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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Do you want fries with that manifesto?

 


So I couldn't help but comment on the buzz about the capture of the alleged assassin of the healthcare insurance CEO. First, it is a sad state of affairs when journalists can't come up with a nickname for someone who pulls off a nasty killing and then becomes a media sensation as they try to find him.  He could have been the Dirty Deductible Killer or the Out of Network Assassin.  

They did try and romanticize the guy and suggest that he acted out of passion after losing a loved one who couldn't get coverage for some disease that killed them.  He became an Internet sensation. His photo was everywhere. There was video footage of him killing the insurance CEO. Yet he evaded capture for at least four days. But finally the law caught up with him at a McDonald's in Altoona, PA.

WTF. The guy commits a cold blooded murder like clockwork, slips out of the Big Apple only to be nabbed sitting at a McDonald's browsing his laptop. And he gets narced out by some customer who thinks they recognize him (probably thought he was a boyfriend from the Real Housewives of New Jersey) and tells a McDonald's employee who calls the police. Then the police confront him and finds out he still has the gun on him that he used, the fake ID he used the night before the murder and a four or five-page manifesto stating that he killed the insurance CEO. 

If this had been a movie, the guy would have been in Syria right now switching passports instead of chowing down on a Happy Meal at a McDonald's in Altoona. And it is a 26-year old kid from a well-to-do family. The press keeps saying he "went to an Ivy League College" like that automatically prevents him from being a psychopath. They never specify which Ivy League College. But my son (who spends way more time on the Internet than I do) told me in was the University of Pennsylvania (which I didn't know was considered Ivy League).  I think saying the guy went to an Ivy League School sounds a lot more interesting than saying he went to University of Pennsylvania (which I bet lots of people haven't a clue is Ivey League).

So the stupid kid is going to be remembered forever as the masked gunman who shot and killed a health Insurance CEO in broad deadlight and then got arrested in a McDonald's in Altoona. I hope they nickname him something like "The Big Mac Attacker" or "the McMurderer."

What a waste of a life (in more ways than one).

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