This week has seen some scary stuff take place in Canada. Yes, it is not everyday that Canada Post delivers a human foot to a postal address. Oh, and that postal address happens to be the Conservative Party Headquarters in Ottawa. (Did the postal carrier not notice the smell and blood oozing from the package???) At first I thought it might have been a stolen foot from a medical school cadaver. Then CTV Montreal was reporting that a human torso was found in a suitcase thrown in a dumpster. After DNA testing the foot and torso were linked as well as a package containing a human hand discovered at the main Canada Post sorting station. Yikes.
The emerging details of the alleged killer paint a dark picture of a narcissistic psycho. An individual craving fame so much that he filmed himself murdering and butchering another person, and then proceeded to upload it to a website. Who would do such a thing? Obviously someone striving for notoriety. Because of this I refuse to mention that monster by name. Apparently he flew to Europe the day after the murder and is on the run.
All of this makes me question what, or who, created such a monster. Was his childhood marked by severe abuse or neglect? Was he trying to prove himself through the new social media where every action is documented: I post/upload/tweet therefore I am. Maybe he believed his existence only had meaning if others noticed him.
Sometimes Canadians are smug about how safe it is in Canada, but the events of the past few days have scared us all. Oh, and there is NO WAY that a severed human foot would have made it to the Republican or Democratic Headquarters in the United States. Obviously this has highlighted how relaxed security is here and hopefully it will be taken more seriously in the future.
