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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF unnerving article or story: Why is everything always so fucking weird
 
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ruarc
Oct 22, 2008

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Kimmalah posted:

No it wasn't Aatrek.

The guy wasn't a goon at all, he just gets posted in these creepy threads a lot and for some reason people get it mixed up.

This was all over the news here, as Purcell isn't far from where I live.

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Murder Charge Filed in Purcell Death
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ruarc
Oct 22, 2008

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bladedsmoke posted:

I just finished reading a book about this, so I thought I'd look up the relevant Wikipedia pages: The wreck of the Batavia, in 1628, and the subsequent reign of terror on a tiny group of desert islands just off western Australia that left 110 men, women and children dead - and not because of starvation or thirst, but almost all murdered on the orders of one of the castaways, Jeronimus Cornelisz.


Jeronimus had an uncanny command of the mutineers, who did all of the murders at his bidding. He himself seemed more comfortable issuing orders to murder, than committing them himself, and in many ways was a fairly pathetic figure - the wiki lists his only personal act of violence as when he "tried and failed to poison a baby."

It all culminated when a Dutch ship, coming to rescue the survivors, came across a pitched battle between two groups of castaways - the "Defenders" and the mutineers. The Defenders, led by the common soldier Wiebbe Hayes, were a small group of soldiers who Jeronimus had suspected he'd be unable to convince to mutiny, so he tricked them into looking for water on a nearby island before leaving them stranded without boats. Ironically, Jeronimus had thought he was leaving the Defenders to die, but their island actually turned out to have a water source while Jeronimus's did not.

Fishermen are still discovering skeletal remains of the massacre on the islands today. Something good did come out of it, though:

Stuff You Missed in History Class also did a good 2 part podcast on the wreck and mutiny.

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ruarc
Oct 22, 2008

what

Hoopy Frood posted:

Surely some Sigur Ros will relax you after that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPuZsIkRj8

How about Morrissey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHBZFSYA12A

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ruarc
Oct 22, 2008

what
I'm just waiting for it to hit Facebook and treated as real.

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