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[Brentai]

Ho-lee shit, it's not like it was going to be a huge fucking shock to anyone that he rigged the elections as much as realistically possible.  Was Karl Rove's master plan "Make sure that if they uncover anything on us, it's fucking murder instead of something the people have more or less already shrugged off?"

[Mongrel]

I think the funniest part about the whole Bush mess will always be that even if no smoking gun conspiracy is ever found, their motives and desires will always have been pretty damned transparent.

O RLY I DID NOT KNOW U WANTED TO DO THAT OH OK.

[Brentai]

No, the funniest part is that if anybody ever does find a smoking gun, the world is going to look up at once and say, "No shit, Monk."

...but they'll still try to murder Monk anyway.  Because they're villains.  It's in the contract.

[James Edward Smith]

[Mongrel]

wtfomgwow indeed.

[Mongrel]

Hilarious Vancouver rental listing

I'm pretty sure a lot of those requirements are massively illegal! 

[Kazz]

WAKE-UP: Wake up will be at 5:30am each morning. All ceiling lights in
the suite will be turned on automatically.
LIGHTS OUT: Ceiling lights in the suite will be turned off at 11:30pm.

...

VISITATION: Visitation periods will be on Saturdays and Sundays from
1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. All visitors and their vehicles are subject
to search while on landlord property. Refusal to allow a search can
result in their being barred from all future visitation privileges. All
visitors must sign the Visitor's Log. Unauthorized visitors will be
escorted from the property, and the tenant will be fined $250.00.
I.D. BRACELETS: Each tenant will be issued an I.D. bracelet with his/her
photograph. It must be worn at all times. If you lose your I.D.
bracelet or it is broken, you will be required to purchase a new one at
the nominal cost of $5.00.
EXERCISE YARD: The tenant will have access to the exercise yard in the
area to the back of the property for 2 hours per day from 4:00 pm to
6:00 pm. The tenant is not allowed to bring any personal property to
the exercise yard. Once the tenant leaves the exercise yard on a
particular day, he or she may not return. No boisterous behavior is
allowed in the exercise yard. There is no smoking allowed in the
exercise yard. Minimum fine for exercise yard infractions is $50.00.

You know, I could just go commit a murder and save $480 a month for the same place.

[SCD]

Hilarious Vancouver rental listing

I'm pretty sure a lot of those requirements are massively illegal! 

Pretty much..

I will say that someone can be pretty smart about it.  If someone's willing to put up with two months worth of gaff, they can pretty much change the locks, have the court order the landlord and landlady to change the electrical wiring, and have a basement suite just south of one of the nicer parts of town for 480.  The thing is that it is very hard to evict a tenant once the John Hancock has been written and copied. 

If I was renting out there, even the administrative hurdle would be tempting..

That and when you go about 4-8 blocks north, it really becomes one of the nicer parts of town.  Really nice.

[Kazz]

Then order your own internet so that you're not on the one they've placed restrictions on, and play porno movies at full volume all day.

[SCD]

Oddly enough, thanks to a 2003 supreme court ruling declaring marijuana use and possession laws unenforceable, you really cannot be evicted for smoking weed, so long as it doesn't effect other units in the building.

[Zaratustra]

The tenant will have access to the exercise yard in the area to the back of the property for 2 hours per day from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

what

[Beat Bandit]

You know, I could just go commit a murder and save $480 a month for the same place.

No, you can smoke in the exercise yard at prison.

[Burrito Al Pastor]

Man dressed as Santa kills nine, sets fire to house with homemade racing fuel flamethrower in present, booby-traps car.

A friend of mine suggests that he was working from the same playbook as the Killdozer guy.

[Thad]

...should we just split a thread for news that will destroy all your hope for the human race?

[Disposable Ninja]

I might have felt for the guy if he hadn't indiscriminately gunned a little girl in the face.

I was relieved to read that she survived, though.

[Burrito Al Pastor]

Well, you have to admit that he put a great deal of innovation and dedication into that, uh... endeavor.

I suppose that's a bit like "he made the trains run on time", though.

[Thad]

...It's one of those things that makes you wonder what the hell caused it.  I mean, all I'm seeing is "messy divorce".  I've seen messy divorces; they don't generally lead to dressing like Santa and killing a bunch of people.

This guy obviously was not well.  I wonder about cases like this, if there were any warning signs, if he could have been put on meds to prevent it (or if he was ON meds that CAUSED it).  People interview neighbors in cases like this, and you usually get either "Yeah, I always thought that guy was a little weird" or "Holy shit, I can't believe it, not THAT guy" -- this seems to be the latter.

Not much to add.  The world's a crazy fucking place filled with crazy fucking people.

[Burrito Al Pastor]

He was also laid off, for all that's worth.

I suspect that there's some kind of high-functioning class of people with mental illnesses who, for whatever reason, have absolutely no issues integrating normally with the rest of the world until some spectacularly poor fortune pushes them to some kind of abnormal breaking point. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there wasn't a single thing in the world which could have led one to suspect he had any kind of mental issues before he started building a flamethrower.

Or is an abnormally low breaking point a mental disorder in itself? An inability to appropriately respond to dramatically poor situations?

I suppose hard economic times would provide statistical data regarding the matter; if it's true, then you'd expect exceptionally poor economic climate to match up with an uptick in unusually elaborate or violent murder/arson/what have you.

[A²]

He was also laid off, for all that's worth.

I suspect that there's some kind of high-functioning class of people with mental illnesses who, for whatever reason, have absolutely no issues integrating normally with the rest of the world until some spectacularly poor fortune pushes them to some kind of abnormal breaking point. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there wasn't a single thing in the world which could have led one to suspect he had any kind of mental issues before he started building a flamethrower.

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do." - Terry Prachett.

[Brentai]

Yeah, I hate to spout the specific tenets of The Joker here, but I think pretty much anybody is capable of this sort of thing if you press the right set of buttons.