There are few things that I hear or read about that make me make this face: o.O anymore.

This has reached the ranks of one of those things.

WARNING: the link goes to a rather graphic article that discusses a horrible crime commited on an infant.


My mind literally just can't form words.

I wonder what it says about me that I can look at the X-ray in this article and, instead of being horrified, (Warning: the article is about a man who was murdered by being shot in the head 34 times with a nail gun. The X-ray is of the victim's skull and where the nails lie), I'm more interested in the angle of nails and how/where the killer had to have been standing, and how the victim had been positioned, what kind of motivation does it take to fire a nail gun that many times into a person, etc? Cases like this make me wish I had stuck to the idea of going into CSI or forensics. As much as I love writing and all the good stuff that comes with being an English major, things like this just make my brain light up.

But then I think about everything else that goes a long with it--crime scenes with real people blown and bashed to bloody bits, atrocities performed on children and I'm not sure how well I would be able to handle it emotionally and mentally. I get upset seeing roadkill, and the people I have seen die in real life--sometimes violently, like in the case of the Nick Berg video--weren't things that I could easily just brush off, no matter how "desensitized" I have been by violent video games and movies.

But still. Trying to figure out people's motivations for the crimes that commit and the actual nitty gritty details of how they committed them...man, that makes my brain happy.

Bah.