A few months ago, noticing the weird and alarming frequency of decaptitations appearing in the news, I did a Google News Alert for stories that included that word. It was shocking to open Google Mail each morning to find two or three or sometimes seven or twelve stories about humans cutting each other's heads off, all over the world.
I actually started to fear opening Gmail because I knew there would be Google Alerts in that box, and more fresh horrors of than I can handle before a fourth coffee. So I canned that Google Alert, and slept easier. Maybe I should do Google Alerts for "skipping in sunshine beams" and "happy puppies" instead...
But decapitation stories continue to hit the headlines, and few stories are more horrific than this one, from Boston :
A police officer who answered a 911 call to a suburban home in Boston watched on as a 23-year-old man decapitated his own five-year-old sister.Below is the face of a police officer at the scene of this horror. It's a screen grab from a video still. Is this the face of a man who just witnessed the decapitation of a five year old girl, in his own Boston neighbourhood?
Kerby Revelus, 23, was shot dead after beheading his sister Bianca on her fifth birthday, fatally stabbing his 17-year-old sister Samantha and wounding his nine-year-old sister Sarafina.
How can any cop, any person, be prepared to walk into such a terrible reality?
The Killing Of America continues, murder spree after walk-in massacre :
A lone gunman burst into a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning and started "shooting everything," barging into the rooms of terrified patients, sparing some from his rampage without explanation while killing seven residents....
