copycat PORTAPIQUE spree killers only interested in the big picture - thank God they don’t have long term memory

Even if the media HAD restricted themselves to repeating only what Prime Minister Trudeau wanted them to say : “an individual dressed in a cop uniform drove around in a cop car for 24 hours,  24 individuals dead, FULL STOP” , this would have been enough to feed the copycat imagination.

“outraged” they might be - thinking clearly, they’re not

But their egos are way too big to care about the name or smiling face of GW - the things so many “Outraged from Orangeville” seem to write letters to editors of the TORONTO SUN about.

They aren’t fascinated in reading about anybody but themselves.

And they don’t need ‘old hat’ details either : that the killer shot people, that the arsonist burned buildings.

Its the totally new way to commit a crime that grabs the copycats and does so for a few years — lucky for the rest of us, they are usually not history buffs and quickly forget each new crime wrinkle after a few years.

Fifty-five years ago, it was a hot thing in these Atlantic Canada parts to steal a great big fishing trawler all by yourself and head out to sea.

Thankfully, that hasn’t been done for decades now....