This news article started me thinking about the wave of killings of people not known to the killers, apparently just for fun or generalized anger or a dubious "terrorism" idea, but the killers don't seem to have a personal motive for the killings or know the victims.
The school and other crowd killings are this kind of crime, and so was the Boston Marathon bombing. It's hard to understand what kind of political motive could inspire bombing a footrace -- that's more akin to the craziness of putting rubbing alcohol into bottles and slipping them into a Starbucks, or the wave of poisonings of commercial products like the Tylenol poisonings several years ago. Some of those were targeted, but some were put back on the shelves after being poisoned, just to kill strangers! This led to the now-universal protective sealing of most processed foods and drink, and we can see why with this woman with the strange name marauding around poisoning orange juice.
Is this a new type of crime? Why do people do it? Do they have a psychotic delusion that someone they hate will get the poisoned bottle? Do they just hate everybody and want the world to die, die, die or what? Is this an inchoate response to overpopulation?
SAN FRANCISCO 4/30/2013 – A California woman faces attempted murder charges after police say she tried to sneak orange juice bottles spiked with a lethal amount of rubbing alcohol inside a Starbucks.
San Jose Police arrested Ramineh Behbehanian, 50, late Monday. A customer reported seeing the woman take two bottles of orange juice from her bag and place them in an open-air refrigerated display case at a Starbucks in San Jose around 3:45 p.m., Sgt. Jason Dwyer said Tuesday.
When the customer told a store manager what he saw, Behbehanian fled. A store employee followed Behbehanian to the parking lot and jotted down her license plate number as she drove off. Other employees called 911 after noticing the bottles had a toxic smell, Dwyer said.
Firefighters on the scene tested the contents and determined that the bottles contained a "lethal quantity" of isopropyl rubbing alcohol mixed with the juice, Dwyer said.
Read more: California woman accused of sneaking juice mixed with rubbing alcohol into Starbucks | Fox News
The school and other crowd killings are this kind of crime, and so was the Boston Marathon bombing. It's hard to understand what kind of political motive could inspire bombing a footrace -- that's more akin to the craziness of putting rubbing alcohol into bottles and slipping them into a Starbucks, or the wave of poisonings of commercial products like the Tylenol poisonings several years ago. Some of those were targeted, but some were put back on the shelves after being poisoned, just to kill strangers! This led to the now-universal protective sealing of most processed foods and drink, and we can see why with this woman with the strange name marauding around poisoning orange juice.
Is this a new type of crime? Why do people do it? Do they have a psychotic delusion that someone they hate will get the poisoned bottle? Do they just hate everybody and want the world to die, die, die or what? Is this an inchoate response to overpopulation?