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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed
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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (89548)4/3/2001 8:10:51 PM
From: pater tenebrarum  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
LOL..let's hope they don't go postal with their new automatic weaponry...-g-

btw, 'going postal' has its origins in the exploits of one Pat Sherrill:

Pat Sherrill : The patron saint of all rampaging postal workers. Fearing that he might be fired, on August 20, 1986, Crazy Pat killed fourteen co-workers and wounded six others in his Edmond, Oklahoma post office. The day before the slaughter Pat was disciplined by his supervisor. Not one to take criticism lightly, Pat returned to work the next morning with two .45-caliber semiautomatic pistols and about 100 rounds.

Fatefully, the lucky man who chastised Sherrill missed certain death by oversleeping and arriving late to work. Not to be detracted, Pat shot another supervisor who had been critical of his work. Pat moved from cubicle to cubicle through the labyrinthine post office shooting at anyone he saw.

Neighbors described Sherrill as a creepy loner who stalked the neighborhood at night wearing camouflage. He had no friends and, since the death of his mother in 1978, lived by himself. Strangely, he was in the habit of riding around town alone in a bike built for two. In his twenties he served with the Marines and became a great marksman. Later he would boast of a tour of duty in Vietnam that was purely fictional. He was once diagnosed with suffering from "fictitious post-traumatic stress disorder" which is imaginary battle fatigue.
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