Amok Over The Edge(d)-Weapon Violence Sprees

[elfismiles]

So in another recent spree-killing / school-shooting thread Malcolm Gladwell had some interesting insights into the phenom being exported from the States to the rest of the world...

Annals of Public Safety October 19, 2015 Issue
Thresholds of Violence
How school shootings catch on.
By Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/ ... f-violence

Malcolm Gladwell Discusses School Shootings | The New Yorker Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27aWHudLmgs

... so yeah, rage shootings / workplace mass shootings / school shootings seem predominantly American but ... as we've seen, they don't have to exclusively involve GUNS and in other parts of the world they involve KNIVES, AXES, SWORDS, etc.

Running amok, sometimes referred to as simply amok,[1] also spelled amuk, from the Malay language,[2] is "an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malay culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures".[3] The syndrome of "Amok" is found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV TR).[4] The phrase is often used in a less serious manner when describing something that is wildly out of control or causing a frenzy (e.g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be termed as "running amok.")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_amok

Kunming: China's 911 Knife Terrorism
Post by elfismiles » 03 Mar 2014 04:34
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Trollhättan Star-Wars Sweden Sword-Attack
Post by elfismiles » 22 Oct 2015 14:20
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... and now we have knife-wielding attacks in Israel/Palestine ... not sure exactly when they began.

Knife-Wielding Israeli Settler Attacks Founder of Rabbis for Human Rights
October 26, 2015
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/26/ ... ks_founder

Israeli official: Legally armed civilians have 'part to play' in wake of violence
By Greg Botelho and Ed Payne, CNN
Updated 3:37 PM ET, Thu October 15, 2015
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/15/middleeas ... -tensions/

Israel bans Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City after knife attacks
A 15-year-old Israeli suffered chest wounds, while a Palestinian man holding a knife was shot and killed at the scene in the second attack in 12 hours
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o ... ly-stabbed

Did the recent wave of knife attacks in Israel start with this ...

9/28/15 James North

James North, a writer for Mondoweiss.net, discusses the New York Times’ non-coverage of the “extrajudicial execution” of 18-year old Palestinian Hadeel al-Hashlamoun at an Israeli checkpoint in Hebron.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 20:52 — 9.6MB)
http://dissentradio.com/radio/15_09_28_north.mp3
http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/ ... mes-north/
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/york-time ... dontmatter

[elfismiles]

Looking for info on these horrific crimes I just found out about this...

Updated: Police say former Texas A&M receiver randomly hacked jogger to death in Dallas
Tristan Hallman 
Published: October 12, 2015 11:13 am
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10 ... stody.html

“It appears Mr. Johnson picked this victim at random. Absolutely random,” Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin said. “He just attacked him. … It’s just very unusual. It’s quite shocking.”

... which was sadly followed by this ...

Wife of jogger killed in Texas machete attack dies of likely suicide: police
Reuters / By Lisa Maria Garza / 2 hours ago
http://news.yahoo.com/wife-jogger-kille ... --nfl.html

Patti Stevens told The Dallas Morning News last week that she had not been able to eat or sleep since learning of her husband’s death.

"Dave was the love of my life and I’m lost without him,” she said in an interview with the newspaper on Oct. 19.

Johnson was a freshman wide receiver for Texas A&M who went missing from the College Station campus in November 2012, a few days after catching three passes in the Aggies' upset victory over then-No. 1 Alabama.

Johnson resurfaced three days later unharmed in Dallas and never returned to play college football. He had been a standout football player at Dallas Skyline High School. After leaving A&M, he was arrested and charged with burglary and auto theft in Dallas County in 2014.

[elfismiles]

OT but what the hell...

Questions raised over possible Israeli planting of knives on Palestinians
#ThirdIntifadaHaaretz
correspondent criticises shoot-to-kill policy towards alleged Palestinian attackers, including those posing no threat

An Israeli journalist for the daily Haaretz newspaper has become the latest commentator to question her country's narrative on the alleged knife attacks carried out by Palestinian youths, who are often shot dead as a response.

Middle East Eye has previously reported on Israel's shoot-to-kill policy and interviewed locals who witnessed Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces. The locals offer a very different account from the Israeli army statements, asserting that these alleged knife stabbers actually did not possess a knife or pose any threat to the soldiers.

In an article entitled "Does the Israeli army plant knives on Palestinians?", Amira Hass, Haaretz's correspondent for the occupied Palestinian territories, criticised the way suspected knife attackers are reportedly shot dead immediately when they could have been apprehended instead.

"A former Japanese policeman now visiting Israel said, 'I don’t understand. In our country, if someone stabs a policeman, we grab him by the hand and arrest him. We don’t kill him. Why is it different in Israel?" she wrote.

