Friends of the Captain sent word that several notorious Colombian right-wing paramilitary leaders have been extradited to the U.S. Though these men committed hundreds of brutal murders, they are only being charged with drug-trafficking offenses. While that's bad enough, what's worse is that their cases have been sealed by a U.S. judge, essentially rendering them invisible. No one knows if these men negotiated lenient sentences or if they are even serving any jail time at all. But what really piqued the Captain's interest in this was that these murderers were fond of employing chainsaws as weapons:
The victims were dragged into the town slaughterhouse. Amid chains and meat hooks, they were bound, suspended and interrogated. Where are the guerrillas? Are you a guerrilla? The men had machetes and chainsaws. Whatever the victims said, however they pleaded, they lost a hand. An arm. A leg. Finally, almost mercifully, they were decapitated.
And as much as the Captain enjoys bringing you stories about chainsaw murders, what he enjoys even more is sharing stories about chainsaw accidents. Apparently it's been a bad month or so in Austria:
An elderly woman suffered serious injuries when she tried to cut wood with a chainsaw at her home in Styria yesterday [09/09/2010].
The 68-year-old Eichberg resident was working at her garage when she slipped and slashed open her right lower arm falling onto the saw's blade. The pensioner managed to reach the house’s courtyard to call for help. Her daughter-in-law called an ambulance and she was transported to Oberwart’s LKH clinic via helicopter.
Last month, a 67-year-old man from Lower Austria died from an accident involving a chain saw. Wilhelm H. from Krustetten was chopping wood with a chainsaw when a splinter shot off and speared him in the leg. He collapsed after removing it – and bled to death before being found by his son.
[ProPublica] [Austrian Times] [Canada.com]
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