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[Reed John]

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Crossbow. FFS.

This is our local murder of the year.
http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation-world/national/article97006922.html

Really fucked. This young woman, a total flake by all accounts, somehow got into a romantic relationship with this professor and was living with him. According to a facebook post I saw from one of his UDC colleagues, he hadn't been altogether mentally well recently, which might explain a few things.

Then somehow she and her sketchy uncle got the idea into their head that if they murdered him, they'd inherit a load of money. (Because communications professors are rolling in it. Right) They tried to stage it to look like suicide or an accident, but then, apparently, confessed.

Sadly, the local papers haven't bothered to say much about the deceased. He was a classic old lefty professor, well-liked by his students and at least some of his colleagues.

http://www.democraticcommunications.org/2016/08/in-memory-of-dr-ron-bettig/

We also had a garden-variety domestic dispute turns to murder. I don't know any of the people involved except that the senior judge in our county goes to our church and I kinda know his wife.

It's a small community, but not that small.

[Patrick Thistle]

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Less serious than crossbow murders, but has anyone else seen the Twitter account @Mumsnet_Madness?

[caja-dglh]

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Yes. Splendid stuff. Calling someone a Penis Beaker has become a standard insult in my team as a result.

[WOM]

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Best Supporting Weirdo.

Just watch it.

[Gerontophile]

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My eyes hurt after watching that.

[WOM]

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WOM wrote: Yup...it's our old cross-the-road neighbours. Police have just confirmed the identity of the shooter. It's one of their sons. The same son who was arrested as the Fake Beard Bandit 8 years ago. He was 27 then, 35 now. I just hope his mother wasn't one of the victims.

So, yes, our ex-neighbour the bank robber has killed his mother and two brothers with a cross-bow. He (the killer) was to be married to a rather lovely looking girl in just two weeks. I wonder if we'll ever know what precipitated such an event.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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Jeez! How dreadful, did you know them well?

[WOM]

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The mother is the only one I knew at all. In 11 years, I never said a single word to the four boys and only spoke once, very briefly, to the father. They were a deeply odd, distant family. A spotless, immaculately tended house hiding god knows what behind its doors.

[Toby Gymshorts]

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Jeez. I'm only moving in to your basement if you agree to have it bullet and bolt-proofed.

That's a bit glib. What a thing to happen.

[Femme Folle]

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Wow. Speechless. Crossbow? What a horrible way to die.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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I'd imagine it's hard to kill three people with a crossbow, unless they're immobilised. It takes, at best, a few seconds to load and aim from what I remember.

[Patrick Thistle]

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Depends if they're together. If you're walking around the house and they are in different rooms it has an 'advantage' over a gun in that no one will hear a shot.

[Patrick Thistle]

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That last post makes me sound like a psycho doesn't it.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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Patrick Thistle wrote: That last post makes me sound like a psycho doesn't it.

No, just someone who plans comprehensively for any eventuality.

[Reed John]

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Here's a sentence I never expected.

Toronto’s last high-profile crossbow killing came five years ago when Zhou (Peter) Fang shot his father in the back with a crossbow amid a busy branch of the Toronto Public Library.

It implies Toronto has low-profile crossbow murders in addition to the marquee ones.

[Patrick Thistle]

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Amor de Cosmos wrote:

That last post makes me sound like a psycho doesn't it.

No, just someone who plans comprehensively for any eventuality.

Not really considered crossbow murders before. Just thinking through the situation.

[Patrick Thistle]

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Reed John wrote: Here's a sentence I never expected.

Toronto’s last high-profile crossbow killing came five years ago when Zhou (Peter) Fang shot his father in the back with a crossbow amid a busy branch of the Toronto Public Library.

It implies Toronto has low-profile crossbow murders in addition to the marquee ones.

Yes. Presumably "high profile" is totally superfluous there and it should just be "last crossbow killing".

Also referring to these as crossbow killings kind of opens the gates to it becoming a recognised way to kill people. 'Oh, another crossbow killer.'

[Amor de Cosmos]

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Crossbows are fairly popular hunting weapons here. They're not subject to permits or licenses (though they're prohibited if they can be fired with one hand.) One wonders if this will change now.

[hobbes]

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Used to be like that in the UK but I believe you need a shotgun licence to own one now.
I once made a lego crossbow that fired real darts.
Obviously I didn't shoot anyone with it.

[Benjm]

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Slightly sinister fun for all the family...

[Femme Folle]

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Amor de Cosmos wrote: I'd imagine it's hard to kill three people with a crossbow, unless they're immobilised. It takes, at best, a few seconds to load and aim from what I remember.

Or locked in a small room with no way out, perhaps?

Unimaginable to me how that would go down.

[Reed John]

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Amor de Cosmos wrote: Crossbows are fairly popular hunting weapons here. They're not subject to permits or licenses (though they're prohibited if they can be fired with one hand.) One wonders if this will change now.

That should change.

Here it used to be that only handicapped people could hunt with them, but now they're legal for anyone during bow season. Seems like a horrific way to kill a deer, even if it takes more skill than a rifle.

[Guy Profumo]

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37196629

"He was not successful in retrieving the phone"

[Eggchaser]

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Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a gun to a cup of tea fight.

I wonder what sort of tea it was?

[Guy Profumo]

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Jesus Fucking Christ!!!

The Guardian magazine.

p17, Experience.

Jeanna Giese.

"I contracted rabies.

And survived"