So there's this guy at my school who everyone has suspected as being a little bit off his rocker for pretty much as long as he's been there. He would practice martial arts in the football field, or the hallways, or the train station, and talk to himself all the time.
I used to be on the staff for my school's literary journal, and two years ago he submitted song lyrics he had written entitled "Bitch" and it was all misogynist shit like "woman, i swear to god u better have dinner on the table by the time i get home [sic]." He also submitted weird essays about how he was a warrior of truth or something. A girl I know said that he used to follow her around after she wouldn't play harp for a song he wrote. Someone else found a page he had written from his notebook, and it was all about how much he wanted to kill all Asians and shit like that.
Other than that he'd just walk around looking really angry all the time, and everyone used to joke that one day he'd shoot up the school.
So then today, he wrote a message on one of the computers in the library and left the window open, saying shit like "None of you have ever been nice to me. You mock me or ignore me or just say hi and never attempt any other conversation. I'm a senior and I'm graduating soon, so be nice to me and make me feel at home during the time I have left. You all know what happened at Virginia Tech, and that could happen here." And then he included a long list of the names of people who had hurt him--mostly people from his vocal class, but also included a guy who used to make fun of his karate and other stuff like that. And at the end he wrote "Just because your name isn't on the list doesn't mean that you're safe."
People printed this out and passed it around, and a few students gave a copy to the principal, so the police and the mental health people came, and he's staying in an institution at least through the summer and is never allowed near the school again.
It's fucked up, but I'm just glad he wrote that instead of bringing a gun to school.
I used to be on the staff for my school's literary journal, and two years ago he submitted song lyrics he had written entitled "Bitch" and it was all misogynist shit like "woman, i swear to god u better have dinner on the table by the time i get home [sic]." He also submitted weird essays about how he was a warrior of truth or something. A girl I know said that he used to follow her around after she wouldn't play harp for a song he wrote. Someone else found a page he had written from his notebook, and it was all about how much he wanted to kill all Asians and shit like that.
Other than that he'd just walk around looking really angry all the time, and everyone used to joke that one day he'd shoot up the school.
So then today, he wrote a message on one of the computers in the library and left the window open, saying shit like "None of you have ever been nice to me. You mock me or ignore me or just say hi and never attempt any other conversation. I'm a senior and I'm graduating soon, so be nice to me and make me feel at home during the time I have left. You all know what happened at Virginia Tech, and that could happen here." And then he included a long list of the names of people who had hurt him--mostly people from his vocal class, but also included a guy who used to make fun of his karate and other stuff like that. And at the end he wrote "Just because your name isn't on the list doesn't mean that you're safe."
People printed this out and passed it around, and a few students gave a copy to the principal, so the police and the mental health people came, and he's staying in an institution at least through the summer and is never allowed near the school again.
It's fucked up, but I'm just glad he wrote that instead of bringing a gun to school.