Just in case you're having a "bad day" ...
1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil
spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most
expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and
applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, they were both eaten
by a killer whale.
2. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a
carpenter
in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of
needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an ax, leaving her
mentally retarded.
3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world
flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu, he came down eight hours
short of the 400 day record -- his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend
had
left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.
4. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking
frantically
with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric
kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked
him
with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two
places.
Until that moment, he had been happily listening to his walkman.
5. Two animal rights protesters were protesting about the cruelty of
sending
pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly, the pigs, all two thousand of
them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two
hapless protesters to death.
And finally ...
6. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter
bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it
was the bomb, he opened it, and was blown to bits.
There now! Your day's not so bad, IS it?
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Subject: Decisions, Decisions.
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> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > I have a moral question for you. 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 infrastructure destroyed. Let's say
> > > >>> > you're a photographer out getting still photos for a
> > > >>> > news service, traveling alone, looking for
> > > >>> > particularly poignant scenes.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > If you were to stumble across Bill Clinton struggling
> > > >>> > to keep from being swept away in a raging river and
> > > >>> > you had a choice of rescuing him or getting a Pulitzer
> > > >>> > prize-winning photograph of the death of a
> > > >>> > President...
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > ...What shutter speed would you use?
> > >
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1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil
spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most
expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and
applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, they were both eaten
by a killer whale.
2. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a
carpenter
in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of
needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an ax, leaving her
mentally retarded.
3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world
flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu, he came down eight hours
short of the 400 day record -- his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend
had
left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.
4. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking
frantically
with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric
kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked
him
with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two
places.
Until that moment, he had been happily listening to his walkman.
5. Two animal rights protesters were protesting about the cruelty of
sending
pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly, the pigs, all two thousand of
them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two
hapless protesters to death.
And finally ...
6. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter
bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it
was the bomb, he opened it, and was blown to bits.
There now! Your day's not so bad, IS it?
__________________________
Subject: Decisions, Decisions.
> >
> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > I have a moral question for you. 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 infrastructure destroyed. Let's say
> > > >>> > you're a photographer out getting still photos for a
> > > >>> > news service, traveling alone, looking for
> > > >>> > particularly poignant scenes.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > If you were to stumble across Bill Clinton struggling
> > > >>> > to keep from being swept away in a raging river and
> > > >>> > you had a choice of rescuing him or getting a Pulitzer
> > > >>> > prize-winning photograph of the death of a
> > > >>> > President...
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > ...What shutter speed would you use?
> > >
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