I don’t care what his politics were, how much his house cost, or what his dad did for a living. To kill a person is sick, to behead the victim whether alive or dead is even sicker, and to do it to a parent is beyond comprehension. Clearly the guy is mentally ill and probably a psychopath. Fortunately his crime spree has stopped at one victim.
“The Negroes in America are trying to do in sixty years what the Jews in the world have not wholly accomplished in six hundred years. As a Jew I have no room in my mind or heart for racial prejudice. But…I have come to know that if we sell one house to a Negro family, then ninety to ninety-five percent of our white customers will not buy into the community. That is their attitude, not ours…As a company our position is simply this: We can solve a housing problem, or we can try to solve a racial problem, but we cannot combine the two.” - William Levitt
Assuming (quite hopefully) that Dad was Victim #1.
It would be a most unpleasant revelation if that were not the case.
Must we use the term “detached” when speaking of decapitation?
This. Levittown, PA was the second Levittown constructed, from the wiki:
Construction of Levittown began in February 1952, soon after completion of Levittown, New York, located on Long Island. Levittown, Pennsylvania, was the second “Levittown” built by William J. Levitt, who is often credited as the creator of the modern American suburb.
There is a very (in)famous cable host who cost FOX News $32 million, but who also likes to brag about his Levittown roots.
Would you prefer saying his software was hacked?
That is if you have Saul Goodman as your agent.
“We’ve slashed prices so hard, heads will roll if this house doesn’t sell!”
Stranger
Yeah, when I see real estate in California or New York, my eyes pop out of my head. I have no idea how anyone affords it. Chicago can be quite an affordable big city if you know where to look and don’t need to be in a hip, trendy neighborhood. Median home prices for the entire city are anywhere from $275K-$350K depending on which source you look at. (Turns out my neighborhood is more like $300K median.)
No, that’s all out of order. If they can establish that he actually killed his father, that’s a conviction. All they need for an indictment is probably cause to suspect that he did. And holding up his severed head and saying he did it is certainly probable cause for suspicion.
That would be my theory as well.
Decades ago, my mother was in charge of the local community mental health center. One of their clients dismembered his parents at their home and artfully strewed body parts on the steps of the house.
My lucky mother got to take calls from the press asking what the guy’s problem was.
I think they just include any detail that’s available to them when they have nothing else to add.
Around here last year, a car deliberately drove off a freeway overpass and crushed a car below, killing the driver. The article stated, “the victim was not wearing a seat belt” as though that had any relevance. It was probably just noted in the correct checkbox on the police report.
In Canada, this could have gotten him 7 years in a psychiatric hospital.
Canada is a big place. Really big. “You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to Canada.”*
So the median house price really has to boil down to exactly where you’re talking about. Real estate boards like to use “benchmark price” (cost of the “typical” home in the area)
For Vancouver BC, the benchmark price for a detached home is just shy of $2,000,000 CDN (approx 1,500,000 USD)
For Moncton NB, the benchmark detached home goes for about $400,000 or about $300,000 USD. For that price in Vancouver, you could get a lovely 450 square foot apartment in a building on E. Hastings St., right across the street from the safe injection center. Bonus: Some friendly neighbors camping on the sidewalk in front of your building entrance.
A difference of about 5 times. Fairly significant.
*tip-o-the-hat to Douglas Adams
I used to think Canada was enormous compared to the US but I just looked it up, and it’s about 6% bigger in total land area. Somehow I thought it was a much larger difference.
The US is the 4th largest, just after China which is just after Canada. Meanwhile Russia is almost twice as big as Canada.
My geography isn’t great. Thanks a lot American public schools.
Alaska helps even the score.
I paid ~$200K for my 5-bedroom home on a 1/4-acre corner lot… Northeast Wyoming is cheap!
Very true. Without Alaska, the US would be slightly smaller than Australia, and would drop from 4th to 6th place in terms of size.
One factor with Canada is the more populous southern border with a LOT of empty land north of that. That huge area is why I think of Canada (and Alaska, as well) as huge, with wide-open spaces.