Yeah, sure.
Roger Baker
rcbaker@eden.infohwy.com
Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:46:12 -0600
So this 15 year old kid crashes his plane into the side of a bank.
Why?
A note in his pocket said it was because he took Osama bin Laden's
appeal seriously.
But you would have to be crazy to take Osama seriously, and the kid was
upper middle class
(private school, taking flight lessons), so a meaningless crime of
juvenile passion doesn't make
any sense.
But maybe he was taking a drug approved by the US govt. FDA that
commonly makes kids
commit suicide!!! Of course its still on the market, but its exactly the
explanation America needs
to feel good. Yeah, thats it -- that drug must be the cause when we've
eliminated all the other
possibilities.
Now that the world makes logical sense again, our lives can move along
secure in the knowledge
that things that don't make sense in stageset America can be explained
if you look hard
enough for explanations.
-- Roger
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17024-2002Jan8.html
Tampa Crash Pilot Had Acne Drug Prescription
Medicine's Link to Suicide Is Being Probed
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Associated Press
Wednesday, January 9, 2002; Page A11
TAMPA, Jan. 8 -- A 15-year-old student pilot who killed himself by
crashing an airplane into a skyscraper was prescribed an acne medication
whose links to suicide and depression have been the subject of federal
inquiries, law enforcement officials said today.
A prescription for Accutane, used to treat severe acne, was found at the
home of Charles J. Bishop, Pinellas County Sheriff's Maj. Sam Lynn said.
"We are aware that he had a prescription," Tampa police spokeswoman
Katie Hughes said. "We don't know if he was taking it, how long. . . .
We don't know those details."
Calls to Bishop's family were not returned today.
The Food and Drug Administration says 147 people taking Accutane, which
affects the body's central nervous system, either committed suicide or
were hospitalized for suicide attempts from 1982 to May 2000. There has
yet to be any conclusive evidence, however, that the drug causes
depression or suicide, and the manufacturer maintains that it is safe.
Toxicology tests that will determine if any drugs were in Bishop's
system will be completed in about two weeks, said Lee Miller, an
associate medical examiner with the Hillsborough County Medical
Examiner's Office...