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Titolo: La storia di I Don't Like Mondays dei Boomtown Rats.

il video di questa canzone è stato uno dei primi ad essere trasmessi
quasi ossessivamente agli albori della videomusica, quando
in europa doveva ancora arrivare MTV.
Credo che sia l'unico motivo per cui è diventata abbastanza famosa,
tanto da permettere a Geldorf di organizzare il baraccone
del Live-aid.
Here's the story behind the Boomtown Rats song I Don't Like Mondays. The
shooting occurred
in California - the San Diego area. Here's an article from a local paper
when she was up
for parole:
No parole for sniper who hated Mondays
She killed 2, wounded 9 in '79 San Carlos spree
ANNE KRUEGER
Staff Writer
22-Jan-1993 Friday
CORONA -- Brenda Spencer, who has been imprisoned since she killed two
people and wounded
nine others in a 1979 San Carlos schoolyard shooting, was turned down
yesterday for a chance
at parole.
Spencer, 30, did not appear before the three-member Board of Prison Terms
panel considering
her first opportunity for parole from the Frontera women's prison. But she
said in a written
statement that she plans to file a legal challenge to her conviction on two
murder charges
and one of assault with a deadly weapon, contending that authorities
conspired against her.
Spencer pleaded guilty to the charges in October 1979, just as her trial was
to begin, and
was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Spencer, then 16, fired a volley of bullets from her house toward the
Cleveland Elementary
School playground Jan. 29, 1979. She told a reporter who called her during
the 6 1/2 -hour
siege that she opened fire because, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up
the day."
The shooting attracted worldwide attention, and an Irish rock group, the
Boomtown Rats,
wrote a song titled "I Don't Like Mondays."
In her statement yesterday, Spencer claimed for the first time that she had
been under the
influence of drugs and alcohol when she opened fire.
Spencer opened fire from her house on Lake Atlin Avenue across the street
from the school
at 8:30 a.m., just as students were heading into their classes from the
playground.
Principal Burton Wragg, 53, was killed, and Mike Suchar, 56, the school's
head custodian
was shot in the chest and killed when he ran to help Wragg. Eight children
were wounded as
they ran for cover, and a police officer was wounded in the neck.
Authorities drove a trash disposal truck between Spencer's house and the
school to block
her line of fire. After hours of negotiations with police, Spencer
surrendered. Police
found a .22-caliber semiautomatic rifle and about 40 expended shells in her
home.
Daryl Barnes, who was a teacher at Cleveland Elementary, saw Spencer's
bullets hit and kill
Wragg and Suchar. He also brought a wounded child into the school while
screaming for
someone to call police.
Barnes, who did not attend the hearing, said Spencer should never be
released from prison.
"Everybody makes mistakes and should be forgiven, but to me it's a capital
crime," said
Barnes, who is now a fifth-grade teacher at Hancock Elementary School in
Tierrasanta. "If
the sentence is 25 years, she shouldn't be paroled until the 25 years are
up."
Spencer contended in her statement to the parole board that she is
remorseful for the crime
but said she is not guilty of murder because she was under the influence of
alcohol and the
hallucinogenic drug PCP.
"I live with the unbearable pain every day of knowing that I was responsible
for the death
of two people and caused many others physical and emotional pain and
suffering," Spencer
said in the statement. "But I'm not a murderer."
She said that while under the influence of the drugs, she started to
hallucinate and saw
commando types in paramilitary gear advance toward her house. She said she
barricaded
herself in and started shooting, using the rifle her father had given her
for Christmas.
She also said she doubts whether the victims were hit by bullets from her
rifle, contending
that they might have been shot by police and that police officers lied in
court about how
many shots they fired.
While in prison, Spencer has graduated from high school and taken college
courses and
vocational courses in electronics. She has had only minor disciplinary
problems.
Deputy District Attorney Dave Berry urged the Board of Prison Terms members
not to grant
parole for Spencer, citing her lack of remorse and indications that she had
planned the
shootings days before they occurred.
While the board members deliberated for 35 minutes on their decision in
Spencer's case, she
could be seen in a small room next to the board's hearing room. Wearing
glasses and with
her red hair in a short punkish cut, she appeared much like her pictures
following her 1979
arrest.
None of the victims of Spencer's shooting spree appeared at yesterday's
hearing. Those
contacted by a reporter said they did not know about the hearing and said
officials had
not told them it was scheduled.
Wragg's widow, Kathe, said she hopes Spencer never gets out of prison.
"I could never feel trustworthy of a person like that," Wragg said. "Just
the idea that she
felt she had to kill somebody. It's so self-serving and inward. I would
never want her to
be out. I have not seen any remorse."
Wragg, who never remarried, said she is constantly reminded of her husband's
death.
"This is always on my mind. You never forget," she said. "It did a lot to
our family."
Norman Buell's daughter, Christy, was 9 when she was hit twice by bullets
fired by Spencer.
Buell, who works with troubled adolescents in a group home, said he would
have no objection
to Spencer being paroled from prison. He cited Spencer's youth at the time
of the shooting
and his belief that Spencer was abused.
"Those things put together are not a good chemical mix and I could see where
it would
happen," Norman Buell said. "I personally would say that she's served her
sentence."
Christy Buell, now 23, works at a daycare center in San Carlos. Buell said
one child who
was enrolled at the center was the offspring of Brenda Spencer's father,
Wallace, and his
present wife, who was Brenda Spencer's 17-year-old cellmate when she was
being held at
Juvenile Hall.
Wallace Spencer still lives in the same house across the street from the
former Cleveland
Elementary School, which is now the home of San Diego Hebrew Day School. He
refused to
comment when contacted by a reporter.

in europa doveva ancora arrivare MTV.
siete sempre in ritardo.
Kane, ho appena letto una storia strappalacrime su Rick Wakeman povero in canna
che una ventina di anni fa si ridusse  a dormire su una panchina di un parco
londinese, per tre settimane.
 Verita` o urban legend?
bye
" L`avanguardia e` molto dura, e per questo fa paura"............SKIANTOS


invece credo che sia diventata famosissima (Abbastanz ae' una riduzione
troppo forte pe runa canzone che ha fatto alcuni record di
vendita...)perche' la canzone e' bellissima.