what can you say?

And I thought my family was disfunctional - holy shit. Do you ever read stories like this and think 'has the world entirely, one hundred percent gone mad?'? I can't help but wonder, in no particular order:
- what 44 year old lives in an apartment in his parents back yard?
- why would you laugh when someone's cat dies?
- how on earth could you feel enough rage to bang not one, but two people, over the head in succession enough times to kill them?
- imagine being a someone who's recently started seeing smoeone for family conflict counselling, sitting down to a cup of tea Monday morning, opening the newspaper and reading:

Man kills parents over dead cat remarks
Friday Aug 3 15:32 AEST
A man who specialised in family conflict killed his parents with an axe when they laughed at him over the death of his cat.
Stephen Alexander Harper, 44, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Launceston on Friday to the murders of Roderick Alexander Harper, 88, and Helene May Harper, 77.
Prosecutor John Ransom told the court that Stephen Alexander Harper, 44, of east Launceston, had been living in a flat behind his parents' home when he committed the crimes on August 30 last year.
Mr Ransom said Harper, a counsellor who specialised in family conflict, had snapped when his parents laughed at him over the death of his cat, and had repeatedly hit them both over the head with an axe.
The case has been adjourned until the end of August for sentencing.
AAP