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When old people attack!
Earlier this week, up in Canada, 81-year-old John Driscoll faced charges of second-degree murder. Driscoll has been living at the Bethany Care Center for the last two months and, according to the cops, he got into fight with his 77-hear-old roommate. The fight apparently escalated and got physical, and Driscoll ended up attacking the hell out of his roommate (neither the cops nor the nursing home have said how the attack occurred, and whether it was by hand, foot, knife, chair, etc.). The roommate was taken to a hospital after his injuries were discovered, but he eventually succumbed to them.
Both Driscoll and his roommate were being treated for Alzheimer’s and/or dementia, so they were obviously in rough mental shape, and it’s certainly quite possible that Driscoll has no idea/recollection of what happened.
This sounds right out of last Sunday’s episode of “The Sopranos,” where Uncle Junior, who also suffers from bad mental break downs, kicked the living crap out of a Rutgers professor in his nursing home. I wonder when we’re going to have Congressional hearings about this incident being TV’s fault.
Oh that’s right, this was in Canada, and their politicians don’t blame stupid shit on the media. My media.
