Alex Hribal charged as adult in stabbing attack
According to the Washington Times, 16 year-old Alex Hribal, the fellow who stabbed more than a score of his classmates yesterday in his Murrayville, Pennsylvania school has been charged as an adult for 4 counts of attempted homocide and 21 counts of aggravated assault. He used two large knives to stab and slash his schoolmates.
Patrick Thomassey, the family’s attorney, said they all ate dinners together each night and that Alex was also a good student who got along with others, ABC News reported.
“His parents are devastated and send their condolences to everybody involved,” Mr. Thomassey told ABC News. “They can’t figure it out.”
Mr. Thomassey’s description of Alex differs from what students at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville say about him. Classmates called him quiet and someone who kept to himself, Fox News reported.
Morgan Ritchey, who said she had a class with Alex, characterized him as “a little misunderstood” and someone she felt always “had a different side to him that nobody knew,” ABC News reported.
There’s no word on whether young Alex had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Category: Crime
Hell, on the radio this morning, they didn’t even describe the weapon(s) he used in the attack. I’ve been sick and not reading the news for a few days, so that was the first I’d heard of the event. And since they didn’t spout nonsense about “high capacity” and “Glocks” and “assault weapons”, I just knew it had to be some weapon they couldn’t demonize, but this was the first confirmation of that guess I’ve had.
Betcha … Video games, poor parental guidance and lack character building.
I blame the parents 51 and the criminal 49 percent.
I hope that’s sarcasm for the most part. So far as I know, video games don’t do much to encourage anyone to do anything. It doesn’t make the sane insane any more than television does. You have to be crazy to act crazy after watching some outside stimulus.
But I would say that the parents must have some say in this. The fact that they did not see this coming means they were not properly in touch with how their son was thinking. At least with the recent school shootings the parents sorta knew their kid was unstable, and more than a few were afraid of them. Here, they’re too surprised for me to think that they were in the loop.
There really isn’t any good to be found here, but maybe people can start to realize that people will murder with whatever tools they have, be it a rifle, a pistol, a knife, or their bare hands.
It’s a tragedy all the same, and my condolences to those who have been hurt and to the families of the lost.
I too have to disagree on the video game part, video games have allowed me to get back my hand eye coordination after the ied blast that gave me tbi. Twitchy shooter games especially have helped although I tend to stay away from games such as Battlefield and Call of Duty.
I grew up playing those supposedly “violent” video games, and they never made me want to go out and act them out in real life.
I’m in your corner master chief.
I’m sure this kid caught the PTSD by hearing about something that happened to the older brother of a friend of his or something like that
I have been listening to this D.B. for the past two days now proclaim how good it was a knife rather than gun, because knives are not deadly you know and had it been a gun they all would have died. Oh, and convicted felons cannot buy knives according to her as well… I swear to God she said that, because you know they do background checks when you go by a set of steak knives at Wally World.
Does the ditz believe in Leprechauns too, rb325th?
She is a typical “blue blood liberal” who believes anything her party doctrine tells her to.
Never mind the fact that common sense tells us that a knife or two is more deadly to more victims in close quarters like a school hallway, all you have to do is swing for the neck, no skill necessary to operate the edged weapon. If the kid did even the tiniest bit of research, he could very well know how to cripple victims with tendon cuts, how shallow the carotid and jugular really are, how many other places have similarly-shallow blood vessels, and that he’s less likely to lose his knife by slashing than stabbing. I don’t know about you, but knowing the skill it takes to hit a target from ranges greater than three inches, I’d rather face a unskilled nutjob with a pistol than an unskilled nutjob with a knife, regardless of how I might be armed.
It’s a miracle the little cockfuck didn’t kill anybody. Not that the LSM is likely to figure that out.
Anyway, throw the book at his ass. Every state has at least one facility known as the Stabbin’ Cabin. Let the little bastard find out the hard wsy that they ain’t just talking about shanks and shivs. I’m sure Bubba, Thor, and all the other fine guests of the state of Pennsylvania are gonna love his scrawny little ass…
This incident of school-place violence would never have happened if the parents and knife makers were forced to:
1. Follow the No-High-Capacity-Kitchen-Knife-Block-Rule.
2. Register ownership of every knife.
3. Micro-stamp every knife with a serial number.
4. Buy only smart knives with a micro-chip and corresponding user bracelet/ring.
/sarcasm
Gravel I feel bad for the victims and families and I know you were writing in sarcasm. But, I can’t wait for the liberal media to come up with the “protect us against kitchen knives legislation”.
