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feeling: tired
listening to: Gackt - Papa Lapped a Pap Lopped
Who else noticed I forgot to include my usual 'feeling' and 'listening to' crap in my last post? :P Speaking of which, Blogger seems to have changed yet again since then. It's closer to how it was before, but... I dunno, I like this interface. It's pretty.
Anyway... tonight during the 11:00 hour I was reminded yet again of why I don't regularly watch the news.
News story that makes me want to give up on humankind #1:
This one's the less retarded of the two, but it still riled me the heck up for a few minutes. So, this little kid in Florida was swimming in some lake when suddenly he was dragged underwater and met a gruesome fate between the jaws of an 8-10 foot alligator. This is a sad thing, yes... but it's what the authorities did following the tragedy that was REALLY sad. From that general area, they captured and killed about eight alligators who... get this... fit the description of the one that killed the kid. Description?? It's a freaking ALLIGATOR, people! They don't come in different colors and heights and job types and muzzle shapes and fur varietes like dogs do, for Bob's sake. They all look pretty bloody well identical. But no... one adult alligator kills a kid who trespassed on HIS long-established property even though he probably knew full well that the lake was likely to be teeming with giant deadly lizards, and in retaliation, the authorities capture and kill EIGHT very endangered alligators because they FIT THE DESCRIPTION??
And if that's not enough to make you want to cry...
News story that makes me want to give up on humankind #2:
So, this kid is an active player of some massive multiplayer online roleplaying game, not unlike Everquest, the Diablo games, and even Ragnarok Online. But, one day some jerk comes along and hacks said kid's account, stealing a bunch of his cool in-game stuff. And what does said kid do? Report the hacker to the game's creators in hopes of getting the jerk banned or in some other way appropriately punished, and perhaps get his lost stuff back? No. The kid CALLS THE POLICE and reports the whole event like a common burglary. And expects them to actually DO something about it. He even gave the cops a list of the stuff that was stolen from him, which was posted on the screen of this local news program just like real stolen merchandise from a robbed chain department store or something would be. Among the stolen items...
1 16x16 house
1 brown bear rug, facing east
1 hooded shroud
...and a bunch of other stupid crap that would only make sense to people who play this MMORPG.
Yeah... enough depressing things.
Actually, I thought I had something else to blog about, but I can't remember what it is, so I'm gonna go to bed. Night.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 6/20/2003 02:13:00 AM
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