"How should we respond? By saying that in our country, soldiers and policemen are instructed to kill a Palestinian holding a knife two meters from them, or a knife in his bag, or something that is assumed to be a knife in his pocket?" she added.

Hass also criticised the Israeli media for always describing "the site of an incident as military and Israeli," when it is Palestinian, where "tens of thousands of people whose homes and childhoods are there are made to vanish".

She cited one incident when a female knife attacker was shot in the chest, asking "couldn’t the policewoman make do with wounding and arresting the girl?"

Hass also cited incidents where Israeli soldiers, according to witnesses, have shot at Palestinians who apparently posed no threat.

In another incident Hass cited, Palestinian witnesses believed that Israeli soldiers and policemen were planting knives to justify the shooting of Palestinians.

"Israelis find it hard to believe that our soldiers and commanders could lie, until it’s proven otherwise by security cameras or still pictures of which the soldiers weren’t aware," she wrote.

Eyewitness accounts, both from the local population and international groups, of how Israeli soldiers plant knives next to the dead Palestinians they have shot are rarely mentioned in the Israeli or most Western media outlets.

On 28 October, volunteers from the International Solidarity Movement's branch based in Hebron witnessed Israeli soldiers shoot Islam Ibeidu near a checkpoint by the Kiryat Arba settlement.

"I saw everything," the witness tweeted. "I saw soldiers loading the guns. He [Ibeidu] had his arms up and was shaking, he was unarmed and they just shot him."

The next day, another man was shot dead by Israeli forces after they claimed he tried to stab them.

An eyewitness told local news agency Maan that 23-year-old Mahdi Mohammad Ramadan al-Muhtasib was unarmed when he was killed.

“Then the Israeli soldier approached him and shot him in the head and dropped a knife near his body,” the unnamed witness stated.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/quest ... 1955592660

[Luther Blissett]

Here's a wild one I witnessed. Visually frightening and insane, and surprisingly most images of the incident seem to have been scrubbed from the internet. It happened during that period in turn-of-the-century early internet history when servers were not as robust and for which there is little nostalgia market yet.

A MONTH AFTER WATCHING A MAN PLUNGE 23 FLOORS TO HIS DEATH, A LOCAL WRITER IS STILL TRYING TO COME TO GRIPS WITH WHAT HE SAW.
I looked up and saw a man standing on a high balcony of the Hopkinson House, a high-rise apartment building. He was far above the street, throwing something else over the railing. Police cars were beginning to swarm the scene, and dozens of people in the park were looking up at the building.
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news- ... 65124.html

[elfismiles]

Wow! Thanks for sharing LB!

EDIT: Sorry you had to witness such horror.

[Iamwhomiam]

^^^^ And down your way a man killed 6 campers, including one child.

[elfismiles]

^^^^ And down your way a man killed 6 campers, including one child.

Terrible ... hadn't heard about that ... posted it in this thread:
viewtopic.php?p=578250#p578250

Trying to keep this thread focused on non-shooting type Amok-events; especially those with edged weapons.

[elfismiles]

Sword-wielding psycho freaks out at Apple Store
By Georgett Roberts, Daniel Prendergast and Natalie Musumeci
November 20, 2015 | 6:53pm
http://nypost.com/2015/11/20/sword-wiel ... ple-store/

“His face looked a little contorted and twisted,” she added. “I thought he was doing some sort of performance art, but then he pulls out this sword with a huge 2-foot-long blade and it was dead obvious that it was a real sword.

Friday, November 20, 2015
Laughing Jack-Inspired Murder
Perhaps it is the ultimate Phantom Clown story.
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2015/ ... -Jack.html

A correspondent tonight writes: "One of the more disturbing clown events to take place this year. Laughing Jack, a character brewed up on the same site The Slender Man was created. The 12 year old girl claims, Laughing Jack told her to fatally stab her stepmother to death."

Guess I could include the Slender Man incidents here as well...
search.php?keywords=%22slender+man%22&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

[elfismiles]

Was just reminded of this mass-school stabbing incident from last year ...

PA school stabbings
Post by 82_28 » 09 Apr 2014
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Two-knife stabbing rampage at Pennsylvania high school injures 22, suspect in custody
A 16-year-old student identified by local stations as Alex Hribal went on a bloody stabbing spree with two 8-to-10-inch knives at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville early Wednesday morning, officials said. Four students were left in critical condition.
BY Michael Walsh, Nina Golgowski / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS / Updated: Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 10:10 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/s ... -1.1750425

[elfismiles]

Separate Mass Stabbing Incidents Hit Two Superlative Sites
...

Toronto, Ontario

Just after 9:30 am ET also on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, Toronto police responded to multiple 911 calls from an office building on Yonge Street near York Mills Ave.

One man, apparently Asian, (shown here) was placed in custody after Toronto police say at least four people were stabbed (by scissors) at the building in the northern part of the city.

