In the mind-boggling case of the man killed by a punch in a fracas over a supermarket queue, a woman has been arrested following the detention earlier this week of a Tony Virasami, her partner. Antoinette Richardson is also to be charged with murder.
It would seem that Richardson called Virasami (as you would a highly trained but mindless rottweiler) to come and take action after somebody pushed ahead of her at the tills. The victim, Kevin Tripp, was not even the culprit – he was just the first person that this thug encountered. A mild-mannered and popular family man in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Now it is true that supermarkets are frustrating places: slow-moving trolleys, unruly children, slow-moving check-outs, incomprehensible special offers which only serve to complicate your life, slow-moving shop-staff. But most of us just grimace and bear it. Or we alter our shopping habits to go at a less frustrating time. Or we abandon supermarkets and rediscover our corner shops instead.
This rage thing has got to stop. Only last weekend we were lamenting a new spate of bakery rage: where is it all leading?
Mike Fisher, of the British Anger Management Society, reckons rage is a mechanism to deal with pain. But as the daveknapik’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons Licence.
