Re: [News] Cartoon blamed for youth's fatal beating on mom

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:31:22 -0500, "S.t.A.n.L.e.E"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>And guess which one it is:
>
><http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200312/02/20031202p2a00m0dm001001c.html>
>
>   YAMAGATA -- A man accused of beating his mother to
>   death with a baseball bat was influenced by a cartoon
>   that made him believe humans were unnecessary beings,
>   prosecutors told the Yamagata District Court on Monday.
>
>   In opening statements at the trial of Hiroyuki Tsuchida,
>   22, prosecutors claimed that watching the science-fiction
>   cartoon "Neon Genesis Evangelion" had made Tsuchida
>   believe a phrase in it that said, "The ultimate conclusion
>   of (human) evolution is ruin."
>
>   He also came to believe that humans were unnecessary
>   beings who were destroying the world's environment, and
>   in turn began to want to kill people, prosecutors said.
>
>   They said the man fatally smashed his mother in the head
>   with a baseball bat at about 2 p.m. on June 25, thinking
>   that if he killed family members he would not hesitate
>   when murdering others.

The "Twinkie Defense" still lives!
Copping a plea for manslaughter on the basis 
of diminished capacity ... the sugar rush made 
me do it!

-Galen