London attacker cheerful, joking on eve of deadly rampage

Absolute sympathies to anyone who actually lost someone in this attack, because a legitimate connection to a loss deserves dignity and compassion. But on a macro-societal level, it is odd to see far rightists trying to exploit this incident as proof of how supposedly dangerous Muslims are. This "terror attack" had a casualty count comparable to a bad car accident or an apartment fire - certainly disastrous for the people involved but hardly international news.

The more we learn about the attacker, the more clear it becomes that he wasn't a true believer or religious fanatic, a foreign fighter or any of the other kinds of boogieman who keep bigots up at night. He was just a troubled man with a history of violence and instead of finding solutions for his problems he found a way to go out in a blaze of ...something. More than anything else, this makes me think "the West's" anxieties about foreign-looking people with funny names could be solved fairly easily with some better mental health care.

nandakandamanda, it probably only suggests that he thought money would not be of any use to him after doing what he was planning on doing.

And joyriding... totally agree.

Some people can afford a credit card, rent a car and stay in a hotel in London. My wife would freak out if I considered wasting such money. Does this suggest he saved up for the big event, or that he was subsidized by others?

There are special places in hell for cowardly people who think that it's acceptable to run down innocent civilians, killing 3 and then proceeding,in the most brutal way, to fatally stab a police officer who's only "crime" in this villains eyes was being a policeman!