Severed heads are really gross

The big story in the news today is about a high school kid who killed his mother while she slept, cut off her head with a knife, put it in his backpack and carried it around with him as he walked around town, then took a taxi to the police station where he gave them her severed head. Now there's a boy with psychological problems. What would cause someone to do such a horrible thing?

The taxi driver said the boy didn't talk much on the way to the police station and the backpack left a brown stain on the seat - he said he spilled cocoa and tried to wipe away the stain with a wet rag. His teachers in school said he wasn't in any afterschool activities and was on the quiet side. There's so much speculation as to what motivated this kid to butcher his mother and the reporters even interviewed his classmates, who had no idea what had happened until they were surrounded by reporters. Actually it bothers me that the kids had to hear what happened from reporters. Reporters in general just bug me.

Something else that bothers me is the irrelevance of certain interviews that they've decided to air. They've been playing the same scenes all day so I guess they're getting desperate to show something new, but we don't need to hear a doctor explaining how easy it is for someone to cut off a head with a steak knife. FYI it only takes 10 to 15 minutes and if the person is still alive lots of blood will come out, so the good doctor says. Now why would they air something like that and make it sound so easy to cut off a person's head?

You don't hear much in terms of violence or crime here. There are far more murders in America than there are in Japan, but the ones here are just disturbing. When I first came to Japan people were talking about the middle school kid who killed his classmate and stuck the severed head on the entrance gate of the school. A couple months ago they were tracking a man who rode a bicycle and slashed random women with a long blade as they walked home from work at night. At least guns are illegal in this country. No need to worry about crazies with assault weapons.