Channel-surfing last night and came across "Dateline NBC" and on came these women who had planned on putting out hits on their husbands only thing is they were really contracting out to an "undercover hitman", really a cop. Chris Hansen, of "To Catch of Predator" fame, narrated. Now what's scary, truly disturbing, is not that this is supercommon, it isn't, but it's common enough, these psycho chicks are out there. Every woman was casual about the whole thing, in the "transactions" they talked about it like grocery shopping or getting their hair done. We are living in the Golden Age of the Psycho folks and in the past these ladies had the edge since, as everyone knows, paranoia is
a bad thing
but Chris Hansen is onto their little game. It's all a cheapening of life, blame Roe if you want, blame relativism too, it all made for interesting, even fascinating television in a weird way. What makes this so hard is people don't walk around wearing t-shirts saying "I'm crazy". There's an old joke, an old saying, the people who act the most weird, the most eccentric, the most out-of-the-box or whatever are really not the ones to worry about, it's some of the normal folk out there but they go right under the radar screen because our weirdster alert is up. I like Chris Hansen's journalism more each day, it's groundbreaking in its own way. Kudos.
Curious, do these hitmen make it look like an accident, or a robbery?
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing, the "hitman" always left it up to the woman to decide the method, "so how do you want me to do it?" Now not that this happens everyday but there's enough here to make a show or two out of it. One need only read a few books by bestselling crime writer Ann Rule to see that truth is stranger than fiction but a common theme of her books is that some of the most dangerous criminals come across as perfectly normal in day-to-day life, aka the sociopath, but we always have our eye sharp for that guy with the tinfoil hat.
ReplyDeleteThe neighbors of the wackos on the news always do seem to say they never would have suspected it of their neighbor.
ReplyDeleteI got to thinking about this more, and I wonder how many of these women putting hits on their husbands are in abusive marriages and really don't know how to get out of them. Not saying it makes it right, but thinking that could make someone do something they might have never thought they would do.
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it this wasn't the case on the show at all, they just didn't like them and wanted to bump 'em off but the proper course of action in domestic violence cases is for the women to go to the police and leave the bastard. Now I was reading a booklet about this, why women don't do this right away, there's all kinds of psychological reasons behind it so interesting angle you gave, maybe they'll have a program on this in the future, who knows?
ReplyDeleteThen there's that Stockholm Syndrome, seems in the '70s in Sweden some guy was holding a bank hostage and a woman teller fell in love with him. The shrinks call this a coping mechanism or something and it probably applies to these women in abusive relationships. It even happens with bad bosses to stretch it a bit, some workers know they're being abused and degraded but instead of complaining about it right away they start making excuses for him, then they start going to work and adapting and so the boss is nice to them one day...Stockholm Syndrome.
ReplyDeleteThere probably some guru who could help, huh?
ReplyDeleteYeah, but you'd have to buy the $159.99 book and dvd deal first. Wisdom comes in combo packages these days, used to be everything could be found in the Good Book.
ReplyDeleteStill can be found there, but I suppose it's old fashioned.
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