i usually go for a walk with my 4 year-old daughter in the afternoons, during our walk, we always stop at a quickie mart and split a soda
as i was heading out the door, i decided to quick check my e-mail. the 5 minutes i spent reading made a huge difference in how i spent my afternoon.
by the time i got to the quickie mart, the police were arriving. apparently they were just robbed at gun point minutes before i got there. there were a couple cars down a few blocks detaining the thief.
On the other hand, if you had been there, you could have quickly crouched down on all fours behind the gunman, your four-year-old daughter could have pushed him over, and the two of you would now be local heroes. You’d be splitting a cool $25,000 reward, and your daughter would’ve been a shoo-in when she writes her application to Harvard in thirteen years.
Seems more like blind luck than internet saving your life.