I know, it’s tempting to jump right into politics.
Mark Twain would have shouted out “Congress!” before I had the headline finished. Yet into everyone’s life falls things that are so frightenenly stupid that they defy all reason, all logic, and sometimes even we ourselves, otherwise normally sane, intelligent and rational people are guilty of them.
Perhaps that is not the case with these two clips.
Someone filming a fireworks factory explosion from a little too close?
and
Someone shaking up a chemical bomb they’ve made by hand?
both of which require Windows Media Player to play.
I can’t tell whether participants of either film survived with all parts intact.
In my own life I remember a fellow camp staff member come tearing out of his cabin tent after almost electrocuting himself. He had let the metal base of his cot press through the wires on his alarm clock…revolting!
Then there was the drunk girl on July 3rd one year after the fireworks were done, who decided to sit down while waiting for the Green Line Train, on the edge of the platform, her pretty little legs swinging over the edge of the platform, with the train only one station away…
Then there was they guy who decided to cut through traffic downtown - oh right - I didn’t see him, only saw the white sheet and the ambulance. He was only formerly stupid by the time I got there. Worse yet, there was a walkway right above the street just an escalator ride away. Guess he was just in too much of a hurry to take it.
Then there was this guy who thought that he could start a war based on a lie and get away with it. How dumb was that?
Maybe not as dumb as the lie his predecessor told about “that woman”. But then that lie didn’t get anybody killed. Just a lot of cold nights in the Presidential doggie house.
Oh, then there was that guy who sexually harassed his co-worker when he had a conservative radio talk show.
Naw, that was just expensive, I think the kid in the video may still win in the stupid category. What do you think? Have a stupider story? Mine excluded of course.
Peter