freecounterpoint: DEATH

Saturday, September 23, 2006

DEATH

Twenty-two year old Dru Sjodin was a University of North Dakota undergrad. She was abducted outside of the Columbia Mall, in the parking lot, just after she got off where she worked at Victoria Secrets.

The stalker and killer, Rodriguez, used some three dollar knife he purchased at a nearby Menards (hardware store) to kidnap and kill Sjodin. He left her body face down in some ditch in northern Minnesota.

14 comments:

The Darkroom said...: Had it been a $100 knife, I could live with it. But a $3 knife, that's just cruel - he's got what he deserved.; 9/23/2006 5:38 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: I don't understand how this relates to the subject Pepe.; 9/23/2006 7:41 PM
The Darkroom said...: ? read the second paragraph, first sentence of your post (or am i missing something?); 9/23/2006 9:37 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Perhaps, Pepe, you're missing the possibility that North Dakotans are not as far down the road of "murder as a source of good sophisticated belly laughter" as you nuanced folk of the Big Easy are. It just might be that this ugly murder of a beautiful young woman actually bothered those frozen rubes of the coldest Red State. But fear not, Pepe, for surely, as we speak, in some famously blue coastal state, the murder of some beautiful young woman is being treated with the recommended dosage of Pewian insouciance.; 9/25/2006 4:03 AM
The Darkroom said...: Well, as a blood-thirsty saddam/aq/stalin-supporting commie, i relish world pain and therefore allow myself to make light on societal events.

Is your hollier-than-thou comment solely the result of your finding the girl attractive as you strangely insist on? Surely the sense of moral superiority you display has to be more than the product of frustration from missing out on a fine piece of ass?; 9/25/2006 7:59 AM
Mr roT said...: I think about this ugly story about what I think about the BBC report on the Kurds' being trained by the Israelis.
Yes, true, but why exactly is this news?
AA's silly emoting over the purity of the NDak essence violation and the journalist's sketching the ignobility of the $3 murder weapon both seem overwrought.
Cute girl. Murder bad. Focus on this and turn it into a national source of soul-searching because some readership segment (either Hezbollah or NDak milk-and-honeyists) will go spittle-faced and maybe we can get a story about them protesting out in the street. I can see it already:
The Grand Forks street is seething!; 9/25/2006 10:01 AM
The Darkroom said...: aa is so bent on harping on everything i state that he doesn't bother to read my posts before commenting on them. had he done so, it might have occured to him that i was reacting to the journalists coverage of the event, not on the girls' murder.; 9/25/2006 10:07 AM
Mr roT said...: Maybe AA is pissed because Dru Sjodin looked like the Conservative Dating chick I posted.
He's suffering the same feelings that Nancy Pelosi did when Chavez called Chomsky deceased.
"God is dead" hurts believers to hear, particularly when they might someday be a conservative piece of ass that works at Victoria Secrets [sic?].; 9/25/2006 10:17 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: JJ, why is anything news?

You guys are right: it's a silly story. Thanks for the clarification. I'll just delete it.; 9/25/2006 2:53 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: ...AA's silly emoting over the purity of the NDak essence...

So you've been here to experience it? When the Red River flooded Grand Forks in '97, thousands of NoDakotans didn't smash windows and start looting the town. They decided it was better to move books from the basement of the university archives, to sandbag (even though it was futile), and to basically help the distressed. I suppose the community response would be similar if New Orleans was flooded...; 9/25/2006 3:00 PM
The Darkroom said...: They decided it was better to move books from the basement of the university archives, to sandbag (even though it was futile), and to basically help the distressed.
Geeks - they have no idea what good healthy fun is about.; 9/25/2006 8:45 PM
Mr roT said...: MFT, I hope you don't delete anything. That would be about like New Orleaneans putting all the books nto the basements so they wouldn't have to read them anymore.; 9/25/2006 10:21 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Pepe, I read what you put out. And I was making a comment on what you chose to consider worthy of comment, and how. As for this case, I was in Minnesota when the murder occurred. And murder is is/was still sufficiently rare in those parts [pace the current mayor and his best efforts to close the gap with the Big Easy] as to make it a little more meaningful, a little harder to reduce it to the question of bodily essences or the pepean sanction that only that which can't strike back is fair game for mockery.
Yes, you are missing something.; 9/26/2006 10:36 PM
The Darkroom said...: the pepean sanction that only that which can't strike back is fair game for mockery
what ? they raped and killed the journalist too ?

(as you can see, I do find your holier-than-though tone fair game for mockery too).; 9/27/2006 10:52 PM