Wednesday 29 August 2007

Computer people - greatest sadomazo's?

What is sadomasochism? It is when one person likes to inflict pain, and another - to suffer it. How far can it go? Well, when one wants to torture to death, and another wants to be killed that way... Bizarre how it seems, it is not completely out of place, alas.

When speaking about such cases, two of them come to mind, at least. One of them is the case of German cannibal Armin Meiwes, who ate his sweetheart Bernd Juergen Brandes in 2001, on mutual agreement. Another one is the case of Sharon Lopatka. She looked hard for someone to kill her in a painful way, and, finally, Robert Frederick Glass made her dreams come true in 1996.

What struck me in those cases? Well, let's see what those people were:

Armin Meiwes
computer technician

Bernd Juergen Brandes
computer software engineer, worked for Siemens in Berlin

Sharon Lopatka
Internet entrepreneur, website owner

Robert Frederick Glass
computer analyst who worked for the Catawba County, North Carolina, government. He was a productive worker who was responsible for programming tax rolls and keeping track of the gas consumption of county vehicles


See any trends? Being a software engineer working in computer industry myself, I do. Surely, in both cases people found each other on internet, but internet is not just for programmers, is it?

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