I agree, Jack. But while we feel compassion for the suffering, we should also be asking, "How can this prevented in the future?"

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Now about that smart-aleck, puerile 2nd post. It's a good place to apply my chron-psych method of analyzing posts. The post was made at 8 in the evening, Mudcat time. Mudcat time is the U.S. Eastern time zone. Mudcat regulars probably know that that person is in the British Isles somewhere. (That has about a 92% probability, I'd say.) Time there is five hours ahead, so that post was actually typed at one o'clock in the morning.

Why was it posted at 1 a.m.? Is the poster feeling the negative effects of a night in the pub? Is insomnia messing up his mind? Is the boredom incidental to friendlessness driving him to acts of pure malice?

Or all of the above? Whatever the case, posts made in the wee hours of the night are often both irrational and unreasonable.