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July 17, 2008 12:25pm by David Farrar

The Last Samurai

Sent in by a reader. Bad taste, but when has that stopped humour.

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RRM

Was Dixon actually insane in the end, or was he just acting ‘mad’ in court in an attempt to stay out of jail?

Oh and that poster is beautifully done. All matching sepia tones and everything!
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July 17, 2008 12:28pm
bearhunter

Heh. He’s still saner than Tom Cruise.
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July 17, 2008 12:40pm
Dr Robotnik

Apparently when a bunch of puffed up political commentators don’t get it.

You missed a question mark by the way. Have 20 demerits.
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July 17, 2008 12:42pm
Inventory2

RRM – the jury will decide in the next few days if he’s bad or mad – the trial is still in progress.
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July 17, 2008 12:51pm
getstaffed

Hmmm, I’m all for humour when it’s poking fun at quirks and sensitivities… but not so on-side when the subject has admitted causing death and permanent injury to others.
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July 17, 2008 12:59pm
dime

hes not mad. not at all.

a friend knows the chick who lost her hand.. was told full story… the chick that lost her hand comes from a crime free family haha honest
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July 17, 2008 1:03pm
Murray

And STILL he did not use a “Samurai” sword. It is a classic Chinese straight blade with a square guard.

Benefits of free trade invloved here?
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July 17, 2008 1:09pm
unaha-closp

Bad taste, but when has that stopped humour.

Yet again the internet will provide answers to all rhetorical questions.

22 May 2007, Vancouver, Canada

http://www.guyearle.ca/
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July 17, 2008 1:09pm
2_dead_dogs

Oh god that’s hilarious.

Thank you.
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July 17, 2008 1:10pm
Inventory2

Meantime the Last Newsreader and the Last Radiosport Jock has gone:

http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2008/07/breaking-news-veitch-gooooooone.html
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July 17, 2008 2:30pm
burt

Murray

Must have also been a poorly made sword since the tip broke off…. Perhaps it was a parrallel import not a finely hammered piece of quality steel.
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July 17, 2008 5:11pm
coge

Look. If you lot had a Boeing 747 following you everywhere, you’d be pretty freaked out too.
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July 17, 2008 5:15pm
Ryan Sproull

I worry about the worldview of anyone who wonders whether a guy was sane or not while he cut off some women’s hands with a samurai sword. As far as I’m concerned, he’s batshit insane, even if he thinks he’s pretending to be crazy.
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July 17, 2008 5:18pm
burt

coge

I agree, the satelites that monitor me all day and night are bad enough, a 747 would really tip me over the edge as well.
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July 17, 2008 5:26pm
paradigm

He should have mentioned the cult of Scientology when going through his insanity defense. That would have certainly convinced the jury.
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July 17, 2008 5:51pm
Paul Marsden

From the shoulders-up, he bares a ‘striking’ resemblance to HC.
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July 17, 2008 6:05pm
reid

You never know from the sound bites though, do you?

It will be interesting to read his entire defence and cross-examination deposition in the law report.

The TV One report after the first day of cross made him sound as if some coaching had been given to him since the first trial but of course that wouldn’t happen. He’s certainly sounding like a comic-book loony tune, as opposed to a common-or-garden one.

Bad taste I know.

Trials like these I wonder if it should not be up to a jury of specialists, I doubt most of us know what to look for in detecting madness as genuine or contrived.
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July 17, 2008 9:26pm
burt

reid

Oh I know what to look for, I look in the mirror and it frightens me. I sharpen my large kitchen knives to relax. Just catching sight of my self in a shop window, as I walk down the street, makes me grip the scissors in my pocket very tightly. I know this girl, she likes me but tells me I scare her. She never told me she had taken photographs of me, she blindfolded me with my sword in my hand to help me relax and well when the blindfold came off and I was surrounded in mirrors and people were laughing, people I didn’t know were in the room. It went a bit wayward after that. I wouldn’t trust a person like me holding a sword in a situation like that… do you think they wanted to die?

How am I doing, how am I looking for the prize of “home detention” with electronic surveillance? Tax payer funded staff bringing me the things I need, in my own house. Life as a King.

The way I see it, and don’t make me sharpen my knives, is that he’s either completely bonkers or he’s taking the system for a walk. Sadly having closed down the long term ‘dangerously insane’ institution’s (thanks Helen) there is nowhere to toss people like this for a while and assess the snot out of them. So we throw them in jail and teach them even less respect for human life.
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July 17, 2008 9:58pm
noskire

I guess he’ll be a handy addition to the prison kitchen crew.

And no doubt, when he’s released on parole in 47 days, Corrections will find him work placement at House of Knives…
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July 17, 2008 11:38pm
Murray

Hey coge I have voices in my head too. they tell me to do things.

Things like… eat pizza and watch TV.
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July 18, 2008 8:30am
dave strings

Sadly having closed down the long term ‘dangerously insane’ institution’s

Don’t worry m8, there’s still one in Porirua, full of idiots. (Oh and some nurses and patients too I believe).
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July 18, 2008 8:46am
Murray

Theres one in Wellington too. They keep letting the bastards out as well.

At least they don’t let them drive themselves.
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July 18, 2008 9:11am

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