Alex wrote:
He was a mental patient apparently. I read about it and witnesses said that he just road off like nothing had happened.
jointntoday wrote:
Gontcha wrote:
The man fled on a bicycle and was caught later.
*******...who really thinks they are going to get away on a bike?
He wasn't trying to get away. He left as if he had done nothing wrong.
You're right, sorry for my bad choice of words, but the man had another adress of a child nursery, 3km away. The man was 20 years old, had mental problems, and still has. Such acts are a test on society, tieng him up and letting other people do as they please, would indeed serve no cause, as the man wouldn't probably mind, and you wouldn't solve anything. He will be put in a special psychiatric wing in a jail for the rest of his miserable life.
The only fear I have now are copycats.
Btw, it's easy to flee cops on a bike, esp in old cities like Bruges and Brussels.
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The other issue partly at stake is privacy and rights. If you started putting guards everywhere watching everybody at every moment of everyday, then soon, we would be living in a police state society. We would be relying on people above us to protect us and giving-up protecting ourselves. I'm not saying that trying to protect innocent people is wrong, in fact in some cases and places, it is necessary to have a security guard around to be a presence. But I view this as one horrible case committed by one person on a seemingly irrational basis. You probably have a better chance of being hit by lightning or attacked by a shark than this happening again. Granted, that may be a gross overstatement, but I think you see what I mean. 
