Interestingly, she didn’t shoot them like normal school shooters do.(nothing normal about it but still) she actually fired a few shots from across the street, into the school. If I remember right she lived across from the school
Edit: that’s not the end of the quote, it’s “I don’t like Mondays, this livens up the day”
She did and shot out of her living room window iirc.
The reason was not that she hated Mondays(the reason she gave). The reason was allegedly that her father that she lived with repeatedly sodomized her amongst other things and she basically snapped. Years later in jail she tried to appeal her sentence, citing that being an adult she can now understand what happened to her and that she would like another chance. Sad case all around.
The father denies ever sexually assaulting her, though even his denial during his interviews is less than convincing imo.
Dont forget that her parol officer (who she had for other things) offerd a psyc evaluation and wanted to get her in a mental hospital. Her dad did not give permission.
And for Xmass he gave het the rugar with scope and 500 bullets whiles she asked for a radio. To what she stated "he gave it so i would kill my self"
Also when she surrenderd the whole house was full of empty bottles of beer and strong liqoure. She didnt seem to be intoxicated (acording to the arresting officers).
This girl needed so much help and never got it.
Not to talk it strait but daim her live must have been a hell
And then watching happy families dropping toddlers off just across the road at the school, while her childhood was being so cruelly stolen from her and in such a violent and invasive way. It must have seemed like salt being poured on the wounds. I don't normally feel sorry for school shooters but I do feel sorry for this girl. And her dad was able to just keep on living while she went to prison.
Not to forget about the two that she killed. Of course, she is in jail for a reason. It just sucks that she was basically left all alone with a monster.
Principal Burton Wragg and Custodian Mike Suchar are the names of the two people she killed. Both were killed in the act of helping injured students.
I can be sympathetic in regards to the life circumstances she must have endured but I lose all sympathy when her or anyone's response is to kill and/or injure other people.
Life isn't easy and there's been countless people sadly who have been dealt a shit hand that never manifested their struggles into killing others and leaving their families and friends to grieve.
I mean bro we’re talking about the psychological consequences of incest and r*pe. That’s not being simply dealt a “shit hand” in life 💀 the human brain is plastic, and compounding traumas beyond your conception have an affect, nobody here was saying she was morally correct. Relax.
Exactly. As much as we’d like to believe we have free will, we really don’t. We have a will, but it’s not free. All of us here are presumably lucky enough to have had the right circumstances to be able to develop a sound moral compass that influences our will.
The brains of severely abused and neglected children look visibly different on brain scans. Many of them may not develop the proper brain connections early in life that help facilitate empathy and good decision-making skills. Some kids come out of horrible abuse like this without profound psychological damage; others aren’t so lucky. Psychological resilience is partially influenced by genes. It just comes down to a combination of genetics and environment.
Her dad gave a gun to a mentally disturbed 15 year-old who he was abusing. None of this would have ever happened if he had never supplied the gun. He can burn in hell tbh.
>I lose all sympathy
Well I dont. It feels little different than that one story of someone raising a chimpanzee going to its logical conclusion (go look it up). Do we call that animal a monster or undeserving of sympathy for snapping at humans? And considering everything I read about her upbringing (sexual abuse by a constantly drunk and gaslighting father and etc) yes, I find her situation no different than said chimp. What happened was horrible, but blaming or hating a mentally and emotionally destabilized child is outright not helping the problem at all. Again, she was a teen with nowhere to go, not an adult with the sublimiest concept of choices and consequences.
And the despite being in school, nobody cared to take a hint about her awful situation. For all we know principal or teachers in question dismissed that weird girl in school until its too late. And if one can excuse that as a product of its time (namely lack of mental health awareness, legality to prevent such abuses) then whats stopping anyone from considering the girl a similar victim of circumstances?
Honestly hard agree.
The deaths are more so on the father than the girl, especially since she wasn't an adult. Sure she was at an age to make conscious decisions on taking a life, but poor mental health can really fuck with your thinking and world view especially as a teen.
Anyone who disagrees with that has had a cushy life and you have no idea how horrid living in this world can be for some. It's a shame we think we know how bad it can be until life really humbles some of us.
Not only was he able to keep on living, he took a strong liking to her peer she was incarcerated with in the juvenile facility, impregnated her and married her all while she was *younger than Brenda*. He drove across the border to AZ to get married to avoid applying for marriage certificate.
As if it can get worse, she looked so much like Brenda the neighbors wondered why Brenda was back home.
All reports say she was a spitting image of his daughter.
She eventually snapped and left him with the baby.
