I seem to be coming across more and more news reports about people doing crazy things in the name of 2012, and I think we’re going to be hearing a lot more of these reports very soon. Here are the two most recent ones:
Man: Obama threat for apocalyptic attention
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to threatening to assassinate Barack Obama in January, but said he was just trying to get word out about the apocalypse.
Forty-two-year-old Steven Joseph Christopher told U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate on Friday that he is the second coming of Christ, and wanted people to know that much of the world will be destroyed in 2012.
According to the indictment, the message reported Jan. 11 by the administrator of a Web site called “Alien Earth” asked readers to donate a gun and bus fare from Mississippi to Washington. Wingate scheduled sentencing Nov. 6; Christopher could get up to five years in prison.
Prosecutors told Wingate last month that a psychologist had found Christopher mentally incompetent, but the judge ruled otherwise.
And
Mentally ill man given eight years for slaying
EVERETT — A Snohomish County Superior Court judge on Friday wrestled with what to do with a mentally ill man who killed his wheelchair-bound grandfather during a psychotic breakdown.
Jody Sands, 34, was convicted in May of second-degree murder in the 2007 ax-beating death of Albert Beasley. Sands, a paranoid schizophrenic, struck his grandfather in the head with an axe in their north Everett home. Beasley, 87, died about a week later.
Because of his mental illness, Mr. Sands was sentenced to eight years behind bars and under community supervision for five years. Before he is released Sands also must be evaluated to determine if he should be civilly committed to the state’s mental health hospital.
Before sentencing, Sands thanked his parents for their support. He also told the judge he’ll be out of prison in about three years. Sands believes the world will end Dec. 21, 2012, the last day of the Mayan calendar.
“Everything comes to an end so feel free to give me any sentence,” Sands said.
I seem to be coming across more and more news reports about people doing crazy things in the name of 2012, and I think we’re going to be hearing a lot more of these reports very soon. Here are the two most recent ones:
Man: Obama threat for apocalyptic attention
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to threatening to assassinate Barack Obama in January, but said he was just trying to get word out about the apocalypse.
Forty-two-year-old Steven Joseph Christopher told U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate on Friday that he is the second coming of Christ, and wanted people to know that much of the world will be destroyed in 2012.
According to the indictment, the message reported Jan. 11 by the administrator of a Web site called “Alien Earth” asked readers to donate a gun and bus fare from Mississippi to Washington. Wingate scheduled sentencing Nov. 6; Christopher could get up to five years in prison.
Prosecutors told Wingate last month that a psychologist had found Christopher mentally incompetent, but the judge ruled otherwise.
Mentally ill man given eight years for slaying
EVERETT — A Snohomish County Superior Court judge on Friday wrestled with what to do with a mentally ill man who killed his wheelchair-bound grandfather during a psychotic breakdown.
Jody Sands, 34, was convicted in May of second-degree murder in the 2007 ax-beating death of Albert Beasley. Sands, a paranoid schizophrenic, struck his grandfather in the head with an axe in their north Everett home. Beasley, 87, died about a week later.
Because of his mental illness, Mr. Sands was sentenced to eight years behind bars and under community supervision for five years. Before he is released Sands also must be evaluated to determine if he should be civilly committed to the state’s mental health hospital.
Before sentencing, Sands thanked his parents for their support. He also told the judge he’ll be out of prison in about three years. Sands believes the world will end Dec. 21, 2012, the last day of the Mayan calendar.
“Everything comes to an end so feel free to give me any sentence,” Sands said.
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