A Moral Question...

This is an imaginary situation, but I think it is fun to decide what one
would do. The situation:

You are in the Midwest, and there is a huge flood in progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and infrastructures destroyed. Let’s say that you’re a photographer out getting still photos for a
news service, traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes. You come across George W. Bush who has been swept away by the floodwaters.

He is barely hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go under. You can do one of two things:

  1. Put down your camera and save him, or

  2. take a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb.

Now, think very carefully before you scroll down to see the question…

Keep scrolling to see the question…

What lens would you use?

Stoid
(ducking and running like hell outta the room before the mob descends)

[Moderator Hat ON]

Oh for the love of… Get thee to the Pit.

[Moderator Hat OFF]

Yawn.

Does anyone else thing Stoidela has become a one-note song?

Gaudere…

You are absolutely right. I don’t know what came over me.

thanks

stoid

Is that why one becomes a moderator, to say, well, Deity-Like stuff like that?
:slight_smile:

Definitely a wide angle. You want to get the tree branch and the water in the picture also.

Stoid, you get out less than I do, huh?

Yet again…
Gore supporters manage to show their intellectual supperiority by rising above Bush’s “charming” yet puerile antintellectualism.

Well, what choice do I have but be a Gore supporter myself.

Truly inspiring.

P.S.
What if Gore were about to be submerged in water only to short-circuit. Save a robot, or go for the shot with theimpressive sparks and firworks?

Gotta’ love the Al Gore robot jokes.

…and her soon-to-be-dead pony is in for a helluva beating.

I’d use my Leica R4 with Leitz 70-220mm zoom lens, and a nice light blue filter, just to make it extra sad.

I would jab him with a sharp stick, first, to get a pained look on his face.

My only real regret about this situation is that Al Gore isn’t there to be pulled down with him :frowning:

Now THAT would be a classic photo! :slight_smile:

When I first heard that joke, it was Newt Gingritch who was drowning.

rugbyhahaha, now that’s the truth!

Boy, nothing like democracy to bring out the irrational hatred of an opposing party member who is vanishingly different from your party member. Gotta love a faux two-party system.

Jodi, one trick? C’mon. Stoids got two tricks. One, act rationally and debate well in non-political threads. Two, make fun of Bush. I dare say she’d make a great newspaper columnist, though she’d get stuck in “Opinions.” And boy would the letters to the editor fly!

Does this make Stoid the JDT of politics? [sub]runs his ass off[/sub] Hey, it is the pit after all. Too bad I can’t be more serious about this.

Some day there will be a pit thread for me, and I will die the flaming death I deserve. Pity. That’s what you get for having a strong opinion.