22 Dec 2005
Alcohol is a strong trigger of criminal violence

Today's "Study in Stupidity"... it must've been the booze. The fact that a majority of the offenders were men with psychiatric diagnoses doesn't mean anything!

Here's a theory of my very own with a similar "leap of logic" conclusion: carrots are fatally poisonous! The proof is the fact that every single human who ate a carrot before 1865 is now dead!

A study at Karolinska Institutet of 133 violent offenders in Sweden shows that 78 (58%) had consumed alcohol within 24 hours before the violent act. A large majority of the offenders were men with psychiatric diagnoses and most of the victims were known to them.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

00:00 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link