Re: [yasid] shooter at car drivers who "diminished" them

On 7/3/25 10:09, danny burstein wrote:

In <XnsB3117AE349E51Rel@85.12.62.240> RelMark <bsmith77@windstream.net> writes:
 [snip]

I very specifically remember the word "diminish".
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Ring any neurons amongst anyone here?
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Thanks

 

The character's situation is a bit different, but I'd guess that
you're thinking of "And now the news...", by Theodore Sturgeon.
The Internet Archive has a scan of the magazine publication of
the story here: http://tinyurl.com/bdf6pzsj .

 damn..  that's it, all right.  1956!?!  I wouldn't have
read the original..
 It's way too prescient.
 Thanks muchly
 

I was on Taiwan I believe and had limited access to SF magazines.

Well I can think of murder teams and serial killers who traveled across state lines
  to do many killings since that time but yes it was hardly prescient to anyone who had
  access to criminal data about the investigations done by the FBI and others.
We did not read much about serial killers in those times or even mass murderers
  but that was  due to change.
In the 1980s my mother was murdered and the culprit was apprended last year
  based on DNA evidence preserved from the crime scene. He was already in prison and
  now is confined to a wheelchair awating trial in Sacramento if he lives long enough for
  the court to get to his case.
bliss