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Posted in Uncategorized on January 13, 2009 by bandage
He Made It Seem Effortless
How far would you go to prove you’re crazy?
Um… Ok, well maybe that’s not
the right question since trying to prove you’re crazy might not fit
very well with the definition of being crazy. How about this: How far would a given person have to go to prove to you that he or she is crazy?
Now, I’m not talking about things like talking to yourself as you walk down the street, or wearing your underwear on your head. We might call people crazy over that kind of stuff, but I’m not sure we really mean it. I mean the kind of behavior that really shows, without a shadow of a doubt, that someone is completely bonkers.
Well, that threshold is surely different
for each of us, so let me tell you about someone who will really make
you think about this question. I’ll give you the story from beginning to end and you then let me know when that ‘crazy’ bell goes off for you.
- In 2004, 25-year-old Andre Thomas,
estranged husband and father with drug and alcohol problems as well as
a history of mental problems, murders his wife, 4-year-old son, and
13-month-old daughter.
Not yet? How about this:
- After said murders, perpetrator rips
everyone’s hearts out of their chests, puts them in his pocket, takes
them home, slips them into a plastic bag, throws them out, and then
proceeds to stab himself in the chest.
Getting closer? No?
- After doing all of this, perpetrator
walks into the Sherman police department (in Texas) freely reporting,
in full detail, all his recent activities.
Big deal, right? There’s probably more ‘guilty conscience’ than ‘crazy’ on this one.
- Perpetrator plucks out his right eye before his trial in 2004.
Getting interesting yet? For
your information, a judge ruled that he was still competent to stand
trial after doing this, so you’re not alone if you still have doubts.
- Last week, he plucked out his left eye, leaving him completely blind.
Oh my…. Um… Well, crazy or not, how dangerous could he be at this point, right?
- When perpetrator was asked by the prison
doctor what happened to the eye he plucked out this time around, he
stated that he ate it. –that’s ‘ate’ as in eaten or ingested.
Well, now I’m convinced and even the hard-liners in the Texas justice system couldn’t withstand that little display. Andre has now been transferred to a prison psychiatric facility called the Jester Unit (Jester?! As in court jester? WTF?), and he currently has no execution date.
Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28582204/