Police say the attack happened on the fifth floor of an office complex at 4110 Yonge St., near York Mills Avenue.

CBC News has confirmed that four people were taken to hospital with stab wounds.

A man and a woman in their 30s are among the people who were stabbed. The two suffered multiple, serious stab wounds, according to police, and are in critical condition in hospital. Two other males whose ages are not known were transported with serious wounds to a trauma centre.

Yonge Street (pronounced "young street") is a major arterial route connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes. It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world at 1,896 km (1,178 mi). The construction of Yonge Street is designated an Event of National Historic Significance in Canada. Yonge Street was fundamental in the original planning and settlement of western Upper Canada in the 1790s, informing the basis of the concession roads in Ontario today. Long the southernmost leg of Highway 11, linking the capital with northern Ontario, Yonge Street has been referred to as "Main Street Ontario". A large part of the route follows an ancient well-established Aboriginal trail that linked the Lake Ontario waterfront to northern parts of the region. It was also the site of Canada's first subway line. Source.

http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2014/ ... bings.html

[elfismiles]

The San Bernardino thread mention of Gingrich's tweet allegedly being about this event brought it to my attention.

Ok here people are claiming its due to the UC Merced "attack" that I barely remember now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/com ... terrorist/

Too many freaking shootings and other attacks to keep track of.

But people in his Twitter feed were even saying "California? Wut?"

UC Merced assailant was angry over study group snub, note says
Stabbings at UC Merced
By Joseph Serna, Hailey Branson-Potts and Diana Marcum
November 5, 2015, 6:32 PM
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html


University of California, Merced stabbing attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit ... ing_attack

On November 4, 2015, 18-year-old student Faisal Mohammad[1] stabbed and injured four people with a hunting knife on the campus of the University of California, Merced in Merced, California. He was then shot dead by university police. Mohammad's history was put under investigation by federal authorities due to questions raised about possible lone wolf terrorism.[2][3]

December 11, 2015
UC Merced stabber sat in silence minutes before starting attack
Highlights
Detective’s report provides new information on morning of Nov. 4 attack
Roommate says Faisal Mohammad sat on bed, staring out window
FBI investigation into attack ongoing
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/cri ... 79005.html

[elfismiles]

Becuz of a recent Scilon related Austin news event I was searching for a best existing Scientology thread to post it in ... and was reminded of this edged weapon amok attack thwarted by armed (ie gun wielding) security:

Re: Former scientologist raids Celebrity Centre, gets shot

Link.

A security guard shot and killed a man wielding two Samurai swords Sunday on the grounds of a Scientology building in Hollywood, police said.
...
Detective Wendi Berndt told the Los Angeles Times the man was involved with the church a long time ago.

"There was a previous relationship, but it is unclear to what degree," Berndt said.

Man shot dead at Hollywood Scientology Center
by RocketMan » 24 Nov 2008 22:54 in General Discussion
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21624

[elfismiles]

Toronto police hunt for ‘dangerous’ woman after stranger stabbed ‘without provocation’ in financial district
Aileen Donnelly | December 14, 2015 | Last Updated: Dec 15 5:12 PM ET
More from Aileen Donnelly | @aileendonnelly

Rohinie Bisesar wanted for attempted murder by Toronto police

Update: Rohinie Bisesar was arrested and charged with attempted murder Tuesday afternoon

A 40-year-old Toronto woman is wanted for attempted murder for allegedly stabbing a stranger in a “vital organ” at a drugstore in the city’s financial district.

At 2:55 p.m. Friday, a well-dressed woman armed with a knife entered the Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto’s underground PATH system at 66 Wellington St. W., inside the TD Bank Tower. She walked up to the victim and stabbed her “in a vital organ,” Const. David Hopkinson said. He would not specify which organ was punctured.

Police have not yet found any connection between the suspect and the victim, he said.

“It is strange,” he said. “We believe it to be a completely unprovoked attack.”

The victim was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. She remains in grave condition, Hopkinson said Monday afternoon, and police have not yet been able to interview her.

We believe it to be a completely unprovoked attack
“I don’t believe anyone has spoken to her,” he said. “If we catch her, we might be able to establish that there’s something going on in the background, here, that we don’t know about. But we’ve not found any link.”

The suspect was able to walk away from the scene after the attack, police said.

Police released a photo of the suspect taken from surveillance video Saturday. The suspect was wearing a lavender dress shirt and a black blazer and matching skirt at the time of the attack. She was carrying what appears to be a red shopping bag. On Monday morning, police announced that the suspect had been identified as Rohinie Bisesar.

She is a financial advisor and investor according to her LinkedIn profile. She received her MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in 2007. According to her profile, she also received a Bachelor of Administrative Studies degree in general management from York, a Bachelor of Science in molecular biology from the University of Toronto, a certificate in mining and received a certification from the Canadian Securities Institute. She did consulting work between September 2012 and November 2014, and has been “opportunity seeking” since then.

