Ex-NFL Player Saw Siegfried, Roy As Threat

[hadrons]

LAS VEGAS - A former pro football player accused of shooting at the compound of Siegfried & Roy wanted to "warn the world" of the threat posed by the illusionists, according to a psychiatric report.



The evaluation was performed by psychiatrist Norton Roitman after Cole Ford was charged with firing several shotgun blasts at the Las Vegas home of entertainers Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn.


Ford, 32, a former kicker for the Oakland Raiders, has been ruled incompetent to stand trial and sent to a mental health facility for treatment.


Ford maintained he never intended to harm anyone and his actions were intended to "warn the world of the illusionists' unhealthy danger to them and to animals," according to the report published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.


"While watching Siegfried and Roy, he had a sudden realization that what was wrong with the world was linked to the illusionists' treatment, dominance and unhealthy intimacy he saw them having with their animals," Roitman wrote.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050410/ap_en_ce/siegfried___roy_shooting_2

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Now sportsfans...

THAT is schizophrenia.

[SHRED]

2. That gives schizophrenia...

a bad name.

:crazy:

[baldguy]

3. Sounds like a perfect recruit for Homeland Security.

[maveric]

15. Or for the Minutemen.

My god this country is be "brown-shirted"!

[AngryAmish]

4. Doesn't everybody?

[xultar]

5. These are the mutherfuckers who will be shooting @ everthing that moves

in fl with that ultra dangrous stoopid take a stand law.

[1monster]

7. Please, please tell me that law has not passed! Please!

(we need a smilie icon on his knees pleading/praying)

[xultar]

11. Yes, I think it did pass. n/t

[xultar]

12. Florida passes Stand Your Ground bill

Florida passes Stand Your Ground bill

Lawmakers in the US state of Florida have passed a bill that would allow a gun owner to shoot an attacker on the street in self-defence.

Under what its Republican sponsor calls the Stand Your Ground bill, gun licence holders over 21 years of age who feel threatened in public can shoot to protect themselves, without trying to escape first.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush says the bill is a good anti-crime measure.

Critics say it will boost gun sales and turn the state into something resembling the wild west.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1339831.htm

[1monster]

16. God help us all. Maybe it is time to think about leaving Florida...

What with Jeb, the Republican Legislature, the over development of what was once paradise, and the hurricanes, I figured the population would start thinning out a bit, especially if we continue to get the predicted hurricanes for the next ten years.

I guess the neocons controling things here didn't think it was happening fast.... :eyes:

[xultar]

19. I will never go to Florida again. I can't imagine being lost having

to ask for directions in a white neighborhood down there. To effin dangerous.

[Wickerman]

6. Jeeebus, its called a LTTE, not a shotgun blast

there are many ways to get your point across. Shooting up someone's house is one of the really bad examples.

I hope he gets the help he needs.

[bleedingheart]

8. I am very glad he is getting help.

[Deja Q]

9. Oh, so the fact they're sausage snorkelers had no part of the act?

Sheesh. Going after gay guys saying they shouldn't play with animals as the reason for whipping out the gun in their faces is pretty bizarre...

[Zuni]

10. He was claerly delusional

All his pistons were not firing properly, if you catch my drift

[Atlas Mugged]

13. Even The Onion couldn't have made this one up

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[RetroLounge]

17. Laces Out!

Just saying...

RL

[Placebo]

18. haHaHA!!!

I was thinking the exact same thing. :D