another stabbing along the line...seems i am missing them personally...seemingly staying one step ahead of these incidents. hoping that this continues too...
last night another stabbing occured on the lrt station line...the previous one was really weird, since the victim simply vanished after leaving his mark... the call had come in for a crew to attend to some blood at a station just 2 removed from mine...i almost responded, being the closest one though i wasn't assigned to that one-the ones who were couldn't get there on time.
as it happened, someone from the downtown leg was able to get there and so he did-confronted by a massive blood spectacle...the victim had been stabbed at a stop, then leaving a huge trail of blood proceeded into the station, having taken off his blood filled shoe began slapping it all along the walls, the escalators, everywhere blood flying...
it took them hours to pressure wash the station clean, needing of course to close it to the public. thinking that such a huge blood loss would have caused the person to lose consciousness and even die qucikly, the video cameras caught sight of his actions, then lost him. he simply vanished, no doubt all drugged up, to explain his actions...two weeks later he is still missing...
last night it was more a 'normal
occurence, which is the reason for this blog...
what is it about we humans, that we have become so apathetic and allowing/tolerant, and even blase about such incidents, and why-perhaps moreso, do individuals engage in such horrific acts of violence? have we become so desensitised to life and the individual that we think nothing of killing, murdering, lashing out in the most violent of acts....?
what is it that could compel an individual to stab another of their own, let out to set out and murder one of another species...?
life is the most precious of essences, yet our sepcies of animal thinks nothing of destroying this rare jewel...wasting it for the most trivial and/or self-serving of motives...
i thought about the stabbings...i get this feeling of foreboding working a station on my own-not always...there are a couple of stations that have auras or an ambience that unsettle me, the main one i'm assigned to-where i was for both stabbings in fact, that leave me always looking over my shoulder because i hear someone coming down either the stairs or the escalator...is it possible that there will come a time....
is there something beyond that compels people to do what they do-or is it all down to the individual and their dysfunctional existence(s), society's breakdown and removal from natural codes of conduct accompanied by a respect for all things living....?