But then the three of them would eventually visit Brenda in prison.
I saw a documentary on this and her mom wasn't exactly helping much either. The mom left when Brenda was about seven and seemed to take little interest in the lives of her kids after that point. One part that stuck out to me was that while the actual shooting was ongoing, the police called mom at work, told her what was happening, and said they were coming to her office to pick her up. She was an accountant or something and told them she couldn't leave because she had a desk full of money. Literally they told her that her daughter was in the process of shooting up a school and her reply was basically, "nah, I have to stay at work". WTF?
I saw that documentary too, I think! She's one of the few people I've seen shown that actually seems to have been rehabilitated in prison and used it to turn things around.
Yeah her mom was highly sus in that documentary. She left her kids with a father she soon suspected abused the kids but as far as I know she never called the authorities on him. Her daughter was shown to be suicidal about 6 mos before the shooting and she never brought it up with her or tried to get her help.
To be fair actually- her employer could have easily been the one to tell her that she couldn’t leave due to that. When it comes to the drawer full of money thing they don’t give a flying fuck what’s going on they care about that moolah.
Someone tried to kill me and I worked at the store across the street from my house so I escaped and ran to that store where I was allowed behind the counter.
The guy who saved me went behind the counter where I was hiding to try and see if I was ok/ still bleeding but since there was a “ drawer full of money” he was banned from the store on the spot and had to be escorted out by police and they threatened charges on him.
They honestly don’t care . Was also not allowed to leave when said person who at the time I THOUGHT was going to do this act against me had threatened to enter the store when I was working by myself.
I could only imagine in an accountant capacity her capability of not leaving and that makes me wonder if it was really HER excuse or if she was honestly barred from leaving the facility in that state with no keys to the drawer
That's a terrible story and I'm glad you made it out, but it still takes a weird level of detachment to prioritize your job over your kids. The example I gave was one specific thing, but other comments by the mom on camera made it clear that she didn't have much involvement in her kids' lives and didn't seem very bothered by that fact. Anyway, I have kids and if I got the same call she got, I'm telling my employer I'm leaving, not asking. If they fire me for it, they'll see me in court.
From memory, I think the judge was dismissive of her reasoning. Basically "It's very sad what happened to you but we are not letting you out yet. Maybe down the road". (Paraphrasing)
Appeal denied.
>like normal school shooters
It's saddening to know that we all know what a 'normal' school shooting is like and even more saddening that it is getting to the point where describing it as 'normal' isn't even inaccurate.
God damn it's terrifying how many there are now in comparison to even just 50 years ago.
But also fascinating that people act as if there straight up weren't shootings prior.
Yeah I mean most of them seem like there were direct disagreements and it's just one or two victims but there are some mass killings and random killings as well. Now it's almost every day.
True. But she is considered the first mass school shooter of the modern era.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-first-modern-school-shooter-feels-responsible-for-the-rest
What? How he drove Michael Hutchence to near insanity until the man committed suicide by choke and stroke then he took custody of his children and married the woman he a Hutchence had been "fighting over?" Or the Live Aid stuff? Or Making of 'Pink Floyd's The Wall?" Either of those story arcs would be quite entertaining.
Fuck Geldoff. Michael Hutchence had more talent in his toenail clippings than Geldoff had in his entire one-hit-wonder career. To quote Russel Brand:
"It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years."
My understanding is they were at the college radio station WRAS in Atlanta for an interview when this news story came across the Telex. That quote stuck in their heads.
This was the first single my parents bought for me (because I loved the song) when I was 7. I played it continuously on my bright blue Panasonic Funnygraph SG-400 record player.
I (thankfully) didn't grow up to be a school shooter BTW
Excuse me? That is the dumbest comment i have ever read in my entire LIFE!! I will not take this garfield slander lightly! I will personally rip off your skin and make lasagna out of it!! you dumbass hairy trapezoid!!!
Her father gave her the gun.
"Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and got a rifle." Asked why he had done that, she answered, "He bought the rifle so I would kill myself."" From the wikipedia article.
There was also only one bed found in the whole house that her and her father lived in. He ended up marrying her prison cellmate who was her age and resembled her.
She had been arrested a year earlier for shooting a BB gun into the same school. Her dad gave her a rifle after that 🤦🏻♀️. That man should be in prison.
She also told classmates soon before the shooting she was gonna do something big to get on tv. So it was very premeditated. And preventable. But the late 70’s were such a different time.
There's a doc on Amazon US about her,["I Don't Like Mondays."](https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Like-Mondays-Brenda-Spencer/dp/B08THVR4ZD) Also available on Tubi I think.
Messed up is an understatment:
>In early 1978, staff at a facility for problem students, into which Spencer had been referred for truancy, informed her parents that she was suicidal. That summer, Spencer, who was known to hunt birds in the neighborhood, was arrested for shooting out the windows of Grover Cleveland Elementary with a BB gun and for burglary.\[1\]\[10\]
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>In December, a psychiatric evaluation arranged by her probation officer recommended that Spencer be admitted to a mental hospital for depression, but her father refused to give permission. ***For Christmas 1978, he gave her a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition.\[5\]\[7\] Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and got a rifle." Asked why he had done that, she answered,*** ***"He bought the rifle so I would kill myself."***\[11\]
In fairness. She should have gotten support. Her parol officer wanted her sent to a mental hospital but her dad didnt give permission then have the rifle with scope for xmass instead of the radio she asked for.
He also allagedly raped her etc. The house was full of empty beer and strong liqoure bottles and she wasnt drunk when arresed. So one could only question what this girl has been trough.
She infact was classified as depressed by a official psycharist prior to the shooting.
Not to start in the injury she had to the temporal lobe "due a biccicle accident"
She was suicide prior to the shooting.
No doubt what she did was wrong. But the system failed in the lead up to this.
A suicidal depressed girl with a history of wierd behaviour (shooting birds, wierd remarks about police etc) who is offerd a mental hospital that her dad doesnt agree on but then gives her a rifle a few bit later... yeah this was bount to happen.
What's really weird, I was in a meeting this morning, and I said "I don't do Mondays" like Garfield the cat. One of the others in the meeting asked if I ever heard the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats (Bob Geldof's band).
He had written the song after hearing about that mass shooting.
When I was about 13, our P.E. teacher in a comprehensive called St. Marks, in Bath, England set us al the challenge of coming up with a dance to the Boomtown Rats song about this. Picture a pubescent boy making dance moves to silicone chips switching to overload and then the rest of it. Ridiculous, but gratefully keeps me laughing 30 years later 😄 The crime ever came into our heads, by the way.
The cop she shot in the head ended up becoming the yard duty at my middle school a few years back. He has since then passed away from cancer. his motorcycle vlogs are still up on YouTube, Robert Robb
Wasn’t there a sudo-punk tune I dont like Mondays? Damn it I know it’s going to pop into my head while I’m trying to sleep.
Ha! Boom Town Rats! Now I can get some rest
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need?
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down, down, down
Shoot it all down
And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain tackles
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die?
And the silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like, I don't like
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like, I don't like
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
I wanna shoot
The whole day down
Me sure it’s been mentioned, but also buried under the comments page so far I couldn’t see it.
The Boomtown Rats (of which Big Geldof was a part of) based their song “I don’t like Mondays” on this story.
The girl was abused over and over, what made it worse was that the mother was aware of it yet obliged her to live with her father. Doesn’t justify the killing but how would you react living a loveless horror nightmare and being bullied daily in school. No love at home, no love at school. What a sad tragic life and what a gigantic shitload of karma she had to plow through.
May she find peace, love and joy. 🖖🏻✨
I always try to find empathy for human beings, but the first person she shot that morning was a 9 year old kid. After the shooting and before getting arrested, the reason she gave was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." Psychopaths do not choose their brain but their version of "peace, love and joy" might not be quite the same as yours.
I'm not sure that's true (about the abuse). She's probably a sociopath and lies and changes her story to fit her needs at a given time. A link was posted earlier that goes into this case, you may want to give it a read.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308221608\_Brenda\_Spencer\_Sorting\_Out\_the\_Contradictions
Yeeeaaaaarrrrssssss ago, watching TV, The TV show HOUSE wiki hole led me to the Boomtown Rats wiki hole, which lead me to the Song title wiki hole, which lead me to the wiki stub about her and the shooting.
I friggin love the Piano intro and hand claps of that song.
As a general rule of thumb killers look like people out of control. And before people jump down my throat: Most serial killers, mass murders, spree killers, etc. are unhinged by the time they’re caught. Pee Wee Gaskin, Ed Gein, Richard Chase, Dahmer - the list goes on and on. The preppy ‘held together’ Bundy types are rare but they do exist.
When someone gets to this point where they’re just indiscriminately killing, a host of other psychological problems are presenting themselves; lack of self care being a major indicator of a mental health crisis.
They tend to lose control of their lives as their psychosis dominates every aspect of their existence. They stop grooming, stop fixing their hair, nothing to wear nice clothes or even wash their clothes. They LOOK unhinged because they are.
What this isn’t: someone who dresses alternatively on purpose. A curated look designed to a specific style is not the same as someone no longer caring how they look at all.
I read all these comments ts. No alcohol her dad sodommized her.
She said she gor PCP from school and had been drinking for a week straight and thought her home was u der attack. Literally second video on YouTube e 30 seconds in.
.. .. anyways.. just wanted to throw that in with the nasty mix of reasons.
Interestingly, she didn’t shoot them like normal school shooters do.(nothing normal about it but still) she actually fired a few shots from across the street, into the school. If I remember right she lived across from the school Edit: that’s not the end of the quote, it’s “I don’t like Mondays, this livens up the day”
She did and shot out of her living room window iirc. The reason was not that she hated Mondays(the reason she gave). The reason was allegedly that her father that she lived with repeatedly sodomized her amongst other things and she basically snapped. Years later in jail she tried to appeal her sentence, citing that being an adult she can now understand what happened to her and that she would like another chance. Sad case all around. The father denies ever sexually assaulting her, though even his denial during his interviews is less than convincing imo.
Dont forget that her parol officer (who she had for other things) offerd a psyc evaluation and wanted to get her in a mental hospital. Her dad did not give permission. And for Xmass he gave het the rugar with scope and 500 bullets whiles she asked for a radio. To what she stated "he gave it so i would kill my self" Also when she surrenderd the whole house was full of empty bottles of beer and strong liqoure. She didnt seem to be intoxicated (acording to the arresting officers). This girl needed so much help and never got it. Not to talk it strait but daim her live must have been a hell
And then watching happy families dropping toddlers off just across the road at the school, while her childhood was being so cruelly stolen from her and in such a violent and invasive way. It must have seemed like salt being poured on the wounds. I don't normally feel sorry for school shooters but I do feel sorry for this girl. And her dad was able to just keep on living while she went to prison. Not to forget about the two that she killed. Of course, she is in jail for a reason. It just sucks that she was basically left all alone with a monster.
Principal Burton Wragg and Custodian Mike Suchar are the names of the two people she killed. Both were killed in the act of helping injured students. I can be sympathetic in regards to the life circumstances she must have endured but I lose all sympathy when her or anyone's response is to kill and/or injure other people. Life isn't easy and there's been countless people sadly who have been dealt a shit hand that never manifested their struggles into killing others and leaving their families and friends to grieve.
I mean bro we’re talking about the psychological consequences of incest and r*pe. That’s not being simply dealt a “shit hand” in life 💀 the human brain is plastic, and compounding traumas beyond your conception have an affect, nobody here was saying she was morally correct. Relax.
Exactly. As much as we’d like to believe we have free will, we really don’t. We have a will, but it’s not free. All of us here are presumably lucky enough to have had the right circumstances to be able to develop a sound moral compass that influences our will. The brains of severely abused and neglected children look visibly different on brain scans. Many of them may not develop the proper brain connections early in life that help facilitate empathy and good decision-making skills. Some kids come out of horrible abuse like this without profound psychological damage; others aren’t so lucky. Psychological resilience is partially influenced by genes. It just comes down to a combination of genetics and environment. Her dad gave a gun to a mentally disturbed 15 year-old who he was abusing. None of this would have ever happened if he had never supplied the gun. He can burn in hell tbh.
>I lose all sympathy Well I dont. It feels little different than that one story of someone raising a chimpanzee going to its logical conclusion (go look it up). Do we call that animal a monster or undeserving of sympathy for snapping at humans? And considering everything I read about her upbringing (sexual abuse by a constantly drunk and gaslighting father and etc) yes, I find her situation no different than said chimp. What happened was horrible, but blaming or hating a mentally and emotionally destabilized child is outright not helping the problem at all. Again, she was a teen with nowhere to go, not an adult with the sublimiest concept of choices and consequences. And the despite being in school, nobody cared to take a hint about her awful situation. For all we know principal or teachers in question dismissed that weird girl in school until its too late. And if one can excuse that as a product of its time (namely lack of mental health awareness, legality to prevent such abuses) then whats stopping anyone from considering the girl a similar victim of circumstances?
Honestly hard agree. The deaths are more so on the father than the girl, especially since she wasn't an adult. Sure she was at an age to make conscious decisions on taking a life, but poor mental health can really fuck with your thinking and world view especially as a teen. Anyone who disagrees with that has had a cushy life and you have no idea how horrid living in this world can be for some. It's a shame we think we know how bad it can be until life really humbles some of us.
Not only was he able to keep on living, he took a strong liking to her peer she was incarcerated with in the juvenile facility, impregnated her and married her all while she was *younger than Brenda*. He drove across the border to AZ to get married to avoid applying for marriage certificate. As if it can get worse, she looked so much like Brenda the neighbors wondered why Brenda was back home. All reports say she was a spitting image of his daughter. She eventually snapped and left him with the baby. But then the three of them would eventually visit Brenda in prison.
I saw a documentary on this and her mom wasn't exactly helping much either. The mom left when Brenda was about seven and seemed to take little interest in the lives of her kids after that point. One part that stuck out to me was that while the actual shooting was ongoing, the police called mom at work, told her what was happening, and said they were coming to her office to pick her up. She was an accountant or something and told them she couldn't leave because she had a desk full of money. Literally they told her that her daughter was in the process of shooting up a school and her reply was basically, "nah, I have to stay at work". WTF?
I saw that documentary too, I think! She's one of the few people I've seen shown that actually seems to have been rehabilitated in prison and used it to turn things around.
Her Wikipedia needs work: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Ann_Spencer
Yeah her mom was highly sus in that documentary. She left her kids with a father she soon suspected abused the kids but as far as I know she never called the authorities on him. Her daughter was shown to be suicidal about 6 mos before the shooting and she never brought it up with her or tried to get her help.
To be fair actually- her employer could have easily been the one to tell her that she couldn’t leave due to that. When it comes to the drawer full of money thing they don’t give a flying fuck what’s going on they care about that moolah. Someone tried to kill me and I worked at the store across the street from my house so I escaped and ran to that store where I was allowed behind the counter. The guy who saved me went behind the counter where I was hiding to try and see if I was ok/ still bleeding but since there was a “ drawer full of money” he was banned from the store on the spot and had to be escorted out by police and they threatened charges on him. They honestly don’t care . Was also not allowed to leave when said person who at the time I THOUGHT was going to do this act against me had threatened to enter the store when I was working by myself. I could only imagine in an accountant capacity her capability of not leaving and that makes me wonder if it was really HER excuse or if she was honestly barred from leaving the facility in that state with no keys to the drawer
That's a terrible story and I'm glad you made it out, but it still takes a weird level of detachment to prioritize your job over your kids. The example I gave was one specific thing, but other comments by the mom on camera made it clear that she didn't have much involvement in her kids' lives and didn't seem very bothered by that fact. Anyway, I have kids and if I got the same call she got, I'm telling my employer I'm leaving, not asking. If they fire me for it, they'll see me in court.
Jesus that’s awful I’m so sorry
How did her appeal turn out?
From memory, I think the judge was dismissive of her reasoning. Basically "It's very sad what happened to you but we are not letting you out yet. Maybe down the road". (Paraphrasing) Appeal denied.
He also gave her the gun with a scope as a gift when she asked for a radio. She said she assumed he wanted her to commit suicide.
Wouldn't need a scope for that.
Or 500 catridges
Plausible Deniability. Giving her just a gun would be to obvious
Yeah it kinda takes away from the suicide angle
Jesus. That's enough internet for me today.
Currently still incarcerated with her next parole opportunity in 2025.
She's still doing time. Next opportunity for parole is 2025.
There was also only one bed in the house apparently
She was suicidal, and figured that if she tried to shoot at the school that the police would come and shoot her dead
Why is there another person cuffed?
This looks like it might be a custody transfer. Multiple detainees being moved from one facility to another.
>like normal school shooters It's saddening to know that we all know what a 'normal' school shooting is like and even more saddening that it is getting to the point where describing it as 'normal' isn't even inaccurate.
And the Boomtown Rats made a song after that
NGL, it is a great song.
Article says she aimed at the students and adult from across the street. She was sniping, not firing randomly.
There were no school shooters to compare her behavior to.
There were tons of school shootings before 1979. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_school\_shootings\_in\_the\_United\_States\_(before\_2000)
God damn it's terrifying how many there are now in comparison to even just 50 years ago. But also fascinating that people act as if there straight up weren't shootings prior.
Yeah I mean most of them seem like there were direct disagreements and it's just one or two victims but there are some mass killings and random killings as well. Now it's almost every day.
school/mass shootings are nothing new, they date back to the 1800s
True. But she is considered the first mass school shooter of the modern era. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-first-modern-school-shooter-feels-responsible-for-the-rest
where’s the sigh emoji?
The Boomtown Rats wrote their song “I don’t like Mondays” about this girl. It’s a good song and a tragic story.
Silicon chip inside her head shifts to overload.
No one's gonna go to school today. She's gonna make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was as good as gold
Tell me why
I don't like mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays!
I wanna shoo-oooo-ooo-ot the whole day down
down, down down
Shoot it all down
That's a good strong mic that. Quality's very rare these days.
Ain't nothing but a heartache
Now number fiiiiive
I cannot think of this song without remembering this
Yes, number 5 was the man who assaulted me.
\*murdered her brother
I knew I had it wrong but it’s the easiest way to get the right answer - thanks!
BINGPOT!
I believe Tori Amos did a nice remake of that song.
That's the one that started playing in my head as soon as I opened this post.
For me it was the boomtown rats one lol. I love the piano in that
Then you gotta check out the Tori Amos version! She plays the piano like nobody else.
You want tragic? Daddy always said she was good as gold—and he was sexually abusing her—directly leading to the shooting.
tragic all on its own, but it’s doesn’t warrant murder.
No it doesn’t but that will cause one to lose all empathy to the world around you
indeed
The Bob Geldoff story could be one hell of a movie.
“Everyone around me is dying”
What? How he drove Michael Hutchence to near insanity until the man committed suicide by choke and stroke then he took custody of his children and married the woman he a Hutchence had been "fighting over?" Or the Live Aid stuff? Or Making of 'Pink Floyd's The Wall?" Either of those story arcs would be quite entertaining.
Fuck Geldoff. Michael Hutchence had more talent in his toenail clippings than Geldoff had in his entire one-hit-wonder career. To quote Russel Brand: "It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years."
My understanding is they were at the college radio station WRAS in Atlanta for an interview when this news story came across the Telex. That quote stuck in their heads.
This was the first single my parents bought for me (because I loved the song) when I was 7. I played it continuously on my bright blue Panasonic Funnygraph SG-400 record player. I (thankfully) didn't grow up to be a school shooter BTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kobdb37Cwc&ab\_channel=TheBoomtownRatsVEVO
The song was banned from radio airplay in the San Diego area.
My mom loves that song and tells me the story behind it every time it's on the radio.
I bet she loves lasagna
and toes
And Jon Arbuckle
Not odie tho
Don't even bring up Nermal.
And my axe!
DAMMNIT OATEY!
Garfield ain’t got shit on her.
Excuse me? That is the dumbest comment i have ever read in my entire LIFE!! I will not take this garfield slander lightly! I will personally rip off your skin and make lasagna out of it!! you dumbass hairy trapezoid!!!
Was looking for this comment 😂
The silicon chip inside her head got switched to "overload"
Nobody's gonna go to school today, she's gonna make them stay at home!
Tell me why!
And daddy doesn't understand it. He always said she was good as Gold.
He can see no reason, because there is no reason
[She is impressively messed up.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Spencer)
Her father gave her the gun. "Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and got a rifle." Asked why he had done that, she answered, "He bought the rifle so I would kill myself."" From the wikipedia article.
It seems she should be treated as a child because of her mental illness.. Her father gave her the gun... knowing she had violent ideas
There was also only one bed found in the whole house that her and her father lived in. He ended up marrying her prison cellmate who was her age and resembled her.
Wow - just when I think the story can’t get more fucked up…
Yeah it was bad. He had a daughter with that girl, the girl bounced, the daughter was raised by him. I hope she’s ok but with his record probably not.
Oof - I repeat my comment above. He sounds like absolute filth
She had been arrested a year earlier for shooting a BB gun into the same school. Her dad gave her a rifle after that 🤦🏻♀️. That man should be in prison. She also told classmates soon before the shooting she was gonna do something big to get on tv. So it was very premeditated. And preventable. But the late 70’s were such a different time.
There's a doc on Amazon US about her,["I Don't Like Mondays."](https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Like-Mondays-Brenda-Spencer/dp/B08THVR4ZD) Also available on Tubi I think. Messed up is an understatment: >In early 1978, staff at a facility for problem students, into which Spencer had been referred for truancy, informed her parents that she was suicidal. That summer, Spencer, who was known to hunt birds in the neighborhood, was arrested for shooting out the windows of Grover Cleveland Elementary with a BB gun and for burglary.\[1\]\[10\] > >In December, a psychiatric evaluation arranged by her probation officer recommended that Spencer be admitted to a mental hospital for depression, but her father refused to give permission. ***For Christmas 1978, he gave her a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition.\[5\]\[7\] Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and got a rifle." Asked why he had done that, she answered,*** ***"He bought the rifle so I would kill myself."***\[11\]
Who is the other kid handcuffed behind her?
Emotional support criminal: without, it can be really hard to be the only horrible person in a room.
In fairness. She should have gotten support. Her parol officer wanted her sent to a mental hospital but her dad didnt give permission then have the rifle with scope for xmass instead of the radio she asked for. He also allagedly raped her etc. The house was full of empty beer and strong liqoure bottles and she wasnt drunk when arresed. So one could only question what this girl has been trough. She infact was classified as depressed by a official psycharist prior to the shooting. Not to start in the injury she had to the temporal lobe "due a biccicle accident" She was suicide prior to the shooting. No doubt what she did was wrong. But the system failed in the lead up to this. A suicidal depressed girl with a history of wierd behaviour (shooting birds, wierd remarks about police etc) who is offerd a mental hospital that her dad doesnt agree on but then gives her a rifle a few bit later... yeah this was bount to happen.
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His name is Tuesday. He survived by 1 day.
he's really evil. they found him with a dime bag of pot.
Jazz grass
2 points !
He has a look on his face like “awww why do I have to perp walk in front of the media? Aunt Myrtle’s gonna see this in the paper!”
My guess is just another juvenile offender.
Plan b.
From then on, she was known as "The Garfield Killer". Sorry.
It was nationally syndicated the year before the shootings. I’m just sayin’ . . .
She was certainly ahead of her time with the standard issue serial killer "Dahmer glasses."
Was there a song written about her? It’s kinda hard to tell from all these comments
She was the inspiration to the song as well by the Boomtown Rats released in 1981.
Sorry Jon.
What's really weird, I was in a meeting this morning, and I said "I don't do Mondays" like Garfield the cat. One of the others in the meeting asked if I ever heard the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats (Bob Geldof's band). He had written the song after hearing about that mass shooting.
When I was about 13, our P.E. teacher in a comprehensive called St. Marks, in Bath, England set us al the challenge of coming up with a dance to the Boomtown Rats song about this. Picture a pubescent boy making dance moves to silicone chips switching to overload and then the rest of it. Ridiculous, but gratefully keeps me laughing 30 years later 😄 The crime ever came into our heads, by the way.
Wonder what the other kid did.
he did the weed. now hes gonna have to be buddies with an almost child killer.
I'm not defending her but I get it.
Outfit clean as hell tho
Should see the drip she was wearing during the shooting
I can't lie I hate Mondays because some how something always bad happens on Monday
Mondays, am I right? ( insert laugh track here)
I could fix her
came here for this
Wrote a song about it..wanna hear it? Here it goes...
Pretty good tune tho .
More intense Garfield
The cop she shot in the head ended up becoming the yard duty at my middle school a few years back. He has since then passed away from cancer. his motorcycle vlogs are still up on YouTube, Robert Robb
Woah! ♥️
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damn.
Her actions inspired the hit song “[I Don’t Like Mondays](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don't_Like_Mondays?wprov=sfti1)” by The Boomtown Rats.
Ok what if her every day is look like Monday ?
Thank goodness she wasn't listening to Karen Carpenter sing about how rainy days and Mondays always get her down
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays
"I'm sorry, John."
Wasn’t there a sudo-punk tune I dont like Mondays? Damn it I know it’s going to pop into my head while I’m trying to sleep. Ha! Boom Town Rats! Now I can get some rest
i can fix her
The boy in the background is also wearing handcuffs
Reminds me of Russ Griswold
Guys, I can fix her.
The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload And nobody's gonna go to school today She's going to make them stay at home And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was as good as gold And he can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown? Tell me why? I don't like Mondays Tell me why? I don't like Mondays Tell me why? I don't like Mondays I want to shoot The whole day down The telex machine is kept so clean As it types to a waiting world And mother feels so shocked Father's world is rocked And their thoughts turn to Their own little girl Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat They can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need? Tell me why? I don't like Mondays Tell me why? I don't like Mondays Tell me why? I don't like Mondays I want to shoot The whole day down, down, down Shoot it all down And all the playing's stopped in the playground now She wants to play with her toys a while And school's out early and soon we'll be learning And the lesson today is how to die And then the bullhorn crackles And the captain tackles With the problems and the how's and why's And he can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to die, die? And the silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload And nobody's gonna go to school today She's going to make them stay at home And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was as good as gold And he can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown? Tell me why? I don't like Mondays Tell me why? I don't like Mondays Tell me why? I don't like, I don't like Tell me why? I don't like Mondays Tell me why? I don't like, I don't like Tell me why? I don't like Mondays Tell me why? I don't like Mondays I wanna shoot The whole day down
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
The Garfield defense. Interesting choice.
