Jesse Sullivan is a 59 year-old former electrical worker who lost his arms in a high-voltage power line accident and was re-fit with robotic arms that are controlled directly by his mind
just like regular arms. Until, inevitably, the robotic arms began to control his mind.
Mr. Sullivan inexplicably left his house yesterday and began a destructive rampage through Chicago, knocking over newsstands, throwing newspapers, and scaring flocks of pigeons by gesticulating wildly.
Dr. Todd Kuiken, director of amputee services at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, explains what he thinks might be going through Jesse?s crazed, robot-arm controlled mind. ?Mr. Sullivan is an exceptionally psychologically stable man?very grounded. I don?t think he has gone insane at all. I think he feels a sort of responsibility to go on a rampage because of the robotic arms.?
?During testing, he asked me ?So doc, how long before the arms take over my mind?? He clearly knew the risks of submitting to experiments by mad scientists such as myself?we?d gone over the statistics showing that basically all people ever fit with any sort of cybernetic devices inevitably go insane and wind up becoming rampaging lunatics bent on the destruction of mankind for no very apparent reason. At first, he was despondent, but I think he?s accepted his fate and is now bearing the responsibility of rampaging fairly well.?
?It won?t be long before it rains, the arms short out, Jesse returns to lucidity, regrets the damage he?s done, and atones by dying while saving humanity from whatever destructive chain of events it is that he has set off.?