Goldie Hawn made an OLD movie there, Something Land Express?? Oh, and there’s a sugar factory. Or there was…
Tom DeLay’s hometown. You know, Compassion Central!
The place where the 12 year olds put one cell phone on hold to answer the other one…and high school seniors just trip out if they don’t get THE new car they want for graduation. Driving Mom’s old BMW is SOOOO passe’. It’s THREE years old! Ewwww.
I really love my job, but the uberwealthy suck, and their stupid children suck more…
It’s a dead body! He’s not going to be upset that people are exercising around him!
I can see how the Health and Safety could have a problem with this, a dead body lying there might be a bit unhygenic, but it’s not that bad.
Like Jesus said, “let the dead bury their dead”. I am alive, I have more important things to do and better things to think about than changing my routine to pay respect to someone who is dead. If I had to wokr out around a stinking, putrified corpse to get the perfectly toned buttocks, I would have no problem with that.
While not as, um, cavalier as some posters, I do share the same basic sentiment.
Why is it disrespectful to keep the gym open? If they’d propped the guy up as an advertising campaign, I could understand (“Get a membership or YOU COULD BE NEXT!”), but as it was he was covered, cordoned off, and awaiting pickup. What’s the problem?
And lezlers:
Well, what is it that’s wrong with your picture? If I choose to run on the treadmill 5 feet away from a dead guy, again what’s the problem? Is it just that I don’t have a ‘healthy’ fear of death?
And as a general question, for those who say the body should have been moved - would it be legal for the gym to have moved him?
The police, the paramedics, and the man’s family are going to need to come in to take care of him. For starters, give the mourning family the respect they deserve and let them receive the shock of what has happened without the sound of Bambi the Aerobics Instructor shouting in their ears. This world does not revolve around you. Sometimes we are compelled as human beings to put the needs of other people ahead of our own. This is such a situation.
It’s not the healthy fear of death that your perspective lacks. It’s the healthy respect for others.
It’s this sort of mentality that is making me dread returning to the States. I was proctoring a Year 10 Exam today, and I was amazed by the respect shown by pupils who sat quietly for over 2 hours waiting for their peers to finish exams. In the States, I’ve had to usher students out of the room because they didn’t understand that their chattering, mobile phone use, and general disruptiveness was inconsiderate to the other pupils. The attitude is, “I’ve got a right to talk on my phone! I pay for it!” instead of, “I’ve turned my phone off, Miss, so it won’t disturb others.”
In other words, you are not the center of the universe. I can’t believe we’ve come to a point in our society where the death of another human fails to affect us. It makes me sick.
Beelzebubba, I just can’t help thinking if it was a friend or relative of mine. I think i’d be right pissed if I had to walk through a horde of panting self-involved assholes who didn’t even have the decency to leave the immediate area, push aside the guy running on a treadmill 5 feet from the body, in order to take care of business, ID or do whatever the hell friends and family of the deceased do in a situation like that.