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scape‧goat - [skeyp-goht]
–noun
1. a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
2. Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Lev. 16:8,10,26. –verb (used with object)
3. to make a scapegoat of: Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.
ERIE PA - On August 28, 2003 Brian Wells, a 46 year old pizza delivery man was sent out on a lunchtime run, as he might have been on any typical weekday afternoon. Aside from that, no one is quite sure of the sequence of events over the course of the next two hours. He left the pizza shop and then disappeared, only to be found again on camera. A strange device had been bolted to his neck, and authorities kept the public and the news media at bay as they appraised the situation. But soon there was an explosion; and Brian Wells was dead; victim of an apparent “murder by spectacle.”
Filed under: mea culpa. mea maxima culpa.
