Oh I know — my coworkers and I watch those "World's Dumbest Criminals" shows at work all the time and laugh our various appendages off — but it bugs me when people make life-changing/ending decisions simply because they don't take a half-second to ponder the potential consequences of their actions.Excaliber wrote:These are the kinds of folks who learn only from personal experience.Dave2 wrote:Geez, you'd think the others would learn...mamabearCali wrote:Some of these guys are nuts. My DH works for the power company. He says if a line goes down in the inner city they have to get there really really fast or someone will steal it whether it is live or not. Every once in a while you will see a story about some idiot being fried by their stupidity. From what my husband says it is a hard death as you slowly cook after the initial shock from the inside out. Really nasty.
By the time they catch on to the lesson, it's too late to use the knowledge.
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- Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:09 pm
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- Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:50 pm
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Geez, you'd think the others would learn...mamabearCali wrote:Some of these guys are nuts. My DH works for the power company. He says if a line goes down in the inner city they have to get there really really fast or someone will steal it whether it is live or not. Every once in a while you will see a story about some idiot being fried by their stupidity. From what my husband says it is a hard death as you slowly cook after the initial shock from the inside out. Really nasty.