Whilst reading the papers on Sunday, I noticed there was a great deal of discussion on the terrible shootings at Virginia Tech University by Cho Seung-hui.
Much of it was trying to answer the question, “Who is to blame?”
The was considered opinion blaming the gun laws in the US, the campus security policy, and in surprisingly rare accusation, some even blamed Cho Seung-hui himself for being a total mentalist.
They all seem to have missed the real culprit however. There was a transcript of his morning on that fateful day, and it showed that he killed a couple of people and then went the post office to post his video before returning to the University to kill a further thirty people.
Why are people ignoring this gap between killing two people and killing thirty? Maybe he was done. Until he reached the Post Office.
If any of you have ever tried to post a parcel on Pension Day, then I think you will all be able to spot the real culprit of this horrendous crime. Like most you reading this, I have thought about killing people in just about every visit I have ever made to the Post Office. But luckily I am sufficiently in control of my faculties to realise I should not do this, or at least pretend that this is the case when I am on the Internet.
However, you put a full-on mental person in that same situation – one who has already killed two people that day – and you can surely see how the situation is going to escalate?
Unfortunately it is much easier to blame the pro-gun lobby or the University’s lackadaisical approach to security. It just is not the done thing to point the accusing finger at the good-old Post Office, despite the fact that there is also blood on their hands.
Of course, if this attack had happened in the UK, we would all still be speculating on the reasons for the seemingly senseless killings, as it has only been seven days since he would have given the video to the UK postal service. In fact, we would probably not have got our answers until shortly after the May Bank Holiday. The second one. Next year.
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Oli · April 23, 2007 at 8:41 am
Apparently he didnt like being poor.
Obviously killing a load of people and tehn shooting himself solved this problem.
Admin comment by Mr Angry · April 23, 2007 at 11:46 am
Oli – He got several million pounds worth of media coverage, but it is a bit late for him to take advantage of it with product placements.
GH · April 23, 2007 at 3:25 pm
So you think that the states requires some kind of post office control laws? Perhaps with some kind of valium dispenser on the ropes they use to order the queues. Or essence of cannibis squirted into the aircon.
GH
Admin comment by Mr Angry · April 23, 2007 at 3:28 pm
GH – Exactly
* Makes mental note – The readers of I Am Livid obviously feel this subject matter is a little too distasteful for them to comment upon – as a result I will endeavour not to poke fun of the Post Office again *
BoyOnTop · April 23, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Angry, now when have I ever found one of you’re posts too disgraceful to comment on? Its summer, or at least was at the weekend, people just don’t comment.
Besides you were poking fun at the post office, but at the US Postal Service. Come rain nor sleet nor snow, etc. A little matter of a multi murderer in the building isn’t going to stop them from the normal stance of not doing their job is it?
Oli · April 23, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Its more likely down to the fact that Betty hasnt posted some sexual innuendo yet, its the only raeson I still read your blog.
Gnarlyswine · April 23, 2007 at 4:36 pm
”
Edmond, Oklahoma in 1986
On August 20, 1986, 14 employees were shot dead and six wounded at the Edmond, Oklahoma, post office by a postman, Patrick Sherrill, who then committed suicide with a shot to the forehead.
[edit] Ridgewood, New Jersey in 1991
On October 10, 1991, Joseph Harris shot and killed four people, including his former boss and two other USPS employees a year after being fired. [1]
[edit] Royal Oak, Michigan in 1991
On November 14, 1991 in Royal Oak, Michigan, Thomas McIlvane killed five people, including himself, with a Ruger 10/22 rifle in Royal Oak’s post office, after being fired from the Postal Service for alleged time-card fraud.
[edit] Double event in 1993
Two shootings took place on the same day, May 6, 1993, a few hours apart. At a post office in Dearborn, Michigan, Larry Jasion wounded three and killed two (including himself). In Dana Point, California, Mark Richard Hilburn killed his mother, then shot two postal workers dead.
[edit] Montclair, New Jersey in 1995
Christopher Green was sentenced to two life prison terms, plus 25 years, for murdering four men and wounding a fifth during a $5,100 robbery at a tiny neighborhood post office in Montclair, New Jersey, on March 21.
[edit] Goleta, California, in 2006
On the evening of January 30, 2006, at a large postal processing facility in Goleta, near Santa Barbara, California, Jennifer San Marco, a former postal employee, killed six postal employees before committing suicide with a handgun.[2]
Police later also identified a seventh victim: Beverly Graham, 54, was found dead in a condominium complex in Goleta where San Marco once lived. [3]
The other dead included Charlotte Colton, 44; Ze Fairchild, 37, and Maleka Higgins, 28, both of Santa Barbara; Nicola Grant, 42, and Guadalupe Swartz, 52, both of Lompoc; and Dexter Shannon, 57, of Oxnard.
According to media reports, the Postal Service had forced San Marco to retire in 2003 because of her worsening mental problems. Her choice of victims also may have been racially motivated; San Marco had a previous history of racial prejudice, and tried to obtain a business license for a newspaper of her own ideas, called Racial Times, in New Mexico.
This incident is believed to be the deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out in the United States by a woman. ”
Im sure its something in the stamp gum.
Can you believe they actually want to arm postmen in the US for self defence?
Sam Cullum · April 23, 2007 at 5:18 pm
The Post Office on Pension day – all I can say is GRRRRRRRR!
me · April 23, 2007 at 6:50 pm
you are funny, yet soooo bad
keep up the good work, Mr Angry
Four Dinners · April 23, 2007 at 7:03 pm
He is a retard. All colleges have to have a minimum number of retards on their courses. It’s the rules. All Post Offices have to employ a number of retards. That’s also the rule. The Post Office have gone a bit further than expected and employed non English speaking retards. I have fun at the Post Office.
clarissa · April 23, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Generally university campus police are also a bunch of retards.
Gnarlyswine · April 23, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I find the term “retard” very offensive – Spaz Charioteers is much better – It squeezes into the extremely offensive category.
Ldbug · April 23, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Just too soon
Farty · April 23, 2007 at 10:47 pm
I would never advocate shooting pensioners in cold blood. You need to work yourself into a rage first.
And stop nicking ideas from my blog.
farty · April 24, 2007 at 7:57 am
Can I withdraw that last comment? I confused your rant about the post office with mine about old gits. It’s this new medication I’m on for the anger management.