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------------------ 16 Vigilante Report No. 3 (Excerpt from report presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of Pathological Actors, Atlantic City, NJ, published in American Journal of Abnormal Behavior and Morbid Craniotomy LVII, pp. 2335-2363, 1978 February) Summary: According to the statements of our investigators and a series of subsequent reports that corroborated their statements, Mr. Nudelman was captured by the traffic police and surrounding pedestrians after experiencing a scuffle in the subway station, and then he found himself locked in a out of detention.Initially charged with all misdemeanor and serious crimes (robbery in the third degree, unlawful possession of stolen property, mischief, vagrancy and loitering, and resisting arrest), Nudelman has become a police officer based on the same leads. The target of an intense pursuit, yet to be determined to what extent he was involved in a recent spate of armed robberies on the New York subway system by a young man who matches his appearance.

Our subject was caught red-handed with that evidence still in his hand; it was evidence from one of the series of crimes he was suspected of committing (a faux leather wallet belonging to a man named Albert Márquez , he lived on Sedgwick Street in the Bronx), even under police custody our subject protested violently against his arrest, insisting on justice in the face of overwhelming evidence that he was not innocent , and what he faced was a legal system that only emphasized evidence but not credible words. The purpose of this report, however, is not to describe the suffering of our subjects under police control, but to determine why Mr. Nudelman appeared so confused and irrational about the arrest.

Before formulating a hypothetical view of this appearance, there are two issues that strike us as contradictory.Just minutes before he became a witness to a pickpocket, he himself was looking for a chance at a bakery.Instead of expressing indignation after seeing the pickpocket steal the wallet (as Márquez aptly does later on), he decides to "preach" the suspect, exhorting him to repent and pursue human virtues.Also, our fleeing target was too stupid. Not only did he trip over his baggy trouser legs and interfere with his escape, but he also took the risk of approaching the escalator when he noticed the fast-moving tracks of the escalator.Besides, how could he be so careless and keep holding on to the wallet that implicated him, until the police twisted him and pulled him out of his clenched hand?That's proof of his crime.

Careless?Misjudgment?Excuses to mitigate guilt?Irrational behavior?Contradictory?Based on superficial investigation alone, these explanations seem plausible.However, based on the long-term observation of the maintenance committee, we believe that the more accurate explanation for his apparent eccentricity is that he is actively seeking more terrible pain and punishment-a kind of masochism, willing to pay for his crimes. And failure, both real and imagined, accepts punishment. Such is the contention of the Board of Trustees—a decidedly extreme one—that all of Mr. Nu's previous actions, even though they had little to do with the final events, were part of his general plan to achieve his only and final Goal: To do everything possible for self-destruction.The paper we submit to your prestigious group today will describe the near perfect and harmonious combination of our subject's underlying pathological motives and the events of his elaborate psychic suicide.

Hypothesis: Nudelman, our subject, finds himself in a subway station somewhere in the Bronx, witnesses a purse grab, gets hit by an escalator, gets beaten up by a mob, and is arrested for the series of acts of violence. Arrests, these were not due to random accidents.Rather, this ultimate near-fatal outcome is a logical excuse and a common tactic for self-destructive, self-deceitful, and social misfits.The following pattern shows his pathological development unmistakably: Stage A suffers from painful torment.It can be seen that it will progress to stage X and stage Y to the desired stage (see mental pattern, Exhibit A) - a person with a mathematician background is certainly not a fool in this complex game of life and death.In this game he firmly stated that no matter what suffering and torture he went through, he must also avoid the next necessary and very important meeting with the vigilante.

Experimental Observation: The above hypothesis is based on the following speculation: From the moment Mr. Nu grabbed the bill from Mr. Bernard Kaufman's hands at that fateful lunch, Nudelman was quite sure Little did he know that he was going to be wounded and arrested that night in the Bronx subway station.Moreover, Ben would believe that his insistence on paying for the extravagant big boss's lunch was by no means an A-stage at the beginning of his master plan, but an advanced stage, say F or G, of his master plan. Rather, the Institute is absolutely certain that our respondents knew from day one of rewriting Kaufman's manuscript not only that they would be arrested, but that they knew that when they evaded arrest by blue-uniformed police at a Bronx subway station Will be hit and killed by the traffic police in the subway.

