Car(n)age
A Psychopathic Love Story
YPU Broadmoor: CMT Week 49—The Car Centred Cult Film (102) Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968)
Repeat ten minute car chase featuring Steve McQueen in 1968 fastback Mustang GT 390 every twelve minutes for three hour period. Freeze frame and shuffle facility.
“...red light ahead throttle stomp third gear still accelerating six thousand ninety plus getting stiff yeah lots of small ones around at this time should get one working through the list pretty good whoosh fourth red light yeah there’s a small one…”
age n. historical or other distinct period.
Memo to UK Home Secretary from Home Office Minister Ian McKendrick, MP (Extract)
“...our figures show a consistent rise in violent and sexual crime over the past four years…the same figures show a corresponding decrease in police clear up rates for this type of crime, which in turn has resulted in increased public dissatisfaction with the Government. We know the link between sex and violence is already proven. A number of recent studies (see Appendix 2) demonstrate that the perpetrators of violent and sexual crimes are significantly less likely to reoffend if they are subjected to high levels of Car Media Therapy (CMT), a treatment pioneered at Henry Bafford Hospital in Glasgow. Patients are subjected to high levels of CMT —car magazines, car advertisements, car documentaries, and car films—over a twelve month period, after which they assessed whether suitable for release. The data shows that this treatment successfully channels violent/sexually violent impulses into the car culture. Pilot studies show that subjects generally refrain from reoffending if they are able to achieve and maintain financial parity with other members of society. The increasing level of violent and sexually violent crime is unsustainable from both a social and financial viewpoint. While a percentage of treated patients do go on to commit car related crime, the majority of such crime relates to car theft and speeding. We know that the public has a higher tolerance for car crime than for other types of crime—they accept it as part and parcel of life. The insurance and emergency services infrastructure are well able to deal with car crime, and the insurance industry will profit from an increase in it…”
YPU Broadmoor: CMT Week 50—The Interactive Car Video Game (19) RoadRager II
Play continuously for period of six hours in darkened room. Three sessions per day.
BBC reporter outside Old Bailey, London
“...and Roscoe Philip Hatfield has just been convicted of the murder of 27 people in what seems to be the first case of it’s type. Hatfield has a history of theft and violence, and spent twelve months in Broadmoor Hospital two years ago, where he was diagnosed as a psychopath with impulsively violent tendencies. Released after treatment, Hatfield was arrested last year after the stolen BMW he was driving crashed into a Rover Metro driven by 24 year Cheryl James. Cheryl and her 14 month old son David were both killed. When police arrived, they found Hatfield uninjured and masturbating in the smashed BMW. Despite this, police initially thought they were dealing with a simple case of speeding that went tragically wrong. Under police questioning however, Hatfield admitted to working through a list of “car types.” Police then searched Hatfield’s flat and found thousands of car magazines, car pictures, car brochures and car video games. Under cross examination in court this morning from prosecuting counsel John Haslett QC, Hatfield admitted that over a 16 month period he had stolen high performance BMWs for the sole purpose of hunting, as he put it, for prey—smaller, older family cars, such as Rover Metros and Ford Fiestas. Quite simply and chillingly, Hatfield would drive into these smaller cars at high speed with the deliberate aim of killing or maiming all on board. After impact, he would masturbate whilst strapped in the wreck of his stolen car, before making his escape.”
fetish n. object worshipped as magical by primitive peoples; thing evoking irrational devotion or respect; thing abnormally stimulating or attracting sexual desire.
