Killer Santa Claus was a Frustrated Man

by Gopalan on  December 28, 2008 at 10:55 AM Lifestyle News
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Yet another gory massacre. Story of apparently gratuitous violence. Nine mowed down during a Christmas-eve party by a man who was masquerading as Santa Claus. The Los Angeles community is agonizing. The killer was a very frustrated man.

The 45-year-old Bruce Pardo stormed his ex-wife's parents' annual holiday party and slaughtered revelers with a barrage of bullets before setting the home on fire.

Police Chief Kim Raney said Pardo fired a shot into the face of an 8-year-old girl who answered the door and at first fired indiscriminately, then apparently targeted relatives of his ex-wife as other guests fled.

"I need someone to come over and help my daughter!" a woman can be heard screaming to a 911 police dispatcher, according to a transcript released Friday. "She's been shot on the side of the face."

The woman then tries to describe the shooter, saying she couldn't recognize him at first in his Santa outfit. The dispatcher asked her to identify the gunman.

"His name is Bruce Pardo," she said. "He's still shooting out there."

The dispatcher tells her to hold on for a second.

"Please," the woman begs, "I don't know who else is still alive." The girl has luckily survived.

After the shootings, Pardo retreated to the front door and retrieved a device that mixed carbon dioxide or oxygen with high-octane racing fuel. Fleeing guests saw him spraying the fuel inside the house when the vapor was ignited, possibly by a pilot light or a candle, and exploded.

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Susan Wilson(Guest)

01/01/2009

Guys, words are the tools of your profession, right? Why do you insist on using the imbecilic words "high octane racing fuel" when that's the same damn thing as "gasoline". I mean, I guess it makes your story sound exotic or something, when it's not. By why embellish the story with such lies. All racing fuel is high octane. And, the higher the octane, the slower it burns. That's why it's used in high compression racing engines dummy. But, the octane rating of a fuel has absolutely nothing to do with how it acts outside an internal combustine engine. The fact that you don't know that yet you insist on using those idiotic words tells me you've done absolutely no research and don't even know what it is you are writing. I must discount everything you say based on your idiocy.


01/02/2009

Not sure what is Susan upset about. The story has nothing to do with High octane racing fuel but about a mad guy who posed as Santa and killed nine people. In any case the term gaosline like gas is too generic and can mean anything - petrol or diseal.




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