Driven to murder by nts, nts, nts?

Yesterday in my post about rude women on public transport, I made a comment about my morning trip where the noise pollution I was subjected was so bad, it made the torture technique of water boarding sound like the kind of fun activity you get to do for free at Club Med. If I had a weapon I may well have committed bloody murder.

Well lo and behold this actually happened in Canada yesterday when a passenger in a cross country bus stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him and, and then taunted police with the head.

This is an horrific crime which I don’t really want to make light of, but I couldn’t help noticing this line in the story: The victim, believed to be 18 years old, had been sleeping with headphones on his ears before he was repeatedly stabbed.

I wonder if this is a full on case of iPod rage!

Where are her parents?

People fall into crime, I can understand that. What I don’t understand are the people who hang off them, like 18-year old Millie Traynor whose 25-year-old boyfriend Samir Ograzden was shot dead by police during a gun fight in South Melbourne on Tuesday night in which an officer was shot in the leg.

I hope one day Traynor gets out of this scene and realises that the death of her “loving and caring” drug-pushing boyfriend has probably saved her life.

And while she is grieving for Ograzden, who despite his criminal past, would have had endearing qualities and deserves to be mourned, friends and family of the apprentice gangland moll should advise her, for her sake, to disappear and shut the fuck up.

As the wounded police officer still recovers in hospital Traynor has told The Age that she is upset that her boyfriend’s death is being as a political football to get police armed with semi-automatic handguns.

She may have a valid point there, but according to witnesses including a taxi driver and an Age reporter in the cab, it was Ograzden who fired the first shots.

Which is why she won’t get much sympathy by saying: ”My boyfriend was shot by the police, who are meant to be there to serve and protect.”

And that’s exactly what they did.

Picture composite: The Age