Today, there's no ambulance with a fake patient in the back, chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce limo or madman in a huge dually pickup truck bashing through fences on the side of the freeway, all of which actually happened in Cannonball races.
Or Nelba Márquez-Greene whose precious 6-year-old daughter, Ana, was slaughtered by a heavily armed madman in the sanctity of an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Plus, it hasn't been that long since Montreal dealt with their own gun-toting, woman-hating madman in 1989; when Marc Lépine murdered fourteen women and wounded ten more, after insisting that he was "fighting feminism".
"In Libya, you have a complete madman in charge.
"Joaquin was crazy, he was a madman in this movie right here," he said.
The artist is absorbed, the madman in the street is absorbed and processed and incorporated.
Sergio meanwhile is beginning to drive like a madman, in the Seve style.
Then she could not resist a take on America's favorite madman in the bullpen.
He's not just an extremity-chopping madman in this battle: he knows what he's doing.
