Re: The family in the cellar

In article
<synthfilker-3201C9.19515112052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Joe
Ellis <synthfilker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>In article <00A797BD.CCA90ED7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> winston@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing) 
> wrote:
>
>> In article
<synthfilker-4BE01D.15592012052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
>> Joe Ellis <synthfilker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> >In article <00A797B5.657280CB@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> > winston@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Alan Winston - SSRL Central
Computing) 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> In article 
>> >> <synthfilker-9A16AE.14521912052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> >> Joe Ellis <synthfilker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> [Anent the horrific Austrian kidnaping/rape/***** case]
>> >> 
>> >> >This is not the first time that people in this area have closed
their 
>> >> >eyes to what was going on around them...
>> >> >
>> >> >... though last time, millions died.
>> >> >
>> >> >Is it something in the water?
>> >> 
>> >> I dunno.  Is it something in the American water that kept John Wayne

>> >> Gacy's
>> >> and Jeffrey Dahmer's neighbors from noticing their operations right
away
>> >> and stopping them?
>> >> 
>> >> -- Alan 
>> >
>> ><<snigger>>
>> >
>> >...now THAT'S comparing apples and....  what...  zepplins?
>> 
>> Well, tortes and sausages, anyway.
>> 
>> I think your categorization of these things as "people in this area
have
>> closed their eyes" is mistaken.
>
>Hmmmm...  so you prefer to think that incidents involving people going 
>in to a house and not SEEN to be coming out... are inherently as notable 
>as a number of unexplained children showing up? Just how closely do you 
>s/p/y/ o/n/ watch your neighbors? You don't believe it's possible for 
>people to enter or leave a neighbor's house without you noticing? You 
>think 33 people couldn't get out of someone's house over a period of 
>2190 days (1 every 2 months, on average[1]) without you seeing them?  
>Your odds are even worse with Dahmer... 17 over about 4,700 days, or 
>about 1 every 9 months. [2]
>

Dahmer's neighbors noticed those weird smells when Jeff was cooking, but
didn't
do anything about them.  (He said his refrigerator was on the fritz.)
It's not a matter of just running an in-out counter on his visitors.  

http://books.google.com/books?id=txPYzY1_HLQC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=Dahmer+smell+cooking&source=web&ots=C4Pk3NNcaS&sig=QsbcUFDHSZYgPyuVtKvsLf_Ggsc&hl=en

>...And the Austrian man's WIFE? What, did she think the STORK was 
>dropping the babies off? 

I don't know what she *thought*, but the story she said she believed was
that
the daughter - whom she didn't know was actually imprisoned downstairs,
and
thought had left home - was having babies she couldn't sup****t and
dropping 
them off at their grandma's house.

If you're a neighbor and you hear that the prodigal daughter has dropped 
off another bastard, is your first thought that the daughter is actually
imprisoned downstairs?

But in any case, you've snipped my actual point (mass evil not restricted
to any geographical/political/etc group).

-- Alan