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Buccaneerophobes & Haters!

PHOENIX (AP) — A man accused of decapitating his wife and their pet dogs before mutilating himself has gone from a hospital bed to a jail cell, authorities said Sunday.

Phoenix police identified Kenneth Dale Wakefield as the man who has spent nearly a week recovering from self-inflicted wounds.

Investigators say Wakefield killed Trina Heisch, 49, and their two dogs and stashed the bodies in a closet. He then gouged out one of his own eyes and cut off his left hand at the forearm.

The grisly scene was discovered July 25 by a neighbor who went to check on Heisch and said Wakefield came to the door naked, covered in blood.

Wakefield spent 10 years in a state mental hospital after stabbing a relative in 2003. He was found "guilty, except insane" on charges of attempted second-degree murder in the attack, a verdict that spared him prison time.

Addendum: Originally I had a very "what a batshit crazy nut ball" reaction to this story.

But upon reflection, I think I've figured this guy out.

Quite obviously the dude was attempting to transform himself into a pirate.
He succeeded with the patch & the hook, but, much to Captain Jack's chagrin, the neighbor interrupted him before he could start work on his peg leg.

He killed his wife because she was a classic buccaneerophobe who opposed his transformation. Sadly, her husband had misheard the classic "Walk the plank" phrase, interpreting it as "Behead the skank," so consequently we are left with something that Colonel Kurtz described as "the horror."

As for the dogs, I think it's equally obvious that he was just trying to fit them into their little parrot costumes.

In the end, I suppose it is all just further proof that psychology is little more than a pseudoscience.

You might as well send these patients to witchdoctors or priests. I'd bet that success & failure rates would be comparable to your average psychiatrist.

The only weapon psychiatry has is medication & it is an incredibly flawed weapon that often times just exchanges one set of problems for another.

 No one has the faintest clue what consciousness is so they definitely have no real idea how or why it gets broken.

It's all just another shell game.

Another faith based religion.

'Rowdy' Roddy Piper dead at 61

Bummer

R.I.P Roddy

William Mortensen

Ansel Adams called Mortensen "the antichrist." I think he's brilliant.

Why does HuffPost exist?

Here's the headline:

Famed Physicist Shuts Down Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists In 1 Brilliant Tweet

Here's physicist Brian Cox's "brilliant tweet:"

I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you don't think Apollo 11 landed on Moon you are a colossal nob end & should get a new brain

So, I'll say it again, why does HuffPost exist? It churns out a never ending stream of pointless blather, day after day, week after week...? All of it written by depthless pop culture obsessed pseudo journalists who literally write about nothing. Having spent some time chatting with conspiracy theorists, I'm almost positive that that tweet won't change anything, yet it's a "news" article. The mind boggles. Here's how I picture a typical day at HuffPost:

OMG, someone famous tweeted something...let's make it an imaginary news article...& let's clickbait the headline with annoying fake revelation drama, gearing it to appeal to cubicle dwelling office workers who apparently have little or nothing to do that resembles work...they're always suckers for this category of informationless infotainment....let the ad revenue roll in....