Everybodys heard about the Bird..

Derrick Bird is the word and the word on the street is that after being traumatised by some incident in his taxi back in 2007 Derrick held a grudge which has taken three years to manifest into a killing spree! How ridiculous is that? I guess that in stressful times such as these people search for logical explanations for irrational behaviour, but three years after being assulted by someone not paying their fare stretches the imagination a bit far.

Derrick Bird has had some stress although one would imagine it is not too high on the national stress meter considering state of economy and general relationships. Divorce, a family row over a will settlements and hassle at work over rank rights might be enough to hit the bottle but settling disputes with a shotgun is in another league.

To set out to eliminate all your purported adversaries in one go and a load of dissassociated innocents revealed a mind set warped and unconnected with reality. Cumbria along with the rest of Britain is in shock with Derrick Bird's killing spree but whilst we wrestle with the motives for such an attack we must remember that each one of us lives in our own microcosm of reality which can on rare occasions morph into some other nightmare. What keeps pulling us back from dispropotional thoughts of revenge or justice at the junctures of our lives is debatable. For Derrick Bird and his thirteen victims we may never know.

SiG