That’s been tried in the UK, Sparks. Someone tried to do it over here.
Anything with a pointy tip and a sharp edge is an assault weapon in the minds of the morons who are afraid of their own shadows.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xHEqi5YylAs/Ut_Batm1CaI/AAAAAAAAE0w/_PW8uA1MJgI/s1600/zO2U2Ux.jpg
Tried in the UK? I would say done in the UK.
Sorry – that was the link directly to the image, not the blog article. Also, in Australia, which is still technically the UK… Anyway:
http://www.offthereservation.net/2014/01/nanny-state-gone-wild.html
Ex-PH2 and Geetwillickers…thank you both. I really had NO idea they were that moronic. I was being tongue in cheek never expecting that some country has already done this. I am amazed.
“There’s no word on whether young Alex had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.”
This is a sad story w/ no winners and my condolences to the victims and their families.
However, that statement made my day as I am off to battle the evil forces of bureaucracy and administration in my quest to help the disabled and wounded.
Thanks.
GT you beat me to it. I had that sentence copied and ready to paste in my comment. I agree I feel bad for the victims and families. But with that statement I am laying two to one to all takers we hear PTS before it’s over. PTS from video games, school bullies , etc, etc.
FOX Reporting:
Vice Prin and young male student jumped and detained criminal.
Classmates claimed he was a good kid, quiet and bullied.
Argh …
I was tied up, covered in shaving cream and stuffed in a closet … After my two big brothers beat the crap out of the perps, I did not shoot or stab anyone.
We are raising a Nation of pussies …
Organized after school activites should include fist fights to settle scores and dirt lot stick ball to follow.
Older kids need to be authorized and step in, tune up and make corrections on the spot for know bullies. We had a name for them back in the day “assholes” and their parents were often “assholes”.
BLUF: I don’t buy the bully defense and at the same time we have a bully issue in this country because bullies don’t get their asses kicked by bigger and older kids!
I have trained by kids … You have a right to defend yourself and you don’t have to wait to be hit or hurt … If you think you are about to be hit … You hit first.
No one messes with my son …
Oh … I hope the claimed bully spends the rest of his life in jail. He should have been taught to punch and run!
Correction: claimed bullied kid …
100% agreed on how to deal with bullies and other asshole kids.
My Dad told me, “If he starts it, you finish it.” I had been getting bullied at school for over a year at that point. The school was aware of the problem and promptly did absolutely nothing every time it happened. So one day the two assholes who always came after me walked by in the hall and one of them shoved me. I turned around and hockey-checked the little fucker into the opposite wall and left him flat on his ass. Words were spoken to the effect of “put hands on me again and I’ll fucking kill you.” His little butt-buddy took one look and made himself scarce. They both kept a safe distance from me from that day onward.
BTW what exactly is Stickball? When I was in school our standard informal game was Smear The Queer–which has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality if you’ve never heard of it.
Two things:
1. “put hands on me again and I’ll fucking kill you.” … should be taught to young kids who are bullied!
2. What country are you from? STICKBALL! old broom handle and either tennis ball or red rubber ball, no gloves, two outs per inning, and many other cool rules, such as … you can whip the ball at any runner’s body parts as they attempt to reach base, no leading, no balls or strikes, must hit and no friggin’ crying!
MCPO: “stickball” isn’t particularly common outside northeastern-US urban areas. It’s also not particularly well known elsewhere in the country.
I was born & raised in the rural mountains of San Diego County, California, what we refer to as “East County.” Around here, the extracurricular activities were shooting the “No Shooting” signs on Forest Service land, varying degrees of off-road stupidity on 2, 3, or 4 wheels, and of course Smear The Queer. The only time I ever heard of Stickball was the occasional reference in Adam Sandler movies. From what you’re telling me, it sounds a bit like OTL, only with less alcohol.
Smear The Queer is a simple and enjoyable game with several variations. The one we played is as follows. A ball or suitable substitute (usually a 20-oz plastic coke bottle) is required. The game begins when the ball/bottle is tossed in the air. Whoever catches it is the designated “queer,” and all other players attempt to tackle the shit out of him, while he does his best to evade. After a length of time agreed upon before the game, the ball/bottle carrier tosses it up in the air again, restarting the process. If the ball/bottle carrier is tackled, it may be taken by the tackler or tossed up again, depending on what rules are agreed upon before the game. Scoring is casual at best, minor injuries are common, and victory is measured by successful tackles or lack thereof, though nobody really loses.
