Lost and Insanity

[thistlechaser]

I know which book I'll be reading...

ABC has announced plans to introduce a Lost subplot about a character named Gary Troup, a fictitious author who supposedly perished in the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, but left behind the manuscript on which he had been working, having dropped it off with his publisher just days before boarding the fatal flight.

Here's where the line between fact and fiction blurs: Hyperion Books, ABC's sister publishing label, is actually putting out said manuscript in book form this spring--here in the real world--to coincide with the related episodes of Lost.

Titled Bad Twin, the private eye thriller is said to be about a rich heir's search for his devious sibling. Hyperion said it has commissioned a well known writer to pen the book, with the help of writers from the show.

The book will probably be junk (and contain no clues at all), but what fan would pass up the chance to check it out?

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And this just makes me sick: Man Kills Buck With Bare Hands in Bedroom. On the surface the situation seems simple: A deer crashes through a window and into a woman's home, and her father kills it with his bare hands. My first thought was "he was defending his daughter, so it's okay", but read the story:

Goldsberry was at his daughter's home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the noise and found the deer.

"I was standing about like this peeking around the corner when the deer came out of the bedroom," said Goldsberry. The deer ran down the hall and into the master bedroom — "jumping back and forth across the bed."

Goldsberry, about 6-feet-1 and 200 pounds, entered the bedroom to confront the deer and, after a brief struggle, emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning to the bedroom, the fight continued. Goldsberry finally was able to grip the animal and twist its neck, killing it.

There was no one in the room. He didn't need to fight it in the first place. He left the room/fight, told his wife to call the police, then went back in to kill it. What the hell? Why not let animal control get it out of the home? What sort of person would needlessly kill an animal, bare-handed or not?

Grrrrrrrr.

Comments

[aelice.livejournal.com]

I thought it was really awesome, being able to strangle an animal with your bare hands. I figure that if animal control had released him back into the wild, he would have starved over the winter or been shot by hunters.

Then again, I eat hamburgers, and I completely accept what cows go though in slaughterhouses even though I, and humanity as a whole, dont really NEED meat to survive.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I thought it was really awesome, being able to strangle an animal with your bare hands.

I see it as a scared animal got trapped someplace it's never been before, was in a panic and trying to escape, and some guy comes in and gives it a slow, painful, needless death.

Nothing like making a scared animal even more scared, making its death slow and painful.

If someone wants to eat meat, that's totally their own choice, but animals should not be put through more pain and fear than is necessary.

[aelice.livejournal.com]

The article didn't give us enough details. How I read it, this was a buck, a wild buck instead of a cute 'Bambi', jumping back and forth, tearing apart everything. Those guys are scary and dangerous. (I saw a wild buck in heat attack a ranger at an animal park in Ohio, they're freaky) Though he was an idiot to try use such a neanderthal way of subduing it, I can absolutely understand his reasoning if there were no other way to control it. The term 'fighting' in the article seems a bit ridiculous. Nobody 'fights' a wild buck with their bare hands, they try to subdue it. If he wanted to 'fight,' he could have brought a blunt object. If these guys lived in a heavily wooded area, they may have had some knowledge of jumping on the animal and holding it to the ground to subdue it.. well, it makes sense. It's probably that the guy could not keep this grip and snapped its neck when he realized he wouldn't be able to subdue it.

Again, we're not given enough information, despite the obvious slant in the article.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I don't know, seems like plenty of information to me. Say it was a lion instead of a deer: It jumped in through the bedroom window. I've never seen a bedroom without a door. The guy left the room and told his wife to call the police. At that point, he could have shut the door and kept the deer/lion/whatever in the room, instead of going back in to continue the fight.

Say the deer/lion/dangerous thing was strong enough to break down the bedroom door. They could leave the house. Heck, if it did break down the bedroom door, why not just open the door to the outside? Eventually it would spot it and run out.

The term 'fighting' in the article seems a bit ridiculous.

I disagree on that point. I would use "fighting" as well because of the man's intent. If he just didn't want the daughter to get hurt, he could have locked it in the bedroom. The two of them could have left the house. But he decided to instead try to kill it with is bare hands.

[aelice.livejournal.com]

That's my point. :P I dont think a closed door would have kept a wild buck at bay for more than a few seconds. It would make more sense for them to open all the doors, and hope the buck found his way out. But that would have had its own risks as well.

All in all, the situation was lose-lose. Buck put himself in a crazy situation.. I have no clue why he would have jumped through the window, unless he was starving/mad.

Also, it does not make sense that he would run back in just to kill the buck with just his bare hands. Bucks have those painful horns. I think he had the intention of throwing it down to subdue it, but it got of hand and he snapped its neck.

Either way, just goes to show how scary testosterone can be. XD I would have never gone back into the room, not worth risking the life of either side.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I have no clue why he would have jumped through the window, unless he was starving/mad.

The story mentioned that bucks/deer can see their reflection in the glass, and charge it thinking it's another deer.

Either way, just goes to show how scary testosterone can be. XD I would have never gone back into the room, not worth risking the life of either side.

Ha ha, yes! :P

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

and gives it a slow, painful, needless death.

I honestly don't give two shits about this story 'cause the thing probably would have gotten killed anyway if it was so close to people, but last I checked, breaking a neck was a quick way to die? o.O Seriously, I'm not debating, I'm confused. XD Or are you implying the struggle to get a grip on it in the first place -to- break it's neck?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, once the neck was broken I'm sure the animal died pretty quickly. But the man didn't just say "Hey, you deer, I'm going to break your neck. Okay?" and the deer nodded and let him. :P

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

The article doesn't mention if, after slaying the beast, the man smeared eldritch runes of blood on his body and consumed its still-steaming heart. Because, you know, that's what I would have done.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hrump! That's what any real man would have done!

[fyerio.livejournal.com]

I killed like.. 20 bucks so far. It's a man's job to kill bucks. >:) (In a game called "Deer Hunter", of course..)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

(In a game called "Deer Hunter", of course..)

Okay, I forgive you. :D