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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 15:07:38 +1000
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- Subject: Re: On the shortage of lives on words-l
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- >>The episode in Dayton is the only one not making the news on aus tv.... guess
- >>that's not considered newsworthy enough anymore. :-(
- >>
- >One up my way made the national news here. An undergrad at a small college in
- >Great Barrington Massachussetts went on a shooting spree about two weeks
- >ago. He and his trusty brand new semi-automatic rifle shot and killed
- >another undergrad and a Spanish profesor, as wounding several other people.
- >Afterward, the kid promptly turned himself over to the cops.
- >
- >The shootings were apparently random, and I don't think anyone has any idea
- >why he did it, kid included. :-(
- >
- >--
- > ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
-
- I'd not heard of that one either. My guess is that since we also have had
- our own version of such massacres in recent times - Strathfield Massacre;
- Hoddle Street Massacre and more recently and closer to home the Wyong Massacre
- - the media here no longer has interest in such happenings overseas since there
- are enough of these types of stories on their home ground.
-
- Carolyn
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