"I Hate Mondays" - murder excuse & song?

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Years ago, I remember the story of a girl who shot some student(s) at her school and when asked why she did it, she said, “I hate Mondays.”

I believe shortly afterwards there was a song with the same title.
Anybody remember the murder story and/or song?

Thanks!

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The song is “I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats

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The song was “I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats. Great piano work.

Supposedly that’s what the 16-year-old girl said as she was taken away after shooting several schoolmates.

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This song is by The Boomtown Rats. The song is based on a true event . See here for a newspaper article about the shooting.

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THANKS TO ALL…This board rocks when it comes to fast, accurate replies! I couldn’t find it on the seach as I was looking under “I Hate Mondays” - close, but no cigar.
I found the following on a Google search:

ANNE KRUEGER
Staff Writer

22-Jan-1993 Friday

CORONA – Brenda Spencer, who has been imprisoned since she killed two people and wounded
nine others in a 1979 San Carlos schoolyard shooting, was turned down yesterday for a chance
at parole.

Spencer, 30, did not appear before the three-member Board of Prison Terms panel considering
her first opportunity for parole from the Frontera women’s prison. But she said in a written
statement that she plans to file a legal challenge to her conviction on two murder charges
and one of assault with a deadly weapon, contending that authorities conspired against her.

Spencer pleaded guilty to the charges in October 1979, just as her trial was to begin, and
was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Spencer, then 16, fired a volley of bullets from her house toward the Cleveland Elementary
School playground Jan. 29, 1979. She told a reporter who called her during the 6 1/2 -hour
siege that she opened fire because, “I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.”

The shooting attracted worldwide attention, and an Irish rock group, the Boomtown Rats,
wrote a song titled “I Don’t Like Mondays.”

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[Paul Harvey]…and now you…the rest of the story…[/Paul Harvey]

Thanks guys.

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Ah, the good old days when GIRLS were the school shooters! :rolleyes: