Tate Modern incident: Teenager arrested for attempted murder after child, 6, ‘thrown from height’
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Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Fucking hell 
Grim indeed
Aside from the obvious people involved, must be pretty traumatic for a lot of the bystanders.
Grim indeed Aside from the obvious people involved, must be pretty traumatic for a lot of the bystanders.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
That's some fucked up shit right there 
Mrs Miggins
It’s all happening tomorrow
What the fuck is going on there?!
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
That's awful
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
Wtf?
Poor kid
Poor kid
That's pretty evil and also quite weird. I mean, I can sort of see why some attacks and murders are done - money, power, revenge, whatever - but not this one. Unless this 17 year old has been reading Gide, and it's his version of shoving a man out of a train.
Untreated mental illness? Combination of recreational drugs all going wrong?
I hope the guy who did it is white and British. I hate to think how some groups might try to exploit such a horrible event if he is not.
Untreated mental illness? Combination of recreational drugs all going wrong?
I hope the guy who did it is white and British. I hate to think how some groups might try to exploit such a horrible event if he is not.
Steel Icarus
we move
Liked because that's how I felt reading it. Sick, like stomach flipped over sick.
Steel Icarus
we move
I hope the little one makes it. Anything else is irrelevant.That's pretty evil and also quite weird. I mean, I can sort of see why some attacks and murders are done - money, power, revenge, whatever - but not this one. Unless this 17 year old has been reading Gide, and it's his version of shoving a man out of a train.
Untreated mental illness? Combination of recreational drugs all going wrong?
I hope the guy who did it is white and British. I hate to think how some groups might try to exploit such a horrible event if he is not.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
That's pretty evil and also quite weird. I mean, I can sort of see why some attacks and murders are done - money, power, revenge, whatever - but not this one. Unless this 17 year old has been reading Gide, and it's his version of shoving a man out of a train.
Untreated mental illness? Combination of recreational drugs all going wrong?
I hope the guy who did it is white and British. I hate to think how some groups might try to exploit such a horrible event if he is not.
i sorta can see the point however hamfisted you trying to make but dude
too soon
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Poor kid - I hope they pull through without any serious consequences.
Well, perhaps it is or perhaps it isn't. Just me pondering out loud and, yes, I did slightly worry lest someone become unhappy about it.
Which bit is the "shit thing to say", though?
It would be massively horrible if whoever did this was having a very bad episode and therefore not entirely responsible for their actions. (Well, it's massively horrible altogether for this child and the parents and we don't yet know whether the child will live.) Or he might be a completely evil bastard in general - we don't know.
If the bit you object to is my hoping that he is white and British, surely you can see the potential for racist groups to exploit this if the bloke is brown or Muslim or black or Polish or Romanian etc?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Senseless, absolutely senseless.
Oh well. You see, I didn't quite see the point in posting simply to say "Oh dear, that's bad". Had I been making a joke about it, yes, that would be very VERY far too soon. I don't retract what I said, and, yes, it might have been "hamfisted", just thinking out loud, but I am sorry that I offended people and I apologise for that.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Poor kid - I hope they pull through without any serious consequences.
Let's hope.
He landed on fifth floor roof, so I guess there's some hope, whereas if he had hit the ground, no hope.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
You did not offend me but lets work out the fact before we start commenting on the situation...
I hope the guy who did it is white and British. I hate to think how some groups might try to exploit such a horrible event if he is not.
“Some groups” will just say the same thing you have, but in a mirror form.
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
That is just horrible.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Things have come to a state of utter shit when we start worrying about things like this while a life still hangs in the balance.I hope the guy who did it is white and British. I hate to think how some groups might try to exploit such a horrible event if he is not.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
The shard of glass in the heart reasoning of:
"I hope the guy who did it is white and British. I hate to think how some groups might try to exploit such a horrible event if he is not.
"
alsoknownas
some bloke
I suspect that Celyn 's comment was made in the light of the recent high-profile events in Germany, where two recent random killings (one an 8-year-old pushed under a train) were carried out by immigrants, an element of the story that is being used by right-wing groups to stir up further hatred.
It's all very grim.
Anyway, this story is tragic enough without that speculative diversion.
It's all very grim.
Anyway, this story is tragic enough without that speculative diversion.
Steel Icarus
we move
The little one's condition is reported now to be "critical but not life-threatening".
Steel Icarus
we move
Not linking to the sources Mrs SI has read but apparently this dickhead was waiting for a while, watching people. When the incident happened security thought he was a relative and took him to the cafe until a witness came down and punched him, then they had to lock him in the toilets for his own safety. Apparently he's blamed social services 
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