I often take time out of my day to read news. (Okay so I don’t do much of anything else but look on the interwebs.) But I must say something’s never cease to surprise me.
Surfing one of my favorite sites Digg.com (Kevin Rose is my hero.) I pass a news headline that I just can’t skip over, now I may be a little sick for this but I gave out a little chuckle when I first say it.
Voices made me do it, says schoolgirl who filmed herself 'trying to kill her parents'
Really?
Voices?
COME ON, you have got to be kidding!!!
But there is no kidding this girl, who was 15 at the time of the "alleged" murder attempt is really trying to convince people that "voices" in her head made her want to kill her parents. I really can't take this serious! Out pure curiosity I continue to read her side of the story. And the laughter continues....
"She described how she had asked for counseling at school when she began hearing the voice - which made derogatory remarks and said she was worthless - in Year 8 (for those that don't know this is the English equivalent to a Jr. High 7th grader), and said it sometimes manifested itself as images of dead people in her head."
Who really takes a 15 year old, one who is "hearing voices in her head" that serious. Okay, so we keep an eye on her make sure she is not doing this for attention right? But she tells the court that counselors ridiculed her and said she was worthless, well, I don't know about anybody else but when I was in school guidance counselors or even academic counselors NEVER ridiculed anyone or told anyone they were worthless. Isn't there job to make you feel better about yourself? What kind of creditability can this girl possibly have? The girl goes on to explain in court how she got the voices to stop;
"At first, she said, she managed to make it go away but she gradually had to take more extreme measures - hitting, slapping or taking a blade to herself - to make it disappear."
So she's emo, what emo kid doesn't do this to them self’s to get attention? Hell, at emo shows they sell razors at the merch tables with band logo's on them!
And this is where the story starts to make sense. Now keep in mind that A.) This is a girl we are talking about. B.) Food is brought into the equation.
"On the day of the alleged attack on her parents last February at the family home in St Neots, Cambs, the teenager was "upset" after a row with her father over the way she ate a piece of birthday cake."
Ahhh, Her dad made her feel like a porker.... I GET IT NOW! Every guy knows if you bring a girls weight into the situation you might as well strap on a saddle and try to hold on for 8 seconds. Never the less we have motive... the girl makes matters worse by videotaping the whole thing. Not just the attempt on the parents lives but all the strange things she did leading up to it.
"She set up her camera, trying to distract herself, and changed into her nightie and put on make-up, but the voice continued to jabber at her, she told the court. (some of the article has been removed from here to make this shorter)
In the video, the girl first filmed herself as she sat in her bedroom dressed in a silk nightgown and discussing what she planned to do to her parents, who were downstairs. The film then switched to the downstairs living room.
The girl's mother could be seen sitting at the computer unaware of what was about to happen. In the background, the commentary of a televised rugby match could be heard and the jury were told her father was sitting on a sofa watching the match.
As the film continued, the girl then walked up to her mother, standing directly behind her and then looping a length of cord around her neck.
At first, the mother says to her daughter "What are you doing? That is not very funny." The teenager replied "It's not meant to be funny." As the film continues, the girl is seen pulling the cord tight.
Moments later, the mother says "Then stop doing it, let go." Her daughter replied "No I am not going to let go." By now, the mother had swiveled around in her chair to face the daughter, who still had the cord tight around her neck.
The mother then says to the girl "You are strangling me" and calling her husband's name out loud she tells him "She is strangling me." The figure of the father then appears in view as he makes his way towards his wife and daughter with his back to the camera.
As he faces the girl, there is a sudden movement and he screams out "You tried to stab me! You tried to stab me!"
When I was reading this it made think, this is almost a complete copy of Halloween! For those of you who have never seen the movie (Go rent/buy the Rob Zombie version it's DAMN GOOD!) Michael Myers at a young age, maybe about the same age as this girl, gets picked on because he is a bit different. On, the night of Halloween his big sister is supposed to take him out trick or treating. Rather, the girl decided to have her boyfriend over and have sex. So, Michael goes himself and is really upset. When he returns he snaps and just kills everyone in his house, except his little sister. Like the girl in this story above, both Michael Myers and her share a lot of the problems... only exception is Michael Myers is actually a psycho! This little girl, as demented as she is was just looking for attention... and now she has it.
I think this is really the first time I am lost for words... Attention is easy to get. Be silly, say stupid things, be annoying, I DONT KNOW. But when you plan out an entire murder AND THEN VIDEO TAPE IT, you are just plain stupid.
Maybe the parents are to blame here. I usually try to keep this light but the more I think about it the more I want to get angry. Too often are Movies, Music, Video games are to blame for situations like this and never the parents taking their little girl, the one they choose to make, out to dinner, or out to a movie, OR EVEN JUST SAY I LOVE YOU. It is not hard to give people the attention they need. More attention the better. At least you know what you kids are into.
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