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idolator.com - 8/20/2008

Slipknot: Pay No Attention To The Man Who Went On A Swordfighting Spree While Dressed Up Like One Of Us [Crime]

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Members of the metal grotesquerie Slipknot are trying to distance themselves from a South African teenager who attacked four people at his school with a sword (!) while wearing a homemade version of one of the band's masks; one person died, while the other three sustained injuries. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a few members of the chattering classes over there are quick to blame the murders on the ...

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Slipknot: Slipknot decline comment on school attack
Prefix — ... who is in charge of a support network for students. But the superintendent of schools, Gerard Labuschagne had a more measured response: "Whenever there is a murder, people jump to conclusions, and always God or Satan told the killers to do it. These notions shouldn't be taken seriously because it is straightforward: someone, of their own free will, can kill another person," he said. I don t think the band have to comment, considering it s not their fault the boy did what he did. [ Idolator ]