Life imitates art?

[StoneGold]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051202/ap_en_ot/deadly_eminem_fan_3

An Eminem impersonator who beat a woman to death and stuffed her body in a suitcase — a scene reminiscent of the rapper's "Stan" video — is facing life in prison.

Christopher Duncan, 21, has the same hair color, style and tattoos as the rapper. Duncan pleaded guilty Thursday to killing Jagdip Najran, 26, a law student and aspiring singer.

They met at a karaoke bar last year, where Najran was smitten after watching Duncan perform, a prosecutor said. Duncan took Najran back to his apartment and beat her over the head with an iron baseball bat until she fell unconscious, then stuffed her body into a suitcase.

Medical experts testified she stayed alive for at least an hour after being struck. Duncan reportedly told police he was high on Ecstasy and LSD at the time.

In the video for "Stan," an obsessive fan ties up his girlfriend, throws her in the trunk of his car and drives it over a bridge.

Duncan was to be sentenced Monday. A call to Eminem's publicist in Los Angeles was not immediately returned


So the lesson here is don't do what daddy says? Or maybe just not to bang guys who try to hard to look like Eminem?

[BlairH]

I think the lesson here is that there are some naturally evil and sociopathic people out there. Makes me sick that somebody would do this.

[nervmeister]

So the question is, do we blame Eminem or drugs for this?

[BlairH]

So the question is, do we blame Eminem or drugs for this?
Why blame external factors? As convinient as it may be to blame abstract objects, the blame rests with the murderer in question.

[StoneGold]

Why blame external factors? As convinient as it may be to blame abstract objects, the blame rests with the murderer in question.
Well, the drugs probably get partial credit at least. But he took the drugs, so it's not so much of an excuse.

[nervmeister]

Why blame external factors? As convinient as it may be to blame abstract objects, the blame rests with the murderer in question.Precisely.

[howyadoin]

They make baseball bats out of iron?

Fuck, I hope that spreads to hockey.

[StoneGold]

They make baseball bats out of iron?

Fuck, I hope that spreads to hockey.
Good catch.

[Adam Crocker]

So the question is, do we blame Eminem or drugs for this?

Even jokingly following the panicky logic that causes people to assume that KISS equals "Knights in Satan's Service", I don't see why Eminem should get any blame for this since it's pretty obvious that the guilty party missed the point of "Stan." (That's assuming that the incident was even based on the song beyond the vague similarities between the two.)

Of course, the panicky logic is not often logical so some yaks might do it anyways.