Lazy

Lazy

Today's craziness, with emphasis and numeration added by yours, truly:

JAPANESE TEEN MURDERS PARENTS

From correspondents in Tokyo
24nov04

A 19-year-old Japanese who was fed up with his parents' nagging about his laziness bludgeoned them to death with a four-kilogram (nine-pound) iron dumbbell as they were sleeping on Wednesday.

The man beat his parents around 10 times each while his 16-year-old sister watched television in another room in Mito, 100km north of Tokyo.[1]

The suspect, who cannot be identified because he is under 20, the legal age for grown-ups in Japan, called police after the crime and said he was upset that his parents criticized his lifestyle.

"After graduating from high school, the suspect neither goes to university nor works and his parents often asked him to do something," a police spokesman said.

The suspect had also wanted to kill his sister and his 76-year-old grandfather who was asleep[2], police said.

"He had planned to murder everyone, but told us he had given up after feeling exhausted by the killing" of his parents, said the spokesman.[3]

The 51-year-old father was a junior high school teacher and the mother was a 48-year-old housewife.

1. This is a poorly constructed sentence. Is the other room in another city, a hundred kilometers north of Tokyo? If so, is it remarkable that his sister did not hear the beatdown going on?

If the room is not a hundred kilometers north, I wonder what the sister was watching on the television. Because unless it's the Simpsons, or Arrested Development, I'm pretty easily distracted by the goings on around me. I'm thinking I'm probably gonna hear somebody getting themselves killed in the next room. Especially if it's the same people who are constantly telling me to stop watching TV.

2. This feller's what we call an idea man. What he needed to do was get put into a brain trust somewhere. He comes up with the ideas (kill parents, sister and granpa who is asleep), but isn't necessarily equipped to follow through.

3. Alas, in his ultimate act of passive aggression, he proves his parents correct. He planned to kill is sister (who either was in the next room, or 100 kilometers north of Tokyo) and his grandfather (sleeping), but his so worn out after bludgeoning the folks to death, he's unable to finish his act.

Because he's lazy. What pencil necked geek can't pick up a nine pound weight up enough to kill the rest of his family? I mean, he only beat his parents ten times each. That's 2 sets of 10. That's not even a full rep set.

If this guy had gotten up off his ass every now and then, gotten a little exercise, put a little muscle on his body, he'd have been able to kill his family with reckless abandon...but it takes away motive, because if you're working out, you're not lazy, I guess.