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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A recent Wilson grad stabbed a complete stranger to death on a train this summer. No, I am not painting all Wilson or other student with that brush - merely highlighting how volatile a situation has potential to be. If you don't know a young person you also cannot predict how they will react. Police are trained in this. If someone is engaged in criminal.mischief and you cannot determine it safe to intervene, call them. Nothing wimpy about that. The kid will get a warning from someone they can't cuss out, strike or just roll their eyes at. Hopefully it will make an impression.[/quote]

[b]Clearly this graduate was on the jail (vs Yale) track.[/quote][/b]

Uh, no.  From the press it appears the young man was mentally ill - and the mental illness struck a couple of years after he graduated (and went to college - not Yale, but a perfectly respectable school).  This is (sadly, horribly) a pretty typical age for many mental illnesses, e.g., schizophrenia.[/quote]

Exactly - people.can be volatile for a variety of reasons including mental illness, impulsivity or anti social tendencies. So I would not intervene if I didn't feel safe - I would call someone who addressed the situation with training. I never said the Wilson metro murderer did not go to college - his apparent deterioration is part of what makes this story extremely sad.[/quote]

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