Screengrab
ScreengrabRohinie Bisesar's LinkedIn profile.
Bisesar regularly visits shops and plazas in the financial district, and is well-known in the area, police said. If anyone sees the suspect, they are asked to call 9-1-1. Do not approach her, police said. Although she has no criminal history, she is considered “violent and dangerous.”

In four recommendations posted to her LinkedIn page between 2010 and 2012, Bisesar is described as intelligent, determined, dedicated, enthusiastic and professional.

Georges Monette, an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at York University, worked with Bisesar when she was a member of the department’s technical and computing support team from May 1999 to July 2001.

“She was superb both for the outstanding quality of her work and for her warmth and interpersonal skills,” he wrote on Oct. 24, 2010. “She had the intelligence, creativity and ability to work collaboratively that allowed (her) to find excellent solutions to just about any problem researchers and faculty members would present her with.”

She had the intelligence, creativity and ability to work collaboratively
She also received a recommendation from the Chief of Staff in the dean’s office at the Schulich School of Business. Sean Siddik “advised” Bisesar during her time at York University, according to a post he published Sept. 19, 2011.

“I had the opportunity to work closely with Rohinie over the years, during her involvement with the Women In Leadership organization at the Schulich School of Business as well as Women in Capital Markets,” he wrote. “Rohinie was always organized, professional, hard working, and courteous. She demonstrated sound judgment, as well as very strong leadership and entrepreneurial skills. Rohinie was a pleasure to work with, and I wish her all the best on her future endeavours!”

The National Post was unable to contact Monette Monday afternoon. When Siddik was reached by telephone at his Toronto office, he declined to comment on Bisesar. He directed any queries to the school’s media relations team.

Police are still searching for the suspect.

Anyone with information about Bisesar is asked to contact police at 416-808-5200, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at 222tips.com, or to text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).

National Post

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canad ... nto-police

[elfismiles]

Fatal stabbing at RT's Middle East office building in Tel Aviv
Published time: 19 Nov, 2015 13:21
https://www.rt.com/news/322708-tel-aviv-stabbing-rt/

[elfismiles]

TIDS-worthy...

Pictured: Soaked in blood, man who stabbed Brit to death in Peru after taking mind-bending drug
Canadian tourist 'thought British pal was sleeping with his wife' after drinking hallucinogenic plant brew
Canadian citizen Joshua Stevens is being held after stabbing Briton Unais Gomes Sky News
By FELIX ALLEN
published 04:33, 18 Dec 2015

A BRITON was stabbed to death by another tourist who went wild on hallucinogenic drugs in the Amazon jungle, according to reports.

Unais Gomes, 26, was stabbed by Canadian Joshua Stevens, 29, after they both drank mind-bending ayahuasca in a tribal ceremony in Peru.

Stevens is said to have grabbed a knife after psychedelic visions made him think his wife was being unfaithful with his British friend, reports in Peru claim.

However other reports suggested it was Gomes who first picked up the knife during a "bad trip" and Stevens killed him in self-defence.

The two men were part of a group who paid to drink the notorious psychotropic plant brew at a spiritual retreat near the jungle city of Iquitos.

Police chief Normando Marques said: "It might be folkloric, spiritual or whatever else, but that doesn't mean it isn't a drug that dramatically alters your state of mind."

Witnesses reportedly saw Gomes lunge at the Canadian with a knife from the kitchen of the alternative health centre Phoenix Ayahuasca.

Stevens ended up killing the Briton with the same knife, stabbing him in the chest and stomach, police sources said.

The Canadian citizen was being held in police custody last night.

Ayahuasca, an Amazonian vine which is boiled with leaves containing natural hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine, gives users a psychedelic experience although it is not normally associated with violence.

TV explorer Bruce Parry drank the brew, also known as yage, as part of a shamanic ritual in an Amazonian village in his BBC series The Tribe.

He was filmed vomiting repeatedly - part of the ritual called the purge - and battling with vivid aural and visual hallucinations over several hours.

Indigenous peoples believe it has healing qualities and transports users on a spiritual awakening.

Recent years have seen a boom in ayahuasca tourism with visitors from around the world seeking out the drug for its reputed benefits to ease depression and other mental troubles.

Phoenix Ayahuasca has not commented on the death. Its Facebook page describes it as a safe place to "experience plant medicines and explore the true nature of the self."

Last year Brit backpacker Henry Miller, 19, from Bristol, died from an apparent allergic reaction after taking yage in Colombia. His body was later found dumped by the side of a road.

In 2012, an 18-year-old American died at an ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon. The shaman leading the ceremony buried his body in an attempt to cover up the death.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -Peru.html