Man gets testy, so to speak
A dork goes berserk in a Pennsylvania health club:
Friends mourned for three women fatally shot during their exercise class at a Pittsburgh-area gym by a man whose online diary revealed he felt ignored by women and had an “exit plan” to avenge his rage.
George Sodini went to a sprawling L.A. Fitness Club on Tuesday night, turned out the lights on the “Latin impact” dance-aerobics class for women, and opened fire with three guns, spraying dozens of bullets before committing suicide.
Idjit. Didn’t someone tell him you shoot yourself first, and then you spray the bullets?
Huh? What? Oh. Sorry. Let us continue:
His 4,610-word Web diary appeared to be a nine-month chronology of his plans to end his misery with a shocking act of carnage at his gym. He couldn’t understand why women ignored him, despite his best efforts to look nice. He wrote that he hadn’t had a girlfriend since 1984, hadn’t slept with a woman in 19 years.
“Women just don’t like me. There are 30 million desirable women in the US (my estimate) and I cannot find one. Not one of them finds me attractive,” the 48-year-old computer programmer lamented.
Do the math. He slept with someone in 1990. If not with a girlfriend, then with whom?
I don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for this lout, despite having spilled way more than 4,610 words on the same sort of whiny poor-me material, if only because not once has it ever occurred to me to shoot anyone as payback.
I am going to take a stab here… I think women didn’t like him because he was creepy and seemed like a psychopathic killer. JUST A GUESS!!!
Usage question: We’re talking about the motives of a gunman. Is “take a stab” correct?
Jeffro »
7 August 2009 · 12:17 pm
Yannow, when considering all the failed relationships, the wrongs done to me, and other unfair practices, there is a common thread.
Me.
As in I have something to do with all that. What is so hard for some people to reach the same conclusion?
Yeah, I know it’s generally a massive ego, or something similar, but still. I’m normally sympathetic to another’s pain, but when the rest of humanity is to blame and they are not – the well runs dry.
CT »
7 August 2009 · 12:50 pm
“Take a shot”, then.
Lynn »
7 August 2009 · 2:07 pm
I’m with Donna. In fact, my exact words (more or less) when I first heard about this were, “Probably the reason he couldn’t get women was because he was seriously creepy.”
CGHill »
7 August 2009 · 4:53 pm
If you’re morbidly curious, Riggstad’s Nut Straight has excerpts from the killer’s Web site. Based on said excerpts, I’m thinking he was even worse off than the AP is telling us. (Courtesy of Dawn Summers.)
Donna B. »
7 August 2009 · 6:23 pm
BUT, the truly sad thing is that this guy makes women afraid of every guy who isn’t “certified” non-creepy.
There are a lot of very non-violent, essentially kind and caring, but socially awkward guys out there who are now even more isolated… and it’s not really their fault.
Dick Stanley »
8 August 2009 · 4:41 am
Mr. Ego has given dorks a permanent bad name, unless they learn to smile a lot and wear anti-gun buttons.
Joseph Hertzlinger »
9 August 2009 · 1:10 am
It’s time for dorks to become a recognized Aggrieved Minority.