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The deadliest school massacre in U.S. history wasn’t achieved via guns, although the fucker also had a gun and shot his neighbor’s dog with it because that’s just the kind of guy he was. Andrew Kehoe wanted mass casualties because he was pissed about his taxes and losing some minor election, so he blew up a school.
--On This Day in History, Shit Went Down: May 18, 1927--
Why do they call it the “Bath School disaster?” It wasn’t a fucking disaster. It was a mass murder. Of mostly children. Fuck. This. Guy. Oh, and guess what color he was. Go ahead, guess.
He was a 55-year-old piece of shit who didn’t get his way. “Oh, woe is me. The world is out to get me because my taxes went up and I lost the election to be town clerk of this tiny place outside Lansing, Michigan. Whatever shall I do? I know! I’ll murder children. That will show everyone.”
I could go into more detail, but it all boils down to him being one of the most dangerous creatures to stalk the earth: A white guy who didn’t get his way. His fragile ego couldn’t handle it. Again: Fuck. This. Guy. Rather than seek any kind of help or consider other options to alleviate his circumstances, he put his energy into building bombs.
Bath Michigan was a village of only 300 people, and children were bussed in to the school from local farms. On the morning of May 18, 1927, Loser McFuckface murdered his wife, slaughtered his horses, and fire-bombed his farm. Almost simultaneously, a timed bomb at the north wing of the school that he’d set exploded. He then drove his dynamite and shrapnel-filled truck to the school, arriving about 30 minutes after the first explosion, and blew up his truck, killing himself and four others.
It was the last day of classes before the summer break, but for 38 elementary school children, it would be their last day on Earth. Six adults also died, including Assface McCockbrain and his wife, and another five dozen were injured. During the rescue efforts, another bomb was found in the school’s south wing; it had failed to detonate. The death toll could have been far higher.
In the aftermath of the massacre, a sign was discovered on the fence of this jerkass motherfucker’s property that read “Criminals are made, not born.” Oh my god shut the fuck up.
Thanks, Munk, for the suggestion of today’s topic.
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I grew up just north of Bath and this is still talked about almost 100 years later.
Sadly, you ought probably to say this was the deadliest school massacre "so far," given our country seems to have decided it's fine for children to lose their lives just so long as any fucknut who wants one can buy an arsenal of guns.