It is understandable but unacceptable that this self-destructive man should be able to weave such an intricate web for his own destruction.However, the long-term systematic observations made by the maintenance committee and a series of abnormal performances in the past (see psychoanalytic curve charts 2, 3 and Appendix B-6) seem to be a strong proof of this hypothesis. The following refers to the "Bronx Motive" (hereinafter referred to as the "Bronx Motive"). The pattern of "cloth motivation" develops according to a regular graph curve, which can be seen at a glance by means of flow charts familiar to experts in "decision theory" and "computer science" circles.Although Mr. Nu's characteristic mental breakdown vision does not make sense with the trajectory he has traveled in the picture, most of the "cloth motive" situations present a pattern of appearance that is surprisingly consistent.

Here are the decision steps and general strategy in this example: 1. Mr. Nu accepted a writing job that he knew from the outside that he would never be able to finish it. Two, because he was unable to meet the requirements (or so he mistakenly believed), he began to falsify the nature of this literary work beyond recognition.In this particular case, he took a serious work and turned it into a farce.Outwardly, he was doomed, but his subconscious told him that this newly rewritten work would be well received by the publishing world. 3. Our respondent goes to the source of the above error—this means Mr. Kaufman—from which he intends to plead for a second chance, even though he knows full well that he will be surprised by the compliment.

4. Then there was the celebration of the great success of his endeavors - at which point our subject had lunch with his so-called employer. 5. This then progresses to the meal phase, during which our subject puts himself in a position to cause destruction.What happened was this: Mr. Nu grabbed the bill and insisted on paying all the expenses, including a small tip, and pretended to be careless. 6. (Dispensable step) He was disappointed that his plan did not come true as planned (that is, Nudelman, the subject matter, did not spend his last pennies in time).The usual approach is to find a suitable "scapegoat" (Mr. Nu found a beggar, but some people degenerated to begging with cans picked from the trash can, and some even pretended to lose money. actually in their pockets).

Seven, the crux of the game.The place has been chosen, and it is only a matter of time before the catastrophe strikes.The latter steps are completely unconscionable.Let's divide them into seven stages, because seven is an auspicious number. 1.With no money, Nudelman had an excuse to kill time. 2.He went to his friend Leo's house and publicly stated his desperate need for financial help. 3.Leo generously gave him verbal assistance. 4.Nudelman declined his help and denied the purpose of the visit. 5.The time to implement Mr Nou's major plans is now approaching.Pretending that busy with self-argument—though his eyes had been fixed on the clock—our subject wandered about the Brighton seaside streets, murmuring and complaining that he was starving, but he had spent the last six or seven hours I ate and ate, and it was good.

6.Nudelman got on a Bronx-bound trolley to hitchhike upstate. 7.On the Bronx border, the patient suddenly began looking for pickpockets who had been arranged to be there.The long-awaited gathering with its planned ending finally came to a successful conclusion.Once back in his birthplace, our subject can degenerate, tormenting himself and possibly even in the traditional manifestation of Wessencroft's Circle of Life Syndrome (see Wiesencroft and Fitch, 1966) kill yourself. This periodic sickness reaches its peak when the easily hired morally depraved bystander assures our subject that his demands for punishment will be duly met. Note: Mr. Nu was not shot dead but was arrested, mainly because of the recent series of complaints from noisy neighbors about police brutality, which made the police severely restricted in the use of weapons. Conclusion and Prediction: The investigation team agrees that if Mr. Nu, the subject of our investigation, has a new opportunity, he will undoubtedly be able to better excuse himself.Since he failed to execute himself, he must now be playing the same cloth-motivation game again, perhaps starting over again from scratch with the remainder of his employer's Kaufman manuscript. The most effective response to our subject's dangerous recurring behavior was immediate hospitalization.While in the hospital he will be forced to undergo a variety of treatments while meeting with his team until they believe he has given them a thorough confession and that his anti-social, anti-moral, self-deceived, arrogant, self-nourishing , suicidal and self-satisfied tendencies are eradicated.