Dangerous and mentally ill

[DesertFox]

Before James A. Williams was charged with stabbing a young Seattle woman to death, he stood before a King County Superior Court on a different occasion, accused of assaulting a different stranger, and asked to speak in his own defense.

In the midst of a passionate and rambling argument explaining why he shot a stranger at a Seattle bus stop, he paused to deliver this judgment:

"I didn't even ask to be born," he told the judge. "If I had my way I would never have been born, but unfortunately, I was."

In some sense, it is a wish echoed by a mental health system that failed to predict the emergence in the last few decades of a class of violent, mentally ill offenders, such as Williams.

More (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/356465_dangerousmain26.html)

[Incident_command]

Most of the homeless I run on are out and out nuts. People who have no ability to care for themelves. There is nowhere to take them.

[DesertFox]

Well, I distinctly remember being asked to be born. No wonder the poor dude in the OP went nuts if he can't even remember that.

Yes, it was a dark and stormy night, so we took our business above the rains, above the storms, above the mountains, above the clouds, above the atmosphere. Out there where there's nothing but the occasional quantum tug of a proton zipping into and out of existence, rising above and falling back into the quantum foam, all that stuff that measures below the Planck length in size that falls thru the universe's sieve into the nothingness beyond.

Yes, it was there that we conducted our business. I threw down sevens and He threw snake eyes, and I got one wish, and after pondering on it awhile -- time doesn't count there, so it coulda been an instant or it could been a thousand years -- but anway, I ast to be bornt. And so it was, and came to pass, and was to be, and it was that simple. That's all there was to it, and I cain't imagine how the dude in the OP cain't remember HIS turn at the Cosmic Wheel, facing that Big Dealer in the Sky.

You don't get to come down here unless you win.

[buzzthepug!]

What Desert Fox said.