02 Dec 2010
Killed by tripod
Perpignan is in the news, once again, but this time not for its annual photojournalism festival...
Olivier Laurent
Agence France Presse and Le Figaro report that, in Perpignan, France, a woman killed her sister using a tripod. One witness says that he arrived to find the 47-year-old woman kneeling over her sister while hitting her with the tripod.
The "mentally-ill woman," says AFP, has been committed to a mental institution as she awaits trial. The sister worked for the city council.
Read the full report, in French, on Le Figaro website.
Comments
When will we wake up and demand background checks and three day waiting periods for tripod purchasers?
I wonder if she's selling it, mines a bit long in the tooth and I could do with a good solid one
Though I agree that the murder weapon is a bit different or odd, I fail to comprehend how others find humor in the taking of a life. Have we really become this callous towards others?
@Daniel Fealko
In answer to your last question; yes I think in general we have become that callous as a society. I can't really see why this article appears in the BJP in the first place other than snigger value; one thing from commenters, another from a supposedly upmarket/serious photographic magazine.
Ask yourself would you have released the shutter first if you had come across the scene?
The think the answer would have been shoot first!
That is the reason we here with camera in hand to record and not prevent.
The world is a sick, nasty and very screwed up place. You can either laugh at it, or be consumed by the horror
It seems obvious that your journal isn't edited to very high standards if an article like this can be printed.
In what way does publishing a news story about someone being bludgeoned to death with a tripod enhance our knowledge of photography - which, unless, I'm mistaken is the BJP's aim.
It shows two things only: a lack of sound judgment and poor taste.
Regards,
Colin Read
That's just like saying "Guns don't kill people, people kill people!"
Makes me think that perhaps the airlines will forbid us to carry on our tripods.
If it was a bembo I can understand - and anyone who has used one would realise that she was not mad - just frustrated.
Holmes: Well Watson, I can tell you categorically that the murder weapon was a Gitzo.
Watson: How do you deduce that Holmes?
Holmes: Simple Watson. I have observed that professional photographers frequently remark when unloading the Astravan "that ruddy Gitzo is going to kill someone one day".
I have never considered a tripod to be an offensive weapon, but i am always reassured being out in 'dodgy' areas making pictures, knowing my trusty Manfrotto 55 is there to protect me :-)
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