Man Beheads Girlfriend in Greece, Fled in Patrol Car

[Willow]

ATHENS, Greece —  A 31-year-old man killed his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini on Sunday, beheaded her, then fled in a patrol car, a local official said.

During the ensuing chase, the suspect was shot five times by police and ran over two women doctors who were riding a motorcycle before he was caught, the official said.

The suspect, Athanassios Arvanitis, a cook at a local restaurant, is undergoing surgery at an island hospital, said Chrysanthos Roussos, head of the Santorini district on the island.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396703,00.html

seem like mooselims have started a new fad! Crap!

[Willow]

at least the Greek policemen had balls enough to shoot the monster but why they're wasting time in the OR is beyond my comprehension.

[debk]

Wow! I spent 3 days on Santorini a few years ago...it is such a peaceful place and wonderful people. This has to be overwhelming for many of them.

[jtyangel]

There is something very wrong when people are getting more and more barbaric like this. I find this type of thing incredibly offsetting and disgusting. I'm grateful my sensitivities to this kind of barbarism are still intact and that it probably is for most of the people I share this forum with.

I don't think this is Muslim related. This shows a certain empathy that is slipping away from once civilized people, no matter their loyalties to religion or country. To abuse a corpse? It's not enough to take a life in anger and cold blood, an act horrifying and viscious in itself, now people have to violate a person's dead body. It seems an attempt to totally denigrate and humiliate someone even beyond death and even a knife through the heart of that person's loved ones to know how brutally they were treated.

May the murdered young woman RIP. 

[Willow]

Wow! I spent 3 days on Santorini a few years ago...it is such a peaceful place and wonderful people. This has to be overwhelming for many of them.

I've been there too, one of the most beautiful places I've seen.

[debk]

Wow! I spent 3 days on Santorini a few years ago...it is such a peaceful place and wonderful people. This has to be overwhelming for many of them.

I've been there too, one of the most beautiful places I've seen.

Exactly, makes me sad that even a place like Santorini is not untouched by such vile acts.

Greek Orthodox is the primary religion there, not Muslim.

[Willow]

Wow! I spent 3 days on Santorini a few years ago...it is such a peaceful place and wonderful people. This has to be overwhelming for many of them.

I've been there too, one of the most beautiful places I've seen.

Exactly, makes me sad that even a place like Santorini is not untouched by such vile acts.

Greek Orthodox is the primary religion there, not Muslim.

I know, when I made the reference to a "new fad" I was thinking all the way back to Danny Pearl and all the subsequent beheading which have happened round the world" that's what I meant by started a 'fad".

[Wretched Excess]

I wonder if this is the long term effect of all the coverage that terrorists got hacking their captives' heads off.

it doesn't seem like heads got cut off so frequently in the past.

[debk]

I wonder if this is the long term effect of all the coverage that terrorists got hacking their captives' heads off.

it doesn't seem like heads got cut off so frequently in the past.

Is it that, or any type of horrendous violence done to a person.....or that the world has become much "smaller" due to mass communications, the internet, etc.? And we find out stuff that years ago, may have made local papers, but not national, let alone world news.

[Miss Mia]

I wonder if this is the long term effect of all the coverage that terrorists got hacking their captives' heads off.

it doesn't seem like heads got cut off so frequently in the past.

Is it that, or any type of horrendous violence done to a person.....or that the world has become much "smaller" due to mass communications, the internet, etc.? And we find out stuff that years ago, may have made local papers, but not national, let alone world news.

Interesting, I'd think it's a combination of the two. 

[jtyangel]

I wonder if this is the long term effect of all the coverage that terrorists got hacking their captives' heads off.

it doesn't seem like heads got cut off so frequently in the past.

Is it that, or any type of horrendous violence done to a person.....or that the world has become much "smaller" due to mass communications, the internet, etc.? And we find out stuff that years ago, may have made local papers, but not national, let alone world news.

It's a return to barbarism in general and it's sensationalizing in the media. Life is again becoming expendable and it is broadcast over and over again which in some way trivializes it.

[Thor]

I think it started in the late 60s or early 70s when the media began televising abhorrent scenes from Viet Nam. I recall when the media wouldn't publish videos with the sickening videos of what was going on over there and then, they started sneaking them in, little by little. I think that the media has desensitized the world over the horrible scenes and diminished the atrocity of death. Over the last four decades, it's gotten worse and worse. People, due to the media's recklessness, just don't value life, property, or themselves as much as they did four and five decades ago.

As an example of the slope we've traversed down, just yesterday I was at WalMart here in Texomaland and observed people going into the store, dressed like BUMS!!! My Grandmother and Mom wouldn't have been caught dead out in public like that. Yet, these people seem to have no pride in themselves or their appearance any more. If they don't respect themselves, how can they respect or value anything else??

