Posted on 04/07/2018 8:14:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A van is reported to have driven into pedestrians in the city of Muenster, in western Germany.
A police spokeswoman has said there are "several dead, probably including the suspect".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Entirely too clear and too true.
Authorities are still trying to determine the motive for this attack if it even was an “attack” and the drive didn’t just fall asleep. UGH!!
http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2018-04/muenster-auto-tote-live
Per link, supposedly German born nutter, which means this isn’t terrorism.
Okaaaay...
Per link, 49 YO German loony, with “apparently” no links to terrorism. They are also checking the perp’s home for bombs.
Yep, read same. Makes sense.
RIP very sad.
Maybe this is Weimar redux. Merkel, et. al., are provoking a crisis so the people demand a “solution” and the Soviet Republics are reborn? This is the only way this welcoming of barbarians makes sense to me.
Without any studies at all, I observed how much nicer everyone in our office was, and how much calmer the environment, when several people were out on any given day.
where’s chet99 when you need him.
His head would explode with real self-driving cars.
Probably why he switched from SUVs to Pit Bulls...he saw it coming.
Three dead, over a dozen wounded, driver shot himself, and a Gestapo spokesdud claims its "still too early to declare the incident an attack.
Joseph Goebbels would have been proud.
“So much untreated mental illness in Germany these days. Sad.”
Our own mental sanity ain’t much better.
Gee, I wonder where he got the idea from?
I should have pinged you to my reply #98. I linked a fascinating article talking about the mouse study.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3645639/posts?page=98#98
I don’t know if the link will work.
Not really. That’s a contributor, but the real factor is comfort and accessibility of products and services. In a modern, developed nation the cities have everything and it is just around the corner.
Check my reply #98. In the population density experiments, the mice had everything they needed. The issues that arose were purely psychological, aberrant behaviors resulting from pressures of high population density. Humans are psychologically more complex than mice, hence our dysfunctions are proportionately more complex. But the same dynamics are at work. We have so much open space, why do so many coop themselves up in cities?
apparently a good portion of the bravery gene in male Germans was bred out of the culture after the World War 2 generation perished.
Yup.
CNN is calling it a “Delivery Van Attack”
No joke.
>>Humans are psychologically more complex than mice, hence our dysfunctions are proportionately more complex.
Our ability to cope with sub-optimal conditions is much better too. A human can put on a headset, sit on a park bench, and read a book in the middle of a crowd and still be “alone”.
Humans also understand the concept of time. We can sit in a crowded, stressful office counting the minutes until quitting time when we can go home to sit with our X-Box. Rats cannot comprehend such things.
>>But the same dynamics are at work. We have so much open space, why do so many coop themselves up in cities?
Because, as I stated, people CHOOSE to in order to reap the rewards of city living. When they do get fed up and move to the country, the first thing they do is complain about the lack of amenities in the burbs (or beyond). The second thing is to try and get the decision-makers to bring some those amenities to the rubes (who don’t want or need it—but once they get it, they will quickly wonder how they survived without it).
Thank Frau Merkel, worst Chancellor since...you-know-who.
Gerhard Schröder?
You are talking about people in crowded situations who purposely block themselves off from any human contact, even in crowded environments. Parallels to that behavior were seen in the mouse and rat studies. Some of the mice gave up trying to get accepted into social groups, and just went off on their own, in a habitat filled with mice.
I've suspected that a high level dysfunction is going on in human society, and much of it is a result of population pressures. Not over-population--clearly, we are not on the verge of running out of resources--but simply being too crowded. It is not difficult to see that the most dysfunctional areas are those with the highest population densities.
Psychological issues, eh? Ya think?
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