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July 23, 2004
Nothing New
It cracks me up that some people think that 'going postal' is a modern-day phenomenon. It ain't.
100 years ago July 23, 1904 JONESBORO — Wilson Day was shot and killed at Brookland by F. V. Harris. Day is said to have been intimidating the people at an ice cream social. Harris and others had arrested him once, but placed him in the hands of his friends. Day later returned with a Winchester and began shooting at random.
A'course, there weren't much hostage negotiations back in them days.
Posted by Rita at July 23, 2004 06:45 AM
Comments
I've been trying to convince people that kids going psycho in school is not a recent thing either, but they don't seem to believe me. I saw plenty of knives and guns in the seventies, but it just wasn't televised.
Posted by: Keith at July 23, 2004 11:07 AM
People been doing that since the dawn of time, I imagine. Our school was pretty calm, comparatively. Fistfights sure, but I don't ever remember any weapons. But we were small, homogeneous and isolated, so that's prolly why.
Posted by: rita at July 23, 2004 09:10 PM