Crazy article from the LA Times.

The blood that stained the courtyard of the modest Thousand Oaks apartment complex had been washed away by Monday morning. In its place stood a makeshift memorial: A teddy bear and a few balloons. A Winnie-the-Pooh baby blanket. And a single rose for every year the young victim had lived.

Sev’n Molina, age 6, was hacked to death with a meat cleaver Sunday night, as his mother fought to save his life, terrified neighbors called 911 and the bravest among them tried to intervene in the grisly struggle.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested Calvin Sharp, 27, and took him to Ventura County Jail, said Senior Sheriff’s Deputy Julie Novak. Sharp, a self-employed cab driver, is expected to be charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder — rare violent crimes in what regularly ranks as one of nation’s safest large cities.

The harrowing attack at the Hillcrest Park Apartments began about 9:30 p.m. in the first-floor unit where the boy lived with his mother, Sandra Ruiz, 33. Sharp and Ruiz had been arguing, at least in part, about whether Sev’n spent too much time playing video games, neighbors said.

After the boy burst from the apartment into the communal courtyard, witnesses said, Sharp followed him, wielding the cleaver, and began hacking at the child’s head and shouting, “Die, die!”

Holy shit. Even I feel it would be in bad taste to report on this in a sarcastic manner. I mean this is pretty fucked up.

Something is wrong with our society. I guess something is wrong with all societies, but I can’t help but notice the increase of random acts of violence occuring within this last decade. Sure since the dawn of man there has been violence in all area’s of established cultures: gangs, diplomatic disagreements, religious wars, husbands killing their cheating whore wives; but this is completely different. It’s like people have gone completely fucking insane, and not that they have really lost their minds, but that they use the idea of insanity to rationalize violent outlashing. Whether its chopping up a 6 year old, pushing someone onto subway tracks, or the countless reports of violence across school campuses; this shit has just gotten out of control. In the words of Maynard James Keenan, “learn to swim”. We really could use a thinning of the herd right about now.

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