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 Most Bizarre Suicide
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At an annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS, president Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in san Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story:
“ On March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Roland Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide ( he left a note indicating his despondency) As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window , which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this.”
“Ordinarily’ Dr. Mills continued, “ a person who sets out to commit suicide ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended. That Opus was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below probably would not have changed his mode of death from suicide to homicide. But the fact that his suicidal intent would not have been successful caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands.
“ The room on the ninth floor whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing and he was threatening her with the shotgun. He was so upset that, when he pulled the trigger , he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through a window striking Opus. “ When one intends to kill a subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with this charge the old man and his wife were both adamant that neither knew that the shotgun was loaded. The old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention whatsoever to murder her – therefore, the killing of Opus appeared to be an accident. That is , the gun had been accidentally loaded.
“ The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple’s son loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal incident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son’s financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of son for the death of Ronald Opus.
There was an exquisite twist. “ Further investigation revealed that the son ( Ronald Opus) had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother’s murder. This led him to jump off the ten –Story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth story window.
The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide”
(عدل بواسطة mustadam on 05-18-2004, 05:40 PM)
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Re: Most Bizarre Suicide (Re: mustadam)
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مستدام او مصطفى آدم
تحية طيبة وبعد
يا حبّذا لو ترجمت لنا هذا الغموض المريع. فيلم هندى بس!
ذكرتنى براعة وحنكة وحبكة الفريد هتشكوك مخرج المفاجآت المعروف.
ولكننى لم افهم الجزء التالى:
“ Further investigation revealed that the son ( Ronald Opus) had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother’s murder. This led him to jump off the ten –Story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth story window
رونالد اوبس انتحر لأنه لم ينجح فى انفاذ خطته التى تقضى بأن يقتل ابوه امه على سبيل الخطأ.
كيف؟ ما واضحة القصة دى من سياق الحكوة الموغلة فى المفاجآت والساسبنس suspense كما يقولون.
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Re: Most Bizarre Suicide (Re: Adil Osman)
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العزيز عادل:
الخطة تعتمد , على معرفة عميقة بهذا البيت المهترئ من الداخل,ودراية بسلوك ألأب أوبس المنفلت . كل توقعات ألأبن أوبس حدثت بالضبط كما أرادها أن تحدث , ولكن بعد أن اشتد به( الإملاق) الأخلاقى! وانحط عقله وتماسكه الداخلي , وذلك منطقي جدا مع مناخ الإهتراء العام.فأسقط جسده الميت نفسيا ليموت بنفس الطلقة التي أردهاأن تستقر في رأس أمه ويذهب أبوه بعدها إلى جحيم الشعور بالذنب , مثلا و ومن بعدها للحبس المفضى إلى الجنون كما يتوقع.
مع خالص المودة
مصطفى آدم
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Re: Most Bizarre Suicide (Re: mustadam)
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العزيز منذ القرن الماضى بشرى :
سلام وحب
شكرا على الطلة البهية. يبدو ان بريدى الإلكتروني قد انفتح على الفضاء الواسع بما يجعل رسائلي إلى البعض تهيم على وجههاتائهةفى البرية السايبرية, فقد أرسلت الكثير منها إليك وآخرين ولم يصلنى ما يفيد بغير ذلك . ٍأحاول مرة أخرى
لك خالص محبتي
مصطفى آدم
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Re: Most Bizarre Suicide (Re: mustadam)
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إزيك يا مصطفى
شكراً على الحكاية العجيبة.
اقترح عليك أنا أيضاً ترجمة حكاية أغرب انتحار في العالم هذه.
(تذكرت في هذه اللحظة التي أكتب فيها، قصة ماركيز "أجمل غريق في العالم"، حينما كنانلتهم معاً أنت ونجوى وأنا قصصه وتحتل جزءً من نقاشاتنا وضحكنا ومهاتراتنا، فتلقي على أجواء الصحراء الكبرى في سبها سحراً ماركيزياً). هذه تخريمة، ونعود لقصة الانتحار العجيب، التي
اقترح أن تترجمها للعربية وتنزلها في بوست منفصل لتعم المشاركة والمتعة.
نجاة
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