Alaskan

Forever caught in a semi-hiatus state due to time constraints and the fragility of my mental health.

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Unsure how to continue this blog. My interest in crimes wanes and waxes, but I feel like the exodus from Tumblr is almost finished. I’m essentially shouting into an empty room at this point.

I will not delete this blog since there’s too much work put into it now. But I wonder if fleeing to another site is worth the effort. We’ll see.

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A quote by author T. H. White. Reminds me of a well-known quote by a certain someone…

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An incomplete list of Chinese Vehicle Ramming (and in some cases, stabbing as well) attacks:

2019: Zaoyang (6 dead, 8 injured)

2018: Huludao (6 dead, 18 injured)

2018: Ningbo (3 dead, 15 injured)

2018: Liuzhou (6 dead, 12 injured)

2018: Yantai (1 dead, 10 injured)

2018: Mishui (15 dead, 43 injured)

2018: Longyan (8 dead, 25 injured)

2017: Jingjiang (4 dead, 9 injured)

2016: Yichun (4 dead, 18 injured)

2016: Suzhou (6 dead, 34 injured)

2015: Shuozhou (1 dead, 20 injured)

2015: Weifang (5 dead, 21 injured)

2014: Balipo (1-2 dead, 10-17 injured)

2014: Huaiwangtan (3 dead, 8 injured)

2014: Minhou (7 dead, 15 injured)

2012: Fengning (13 injured)

2012: Zhangjiajie (6 dead, 9 injured)

2011: Changsha (5 dead, 5 injured)

2010: Nanzou (17 dead, 20+ injured)

2010: Zhengzhou (6 dead, 20+ injured)

2010: Tianjin (10 dead, 10-11 injured)

2008: Zhuhai (5 dead, 19 injured)

2006: Shenzhen (2 dead)

2001: Shenzhen (8 dead, 4-7 injured)

2001: Dalian (1 dead, 18 injured)

2000: Dalian (3 dead, 18-19 injured)

1998: Putian (9 dead, 8 injured)

1983: Changde (21 dead, 29 injured)

1982: Langfang (13 dead, 17 injured)

1982: Beijing (5 dead, 19 injured)

(Not included are terrorist attacks, most of which are part of the Xinjiang conflict)

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There is no love for me, only hate

Farda Gadirov

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Some posts made by Ian David Long on the military forum ShadowSpear. There may be more, but it doesn’t appear that he was a particularly active poster.

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Most people here know who hid behind the name ‘Smiggles’ by now, but how many know who ‘doorkicker03′ was? No googling!

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Answer: It’s Ian David Long. He used that username on a military forum called ‘ShadowSpear’ where his post can still be found. There’s also a (deactivated) tumblr account by that name that posted military-related images with captions, suggesting it belonged to Long as well. Oh, I also found a Steam profile by that name, but it has been deleted as well and he apparently only made a single comment (?) with it. Strange.

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I'm not going to lie and say I'm not afraid. But whatever happens I know it can't be too bad when you die

Robert Arthur Hawkins

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Most people here know who hid behind the name ‘Smiggles’ by now, but how many know who ‘doorkicker03′ was? No googling!

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He didn't seem like a happy kid. It was really hard to get him to smile

The former baseball coach of Thousand Oaks shooter Ian David Long, describing what he was like in school.

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One of my harddrives recently crashed. I was able to save some files, but even those were sometimes corrupted. This being said, enjoy Glitch Lanza.

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Comments made by Adam Lanza (a.k.a Smiggles) on the ShockedBeyondBelieve forum in a thread entitled ‘RIP Travis the Chimpanzee!’.

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According to former schoolmates of 23-year-old Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, responsible for killing 12 students in the school Tasso da Silveira on April 7, 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, he always was a quiet student and had been bullied. His classmates used to call him “Sherman”, in reference to the American Pie’s character, and make fun of him because he had been walking with a limp. Bruno Linhares, who was Wellington’s classmate, told that once a student said to Wellington “We are afraid of you because one day you will still kill a lot of people”.

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Be happy and brave, especially with all the idiots who'll hassle you. Love, Richard.

Richard Durn

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A while ago, I wrote about a spurious mass shooting that supposedly had happened in Olinda, Brazil in 1955. It was reported that 22 people had been killed -- however, I concluded that it’s very likely that this event never happened. All links and sources led to nowhere, making me feel like I fell for an obvious joke.

While I was baffled how such an event could disappear completely from the records and our collective memory, it turns out to be possible for a carnage of this gravity to become almost gone from our collective memory, leaving only a short side note in some news archive.

One of the worst cases of amok in african history occurred in April 1983 in Asureti, a village near Soroti in eastern Uganda. However, not even the date is entirely sure, as most sources say April 15, but at least one states April 8. The earliest mention of this incident in a (western) newspaper was on April 16, making a later date seem more plausible to me.

Information is sparse and doesn’t really go beyond the most basic facts. 

Apparently, at the funeral of a colleague, an unidentified policeman opened fire, immediately killing 16 people and injuring an indeterminate amount of people, of whom a further 5 later died after being transported to a hospital. The man then shot himself dead, leaving a total of 23 people dead at the end of his rampage.

News like this from countries like Uganda usually lead to little interest in the western press, however, one has to keep in mind that the country was in the midst of a civil war in 1983, leaving hundreds of thousands dead, so this was interpreted as just another killing in a war-torn country. However, there is no evidence that this incident was politically motivated - in fact, committing suicide via gunshot is uncommon in political/religious attacks, suggesting a more personal motive. But due to lack of information, almost everything remains speculation. Unfortunately, it seems like we’ll never know the underlying truth about this deadly rampage.

[may the dead rest in peace!]

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I would like to apologise for my inactivity, but then again, I don’t think too many people on here noticed or even questioned my absence. And that’s perfectly ok, I am not obliged to post anything and no one is forced to look at my posts. I try not to take any of this too serious.

I have been caught in yet another spiral of self-hate and sloth for the last week or so, but this has become such a common occurrence for me that I’m not too concerned, and neither should you.

Anyways, I’m most likely going to make some new posts in the next few days, but don’t expect any analysis of recent happenings in the US -- they just fail to capture my attention in any way or form. I feel nothing but sympathy for the innocents who were killed or harmed, but not much beyond that. Maybe I’ll cover the perpetrators in some way when all the information is on the table, but until then, I’ll just focus on some old cases. History is just this massive, mostly unknowable tome we stand on. Reading it always seems like a good idea.

Anyways, stay tuned, but don’t except any wonders. I’m just a person after all, or at least, that’s what my parents told me.

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Usually, I mainly write about cases in countries such as the US or China, however, this one occurred far closer to my home.

On August 1, 2019, a yet unidentified man entered the house of his former spouse in the Kajzerica neighbourhood in the south of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. There, he opened fire, killing her, her new partner, and four family members, including a ten year old child. The only one to survive in the house was a seven-month old baby. The man then fled.

The neighbours were alerted by the sound of gunshots and notified the police, who immediately started a manhunt. At first, it seemed like the subject had managed to escape. However, on August 2, the police located the man in the nearby town of Brezovica. But before he could be arrested, the man turned the gun on himself and shot himself dead.

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Update: The perpetrator has been identified as 36-year old Igor Nađ

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I usually try not to get political here…but in light of the horrifying carnage in the US in the last 24 hours, Americans truly have no right to call any other nation ‘a shithole country’ or any other pejorative like that; especially since they’ve proven again and again that the lives of the people of these places mean so little to them…