[jtyangel]

I think it started in the late 60s or early 70s when the media began televising abhorrent scenes from Viet Nam. I recall when the media wouldn't publish videos with the sickening videos of what was going on over there and then, they started sneaking them in, little by little. I think that the media has desensitized the world over the horrible scenes and diminished the atrocity of death. Over the last four decades, it's gotten worse and worse. People, due to the media's recklessness, just don't value life, property, or themselves as much as they did four and five decades ago.

As an example of the slope we've traversed down, just yesterday I was at WalMart here in Texomaland and observed people going into the store, dressed like BUMS!!! My Grandmother and Mom wouldn't have been caught dead out in public like that. Yet, these people seem to have no pride in themselves or their appearance any more. If they don't respect themselves, how can they respect or value anything else??

I was just talking to somebody about this today! How women(and men) will walk into the local store in pajama bottoms and slippers. I don't go in dressed to the nines, but hair back(if you don't want to fix it up), face washed, and clothes presentable and appropriate doesn't seem too much to ask. Again, it's the death of civility in general.

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

I think it started in the late 60s or early 70s when the media began televising abhorrent scenes from Viet Nam. I recall when the media wouldn't publish videos with the sickening videos of what was going on over there and then, they started sneaking them in, little by little. I think that the media has desensitized the world over the horrible scenes and diminished the atrocity of death. Over the last four decades, it's gotten worse and worse. People, due to the media's recklessness, just don't value life, property, or themselves as much as they did four and five decades ago.

As an example of the slope we've traversed down, just yesterday I was at WalMart here in Texomaland and observed people going into the store, dressed like BUMS!!! My Grandmother and Mom wouldn't have been caught dead out in public like that. Yet, these people seem to have no pride in themselves or their appearance any more. If they don't respect themselves, how can they respect or value anything else??

I was just talking to somebody about this today! How women(and men) will walk into the local store in pajama bottoms and slippers. I don't go in dressed to the nines, but hair back(if you don't want to fix it up), face washed, and clothes presentable and appropriate doesn't seem too much to ask. Again, it's the death of civility in general.

Jesus! I only did it once!

[jtyangel]

I think it started in the late 60s or early 70s when the media began televising abhorrent scenes from Viet Nam. I recall when the media wouldn't publish videos with the sickening videos of what was going on over there and then, they started sneaking them in, little by little. I think that the media has desensitized the world over the horrible scenes and diminished the atrocity of death. Over the last four decades, it's gotten worse and worse. People, due to the media's recklessness, just don't value life, property, or themselves as much as they did four and five decades ago.

As an example of the slope we've traversed down, just yesterday I was at WalMart here in Texomaland and observed people going into the store, dressed like BUMS!!! My Grandmother and Mom wouldn't have been caught dead out in public like that. Yet, these people seem to have no pride in themselves or their appearance any more. If they don't respect themselves, how can they respect or value anything else??

I was just talking to somebody about this today! How women(and men) will walk into the local store in pajama bottoms and slippers. I don't go in dressed to the nines, but hair back(if you don't want to fix it up), face washed, and clothes presentable and appropriate doesn't seem too much to ask. Again, it's the death of civility in general.

Jesus! I only did it once!

  for shame!






At least she's got sneakers on--probably without socks

[Thor]

I rarely wear socks with my sneakers.  It's a habit I got into out in California when I was doing a lot of running. (The socks would cause worse abrasions than the shoes and would often fall down and cause more problems. I was running 5-8 miles, daily.) Of course, my sneakers' "shelf life" is dramatically diminished due to this fact. 

[jtyangel]

I rarely wear socks with my sneakers.  It's a habit I got into out in California when I was doing a lot of running. (The socks would cause worse abrasions than the shoes and would often fall down and cause more problems. I was running 5-8 miles, daily.) Of course, my sneakers' "shelf life" is dramatically diminished due to this fact. 

That's with a purpose though, Thor. The young lady I was referring to probably has done it out of laziness, much like the rest of the 'outfit'.

[debk]

Even doing my drivebys, at least my hair is brushed (or under a ballcap), my face washed (mascara and lip gloss on) and teeth brushed and I have on decent shorts/jeans and a top. Have to admit I usually have some sort of sandal/flipflop on.

And I don't even get out of the car.

Bad upbringing, I guess.

[Airwolf]

Insanity knows no boundaries. Geographical or Religious. The guy was a nut and the Greek police need bigger bullets or better training.

[LC EFA]

Insanity knows no boundaries. Geographical or Religious. The guy was a nut and the Greek police need bigger bullets or better training.

If a trained cop can hit a target 5 times and not kill it, they need both a bigger weapon AND some instruction on where to point it.

[Willow]

Insanity knows no boundaries. Geographical or Religious. The guy was a nut and the Greek police need bigger bullets or better training.

If a trained cop can hit a target 5 times and not kill it, they need both a bigger weapon AND some instruction on where to point it.

well at least they tried. CRMP just sat there and watched their guy have bkf.