Oh, it is Not Terror-Related So I Go Back to Grazing By Peter West

     Just for a moment I was going to panic, maybe buy a baseball bat on eBay, or a rolling pin, but then the authorities told me that the stabbing spree was not terror related. Well, there I was thinking that bodies piling up in the city streets was “terror,” but it seems to be a terrorist, you need to belong to an official organisation, maybe having a membership card of sorts, or just be a white right winger:
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/12/melbourne-stabbing-rampage-three-people-dead-including-man-shot-by-police

“Three people are dead, including a man shot by police, after a stabbing rampage through Melbourne’s inner east. Police say the “random act of senseless violence” appears to have started about 10.40pm on Wednesday.
A protective services officer at Jolimont train station, near the Melbourne Cricket Ground, was approached by a stranger and stabbed in the arm and cheek with a kitchen knife. He received non-life threatening cuts to his face. Police say the attacker then got on a train and soon after, two women were found in a car at Coppin Grove in Hawthorn about 11.20pm with life-threatening stab wounds. Police said it appeared the women had just arrived home and were getting out of their car. One 30-year-old woman died and the other, a 31-year-old woman, is in the Alfred hospital in a critical condition. Police were then called to reports of a man stabbed near a tram stop in Kew about 12.15am on Thursday. That man, who was 59-years-old , died in hospital, while a second man was spotted by police a few hundred metres away, in Walton Street. “There is nothing to suggest at this stage this is nothing less than a random act of senseless violence,” assistant commissioner Glenn Weir told reporters at the scene.”

     OK, random acts of senseless violence, make sense, and I can live with that.

 

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