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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 02:32 PM Feb 2013

Alabama Hostage Standoff: Jimmy Lee Dykes Seized Boy to Gain Attention


Feb 6, 2013 4:45 AM EST

The 65-year-old man who took Ethan hostage and engaged the FBI in a standoff wanted to get on TV and show how important he was, that he was the boss, sources tell Michael Daly.


What 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes wanted when he took his young hostage was to get on national TV and demonstrate to everybody that he was as important as he imagined himself to be.

“He’s a guy who’s a nobody who doesn’t feel that way about himself,” a source with intimate knowledge of the case says. “Grandiosity.”

The source surmises that Dykes saw all the media attention generated by the Newtown massacre and decided that school kids and guns were just the way for him to get a lot of attention.

“He figured if he wanted to get on national news, kidnapping a kid off a school bus was going to give him a platform,” the source says.

Dykes apparently planned to take two kids hostage from the school bus in rural Alabama on January 29, but they bolted out the back door as the driver confronted him. Dykes shot the heroic driver to death and was able to grab only a 5-year-old named Ethan.

much more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/06/alabama-hostage-standoff-jimmy-lee-dykes-seized-boy-to-gain-attention.html
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Alabama Hostage Standoff: Jimmy Lee Dykes Seized Boy to Gain Attention (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2013 OP
Ok, how shocked should I be? Or rather pretend to be? nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #1
I'm glad you found a way to make this about you. ret5hd Feb 2013 #4
Lee Harvey Oswald was like that too. Archae Feb 2013 #2
Which is why it was a good thing that the media kept this pretty low key. Sheldon Cooper Feb 2013 #3
They kept a low profile nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #5
Well, he got some attention..... louis-t Feb 2013 #6
 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
1. Ok, how shocked should I be? Or rather pretend to be?
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 02:35 PM
Feb 2013

Tom and I talked about it. We even talked on a way to responsibly cover something like this...since we just may. It includes very little actual info that might help the hostage taker, and if a photo is taken of the PIO, will show a lovely sky.

Archae

(46,266 posts)
2. Lee Harvey Oswald was like that too.
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 02:41 PM
Feb 2013

His own particular "cause" was his total support of Castro.

He was even on a local news program, filmed handing out leaflets.

Sheldon Cooper

(3,724 posts)
3. Which is why it was a good thing that the media kept this pretty low key.
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 02:47 PM
Feb 2013

I'm glad they did that, and this jackass didn't get his wish.

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