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A 73-year-old Detroit man is behind bars for allegedly attacking a 7-year-old girl with a knife in a city park full of children, slashing her throat in an incident that ended with the child racing home to her mother for help, and the suspect in handcuffs.

"He just like came out of nowhere and just like (pulled) the knife on me," the girl told Fox 2 News as she sat on a porch step this week with gauze around her neck, explaining how a day at the park with her grandmother turned into a day of horror.

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[–] gi1242@lemmy.world 79 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

normally when they say slashing throat, I assume death. looks like the girl was ok though cause she ran home to get help

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Was probably a shallow wound, either that or the kid is made of the same spite and wroth that an old Vietnam vet I met was made of, he sowed his throat back up after it was slashed by a mentally unstable squad mate who lost it.

[–] jojo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that an actual story? Link?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Met, old bastard ran a gas station that I was stuck at until AAA got a car out to fix my main tire.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Wasn't that bad, the children kept playing, they were just horrified.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There's lots of parts and depths of your neck you can cut and not die. It's just that there are also lots of parts that you can't.

Always make me think of that hockey goalie that got his jugular cut. (He didn't die either.)

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah this headline is pure, misleading clickbait,

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 77 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

According to the article the man has been having mental health problems. That's ok though because it seems the wife has been addressing it with the power of Facebook prayer requests. Clearly it's been working well.

Sarcasm aside, what are people with mental illness but no access to adequate healthcare expected to do? I'm assuming they couldn't afford medical care but, given that they are in their seventies, living in America, and asking for prayers on Facebook, I think my assumption is correct.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They're expected to do nothing that bothers or burdens anyone else and then die, as far as I can tell. They can just skip to the last part if they want, as long as it still fulfills the requirements of the first part.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why can't mentally unwell people just behave mentally well?

Have you ever tried just not being mentally ill? Someone told me to just not be depressed, which I hadn't ever thought of!

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I get it that it comes off as "just feel better bro" but if society can't draw the line at "don't stab children, it's literally never acceptable, regardless of circumstances" then what's even the point?

Edit to be clear I took issue with the "what else are they supposed to do?" As if there's ever a set of mental or external circumstances that normalize what happened. There isn't.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Society does draw that line. That's why he was arrested.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Indeed, and there's no need for excusatory language like "what else could they possibly have done?"

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think you misunderstood. They were literally asking what people in those circumstances can do. I don't think they're justifying the actions.

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody is saying it's acceptable just that it's avoidable, and someone can be apprehended for security and later treated and found not criminally responsible for their actions.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

If you haven't been in a disassociative state, it's fucking wild. Nothing feels "real" and everything is foggy. It's like you're walking through a foggy liminal space and the walls are glass, on the other side is reality, and you can't get to the other side. You're lonely, nothing feels right, and you are detached from the world, loved ones, and any positive emotion/connection.

I'm not defending the dude, but I do want to explain that actions get weird/crazy and sometimes you don't remember if things actually happened or not. You start to feel like a rat in a cage, or slowly give up.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 72 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't believe the horrified kids kept playing.

[–] Copythis@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This sounds like a wkuk episode

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Look out kids, it's the Grapist!

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They are saying they can't prove it's a hate crime. Just ask him where he keeps his red hat and to really get him, ask foe his opinions on migrants.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago

/r/titlegore

(OP didn't write the title, don't blame OP)

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

Was guy also police?