Child Baffled By Stationary, Non-Violent Images

NEWTON, MA–Local first-grader Jamie Linnell is in stable condition following exposure to a static, non-confrontational image Tuesday. The image, a 1947 Life magazine photo of a woman tending to a rose garden, left Linnell in a state of panic and disorientation. “Jamie was turning the picture in all directions, desperately shaking it in an attempt to make it move,” the boy’s mother, Rita Linnell, told reporters. “He was frightened and trembling, and he kept asking me, ’Mommy, why isn’t this exploding?’ Then he collapsed to the floor.” Linnell regained consciousness after receiving emergency doses of Tekken 3.