German man suspected of killing 21 coworkers by poisoning their lunches

[adjusterjack]

Supports my argument: Gun bans don't stop crazy people from killing masses of other people.


Though I don't imagine anybody is going to propose the idea of restricting everybody's lunch rights to stop lunch violence.

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by catdad7x

Kind of makes you wonder how many psychopaths you have known, worked with, or just talked to in your lifetime. That's the problem with most serial killers, they're very good at concealing their true nature. You just never know who a person really is.... until it's too late.

Well said.

Most psychopaths have very good social skills. On the surface, they're not normally the mean and angry people many imagine.

[tamiznluv]

Originally Posted by Sand&Salt

LOL. Good one. I wonder how many hear even got that....

Originally Posted by theatergypsy

I got it but I didn't think I was the only one here who did.

I got it too. Right here. Hear?

[Steve McDonald]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Not only is it not wise, but it's unnecessary. I've never worked in an office that had a fridge. That didn't stop people from bringing their own lunches. Lack of refrigeration never stopped millions of kids from bringing their lunch to school.

Rage? It sounds like mental illness. But it could be interesting to investigate the other cases, to see what the relationships were, of the deceased workers to the perpetrator.

I went years through school, eating sack lunches that had gone 4 or 5 hours without refrigeration and never got food poisoning. There's also food alternatives, such as canned sardines, peanut butter, fruit, tomatoes and others, that wouldn't spoil quickly or at all.

[Ultrarunner]

In 27 years I have never used the staff refrigerator...

I have had the pleasure of cleaning it out several times and after the first time I was certain I had made the right decision...

We a brief period of time there was a policy that the refrigerator would be emptied at the close of business Friday... everything tossed.

That worked until one of the Docs got upset because he had a Leatherman in his lunch bag that was tossed out...

[coschristi]

Originally Posted by Disgustedman

I was wondering why it took 21 deaths to make this known...After #4 I'd be wondering....

Probably because he used heavy metals, so most of the deaths resulted from either cancer or cardiac arrest. Over the span of 18 years; it didn’t raise any flags.

And here a couple of years ago; I thought it was funny when our local campus police blotter had an entry for a 130pm call for service: “Theft of a sandwich”. I was thinking it must have been a quiet day for something like that to make the cut but I guess you never know.