Incident In Brisbane, Australia

[wolf63]

This news story popped up on Google News and sounded awful but as I read the article I was stunned to see the full story.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/rugby-star-rowan-baxters-wife-21527785.amp

How could anybody do something like that?

[bookbinder]

Some background here:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12309960

[Mamyalynne]

Horrendous, those poor little ones.

[marval]

What a terrible thing to happen.

[Lie-in King]

Good grief, how awful.

[rockyracoon]

I heard about this earlier, but I didn't want to read it as I thought the car had caught fire by itself. Having just read the link.........horrifying is an understatement.

[tiggerblue10]

Read about this earlier. Absolutely horrific!

[jno]

appalling. Alpha male who couldn't stand the idea his wife had had enough of him, by the sound of it - that does happen too often.

[andy-hughes]

Horrific.

Clearly someone utterly unable to cope anymore, but taking others is even more tragic.

[andy-hughes]

Wolf, you are looking for a rational answer to deeply irrational behaviour. I'm afraid one does not exist, not on here anyway.

[wolf63]

Andy - I don't think that there is a rational explanation for such an act. I can almost understand his (flawed) thought processes that indicated that this was the right thing to do.

But ... It's a horrendous thing to do to anyone , and he did it to people he loved. Three innocent children. :-(

[Tilly2]

He obviously needed some help. Alas, he didn't get it. Dreadful consequences.

[ChillDoubt]

Unimaginable horror.

One does really feel for emergency services that have to deal with such incomprehensible events.

[Mozz71]

Your Answer...Oh Christ, that's horrendous. Those poor little ones.

[andy-hughes]

wolf - // I can almost understand his (flawed) thought processes that indicated that this was the right thing to do. //

No-one will ever know obviously.

I do however recall a documentary about suicides among men in South Africa where a higher proportion that the rest of the world kill their wives and families first.

Psychologists suggest that there is something in the national psyche that informs men that their families can't actually survive without them, so they are doing what they perceive as the right thing.

Of course, the concept of the 'right thing' is a moveable feast among rational minds, when it comes into irrational minds, then nothing, tragically, is off limits.

[albaqwerty]

I feel sorry for the family members on both sides who are left to deal with this tragedy.

Anybody who witnessed/dealt with the aftermath will need support too, I would imagine.

Utterly terrible.

[Cloverjo]

Horrific. I wish I hadn’t read it. That won’t help the poor children, though. I suppose we have to think that the man was insane for a while and wasn’t evil.