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CAN’T BLAME HIM

Sadness in Seattle:

Counselors have been made available to Seattle Center employees who may have witnessed the most recent suicide, which occurred Friday when an 84-year-old homeless man shot himself ...

... at the end of an evening jazz performance.

He’s gone to a better (and possibly less arrhythmic) place. Other nations are taking preventative measures against this sort of thing:

The music of Eric Clapton was banned in Iran this week.

(Via LGF)

Posted by Tim B. on 12/24/2005 at 04:49 AM

  1. Under the present management Iran is collectively suicidal.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 12 24 at 05:59 AM • permalink

  2. I mean, I know about America, but where does an 84 year old homeless man get a gun?  Had he been carrying it since he got back from Normandy?

    Posted by cuckoo on 2005 12 24 at 06:12 AM • permalink

  3. A couple of points.  In the USA, once you hit the age of 65, a whole lot of government benefits kick in.  In particular, an 84-year old person would be living in a subsidized nursing home or old age center—if they wanted to.

    Further, an 84-year old would have been born in 1921.  That means that they would have probably fought in WWII.  Which means they would be able to get a pension (either small or large) from the Veterans Administration with little trouble.

    Me thinks that they call this man “homeless” when in reality they were either someone from somewhere else that the police just haven’t yet determined, or else they were just too far gone mentally to take advantage of what was available to them.

    Posted by David Crawford on 2005 12 24 at 06:29 AM • permalink

  4. Women in Black, a local activist group that holds vigils any time a homeless person dies outdoors, is violently killed or commits suicide…

    Yeah, vigils, that’ll fix the problem.

    Posted by slammer on 2005 12 24 at 08:47 AM • permalink

  5. At one time in Merry olde England, committing suicide was a capital offense.  If you tried to commit suicide and failed in the attempt, they would hang you.

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 12 24 at 08:53 AM • permalink

  6. The music of Eric Clapton was banned in Iran this week.

    Along with country & western, and rock & roll!

    Why, that’s Un-American!!

    Posted by rinardman on 2005 12 24 at 10:22 AM • permalink

  7. When they start banning the music, their days are numbered.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 12 24 at 11:25 AM • permalink

  8. Correct, RebeccaH.  For historical precedence, just as the Taliban in Afghanistan.

    Oh, wait…..

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 12 24 at 12:44 PM • permalink

  9. Send Kevin Bacon to Iran now!

    Posted by ushie on 2005 12 24 at 01:25 PM • permalink

  10. If the poor fellow had been around during WWII, then he probably cut his teeth on Count Basie and Erskine Hawkins, so “the best of Seattle jazz” may well have driven him over the edge, if, like so much of what passes for jazz these days, the stuff was just third generation, non-melodic, faux bop.

    Posted by paco on 2005 12 24 at 05:04 PM • permalink

  11. Actually, at Christmastime it was more likely to have been what is oxymoronically known as “smooth jazz”; chestnuts, including those which roast on an open fire.

    Posted by triticale on 2005 12 24 at 08:27 PM • permalink

  12. Seattle’s Best Jazz obviously doesn’t make the grade.

    Posted by Arnie on 2005 12 24 at 08:30 PM • permalink

  13. Jazz?
    Isn’t that where you have five musicians playing three tunes at the same time?

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2005 12 28 at 06:18 PM • permalink

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