrive. it is of little coincidence that bonnie and clyde were glorified spree killers a fact alluded to in NBK, and in what country? the land of the 'free'

a) Why on earth does the blame have to be shifted to something other than the killer?

b) Hard pressed to find incidents of murder? Are you serious? Come on now, I'm really not a fan of the States but for the love of god, that's absolutely ridiculous. Murders-- of family and otherwise-- have existed long before the first word was even written, never bloody mind the media!

seanybiker · 12-04-2009 06:48PM

Anytime I hurt meself I run past the hospital but cant find the health packs.

Stupid GTA.

dr.bollocko · 12-04-2009 08:14PM

The idea that media encourages violence is a very old one. I wholeheartedly disagree with it. TV doesn't tend to kill people. Certainly it isn't capable of pre-meditated murder. People kill people.

04KY · 12-04-2009 09:14PM

live2thewire wrote: »

it must of been the pet cat i suppose:rolleyes:

listen i don't blame america for such incidents but i think you'd be hard pressed to find incidents like this before american media began to thrive. it is of little coincidence that bonnie and clyde were glorified spree killers a fact alluded to in NBK, and in what country? the land of the 'free'

Seriously? Murders didn't happen much before American media began to thrive? In Germany?!

Gummy Panda · 12-04-2009 09:18PM

In before Overheal!

also lol @ American media blame

Sharpshooter · 12-04-2009 09:31PM

OP, the news is there to give us ,well the *news.
Murder is news so it gets fed back to the public through that media.
If you put a blanket ban on all those stories,do you really think people would suddenly cease killing each other?

seanybiker · 12-04-2009 09:33PM

I blame brian cowen. Why not sure

Thrill · 12-04-2009 09:39PM

liah wrote: »

a) Murders-- of family and otherwise-- have existed long before the first word was even written, never bloody mind the media!

True. Caveman is ultimately to blame. His drawings on cave walls of killing inspired deranged cavekids to carry out mindless violence against other cave dwellers. This is now part of basic human instinct.

Damn caveman.

irish_bob · 12-04-2009 11:09PM

seanybiker wrote: »

how can ya blame america for someone from a totally different continent kills their own family. I would blame the killer to be honest.

this is 2009 , personal responsobility has become the ultimate dirty word , like with the irish economy , its always someone elses fault

Rocky Balboa 2 · 12-04-2009 11:11PM

God Bless America

seanybiker · 12-04-2009 11:14PM

irish_bob wrote: »

this is 2009 , personal responsobility has become the ultimate dirty word , like with the irish economy , its always someone elses fault

Ah right there ted. Now I understand. Good man

Mr. Frost · 12-04-2009 11:15PM

live2thewire wrote: »

the violence in american film has absolutely no basis or logic. compare (insert any american film) to in bruges and you will see a stark difference.

That's quite a broad and ridiculous statement. Any American film...ever made...that has violence in it...was purely gratuitous?!

Terry · 12-04-2009 11:18PM

America doesn't kill people...
Wait. That's wrong.

Long story short: Person behind the gun is guilty.

If everyone who ever watched a violent Hollywood film felt the urge to re-enact that film, we'd all be dead.

Uncle Arthur · 12-04-2009 11:24PM

Mr. Frost wrote: »

Yeah and let's not watch movies with violence in them either and block out any news stories involving murder, rape etc from the UK and Ireland and pretend that we all live in a Neverland.

neverland or neverland ranch??

Delirium · 12-04-2009 11:29PM

live2thewire wrote: »

the violence in american film has absolutely no basis or logic. compare (insert any american film) to in bruges and you will see a stark difference.

The most violent films I've seen were japanese (Ichi the Killer) and French (Irreversible).

Plus the article doesn't even mention if the teenager even owned a tv:P

13-04-2009 12:02AM

zudo wrote: »

I thought it was innocent till proven guilty?

That sounds mighty like the sorta thing a commie would say...

Sharpshooter · 13-04-2009 12:17AM

994 wrote: »

That sounds mighty like the sorta thing a commie would say...

Or, if you look at it another way, the sort of thing a poster on boards did say.

Only in America.......

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