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18. The 19th anniversary of this local one was last week. I saw him before it happened

And it almost happened to me:

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/04/us/man-s-7-year-search-to-find-job-ended-with-5-dead-in-california.html

This man Alan Winterbourne was in the lobby of my company less than two weeks before he shot up the local unemployment office and killed four people. He was long-term unemployed, distraught, disheveled and screamed repeatedly, things like, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?" "WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET A JOB INTERVIEW AROUND HERE??" "I NEED A JOB, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!?"

It was the most frightening thing that has ever happened to me at work. I was in the lobby talking to the receptionist and it happened right in front of me.

If he had been armed that day I and several others would have been killed point-blank. I'm still not sure how someone got him calmed down and out of the building. But soon others would not be so lucky. The fuse hat already been lit and was burning down.

More here:

"Every day for eight years, systems analyst Alan Winterbourne tried to find a job. And every day he failed. Then one day it all became too much."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.06/rage.html