Some Problems Can Be Fixed With Duct Tape, Some Can't

Europe & the US (Western Canada, too, by the way) certainly have different strokes. Consider these two stories, side by side: the murder of Anna Lindh in Sweden, and the more recent subduing of a troubling passenger on a plane:

The Murder Of Anna Lindh		The Story Of Flight 2161
There seem to have been an awful lot of bystanders to Lindh's stabbing -- in broad daylight, in a crowded Stockholm department store, after being pursued by her assailant up an escalator. Granted that most of the people bystanding around were women, it still seems odd -- at least from this side of the Atlantic -- that no one attempted to intervene or halt the blood-drenched killer as he calmly left the store. Nobody. Did. A. Thing. I can't comprehend that. How can you just stand there as a murderer walks by? How can you even let this sort of thing happen? SHE WAS BEING PURSUED UP AN ESCALATOR AND NOBODY STEPPED IN TO HELP!		Passengers aboard a Southwest Airlines flight helped wrestle a fellow passenger to the floor Tuesday night after he tried to force his way into the cockpit, law enforcement officials said. [...] "They used duct tape to tie him up," FBI spokeswoman Judy Orijuela said. Egyed was charged with interfering with a flight crew, she said. The pilot did not declare an emergency, and the plane landed without further incident at 9:45 p.m. ET in West Palm Beach.

Me, I like any story where duct tape is involved, but which approach do you prefer?