One of the Least Funny Days in History
So… other than the mass murder on Virginia Tech’s campus, we got this, which got buried in the news:
Just outside of Baltimore, on April 14th, a two year-old toddler goes sliding down a slide at a public playground. The kid starts screaming, his clothes start crumbling away.
It turns out someone put sulfuric acid on the slide, and all the other playground equipment. Industrial-strength drain cleaner. The kid’s in intensive care, getting skin grafts. He’ll be hospitalized for months. I know, it sounds like one of those retarded e-mail forward urban legends. It’s not.
Okay. Fine. So there’s one crazy person. Maybe a crazy dad, involved in a custody dispute, loses his shit and does this. But wait. It turns out, just two days before, the same thing had happened near Austin, Texas. 1,500 miles away, another playground, more stolen acid, poured on slides and other playground equipment. Another burned 2 year-old.
This isn’t a serial thing, either. Different people. The Austin thing was a couple of local teenagers.
So… what the fuck? Was this something that happened in some movie, that kids are now imitating? It doesn’t seem like the Austin thing was a big enough story to inspire copycats (it wasn’t on the national wires, as far as I know) so I’m at a loss here. Is there some unified telepathy among psychopaths? Somebody help me out. We’re in the forums.
