And Bruce Willis Was There, And Russell Crowe...

Jason McLaughlin, a Minnesota boy who shot two of his classmates in 2003, seems to have gone a little too far with his insanity defense. According the kid, pretty much everything that could be wrong was wrong: he had an imaginary, evil friend (He was originally named Dante Lou Casselvara, but then got turned into Jake. Why would even an imaginary guy change his name from Dante to Jake?), he saw and smelled dead people, he imagined conspiracies, he thought he was a genius, and he blacked out (though no one noticed) when he tried to play sports (Anse Bundren, anyone?).

Sadly, young Jason made a few errors in throwing together this grab-bag of symptoms:

1. Apparently people suffering from depression and schizophrenia as severe as those he described can't actually function, even at the fairly lame level achieved by Jason.
2. He vividly described seeing a dead, colonial family hanging from nooses in a school room. This was a problem because apparently someone he talked to had also seen The Sixth Sense, and played that precise clip in the courtroom. Oops.
3. He reported spending some time in the woods with imaginary people, an experienced shared by a certain beefy mathematician in A Beautiful Mind. Double oops.

No word yet on if Dante (I refuse to agree to the name change) wears a really scary bunny mask.

That said, at least one shrink (I'm guessing the one hired by the defense) thinks Jason really is crazy. So it's up to the jury to decide if the lad is a depressed murderer, or if he was just innocently renting movies with Dante and a couple kids somehow ended up dead.