Train wreck possibly not suicide attempt

Ghoulish Delight · 02-18-2005, 10:29 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6975966/

It's sketchy based on what's reported, but police are now saying that it looks as if the guy who parked his Jeep on the Metrolink tracks may not have been attempting suicide, but was in fact intending to cause a spectacular accident to impress his estranged wife. This article doesn't mention what I saw in another article, that the cuts on his wrists were not the result of a failed suicide attempt previous to the train accident, but were self inflicted AFTER it happened.

€uroMeinke · 02-18-2005, 10:50 AM

"Honey, I'm bored. I wish there were some sort of spectacular train wreck to amuse me..."

Name · 02-18-2005, 11:13 AM

"Oh Gomez..."

Prudence · 02-18-2005, 12:28 PM

Someone brought in a morning paper in which it was speculated that he wanted to get his wife's attention/sympathies -- allegedly while at the hospital he kept asking if she'd come to see him yet.

Scrooge McSam · 02-18-2005, 12:39 PM

What is California's test for insanity?

Ghoulish Delight · 02-18-2005, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Scrooge McSam

What is California's test for insanity?

So many evil answers, so little time...

Scrooge McSam · 02-18-2005, 12:54 PM

Well... chuckle... legally?

Ghoulish Delight · 02-18-2005, 12:58 PM

http://w3.uchastings.edu/plri/spring95/tmpinsan.html

Interestingly, this page notes that if the defendant does not initially plead not guilty by reason of insanity, then the court does not have to accept an insanity plea later on. The defendant in this case has, thus far, pleaded only "not guilty". Although in this case I believe they are considering amending or changing the charges in light of this new theory, so that might change things.

Scrooge McSam · 02-18-2005, 01:03 PM

Thanks, GD

DisneyFan25863 · 02-18-2005, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Scrooge McSam

What is California's test for insanity?

If you need a test to prove your insane after you drive your car infront of an oncoming train with hundreds of people onboard for entertainment, something is really wrong with the system.

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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Train wreck possibly not suicide attempt http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6975966/ It's sketchy based on what's reported, but police are now saying that it looks as if the guy who parked his Jeep on the Metrolink tracks may not have been attempting suicide, but was in fact intending to cause a spectacular accident to impress his estranged wife. This article doesn't mention what I saw in another article, that the cuts on his wrists were not the result of a failed suicide attempt previous to the train accident, but were self inflicted AFTER it happened. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	Someone brought in a morning paper in which it was speculated that he wanted to get his wife's attention/sympathies -- allegedly while at the hospital he kept asking if she'd come to see him yet. __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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Scrooge McSam What? Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,635	Well... chuckle... legally?
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	http://w3.uchastings.edu/plri/spring95/tmpinsan.html Interestingly, this page notes that if the defendant does not initially plead not guilty by reason of insanity, then the court does not have to accept an insanity plea later on. The defendant in this case has, thus far, pleaded only "not guilty". Although in this case I believe they are considering amending or changing the charges in light of this new theory, so that might change things. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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Scrooge McSam What? Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,635	Thanks, GD
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