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...people undergoing identical experiences (e.g. surgical operations, war wounds, etc.). In other words, a stimulus that would cause one person severe pain would be only a minor annoyance to another. The point here is not that some people are "tougher" than others, that some people can just bite the bullet while others run whimpering to the medicine cabinet or even to the doctor s office. The point is that pain is complicated, that the same pressure applied twice to the same piano key came produce a deafening roar one time and a barely audible peep the next...
...Peabody resident reported to the CPD that he had an argument with another party. The suspect attacked the victim from behind, and threw him down a flight of stairs. The suspect then said to the victim "if the cops [interfere] they will catch a bullet and you'll get the next one." The suspect was later arrested...
...kill as she repeatedly fired a .22-cal. rifle at Cleveland Elementary School from her home across the street? "No one in particular. I kind of like the red and blue jackets." While Brenda chatted on the telephone, the terrified pupils and teachers huddled on the floor of the bullet-sprayed school. Principal Burton Wragg and Custodian Michael Suchar were both slain by the gunfire at the school's front yard. Eight children and one police officer were wounded. After hours of futile attempts to get Brenda to surrender, she finally decided it was time to end what...
...humanity and integrity signed in blood. As Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris prowled the school with their guns and bombs, this is what the children did: a boy draped himself over his sister and her friend, so that he would be the one shot. A boy with 10 bullet wounds in his leg picked up an explosive that landed by him and hurled it away from the other wounded kids. Others didn't want to leave their dying teacher when the SWAT team finally came: Can't we carry him out on a folded-up table? A girl was asked...
...long-awaited senior prank; they had been expecting balloons filled with shaving cream. Surely those are firecrackers, they thought. Surely those guns are fake. Is the blood fake? Can a fake bomb make walls shake? Then they were screaming and running. One boy could feel the rush of a bullet past his head...