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Back in February we were alarmed by reports of a man in Prince George's County who was using Craigslist to lure rape victims to various locations in the county. The Post reports that the man suspected of committing these crimes killed himself during a standoff with police yesterday. The suspect, Mark Antonio Humphries, 33, of the 4100 block of Suitland Road of Suitland, shot himself in the head after police began setting up a barricade outside a Hyattsville apartment where they believed he was hiding. He was pronounced dead later at a nearby hospital.
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Good Riddance. He should have done this weeks ago.
Hopefully, this will bring some peace to the victims.
...make that months ago
well, if this guy was actually the one guilty of the crimes, then at least no one else will suffer on account of him.
if not, i'm sure we'll hear a whole bunch about it.
I heard that his victims were found on Craigslist casual encounters ... is that true? They were supposedly going to meet up with him for casual sex, then instead of having fun casual sex, they got raped in a stairwell. Can anyone verify that?
I'm almost positive, though, that these women weren't meeting him to buy furniture...
was his gun licensed? was he using a trigger lock?
in cases like this, i think the overturning of DC's gun ban is a good thing.
effregistering, from the original dcist post, it looks like the girls were responding to regular craigslist personal ads. one sentence reads something along the lines of "when one girl showed up for her date...." that terminology might hold true in casual encounters too though.
@fuckregistering I dont see how that matters at all? So what either way.
IMGOPH Well he had to be really guilty of something really bad and illegal if he chose to blow himself away seeing the cops surround his house. Either way I think society is probably better off in this case...
which 'gun' are you referring to? In that case a 'gun' ban might not be a bad thing. Get that thang registered and zipper locked...
tmoney: it matters because the report makes it sound like they were innocent victims. It's like if you pay a hooker for sex and then she says that she was raped. There are innocent victims then there are people who really aren't 'innocent'.
Have you read those casual encounters? If it is true that they were meeting for casual sex, then I have no sympathy for the rapist or the victims ...
Instant karama's going to get you.
If you can't distinguish consensual sex from rape, you're a moron.
If you can't distinguish between an innocent victim and a moron, you're a ... moron.
tmoney: just because he shot himself doesn't mean he was automatically guilty. what if they had the wrong guy, and he was just paranoid and not all right in the head? i'm not defending a guilty man, but i am saying let's wait until we have the facts before we damn this man eternally.
oh wait, we'll never be able to get all the facts now, because he's dead.
'tis a shame. a trial where he was declared guilty would have brought better closure to this. i just hope everyone involved has a little more peace in their lives today.
Fuckregistering If it is true that they were meeting for casual sex, then I have no sympathy for the rapist or the victims ...
Yeah any woman who wants to get laid deserves to be raped. They are just begging to be brutally and forcefully have whatever done to them. That kind of attitude was probably shared by the rapist. Perhaps the police did have the wrong man...Now because you are either a troll or a rapist misogynistic "moron" to use your words I will junkpunch you then begin my Amish shunning of you.
IMGOPH yeah I understand that he may not be guilty and could just be crazy in the head. But either way I guess I was in part responding to your remark "if not, i'm sure we'll hear a whole bunch about it." I am not sure you how any one can make a ruckus about the suicide. The police can't be blamed, they had just arrived.
What's with this whole 'junkpunch' thing I've been seeing in the comments, anyway??
Of course no one deserves to get raped. Just like 15 year olds don't deserve to get murdered. But then you find out the 15 year old was in a gang and had a history of violence and/or arrests. Do you still feel the same sympathy for this 'innocent' victim?
If you want to go to a junkpunching gangbang from Craigslist Casual Encounters, that's your choice. But damn that's a risky choice!
By the way, I was using by2112's 'moron' word.
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tmoney: (by the way, my name isn't all caps) you're right, i'm not blaming the cops. let's just say that someone likely will, and they'll likely raise a stink about it. happens quite a bit around here, it seems. there's a real "blame the cops" mentality that sometimes inhibits their ability to do their job.
Looks like we've got another Casual Encounter regular! You guys all relieved that this criminal is gone??
You guys are so smart that you've actually lost all common sense.
fuckregistering - I believe the Murky Coffee thread is the ur text of Junkpunching.
But then you find out the 15 year old was in a gang and had a history of violence and/or arrests. Do you still feel the same sympathy for this 'innocent' victim?
