[OT] Sniper plays D&D?

[Hand of Evil]

And most serial killers have a bible in their homes too!

Damn, they are going to find out he watched Star Trek too!

Don't forget they say he has been trained in either law enforcment or military.

He is a quite person, kept to himself, always pleasant...

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If I say everthing, if I hype it, if I put a spin on it, will it improve my ratings. Speculation, rumor, hints, it is all to sell, make people watch. I feed off their fear, their death.

I am the media!

 

[diaglo]

Connie is being used b/c she went to the nearby University of Maryland. She is familiar with the area and the people. People know her and trust her words.

 

[Agback]

Does anyone else think that this sniper could be a terrorist (Al Queda or some other group)?

At least one other person. A friend of mine is a criminologist just finishing her PhD. She pointed out to me yesterday that the sniper's attacks are too public to be typical of a serial killer, and too careful and episodic to be typical of a spree killer. And she, too, finds the locality near DC suggestive.

I'm not sure whether I'm convinced.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Agback]

Re: I'm confused...

So the only reason this is relevant (i.e. important or noteworthy) is because it might involve a FRPG?

'Revelvant' does not mean "important or noteworthy".

This is an FRPG message board. Things that involve FRPGs are relevant to the the topic of this board, things that do not are off-topic.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Agback]

You know, we all encounter people from time to time who we think are scary-crazy. Do we do anything about it? I'll wager we don't. Should we do anything about it? That's a harder question, isn't it?

It is. And not least because the scary-crazy people are mostly pretty harmless (TV melodrama notwithstanding), while every real-world serial killer seems to have been surrounded neighbours whose chief impression was of politeness.

Regards,


Agback

 

[kengar]

Speaking as someone who lives in Montgomery County, MD and works on Capitol Hill, this whole thing has been very worrying. But it doesn't seem like a terrorist act to me. I'm no expert, but terrorists usually want people to know they did it (i.e. "A car bomb exploded today in downtown Dublin, the IRA s claiming responsibility for the attack."). This person is enjoying the feeling of power, but isn't claiming responsibility or even saying why he's doing it.

Just seems to me to be atypical of what we usually call terrorists. YMMV

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Right. And that is why I posted a link to the transcript before people starting ranting and posting that CNN was now proclaiming D&D as evil, a tool of the devil, that it led the sniper to kill all the peeps he has, etc.

Thanks Grazzt for posting the transcript. I first posted moments after hearing it live. I apreaciate you doing the legwork while I was sleeping.

 

[mmadsen]

You know, we all encounter people from time to time who we think are scary-crazy. Do we do anything about it? I'll wager we don't. Should we do anything about it? That's a harder question, isn't it?

If we locked up all the scary-crazy people we ran across, (a) we'd have a dictatorship in no time, and (b) we'd have no one to game with. Your local game shop and "college" music store would be gone in no time.

 

[Darkness]

I read today in my local newspaper that the murderer allegedly got the boy to come with him by inviting him to a fantasy role-playing game...

Not the first time that something like that has happened in Germany in the last 2-3 years: A while ago, murderers lured a boy they wanted to kill with Magic cards.

 

[hong]

A while ago, murderers lured a boy they wanted to kill with Magic cards.

How on earth do you kill someone with Magic cards?