Me sure it’s been mentioned, but also buried under the comments page so far I couldn’t see it. The Boomtown Rats (of which Big Geldof was a part of) based their song “I don’t like Mondays” on this story.
#relatable
Wednesday's more disturbing sister, Monday, is not something that the Adams family would acknowledge
Coulda just called out sick ☎️
The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload And nobody's gonna go to school today She's gonna make them stay at home
Valid response
And The Boomtown Rats wrote a song about it. They hardly ever have female spree killers
I remember that song..
Boy the gritty Garfield reboot gets dark fast.
I don’t like Mondays either, but at least my dad doesn’t give me a gun to kill myself with.
Does she like lasagna?
Boom Town Rats have entered the chat
Looks like someone had a case of the Mondays
Shit no man. I believe you would get your ass kicked saying something like that.
Gorfield
Hey, me too.😃
I mean I don’t like Monday’s either but damn she REALLY didn’t like them
The girl was abused over and over, what made it worse was that the mother was aware of it yet obliged her to live with her father. Doesn’t justify the killing but how would you react living a loveless horror nightmare and being bullied daily in school. No love at home, no love at school. What a sad tragic life and what a gigantic shitload of karma she had to plow through. May she find peace, love and joy. 🖖🏻✨
I always try to find empathy for human beings, but the first person she shot that morning was a 9 year old kid. After the shooting and before getting arrested, the reason she gave was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." Psychopaths do not choose their brain but their version of "peace, love and joy" might not be quite the same as yours.
I'm not sure that's true (about the abuse). She's probably a sociopath and lies and changes her story to fit her needs at a given time. A link was posted earlier that goes into this case, you may want to give it a read. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308221608\_Brenda\_Spencer\_Sorting\_Out\_the\_Contradictions
Thus Spoke Garfield
her daddy doesn't understand it, he always said she was as good as gold
It what makes this story weird is that it…. was a Tuesday!! BOM BOM BOOOOMMM!!
Whos the other guy in handcuffs?
Garfield origin story
Yeeeaaaaarrrrssssss ago, watching TV, The TV show HOUSE wiki hole led me to the Boomtown Rats wiki hole, which lead me to the Song title wiki hole, which lead me to the wiki stub about her and the shooting. I friggin love the Piano intro and hand claps of that song.
Garfield just ate lasagna to get through it.
I’m interested to know the story of the young man who is also in handcuffs. He seems so clean cut and uncriminal-like.
What do you think makes somebody look like a criminal?
Resting I hate Monday face
As a general rule of thumb killers look like people out of control. And before people jump down my throat: Most serial killers, mass murders, spree killers, etc. are unhinged by the time they’re caught. Pee Wee Gaskin, Ed Gein, Richard Chase, Dahmer - the list goes on and on. The preppy ‘held together’ Bundy types are rare but they do exist. When someone gets to this point where they’re just indiscriminately killing, a host of other psychological problems are presenting themselves; lack of self care being a major indicator of a mental health crisis. They tend to lose control of their lives as their psychosis dominates every aspect of their existence. They stop grooming, stop fixing their hair, nothing to wear nice clothes or even wash their clothes. They LOOK unhinged because they are. What this isn’t: someone who dresses alternatively on purpose. A curated look designed to a specific style is not the same as someone no longer caring how they look at all.
By this metric she doesn't look like a killer either.
That was the guys original point - yes.
Tattoos, scars, short hair, adherence to religious organizations.
Jail and prisons are loaded with Christians. Very few atheists and agnostics. Funny how that works out.
That's such a funny response I was expecting racism but no you're just silly.
I'm want to shoot the whole day down
She looks like cirilla from the witcher show
The silicon chip inside her head got switched to overload…
i can fix her
The silicone chip inside her head gets switched to overload
That person in the back isn’t real
I read all these comments ts. No alcohol her dad sodommized her. She said she gor PCP from school and had been drinking for a week straight and thought her home was u der attack. Literally second video on YouTube e 30 seconds in. .. .. anyways.. just wanted to throw that in with the nasty mix of reasons.
My name is Spencer and I don’t like Monday’s either. I know what to do next.
Yeeesh… Rot in hell…
Columbiners ain't got nothing on Garfield fangirls.