# FUCK YOU Bruce Pardo, and the "Covina Christmas Massacre"

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 27, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-bruce-pardo-and-the-covina-christmas-massacre/478811 "2008-12-27T04:17:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-bruce-pardo-and-the-covina-christmas-massacre/478811/101 "2008-12-30T00:15:31Z")

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I read up on this stuff too. Definitely a mass murderer. I don’t know how that can be contradicted. He murdered. A mass of people. Ipso facto …

Spree killer? I don’t think so. Usually a spree killer doesn’t target specific individuals for specific reasons. Even Klebold and Harris targeted types of people (they were after “jocks”, not a specific jock) for perceived sins (although rooted in a rationalization (bullying)).

That is to say, spree killers usually get fed up with something and decide to kill someone. This guy was pissed off about a specific thing and went after specific people to punish them.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-bruce-pardo-and-the-covina-christmas-massacre/478811/102 "2008-12-30T00:21:55Z")

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> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> ISpree killer? I don’t think so.

I probably wouldn’t categorize him as such, either, but as I said, he does fit the FBI definition, which is “two or more murders committed by an offender or offenders, without a cooling-off period.”

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-bruce-pardo-and-the-covina-christmas-massacre/478811/104 "2013-04-10T10:51:33Z")

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Reported.

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**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-bruce-pardo-and-the-covina-christmas-massacre/478811/105 "2013-04-10T12:35:16Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Reported.

Ninja’d!!!

I too was just about to report something in this thread that’s been dead for four years.

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