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Juan Manuel Alvarez. He's 25, used to live in Compton and after cutting his wrists, stabbing himself in the chest and parking his Jeep Cherokee, abandoned the vehicle on the tracks in front of an oncoming passenger train.
He's killed at least ten people today - not one of them him. Sent hundreds to the hospital. Occupied hundreds more rescue workers, investigators and Costco employees (YAH COSTCO!).
Spent a whole lotta my taxes.
Bitch.
It's been said I can use profanity well. Folks, this week I have been inspired. But it's time to share the glory.
That's right, the profanity lamp is LIT. Let fly. And no, this is not the time to warn the kiddies and tell people to cover their eyes.
You get points for refraining from using the 'seven words you can't say on television' - let's face it, they're overused. This is a male, too. You loose points if you insult his mother, his sex tools or any other female. *thinks* Female anything. Dirty bastard insults his mother, but has little to do with him. Think of something else.
Tell you what. I'll go first.
*ahem*
Juan.
You suck little dead rat chunks through a straw.
Backwards.
And thought it was boba tea.
I'd call you a waste of trace minerals, but I doubt I'd find any if I looked.
You left your brains in a pickle jar - stashed in the back of the refrigerator where nobody looks. You forgot them there a whole long time ago. Likely somebody pitched them because they'd begun to smell.
Sorry? No kidding. Newsflash of the decade.
May you live to over a hundred years of age - stuck behind a set of bars with a pervert who thinks Dial Soap makes a lovely enema. And a soup. And a lubricant.
And plays "Mmm Bop" by Hansen on infinite loop. At 12.
Juan Manuel Alvarez. He's 25, used to live in Compton and after cutting his wrists, stabbing himself in the chest and parking his Jeep Cherokee, abandoned the vehicle on the tracks in front of an oncoming passenger train.
He's killed at least ten people today - not one of them him. Sent hundreds to the hospital. Occupied hundreds more rescue workers, investigators and Costco employees (YAH COSTCO!).
Spent a whole lotta my taxes.
Bitch.
It's been said I can use profanity well. Folks, this week I have been inspired. But it's time to share the glory.
That's right, the profanity lamp is LIT. Let fly. And no, this is not the time to warn the kiddies and tell people to cover their eyes.
You get points for refraining from using the 'seven words you can't say on television' - let's face it, they're overused. This is a male, too. You loose points if you insult his mother, his sex tools or any other female. *thinks* Female anything. Dirty bastard insults his mother, but has little to do with him. Think of something else.
Tell you what. I'll go first.
*ahem*
Juan.
You suck little dead rat chunks through a straw.
Backwards.
And thought it was boba tea.
I'd call you a waste of trace minerals, but I doubt I'd find any if I looked.
You left your brains in a pickle jar - stashed in the back of the refrigerator where nobody looks. You forgot them there a whole long time ago. Likely somebody pitched them because they'd begun to smell.
Sorry? No kidding. Newsflash of the decade.
May you live to over a hundred years of age - stuck behind a set of bars with a pervert who thinks Dial Soap makes a lovely enema. And a soup. And a lubricant.
And plays "Mmm Bop" by Hansen on infinite loop. At 12.
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Date: 2005-01-27 03:23 am (UTC)They need to throw the book at him, and hard enough to make anyone ELSE who considers doing this sort of thing think... more than twice.... about what they're doing.
And I'm pretty certain that, to borrow a phrase you used a few days ago, this waste of carbon didn't mean to kill 10 people but the fact remains that he DID...
I'm wondering whether he will actually end up on suicide watch for what he's done... and I wonder if anyone will lift a finger to stop him.
I know for certain that he's got people on two Metrolink lines royally pissed off at him (Ventura County and Antelope Valley both use that stretch of track) to say the very least.
And if I took either of those two, I would be too.
C.
The thing about real law, not the stuff you see on primetime tv
Date: 2005-01-27 03:52 am (UTC)He might be able to get a lawyer smart enough to plead the 10 counts of murder down to reckless homicide, and who'll probably try the suicide sob story on for size. But since the standard of proof for criminal trials is beyond reasonable doubt, his lawyer is gonna have his work cut out for him if he's gonna claim he was so distressed he didn't know what he was doing. He was aware of the fact that a car parked on a track constitutes danger to both the occupant and the train, and he choose to regard his safety, while disregarding that of others.
He might not serve 10 life sentences, but he sure as hell isn't gonna go scot free. Any person sitting on a jury panel (and I doubt it'll even go that far... you get more leniency from making a deal, than from going in front of a jury for something like this) would be hard pressed to ignore that he was the worst kind of irresponsible. And that's all you need for reckless homicide. He might serve part of his sentence at a mental institution, but even that is better than leaving him out there so he can try this again. :/
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Date: 2005-01-27 04:05 am (UTC)I don't remember saying that. Then again, I'm tired and may not remember it.
What I said - If I'm remembering right - is that they need to throw the book at him. And hard. Make him an example of what happens when someone gets a stupid idea like this - just the suicide attempt without the chickening out - goes wrong... and leaving a car on the train track... there's only one way it CAN go... and that is WAY wrong.
I'm guessing that if I went around and asked enough people on the Ventura County and Antelope Valley lines (those two trains share that stretch of track), I could organise a lynch mob, since he is sure as hell guilty of causing the derailment that killed 10 people, injured 200, and inconvienienced a whole hell of a lot more.
Metrolink has said that they won't have train service there "back to normal" (and they tend to run a tight operation... I know. i used to take it for a span of about 6 years) until Monday at the EARLIEST.
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Date: 2005-01-27 04:51 am (UTC)Newsies are reporting that he's being charged for murder, and I'm just saying that's probably a bit of an exaggeration on their part: murder has to be willful and premeditated. This sounds like it was neither (at least the killing others part) so that charge would probably not stick in court: he's definitely going to jail, but he's probably not gonna end up in there for life. But hey, it's better than nothing.
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Date: 2005-01-27 03:56 am (UTC)But, what the fuck? He slit his wrists and stabbed himself in the chest, and that wasn't enough, he was still wandering around babbling "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," after he bailed from his car? The boy obviously wasn't serious about it: What was he using, a butter knife??? For crying out loud!
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Date: 2005-01-27 04:07 am (UTC)But if he was locked up and tried to commit suicide, I'm not sure anyone would lift a finger to stop him.
But that's just me.
C.
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Date: 2005-01-27 04:47 am (UTC)I do understand that some people are in that much pain that they need to make it stop -- or use it as a threat, or whatever -- or they're very ill. But it seems so callous to make others suffer too, let alone die. I wonder why Juan didn't just accelerate when he changed his mind.
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Date: 2005-01-27 03:52 pm (UTC)But seriously, if it's that bad, just take some pills somewhere private - don't make others suffer.