An 18-year-old Claire City man arrested and accused of having weapons and the makings for explosives wrote that he wanted to “cause as much chaos, death and destruction as possible and become the world’s most infamous sociopath for the rest of mankind,” according to court documents.
Joseph Thomas Hansen would have been a senior at Sisseton High School in northeastern South Dakota. [...] Hansen allegedly told co-workers at a day care in Sisseton that he had enough fireworks to blow up Sisseton, and the first day of school would be a short one, according to the court affidavit. The comments were relayed to Casey Metz, the school resource officer. He said in the affidavit that officers have observed Hansen’s behaviors through the past two years. Last year, a computer teacher notified Metz that Hansen was caught looking up articles on the school computers regarding the Columbine massacre before the anniversary date.
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Also included in Hansen’s writings were notes regarding which law enforcement agencies would respond to a shooter and descriptions of the body armor, weapons and equipment of officers. Hansen noted the areas not covered in body armor.Other writings talked about killing family members and included a list of people he wished to torture and kill, including 30 females he would kidnap, torture and rape. He wrote he would like to use a bowie knife and “gut them like a pig.”
“When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you’re insane? Maybe you’re just sitting around, reading “Guns and Ammo”, masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, “Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!”? Yeah. Do you guys do that?”
— David Mills (played by Brad Pitt) in the movie, Se7en
If only he’d have had a bucket of puppies to relieve the stress…..haha Too soon?
“Hansen allegedly told co-workers at a day care in Sisseton that he had enough fireworks to blow up Sisseton”
- Well there’s the problem: he broke the first rule of being a sociopath — don’t talk to people about stuff. Or, if you do, remember to kill them asap.
sounds like typical teenager delusions of grandure.Gotta nip it in the butt now before it grows into a reality.
At least he has goals.
#3: “…nip it in the butt…”
I think you mean ‘nip it in the bud’ because your phrase has a whole different connotation.
No, where he going he will be nippin’ it in the butt.
He’s well set up for a public speaking career when he’s released on a suspended sentence.
This is Open Mike Night, eh? I’m loving it!
Hmmm. He seems like a nice well adjusted young chappie to me. You know, the kind you’d happily leave in charge of your young kids and stuff like that.
Being followed by the police pre-crime unit for 2 years is bound to turn anyone mad. If he was really guilty of anything, surely it wouldn’t have taken this much police time to build a case.
This is the kind of effort I would hope to go into finding a drugs king-pin or solving a multi-million dollar fraud. Guess it’s easier to pick a few weirdos and just follow them around until they crack.
“become the world’s most infamous sociopath for the rest of mankind,”
So when will he be entering a political office?
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And to think my biggest goals were to get a dog or perhaps a car
Perhaps the dog was smarter overall than this guy – certainly more moral
I ask for all DU readers and posters to answer the question posed: “When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you’re insane?” //// Well Faxon??
Heh, heh. In a society that offers jail instead of earlier intervention, counseling, monitoring, this kind of thing is going to happen more and more often as civilization squeezes out the wild spaces for the crazies to run free. Think “Utah.”
I see on Nightline tonight “Death at Discovery” where an eco nut ((with a gun)) tries to take out the entire Discovery Channel for being too anti-environment. Ha, ha. Yes, only people kill with guns. Followed by correcting an aneurism, then Carmen Diaz’s daughter gets Super Head Lice. Its all about technology vaunting forward while Darwin plays with us.
Amusing.
I am not nuts I am unique, just like every body else. “18 Yr Old’s Career Goals: ‘World’s Most Infamous Sociopath’”Quick off of the top of your head name 5 sociopaths (politicians,lawyers and DU posters excluded). No you cannot use the web that defeats the purpose.
people are getting sicker all the time.
Well he’d set his goals unattainably high.
Thank [insert name of deity] that this was caught in time by our eternally vigilant police, (those same people who shoot the ass off of puma [aim for the heart stupid!])
The thought criminals are now on notice! You’re better off living in a wooden shack in the wilderness like Ted Kazinski and staying there.
If they’re going to go around having these violent thoughts, they’re going to discover the fact that nobody’s interested in their “Columbine” fantasies of playing “Doom at the mall.”
#16–podcast==Doesn’t Casey Metz, the school resource officer deserve 99% of the credit here? Maybe 90%, with 9% to the day care person who reported off premises concerns, and 1% to the police who “knew nothing” and just did their jobs as specifically requested?
Metz is the “hero” who was able to remember a student and his issues from one year to the next.
Not that cops aren’t capable of supreme sleuthing themselves.
“Last year, a computer teacher notified Metz that Hansen was caught looking up articles on the school computers regarding the Columbine massacre before the anniversary date”
So don’t look up 9-11 around September 11, or Pearl Harbor around December 7.
#3 Bobbo asks
“When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you’re insane?”
Bobbo morphs into some tripe about early counseling,
and then jumps to some rant about wild spaces for the crazies,
followed by a segway into people don’t kill people, guns kill people,
and with neck-breaking speed, snaps the discussion to technology causing head lice
amd a final commentary about his wonderful sardonic wit.
Whoa! Sounds like someone with a few loose screws.
Perhaps Bobbo should direct his initial question back to his own psychoanalyst for the answer.
JB==I ALWAYS ask myself the same questions I pose here. If I can make sense of the question, and answer it myself, then I go ahead and post. If I can’t, then I post under your name. Ha, Ha. Its a little joke I play.
but seriously folk: thank you for following my point. With such demonstrated skills, I don’t “really get” how you are so emblematically conservative. Is the liberal impulse, the drive to be rational, actually in you and you reject it because of some childhood trauma–whats going on JB?
You are a puzzle.
The answer of course is that if you can ask the question then you are not so schizoid as to not even be able to ask the question. Tautology. All things fall on a continuum.
I’d say the telling note is how often/if one ever apologizes, or if one has a few humorous exchanges with someone else.
I don’t recall you ever apologizing for anything you have posted JB. Did I miss that telling post? Humor you have already demonstrated unless its a total lack of humor which by its very nature, makes your humor in the same vein as the “irony” used by our DU editors.
JB—so close.