Jobless and being evicted, Cincy man snaps

[theHandpuppet]

Police foiled potential 'Rambo situation'
By Sharon Coolidge • [e-mail] • June 23, 2009

The economy made him do it. At least that is what Cincinnati police theorize about why 28-year-old John Rosser set out to kill his former boss Monday at the Duke Energy Convention Center.

Rosser had been unable to find a job and after 2½ years was pushed to the brink when the property manager of his Mount Auburn apartment said she would have to evict him if he didn't pay up.

That's when he apparently snapped.

Joanne Hall said Rosser told her he was going to kill his former boss. She said he donned fatigues, armed himself with an arsenal of weapons including a loaded 9 mm, five knives and handcuffs, and set off to walk downtown....

MORE AT http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090623/NEWS0107/906240338/Police+foiled+potential++Rambo+situation+

[Hannah Bell]

1. just another crazy person. brain chemistry imbalance. genes.

[ixion]

3. just about any person will react like this at some point... the question is

where is that point?

For sure, there may be a chemical imbalance, or some pronounced psychosis, but it's not mandatory for an act of desperation, which is what this was.

[Hannah Bell]

5. (sarcasm)

[ixion]

6. lol... sorry

:hi:

[Hannah Bell]

8. i know. not like no one at DU would not hold such opinions.

[ixion]

2. note to future dumbos, er, "rambos"

fatigues are for jungle warfare and have the opposite effect when applied in an urban, domestic setting.

Okay, that's a bit of gallows humor. Sorry.

Unfortunately, as we slide down the razor blade of consumptive backlash, I'm afraid these "pushed to the brink" stories will become sadly commonplace. Modern society has not equipped the masses to deal with actual survival issues. If you don't happen to be a survivor, and you're confronted with a non-standard situation, the tendency will be to act out, as Mr. Rosser did here. Why? Because in the Age of Consumerism, he had no skills to deal with joblessness, much less homelessness.

[hobbit709]

4. If I was to go off the deep end

I certainly wouldn't advertise my intentions.

[ixion]

7. some fare better in the deep end than others

:)

[EOTE]

11. Shhhhh, don't give them any good ideas.

Next thing you know we'll have people going Postal in Predator-like active camouflage. If it bleeds, we can kill it.

[juno jones]

9. At this point I do not blame him.

Employers can fuck you up when it comes time to need to collect things like food stamps and unemployment.

My own case has been held up for weeks by a vindictive employer who fired me illegally.

Without more information, I just can't judge anymore.

'Cause I am feeling some of the same anger, fortunately i'm not aggro enough to act on it.

[anigbrowl]

10. He lost his job 2.5 years ago

A bad economy can make people do strange things, but I think being angry in 2009 over something that happened at the end of 2006 says more about the individual than the economic environment. I mean, that's back before the subprime mess, the oil crisis, and a lot of other stuff.