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YouTube Turns People Into Idiots.

17 Oct

October 18, 2010

Actually, what it does is take idiots and give them a forum. That gives the idiots carte  blanche to act stupid in public.

Case in point:

I was shopping in ShopRite tonight and I came upon this scene:

  • A large display of mousetraps, knocked over and  scattered all over the floor.
  • A man, obviously a store manager, wearing a crisp shirt and tie, on his hands and knees scooping up the traps into a shopping cart.
  • A woman, holding the hand of a young child with her left hand, and filming the mess with her cell phone camera in her right over the man’s shoulder not two feet away. She was smiling and in a hoarse, cigarette-ruined voice, narrating into the phone and laughing.

“See this mess? (ha ha ha) This is the mess my baby made. (turns the camera to the child, who is laughing and playing with a rat trap, and pans back.) This shit is all over the floor and this guy (ha ha ha) has to clean it up! This is going up tonight! (ha ha cough rasp ha)”

You could see from the look on the manager’s face that he was seething and wanted to at the very least kick the crap out of the woman, but he kept his professionalism and ignored her. I really don’t know how he did it.

But this woman thought it was great! Just great! that her son knocked over the display, felt no need to help clean it up, and thought nothing of embarrassing the poor guy so she could post the whole mess on YouTube. And on top of it all, there was nothing funny about any of it. It was all really sad. That woman needs to have her kid taken away if that’s how she’s raising him.

I don’t blame YouTube for turning her into an idiot. She must have been an idiot long before that site came along. But if it weren’t for YouTube she wouldn’t have been filming over the poor man’s shoulder and coughing into his ear and he would still have some of his dignity.

And on a related note, someone needs to tell ShopRite that it isn’t appetizing to have a mouse trap display right next to the fresh produce aisle.

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Air Traffic Antics

4 Mar

March 4, 2010

In the news today, a man was arrested for bringing his two seven year old kids to work and letting them help out.

He was a bouncer at a strip club and he let the kids put on the dancer’s pasties.

NO, no, he was an air traffic controller and he let the kids give directions to the pilots over the radio.

Yes, that’s true, and the true story is actually more unbelievable than the strip club story. He let them into the air traffic control tower, let them direct the pilots, let them roam around, getting ice cream on the instruments, fiddling around with the vectors, directing Hawaiian flights into volcanoes, etc.

But seriously, this is a true story and the kids really were in the tower and really did talk to the pilots.

The controller, Glenn Duffy, and his supervisor NEED to be fired.

Never mind that the kids did little other than parrot their father’s words.
Never mind that the father was supervising them.

The point is that the NYC area is the world’s busiest air corridor, covering the biggest terrorist-threatened area in the world.

People in air traffic control do not need to be splitting their attention from the air traffic to their kids. This is a high pressure, highly important job where the people need their eyes on the sky, and our safely, and NOT on their children.

Children in that environment are a potentially dangerous distraction to those whose attention MUST be on their jobs.

Plus the kids got chocolate all over the radar display.

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