That's an insultingly specious comparison. Unlike criminal violence, consensual casual sex is (a) legal, (b) voluntary for both parties, and (c) something we frankly need lots more of. A better question would be, would you feel less sympathy for the victim of an armed robbery if you found out they had a reputation in the neighborhood for being generous with cash?
What's with this whole 'junkpunch' thing I've been seeing in the comments, anyway??
It's where you get punched. In the junk. But in your case I would not expect a lot of sympathy, what with your record of opposing the use of one's junk for recreation.
But why has the term 'junkpunching' become so popular on DCist?
You're correct in calling me out on my comparison. Do you feel sympathy for people who get gored during the Running of the Bulls?
it's become popular because all that monkey touches (or craps out) turns to gold. he's like gert fröbe.
Do you feel sympathy for people who get gored during the Running of the Bulls?
Sure. Being gored by a bull sure seems like it would hurt, and whenever I see one of the spills on TV, I spare a sympathetic wince.
Um, aren't the dumbasses who run with the bulls in Pamplona kinda asking to be gored?
I'm sorry but I don't have much sympathy for madcap funsters who eat 10-for-$10 burritos at Taco Bell, light their farts, then set fire to the drapes and burn the whole goddamned house down. Happened to me twice. Stupid f***ing roommates. Thanks a LOT, Joseph Ratzinger. You still owe me the deposit.
Um, aren't the dumbasses who run with the bulls in Pamplona kinda asking to be gored?
I'm not saying I'm surprised or anything, just that I'd still have sympathy for their injuries. Kinda like when I was a boy, I really wanted a catcher's mitt, but my dad wouldn't get it for me. So I held my breath until I passed out and banged my head on the coffee table. The doctor thought I might have brain damage. The point is, I like stories.
Again, being a moron sucks, but it doesn't mean you deserve to be raped. Hey, maybe you should even be mocked for being a moron, but saying you should be raped goes just a bit too far. And yes, hookers can be raped, too. (Anyone remember Atila the bball player at GW all those years ago?).
I never said they should have been raped. I just disagree with the whole 'innocent' victim part. Same thing with the bulls: you want to run with the bulls, I think you're an idiot. If you get gored, that sucks, but quite frankly I don't have much sympathy for ya.
I never said they should have been raped. I just disagree with the whole 'innocent' victim part.
An innocent victim is one who doesn't try to victimize anyone themselves. Doing something that victimizes no one but that might increase your own risk of victimhood does not make you any less innocent.
would anyone be offended if i change my dcist name to fuckfuckregistering?
then I have no sympathy for the rapist or the victims ...
not ok dude not ok!!!!
I'm sure we sluts deserve it for wearing a tank top & shorts too. We're just asking for whatever we get.
Seriously, fuckregistering, take your male privilege and shove it up your rear end. Blaming the victims was passe in the 90's; now it's just asinine.
Jeez, talk about some PC whiners. Give me a break with these comments I'm getting. Let me guess: these same people getting all riled up are the same 'open minded' people that believe in free speech ... as long as you agree with what they're saying, right?
I assume you're defending the following scenarios as well:
-Someone getting mugged walking in Anacostia at 3am carrying a box of rolex watches.
-Someone drowning after diving off of a high dive who doesn't know how to swim with no lifeguard on duty.
-Someone getting beat up after going into the middle of a frat house meeting and calling one of the guys' girlfriend a whore.
-One of the extremely 'nice' girls from Late Night Shots getting HIV.
Everyone who jumped all over me for saying that these victims may not be all that 'innocent' please tell me you'd defend each of these scenarios as well. Are you still a victim? Of course. Did you put yourself in an extremely dangerous situation? Of course.
No matter how many bizarre hypothetical analogies you come up with, fuckregistering, it doesn't make you any less of an asshole.
Deal with this situation, not some madeup bullshit hypotheticals, that you IMAGINE other people's reactions to. What you said in your earlier post was that this guy's rape victims deserved no sympathy, and may even have deserved what happened to them, simply because they answered personal ads that may have been looking for casual sex. The rest of are saying that's bullshit reasoning and morally reprehensible. No one's going on and on about some "perfect" level of innocence except for you.