And before anybody says anything about us being homophobic rednecks for calling it Smear The Queer, I didn’t invent the name, it’s just what it’s been called since time immemorial. Hell, there were two suspected gay kids at my high school, and one of them was pretty good at this game.
The Other Whitey…Thank you my man! My memory is not what it was and when you wrote about “Smear The Queer” I laughed my ass of as the memories came flooding back. Thanks so much. I am sitting here laughing as I type! By the way I played “Smear The Queer” growing up in North Carolina.
The Other Whitey I have to say again thanks. I had an accident in 1999 that really impairs my memory sometimes. So when I read something like you wrote it brings things back for a while. They often fade again but in the moment, they are wonderful to remember. I never played stick ball. We played baseball in the pasture. It is great when these things come back from just reading posts. Anyway, first base was the corner of the barn, second, was the fence of the pig pen and third was usually the cow, if she would hang around! If not a chunk of cord wood, home plate was the old well cover. God watches over fools and children they told us, thus it is a wonder we never fell through the old boards covering the well when we would jump high to land on it!
Sorry folks for the off topic posts.
It’s a huge problem, MCPO. At the school I go to, and I’m sure this is standard across the district if not the entire school system of the nation, both parties are suspended/expelled if involved in a fight. Specifically, if both sides partake in offensive action (punching, kicking, biting, clawing, etc.), it is grounds for serious punishment. Your only out is to block or run, and neither are good ideas. People wonder why bullying is so prominent? Because a bully exists when it feels that there is no physical threat to it, and the only way to stop a bully is to bloody it’s nose and to tell it that it is dead wrong.
And it’s not just physical that the district is wussifying. There isn’t such thing as Valedictorians anymore because it hurts the feelings of those who aren’t first place, there’s participation medals, and grades are locked at 50% no matter what (well, that’s actually a coming measure), even if no homework is turned in.
The problem isn’t the kids. Our generation has churned out true heroes, and you just need to go to Afghanistan or Iraq to see that. The problem is the schools and how it slowly crushes the life out of you. I guarantee the plagues of today’s teenagers, from drugs to suicide, would altogether vanish if the schools were returned to the schools and out of the hands of the federal government.
If someone could back me up by finding teen suicide/drug/drinking rates from 1954 against 2014, it’d be much appreciated. I think the data will support me.
Thanks … how old are you? You are quite smart and insightful.
I suspect the rates from 1954 through today will be in direct line with the destruction of what a family used to look like along with the progressive measures employed in public schools.
Two things we can do NOW to fix the problem:
1. Teach bullied kids to fight back. The bully will get the message … quickly. I recommend what my dad did. He bought 16 oz. Everlast boxing gloves, head gear and groin protectors. The four older boys (me and my 3 brothers) would fight all the time. Sometimes under the supervision of cheering relatives during family bbq’s. Teach your kids to fight at a young age while instilling good moral values and character. Before you know it … they will be protecting the little ones and tuning up bullies automatically!
2. Abolish the US Department of Education and put education back in the hands of parents and teachers.
I’m 18, sir, thanks for the compliment. I’d agree; as the Left has made more and more pushes to make the Government the center of life over family, things have begun to spiral out of control. For your two points, I agree 100%. Even if you’re trying to last as long as possible, you need to make the fight draw out by making them hurt. Look at a retreat in the military-even when you’re leaving an area, you have some guys hang back a little and hold off an attack. Same principle here. And yes, the DoE needs to go, and it needs to go now. Something that frustrates me to no end here is that we have this weird double standard. A student is killed in a car accident (admittedly, she was in California, but she had a lot of friends here)? No tribute is presented to the school. A lunchlady passes? We have a moment of silent that drags on for over a minute. So, essentially a lunchlady is more valuable than a student according to the school? Furthermore we have all of these club-run “days of silence” towards bullying in general and towards the LGBT community. Now, I don’t like bullying in any form, but why is it that we have these moments for people like them but no one has a day of silence for those killed in Venezuela or Russia or China? Why isn’t the same treatment done for our veterans? It’s a double standard, a sick and annoying one, and it needs to stop. I’m fine with days of silence, and I’m fine with moments of silence for an employee who has passed. But when I asked if they could do the same for my friend, I was turned down because “not enough knew her”! I didn’t even know this lunchlady existed, and I’d never remember her name, but she gets preferential treatment? It’s a mess, our schools. Racial slurs, sexual slurs, drugs… People say you shouldn’t look backwards, because they had their troubles and today has ours. However, I believe that if today’s… Read more »
I should state as an addendum that the average “moment of silence” in our school is about 5-10 seconds.
