Bloodless Coup

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Last shift I worked. This is a crazy story, but it happens almost every day now. This psychiatric stuff, people going crazy. I had a man…police had a man who had knife in his hand for whatever reason. They were called to the scene. They started chasing him. He ran away, and as he's running away he starts stabbing himself. He stabbed himself in his neck, in his chest, he stabbed himself in his leg three times, he cut both of his wrists, he stabbed his hands. And then he proceeded to run head-on into oncoming traffic and got hit by a car doing about fifty.

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You know, stuff like that did not happen before Katrina. Well, every once in a while stuff like that would happen, but it's just…the stress, the stress level is so high that people snap. A lot of people snapping and doing things they wouldn't normally do. A lot of craziness.

From the Media Bloodhound interview with Ben Marble, the ER doctor who told Dick Cheney to go fuck himself in Mississippi. It's long, but a gripping interview. And he's got a sense of humor... check out the comment he posted at the end of the interview. Hat tip to Crooks and Liars.