What is it about the human race, that when confronted with a sensationalized tragedy it inevitably follows that a number of wierdos will step up to plate hoping to replicate it? Isn’t life shitty enough without everyone constantly wanting to add to the misery? Seriously?

“I will commit a massacre that will go down in history,” Kyodo quoted one of the postings on an internet bulletin board as saying. Legal steps were also taken against another five people, Kyodo added.

Twenty-five year-old factory worker Tomohiro Kato was arrested on June 8 on suspicion of driving a rental truck into a crowd of shoppers and then knifing passers-by in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, known for its discount electronics shops and “otaku” culture of video games, comics and outlandish fashion.

Of course, this kind of behavior isn’t particular to Japan. Lord knows, we’ve got our share of spree-killers here too, although they tend to be a little more heavily armed.