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The accidental demapping: a debtor killed under a red curtain of rage

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pivotal · Sorkin era, B.S.

  • When: during his coercive-collection work for Sorkin, before he grew "more nonviolence-prone"
  • What: Collecting a debt, Gately was Maced in the face by a blond, Heineken-drinking debtor; "a red curtain of rage" descended, and when he came to, the debtor's head was turned 180° on his neck with the Mace can up one nostril — his one demapping as a collector, "essentially an accident," the most professionally horrified he'd been until the later suffocated-Canadian incident (event 27).