Bend bicycle rider killed by driver of silver Mercedes in hit and run accident.

When I first heard this, I thought it was like some sick and twisted metaphor for Bend. To cap it off, the driver is a 22 year old from California, with a father who helps him cover up the crime.

About 12 years ago, when we still had our Mountain View Mall store, my wife had an incident with a 10 year old kid who spit his gum out onto our carpet. When she asked him to pick it up, he ignored her. When Linda told the father, he looked at her and said, "Why should he?"

12 years later, a 22 year old kills an bike rider, and the father's impulse is to burn the Mercedes and try to claim the insurance.

Now if this was a novel, it would be the same father and son. And in a sense, it is -- the same disregard for other people.

And Bend is left mangled and dismembered in their path. I know this is really reaching, and I apologize if it seems inappropriate, but man -- it really does seem like there is an evil karmic energy in the world this week.

That, after the incident in Virginia, actually left me depressed this morning. I think I'm going to have to stay away from the news for a few days.

But -- I absolutely think it is the wrong thing to do to show pictures and video's of the Virginia killer. In my gut, I think its a huge mistake. Let him be an anonymous nut. The media has enough sense not to show extreme acts of violence, why can't they use the same kind of common sense when it comes to these idiots? Don't feed the next sicko.