If it somehow makes you feel safer to catalogue all the ways you're smarter and more careful than people who fall victim to horrible crimes, that's just swell. We all should have more rational understandings of risk, and how we can genuinely affect it. Putting the rapist and rape victim in the same moral category just because the victim did something "stupid," however is not okay, and calling you out on it isn't "PC." It's just human decency.
Well, Nate, I think you're an asshole for assuming these 'innocent' victims are just as innocent as people who get raped while jogging along a path, minding their own business.
I read another article that stated some of his victims were professional escorts. Yeah, awesomely innocent there. Prostitutes getting raped ... uh, isn't prostitution ILLEGAL!? Sure they can get raped, just like poor little gangbangers can get 'innocently' gunned down! Give me a break.
Because of asshat humanists like you, the real innocent victims get less attention. By the way, when one of my 'bizarre' hypotheticals actually happens, I'll make sure to ask what you think.
No, because of asshat ignoramuses like you, rape victims of all sorts are afraid to come forward for fear of being further victimized. A woman jogging alone isn't any less at fault under your extremely faulty logic - that's a dangerous activity as well, according to most.
I sincerely hope you don't breed, for the sake of both your potential daughters and the rest of us.
Haha, yeah, jogging and being a prostitute are just about at the same level.
I sincerely hope you don't breed either. I can hear it now: "honey, it's not my fault I don't know who your daddy is. I'm so smart that I know it's my right to procreate with everyone I choose!"
Anyone else notice this passage from the interview with Tim Zagat?:
"squirt it into your mouth. Girls seemed to like that."
Um....just sayin'
FR, you're completely putting words in my mouth ... I never said anything about these people, or compared them to any other people, I merely called you out as an asshole for saying that they deserved what happened to them. Let me repeat my point, no one else here is measuring the relative degrees of "innocence" except for you. That doesn't mean that we don't recognize that there are varying levels of risk-taking behavior involved, or even varying levels of culpability, it's just that we're saying that they don't actually matter all that much when compared to the much larger evil of the person committing the violence.
To put it very simply, so that you might address the actual point rather than constructing other straw men to flail at, prostitutes don't deserve to be raped. Because of the laws right now, you can argue that they "deserve" to be arrested and imprisoned, but they don't deserve to be raped. I don't have to believe that they are "just as innocent as "real" innocent victims" to believe that, and I don't understand why you do.
Also, what fantasy world are you living in where innocent victims get "less attention" due to situations like this? Prostitutes getting raped and murdered is so common in this country that the media barely covers it until one individual killer has murdered enough that it can be sold as a "serial killer" story, or it has an sexy media angle like this "Craigslist rapist," and even then it's barely news outside the immediate vicinity for more than a day. The stories of innocent victims, on the other hand, dominate the 24-hour media on a daily and weekly basis, making people far more paranoid than the reality of the numbers should have them be.
wow, FR, you've got some serious issues to workout with yourself.
anytime someone is forced to have sex against their will--no matter what their profession, no matter what they were doing right before the sex was forced (be it jogging, or giving a BJ), no matter how intoxicated they or their rapist is, that is rape hands down.
rape affects people of all genders, and all sexualities, of all professions, and in all stages of life. there is no more-or-less innocent.
wanting to have casual sex is a far cry from asking to be raped, and wanting to make a living through sex work is also a far cry from wanting to be raped, the same way that jogging through a park or down the street is a far cry from wanting to be raped (or, even, in each of these cases, making rape an acceptable outcome of any of those situations).
FR, I'm queer, so I'm fairly certain that my people are much more responsible about having kids than asswipes like you. But since you seem to think that it's ok to rape whomever you consider to be not-innocent, I hope that if you try to play rapist god in person you end up in a federal prison with a huge cellmate who has a penchant for idiots.
Hey, by FR's logic, since he chose to live in a major city with a serious crime rate, he deserves to get shot, or at least mugged! At least he and I can agree on one point!
wow, what a scary article! One thing I always stress is safety and this is certainly a case where that applies.
Sites like Craigslist simply do not provide safety to people who post on there. Items in FOR SALE, or WANTED, to PERSONALS...there are so many categories someone could just post a fake ad on to lure people in!
Instead, use www.ilist.com?
Why? It's free, easy to use, and SAFE.
Don't take my word for it, post something now!