Justin Mohn, a 32-year-old Pennsylvania man, is in police custody after allegedly murdering and decapitating his father, claiming the latter was a “federal employee” and a “traitor.” Before his arrest, Mohn posted a 14-minute video to YouTube in which he displayed his father’s severed head, proclaiming: "This is the head of Mike Mohn, a federal

  • @RememberTheApollo_
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    10 months ago

    Not sure if you’re rearranging fact for effect, but it was a workplace shooting at the Edmond, OK post office by another postal worker that coined the phrase “going postal”. Dude brought a few handguns and killed 15 and wounded I don’t know how many more.

    • @rwhitisissle
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      Remember when shootings were so rare that a shooting happening one time at one place was enough to spawn a lasting phrase in American English? Simply fascinating how the times have changed.

      • @doingthestuff
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        1010 months ago

        Yeah we had a ton of guns back then too but our culture today is fucked. Division and hate get clicks and our media is selling it.

      • @[email protected]
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        1010 months ago

        Yeah what would you call shootings now if you used the same naming logic? Going high-school? Going k-to-12? Going American?

        Also, I vote we call falling into an inescapable pattern of producing half-assed work “going Boeing.”

      • @boatsnhos931
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        110 months ago

        Mo’ people Mo’ shootings. Knowhatimsayinn

    • Herbal Gamer
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      810 months ago

      The symposium was sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service, which has seen so many outbursts that in some circles excessive stress is known as “going postal.” Thirty-five people have been killed in 11 post office shootings since 1983.

      Bit more than just the one time though.