It’s a Mad, Mad World

 

If the global economic crisis weren’t so serious – made more serious by the fact that the public justifiably has no confidence in their leaders – then we could have a grand old time reading the rest of the news and wondering at the scope of our species. I mean, don’t you read some of these stories I’m about to relate and shake your head, slowly and patiently, wondering if their screws were always loose, or maybe they loosened ‘em themselves?

Take the woman who had moving a box of ammunition and dropped it. One of the shotgun shells fell amidst the papers she used to light her stove. Yes, you guessed it. She didn’t get all the shells back into the box. She put some paper in the stove. A shotgun shell was in the paper. It went off. She was hit, but no badly wounded. She dug the pellet out of her leg herself.

Then there was a fellow who decided he didn’t like a wart on his toe. He’d been drinking and figured he didn’t need a doctor. He drew a bead on the offending protrusion with a .22 and fired. He got the wart, but took off most of the toe with it.

Police in Fargo – no, not the movie – stopped a car that was being driven erratically. They arrested a young man on a charge of drunken driving. While the violation was being written up, the passenger in the car slid behind the wheel and tried to drive away. He, too, was arrested for drunken driving.

Finally, Adam “Pacman” Jones has gotten into trouble again. Since he was first drafted into pro football, he has been arrested six times and involved in 12 situations requiring the police. Now he’s in trouble because of a scuffle at an upscale Dallas hotel. Jones got into a fight with his own bodyguard.

Kinda takes your breath away, doesn’t it? But god bless em all.

 

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