I was wrong on thing/think and about blaming the neighbor's dog for the voices.
There's a tradition of the radio asking you to kill. I'm glad that dogs are still decent.
But Son of Sam! Wasn't he taking instructions from a German Shepherd? I suppose that could have been a myth, or just a rarity.
But Son of Sam! Wasn't he taking instructions from a German Shepherd?
You're thinking of Son of Jermaine, who infamously thought he was receiving orders from Sam Shepard.
3: I thought he's been discredited as a big faker.
Not only was he a liar. I think he murdered people.
Also misread that sentence as saying that it was very common for people to hallucinate that their cats were giving them orders, but unheard of for people to hallucinate orders from their dogs.
Which does make sense.
10: I was, but now I've seen the Light, and now speak only the Truth.
Mama always said not to look into the eyes of the sun.
At a press conference in February 1979, Berkowitz declared that his previous claims of demonic possession were a hoax.[78][79][80] Berkowitz stated in a series of meetings with his special court-appointed psychiatrist David Abrahamsen that he had long contemplated murder to get revenge on a world that he felt had rejected and hurt him
In 1987, Berkowitz became an evangelical Christian in prison. According to his personal testimony, his moment of conversion occurred after reading Psalm 34:6 from a Bible given to him by a fellow inmate. He says he is no longer to be referred to as the "Son of Sam" but the "Son of Hope".[83]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz
Also re 3 in the OP - I feel this question was resolved forever by the Judas Priest headbanger. Have I said that before?
Courtroom science has a sketchy history, so I do wonder to what extent these rules of thumb have been validated.
I'm not going to stare at the sun just to check. It's too cloudy.
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3: Because I thought Sam was a shepherd for decades, I'll mention that Sam was actually a black lab. This is not the breed I would think would be down for murder. I guess it wasn't surprising then that Berkowtiz was faking. (He was faking, right?)
I recall that The Last Psychiatrist had some interesting posts about spotting fakers back when his blog was still going.
My main issue with Slate Star Codex is how long winded the posts are. The blogger seems to subscribe to the "never say in 100 words what you can say in 5000" school.
He wasn't a German Shepherd? Was there some iconic SNL skit or something where he was played by a Shepherd? I could have sworn.
Knowing myself, I'm sure Sam Shepard was the reason I thought Sam the Lab was a German Shepherd.
I think he was a lab in the Spike Lee movie.
IT'S NOT A HALLUCINATION OF THE DOG IS REALLY GIVING YOU INSTRUCTIONS!
I recently watched Zodiac, and as big budget mainstream movies about real 70s era serial killers go, I think it's better than Summer of Sam.
The best part is Sean Connery in a big red diaper.
There was some comedian who had a great routine about the Son of Sam, what made him crazy wasn't that he hallucinated the dog telling him to kill but that his first reaction wasn't to wag his finger and yell, "bad dog!"
You have to rub their nose in the corpse or the dog won't make the connection. It will just feel bad without knowing why.
22. I wouldn't say that particular post was long-winded (actually it was pretty interesting), but he does write a lot, at length, sometimes ad nauseum.