Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: [yasid] shooter at car drivers who "diminished" them
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 13:09:26 -0700
Organization: dis
Lines: 44
Message-ID: <1046o1m$6mj1$1@dont-email.me>
References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.2507031115560.9946@panix3.panix.com>
 <XnsB3117AE349E51Rel@85.12.62.240> <1046dgp$sko$2@reader1.panix.com>
Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 22:09:27 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d1b5a3bfc3f108c6b092475177d9c346";
	logging-data="219745"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/pxZpSlgU+9Sz7NcZr8iY9"
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:64yA8QF4mro9IV2nIbShNSQMuZg=
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <1046dgp$sko$2@reader1.panix.com>



On 7/3/25 10:09, danny burstein wrote:
> In <XnsB3117AE349E51Rel@85.12.62.240> RelMark <bsmith77@windstream.net> writes:
> 
> [snip]
>>> I very specifically remember the word "diminish".
>>>
>>> Ring any neurons amongst anyone here?
>>>
>>> Thanks
> 
>> The character's situation is a bit different, but I'd guess that
>> you're thinking of "And now the news...", by Theodore Sturgeon.
>> The Internet Archive has a scan of the magazine publication of
>> the story here: http://tinyurl.com/bdf6pzsj .
> 
> damn..  that's it, all right.  1956!?!  I wouldn't have
> read the original..
> 
> It's way too prescient.
> 
> Thanks muchly
> 
	I was on Taiwan I believe and had limited access to SF magazines.
	
	Well I can think of murder teams and serial killers who traveled across 
state lines
  to do many killings since that time but yes it was hardly prescient to 
anyone who had
  access to criminal data about the investigations done by the FBI and 
others.
	We did not read much about serial killers in those times or even mass 
murderers
  but that was  due to change.
	In the 1980s my mother was murdered and the culprit was apprended last year
  based on DNA evidence preserved from the crime scene. He was already 
in prison and
  now is confined to a wheelchair awating trial in Sacramento if he 
lives long enough for
  the court to get to his case.

	bliss