Today’s Armed To The Teeth Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
On July 18, 1984, 41-year-old James Huberty walked into a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, California, and killed 21 people, including 5 children, and injured 19 others. On the way out of his house that afternoon, he told his wife and daughter “I’m going hunting for humans and I won’t be back.” The McDonald’s restaurant on West San Ysidro Boulevard is long gone; all that remains is a memorial with flowers and a plaque bearing the names of the 21 murder victims. James Huberty walked into the McDonald’s that day armed to the teeth, and bent on killing as many people as he could.
“He fired three different weapons, fired more than 245 rounds from an Uzi, a .9mm and from a shotgun, so he just literally walked in and started killing people right off the bat,” stated Police Lt. Jerry Sanders, San Diego’s former mayor and police chief.
Sanders was commanding the SWAT team that day. As he made his way down to San Ysidro, he was getting update reports.
“All I knew was that they said people were fleeing from the restaurant, there were bodies all over, and he was putting out a massive amount of gunfire.”
Inside, the 17-year-old Wendy Flanagan had gotten ice and was returning to the register when she heard what she thought was a firecracker, and then the world turned upside-down.
“He started shooting like da, da, da, da, da – like a machine gun.”
Her co-worker Maggie grabbed her hand and said “run, run!”
“We were running, we were holding hands, and she fell, and I let go of her, and she died.”
Wendy and several others – including mothers and babies – made their way to a closet.
“We stayed in there, we listened to gunfire. I would hear people beg for their lives, babies crying, and the rapid gunfire, and then the moms screaming, and quiet again.”
Then noises at the closet door: somebody trying to get in, hitting the door and sliding down. It was 16-year old Alberto Leos, a co-worker who was hit several times.
“He was bleeding all over so another employee, Raul, he took off the shoelaces and tied them with Alberto’s leg and arm and tried to stop the bleeding.”
Alberto was biting down on a rag because of the pain and not wanting to make a noise for fear of being found. Meantime outside, the cops had gotten the perimeter contained.
“You could see bodies; officers were trying to pull them out, but they kept getting gunfire aimed at them,” continued Sanders.
By now, Huberty was running short on ammunition. He’d killed almost everybody in the restaurant, or thought he had. 67 minutes into this massacre, there would be one more rifle shot.
“Finally, we were able to get a sniper up in the post office across the parking lot, and as soon as he had a sight picture, we ordered him to kill Huberty.”
SWAT finally arrived at the closet. On the way out, Wendy saw the body of Maggie who had grabbed her hand, then fell. She also saw Maggie’s family behind the police tape.
“I’ve never told her family this, so I hope that they hear this and know she was a very good, brave person.. She saved my life,” proclaimed Wendy.
Culled from: KUSI.Com
I’m reminded of the great Throwing Muses song, “Hate My Way” which was one of the anthems of my youth:
A boy was tangled in his bike forever
A girl was missing two fingers
Gerry Ann was confused
Mr. Huberty had a gun in his head
So I sit up late in the morning and ask myself again
How do they kill children?
And why do I wanna die?
They can no longer move;
I can no longer be still.
This is Mr. Huberty:
And this is the boy tangled in his bike forever:
Arcane Excerpts: Fitness For Marriage Edition!
After my parents passed away, I found a gem lurking on their bookshelf: A Marriage Manual: A Practical Guide-book To Sex and Marriage (1935) by Hannah M. Stone, M.D. and Abraham Stone, M.D. – a biologically fit married couple if ever there was one! (BTW,Hannah was awesome – an early proponent of contraception who fought the good fight but died young.)
Anyway, in this book, there is an imagined conversation between a man and woman who wish to marry and their doctor. It’s full of gems about marriage fitness, like this one:
Couple: “When you spoke of the need of being sexually normal in relation to fitness for marriage, doctor, were you referring to the question of sexual diseases?”
Doctor: “No, I had reference mainly to the question of sexual capacity, that is physical ability to enter into the sexual relationship. This is a problem which applies primarily to the man. Sexual disabilities of women are not often related to fitness for marriage, and we shall discuss these at some other time. Lack of sufficient potency on the part of men, however, is not an infrequent condition, and those suffering from this disorder may be unable to consummate the physical union in marriage. It is a serious mistake for anyone who is sexually inadequate to marry without first having his disability corrected, or at least without receiving competent medical advice. As a matter of fact, Hindu lawmakers decreed over a thousand years ago that before marriage ‘a man must undergo an examination with regard to his virility.’ Only after the fact of his virility had been established beyond doubt was he privileged to marry.”
“Is there any way of determining whether a man is potent or not before he has had sexual experience?”
“To some extent, yes. Normally, a man, even though he has never had any actual sexual relations, has probably had some kind of sexual manifestation. He has been stimulated sexually, has reacted in a definite manner, and he is, therefore, as a rule, conscious of his sexual capacities. Every now and then, however, it does happen that a man’s sexual incapacity does not manifest itself until after marriage, or appears only at that time, but this is a chapter in the story of marriage that we shall consider more fully later on.
“Now, aside from the question of sexual capacity, fitness for marriage… implies also the ability to beget healthy children. The couple should be free from any infirmity which would prevent reproduction. In other words, neither the husband nor the wife should be sterile, or afflicted with any disease which would make procreation physically or eugenically inadvisable.”
“But suppose one can’t or shouldn’t have children for one reason or another, should that person never marry?”
“No, not necessarily. I have known couples who have married in spite of the fact that they knew beforehand that they could never have children, and such marriages are sometimes quite successful. There are other factors which may decide a man or a woman to marry – factors which even outweigh the inability to beget children.”
[My favorite part is the whole “reacted in a definite manner” bit. They just can’t bring themselves to say the word, can they? – DeSpair]