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I love lists like this. I remember waiting for a Greyhound bus and reading the list of prohibited items and imagining the stories behind each one. It ran on for
by jetrink 5y ago
I love lists like this. I remember waiting for a Greyhound bus and reading the list of prohibited items and imagining the stories behind each one. It ran on for pages. Human heads were not allowed, even if frozen. Martial arts weapons like swords, nunchucks and throwing stars got a section all their own, separate from guns and knives. Each type of bodily fluid was listed separately, lest someone assume that their jar of urine didn't count.
- kjkjadksj 5y agoThis was probably the gruesome incident that got heads banned: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
- andai 5y ago> On February 10, 2017, the Manitoba Criminal Code Review Board ordered Li be discharged. Li was granted an absolute discharge. There will be no legal obligations or restrictions pertaining to Li's independent living.
- pwner39 5y agoI understand that mens rea should generally be present in crimes in order for convictions but eight years for doing what he did is itself insane. Reading up on his background, I wonder if he just snapped and killed the guy out of anger for whatever reason and then started cannibalizing the corpse so that he could play the mental illness card at court.
- np- 5y agoEven if that's true, that's still well beyond a reasonable bound of sanity. Agreed that 8 years seems a bit light though, considering the notoriety of the crime.
- scrps 5y agoIf someone has an epileptic seizure or a diabetic goes into hypoglycemic shock whilst driving and gets into a head on collision and kills someone should they go to prison? They call it mental illness for a reason.
- catillac 5y agoI’ve known people with epilepsy who were banned from driving due to this possibly. If they had driven and gotten a seizure and killed someone, they would have been driving with a reckless disregard for the safety of others, which is enough of a mens rea to form intention for some level of murder conviction. It is likely this is largely true, even if not formally banned from driving, so the answer is probably yes to your hypothetical they should go to prison, or pulling the normative phrase out, likely would go to prison (subject to many mitigating factors).
- scrps 5y agoPerhaps epilepsy was a bad choice. How about for cardiac arrest, stroke, or any number of undiagnosed medical conditions that could cause someone to create dangerous/fatal conditions outside of their control?
- dahfizz 5y ago> They call it mental illness for a reason. Even if we accept your premise that having a mental illness precludes one from taking responsibility for their actions, you still have to deal with the fact that they are a serious danger to society. One of the uses of prison is to take people who would otherwise murder and eat people and remove them from society, so that they can't do that.
- scrps 5y agohttps://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-16.html https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-16.htm...
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- pwner39 5y agoEight years at a mental hospital for murdering and cannibalizing a sleeping man, seems fair.
- giorgioz 5y agoI wish I had not opened that link and read it.
- the_gipsy 5y agoWhy would that result in a prohibition of transporting human heads? Are you OK?
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- twic 5y agoUnlikely, as in this case, at the time of boarding, the head was still attached to Mr McLean.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoThere was an incident maybe 30 years ago where a medical school employee went into New York (I think it was) to pick up a batch of human heads to be used for teaching purposes. He left the box in his car while taking care of another errand, and it was stolen. The box was found sitting on the sidewalk a few blocks away, with the heads still in it. One can only imagine what went through the thief's mind when he opened his "prize".
- np- 5y agoRegardless of the thief, it does seem a little concerning that the chain of custody for actual human heads involves being left unattended in a random employee's car.
- sneak 5y agoThe world is not nearly as tightly controlled as one might think. Lots of stuff is just some normal person's job to not lose track of. Body parts are only super custody tracked when they are still viable lifesaving tools (ie organ transplant). Besides that they aren't a huge deal.
- dharmab 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy#Post-mortem_commercialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy#Post-mortem_comm...
- kortilla 5y agoWhy? They aren’t going to escape.
- LadyCailin 5y agoWell, they clearly did that one time.
- dexterdog 5y agoOnce they've been relegated to the heap of experimentation they really don't need to be controlled that much. Oddly I would feel in some way violated if a loved one of mine had died and his/her head were in that box, but if it happened to my own head I would pay it no mind.