SCREAM in your PANTS Pre-Introduction By CYB0RG/ASM October 31st, Two Thousand Four --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1893. Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch, paints "The Scream". Munch's work often included the symbolic portrayal of themes such as misery, sickness, and death. --------------------------------------------------------------------- a century goes by wherein some misery, sickness, and death happens... then... --------------------------------------------------------------------- February 12th, 1994. The National Gallery's "Scream" painting is stolen. (Munch had made four versions of the painting.) Three months later the painting was recovered. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1996. "Scream," directed by Wes Craven, hits theatres. The plot features a psychopathic serial killer stalking a group of teens... just like in the movies! Ha ha ha.. art imitating life imitating art. I get it. But then life starts imitating the art imitating life imitating art and things get really interesting if not just a little confusing. Oh yeah, and the killer wears a mask inspired by Edvard Munch's now infamous painting. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1997. Three male teenagers who had repeatedly watched Scream murder two girls in Salem, Massachusetts. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1997. "Scream 2" hits theatres. In this sequel to the 1996 film, the number of suspects only goes down as the body count slowly goes up! Ha ha ha.. I get it! Just like in real life! --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999. Patrick was 14 when he put on a "Scream" mask and broke into a former teacher’s house near Hood Canal. Yelling "Die, bitch, die," he repeatedly stabbed and beat her while her baby slept in another room. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999. Thirty-four violent films, including Scream, found in the rooms of two male college students at Hadlow, Kent, who stabbed a friend to death, dismembered his body, and then burnt the leftovers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999. Two schoolboys who brutally stabbed a friend and left him for dead after watching Scream are convicted of attempted murder at Hull. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999. With the help of two cousins, a teenager stabbed his mother to death after watching Scream in Lynwood, California. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2000. "Scream 3" hits theatres. Because inspiring a monumental string of barbarous copycat murders really requires a trilogy! Ya dig? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2000. Three men, one in a "Scream" mask, scaled a balcony and broke into an apartment in the England Run complex off U.S. 17. One victim was bound with duct tape. Matthew W. Glenn, 18, resisted his attackers and was shot in the back. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2000. A woman and two men, wearing Scream masks, robbed a store in Lowell, Massachusetts, and shot a man dead. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2000. Five young men wore Scream masks when they gang raped a 21- year-old woman in a town near Paris. --------------------------------------------------------------------- A few weeks later at Lebetain, eastern France, the police arrested a boy of 15 when his parents were found dead after being repeatedly stabbed while they slept. In his confession the boy said he had hallucinations after watching "Scream" and heard voices telling him to kill his parents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- November 29th, 2000. An 18-year-old man robbed a convenience store wearing a "Scream" mask -- and his 17-year-old wife drove the getaway car. Jessica Powell told police they took the money so they could go to the movies. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2001. A 24-year-old Belgian in the town of Gerpinnes with no criminal record and no history of psychiatric problems dressed himself in a long black tunic, donned a Scream mask, and stabbed a 15-year-old schoolgirl 30 times with two enormous kitchen knives. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2002. Man accused of shooting two men dead in a bar in Pennsylvania wore a Scream mask. --------------------------------------------------------------------- March 2002. After two teenage girls at Saint-Vit, eastern France, tortured a classmate in an abandoned house, the local public prosecutor said they had admitted watching the film just beforehand. He claimed that the girls, aged 15 and 13, had been influenced by the film and carried a knife which "strongly recalled the weapon used in the horror film." --------------------------------------------------------------------- April 2nd, 2002. Kevin Skaggs was at the counter of the Oregon Quick Cash Payday Advance when a man wearing a Scream mask walked in. The robber indicated that he had a gun and wanted money. Skaggs pulled his own gun and shot Jeffrey Gordon Duncan in the chest. The assailant fled and was found dead a few blocks away. "If there is one good thing that comes out