Everyone Has a Blog - Even Mass Murderers

August 5, 2009 11:00 PM

On August 4, George Sodoni opened fire in a LA Fitness health club in Pittsburgh before killing himself. 4 women died.

This is the online diary he wrote

He also had a website called CrazyDave

Here's a few other interesting things the folks at reddit found about him.

posted by merv (14 comments total)

Correction : He also had a website called CrazyDave

Its CrazyGeorge.
posted by merv at 11:02 PM on August 5, 2009

Double, although I think you've found more info.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 11:02 PM on August 5, 2009

The reddit people freak me out.
Use strong passwords!
posted by Arbac at 11:09 PM on August 5, 2009

I heard about this on CNN when I was at the gym and they had some woman on TV making fun of him.

Saying stuff like "Come on In all that time he couldn't get any sex, he never thought to date someone who didn't look like a cheerleader, he couldn't go to a prostitute or escort service, he couldn't get a Russian bride?" I thought it was an odd point, but kind of funny. Then she made the obvious point that you couldn't trust what was written on his website.

Also, I'm kind of surprised he put all that crazy stuff on a blog with his own name on it. I assumed when I heard it on CNN that it was anonymous, but apparently he was blogging that stuff under his own name. Kind of surprising no one saw it.
posted by delmoi at 11:09 PM on August 5, 2009

Double. And you also misspelled his name. Let's just pretend this post never happened.
posted by pracowity at 11:11 PM on August 5, 2009

It's also interesting now when these random criminals come up, they all have an online life that people can look up.
posted by delmoi at 11:13 PM on August 5, 2009

Yeah, there's a 300+ comment thread running on this already, which has mostly consisted of the standard gun control arguments. The "you don't use an AK-47 to hunt deer" point has been followed by the standard "I do!" joke, etc etc etc
posted by longsleeves at 11:24 PM on August 5, 2009

It's also interesting now when these random criminals come up, they all have an online life that people can look up.

It's the other way around: lots and lots of people have an online life that you can look up, and some of them will randomly turn out to be criminals.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 11:24 PM on August 5, 2009

It's the other way around: lots and lots of people have an online life that you can look up, and some of them will randomly turn out to be criminals.

Uh right. I didn't mean to imply that the internet turns people into homicidal maniacs. Just that the information is available now, in a way it wasn't in the past.
posted by delmoi at 11:25 PM on August 5, 2009

Reading his diary thing, there is a ton of pain there, as is to be expected.

I'm going to go call some old friends I have'nt heard from of late.
posted by vrakatar at 11:34 PM on August 5, 2009

If i have read his blog before he did the deed, I might have thought he is just another internet tough guy.

People with suicidal, murder content on their blogs are a dime a dozen. I wonder how many follow up with real action.

There is no way of preventing this.
posted by merv at 11:34 PM on August 5, 2009

I always find these threads too late to make an inane, pointless comment in them. Not this time!
posted by scalefree at 11:46 PM on August 5, 2009 [1 favorite]

into all good lives must come doubles
posted by caddis at 11:55 PM on August 5, 2009

Those videos are just achingly sad, painful to watch. And he was into cycling. What does any of this tell people? Nothing.
posted by raysmj at 12:12 AM on August 6, 2009