Also, our principle gave the same speech on 9/11 two years (or more) in a row.
This. So much this. Less work and AP emphasis, also. The amount of anxiety and breakdowns we’re seeing is unprecedented and is certainly not all healthy.
I’m afraid I would have to disagree with the idea that teen ‘plagues’ were significantly less of a problem back ‘in the day’ than they are today, the only real difference is the ammount of attention given to them.
A good many ‘old timers’ tend to wax poetic on how much different things were back in their day, without ever realizing that they’re only reporting from the confines of their own personal experience. Others, myself included, experienced things that don’t represent the cozy ‘nuclear family’ meme, and my extended family going back a couple generations admits to the same thing.
The biggest difference between ‘then’ and ‘now’? ‘Then’ a good many things that were never discussed or acknowleged are ‘now’ prime-time dinner topics.
In his writings ‘Meditations’ Marcus Aurelius laments on the lack of change in the human experience. This observation is later to be found in a more familiar version, in the Bible under Ecclesiastes 1:9, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
We all would like to think our experiences are somehow unique, but they’re really not.
I’ve always wanted to read Aurelius. A good man, from what I’ve seen about him.
And yeah, humanity seems stuck. I refuse to believe that’s a constant, though. I believe, firmly, that someday we as a species will move past and become something truly wonderful to behold.
Certainly, this clown should be charged as an adult. No matter your age, when you commit adult crimes, you pay as an adult. (Although I can see some wisdom in considering the chronological age in placement of the criminal.) Stabbing folks is not a childish prank.
No word on whether they were military grade or assault knives.
Any word on what prescription or recreational drugs he may have ingested?
Something I am noticing regarding reactions to the perp in this incident versus a school shooting. There are numerous people screaming that we should somehow have empathy for, and even some sympathy for the young man who stabbed all these kids… because obviously he had to have been bullied to the point of cracking. Even though his attorney states that is not the case of course.
I understand that Sandy Hook was just an unmitigated human disaster involving young children… hard to even have even a shred of empathy for that bastard. Think about Columbine then for example, not a whole lot of empathy for those two. I cannot think of any school shooting where the shooter was given even a shred of empathy. Yet here we have this kid stab 20 victims, one of whom was evicerated and you have all these “do gooders” wanting to talk about how he was bullied, maybe he was mentally ill… we should have sympathy for him blah blah blah…
I have zero empathy for him or anyone who goes on such rampages.
Curious…
Agreed. It takes something besides excessive bullying and antidepressants to make somebody shoot/slash two dozen children.
Every time I hear about one of these little douchebags being “misunderstood,” “such a nice kid,” etc, my answer is always the same: He was obviously a fucking asshole.
If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t have hurt people who never hurt him. I could buy the “bullied” excuse if he stabbed the bully and left it at that, but that didn’t happen. All of these high-profile turds rampaged against kids who did nothing to them, while leaving their supposed tormentor(s) unharmed. Ergo, they are fucking assholes.
just sad
My $.02 – I think most kids in my HS would have said much the same about me. I was far from the Prom King, but most people I know seemed to like me. But the constant teasing and name calling had me literally dreaming of placing crosshairs on their faces. (and when I say literally, I actually had plans in my head…)
So why am I not posting this from a prison somewhere? Because I grew up and got over it. Life sucks, people call you names, even people you think are your friends. People shove you into lockers, people break into your locker and scatter your stuff throughout the hallways, and it sucks, but you survive.
Now, kids are told from infancy that they are victims, and that they have a right to a life free of anything uncomfortable, victimhood is a status to be desired and rewarded, and that they should have an expectation that life will always be fair.
Then, reality sets in and they have no internal toolset to deal with it.
So they snap. Whether with a gun or a knife or their hands or even Facebook, they act out when the stress becomes unbearable.
Kids MUST learn that life is inherently unfair, that victims are to be pitied not honored, and that they are the masters of their own fate, regardless of what those around them do.
At least In My Humble Opinion…
Well said!!
Predictably, left/libtards call for banning AR-15s and “high-capacity clips” and to take guns away from all those dangerous veterans who might have PTSD if they didn’t lose their stress card.