of this," Skaggs said, "it's that people will know that we are not going to put up with this sort of thing." --------------------------------------------------------------------- May 2002. A 17-year-old french boy stabs a 15-year-old girl 17 times after watching "Scream". He had tried unsuccessfully to attack two other schoolgirls before inviting his final victim to go for a walk around a football field near their homes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- October 2002. A masked gunman robbed a North Toledo McDonald’s and fled with an undisclosed amount of money. Wearing a mask from the movie Scream and using a voice changer to disguise his voice, the robber approached the counter and pulled out a gun. --------------------------------------------------------------------- November 3rd, 2002. A group of about 15 men, all believed to be Asian and in their early 20's, went on a stabbing rampage in England and knifed 4 random people. The main offender was wearing a Scream-style Halloween mask. --------------------------------------------------------------------- November 23rd, 2002. 24-year-old Jeffrey Ivan Vample of Norristown, PA, raped, strangled, and robbed 67 year old Alice Hufnagle-Llauman. She was found half naked and bound with duct tape in her bedroom. A bloody "Scream" mask, and a calender with the notation on November 23rd reading "My Love, What a Day," were recovered. --------------------------------------------------------------------- July 31st, 2003. 51-year-old West Roxbury man, James Hayes, decided to break off his hockey stick, attach a 5-inch knife, grab a Scream mask, a cloak, and some electrical cord, and drive to his ex-wife's house after learning she was sleeping with a woman. Once there, he burst into the bedroom wearing the Scream mask and repeatedly stabbed his ex-wifes lesbian lover with his makeshift "man-spear". --------------------------------------------------------------------- October 31st, 2003. A crazed psychotherapist wore a Scream mask and "ghost" cloak to kill a stranger on Halloween. Heather Stephenson- Snell, president of an all-women chapter of the Hell's Angels, set out to murder her love rival Diane Lomax and frame her ex-lover (former porn video stripper Adrian Sinclair) for the murder. But when neighbour Bob Wilkie, 43, intervened she shot him dead with a sawn- off shotgun instead. --------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2004. At around 5am a man attired in black robe and a Scream mask, climbed through a dormitory window in Leeds. The burglar locked himself in the bedroom and held the student at hammer point. He then demanded mobile phone, credit cards, and relevant pin numbers. The burglar threatened to return soon and kill the student if he had given the wrong number. The burglar left, locking the student inside his room. After much frantic banging on ceilings and floors, the student succeeded in waking his flatmates who had to bust the door open and release the poor captive. --------------------------------------------------------------------- April 10th, 2004. A Hamilton liquor store was held up by an armed man wearing a green "Scream" mask. He got away on a blue mountain bike carrying several bottles of spirits. --------------------------------------------------------------------- August 22nd, 2004. Armed, masked thieves burst into an open Oslo museum in broad daylight and snatched the Edvard Munch masterpiece "The Scream". Estimated value of the painting is between $77 million and $97 million Canadian. The painting has yet to be recovered. --------------------------------------------------------------------- September 2004. 61-year-old Richard Anthony Carbone shot and killed a young friend, Daniel Ray Elzie, 19, who had been staying at his apartment in Rolling Hills in East Bremerton. Carbone heard a noise at the back of his apartment and was confronted by Elzie wearing a "scream mask" and carrying what appeared to be a bloody sword. Carbone shot Elzie in the stomach, continued to drink for a couple of hours, then called his son to tell him what had happened. By the time his son arrived, Elzie had bled to death. --------------------------------------------------------------------- September 29th, 2004, for reasons known only to her, Britney Spears put on a Scream-style mask for a visit to the local burger joint. Spears, accompanied by reputed spouse Kevin Federline, little sister Jamie Lynn, and mom-chauffeur Lynn, finished the evening by lobbing milkshakes at paparazzi. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tonight, in your community, knife wielding maniacs are donning their Scream masks and hunting for victims just like you. Disembowelments, vicious sexual assaults, grisly tortures, senseless shootings, stolen priceless artworks, blatant abuses of frosty chocolate confections... you'd better prepare yourself to... ___________________ __________ ___________ _____ ___ ___ / ______/\ ___ \\______ \\_ _____/ / _ \ / \/ \ \______ \ / \ \/ | _/ | __)_ / /_\ \ / \ / \\ \____| | \ | \/ | \/ \ / \ Cyb______ / \______ /|____|_ //_______ /\____|__ /\_____||___ / \/ \/ \/ \/ In \/ your pants \/!