WTF Stories of the Week

[alphabassettgrrl]

Always keep a backup. Especially if the info on your computer is valuable.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Video of a huge stage rigging collapsing at the Indiana state fair is a little a lot terrifying

[Alex]

Terrible story. But I watched 5 minutes of CNN but had to turn it off not because of the images but because of the voices of apparently honest shock that people who weren't under the collapsed structure actually tried to help the people who were. Even *gasp* though they didn't know them.

I really can't stand how we're apparently supposed to react with surprise that in events like that people help each other.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

Terrible story. But I watched 5 minutes of CNN but had to turn it off not because of the images but because of the voices of apparently honest shock that people who weren't under the collapsed structure actually tried to help the people who were. Even *gasp* though they didn't know them.

I really can't stand how we're apparently supposed to react with surprise that in events like that people help each other.

I was reminded of this post, which was in regards to the stage collapse in Indiana a little while back, while watching coverage of this weekend's air show crash.

They had a quote from a family member of one of the victims who died. He was there with his son and his son's friends, all of whom survived. The family members said, "I think that he probably sheltered his son. And that's the kind of guy he was." Really, THAT kind of guy? Wow, what a remarkably unique trait that guy must have had, to instinctively protect his children! Let us all laud him as the singularly amazing human being he was for doing something that no one else in the world would ever do, protect their child from danger!

I, like Alex, am rather sick of the fiction that the instinct to help others is somehow NOT the norm and miraculous when it happens.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Seriously.

[Moonliner]

Is BART shooting themselves in the foot? It sure seems that way from here.

Originally Posted by (CNN)

-- The threat of spreading protests prompted transit officials in San Francisco to successively close and reopen several key downtown subway stations on Monday.

The situation was fluid, with officials trying to thwart demonstrators, closing and reopening the Civic Center and Montgomery stations, closing the Powell station, then at least partially reopening Powell to allow riders to disembark.

I'd be pretty pissed if I was trying to get home and they randomly closed my station.

Alex, you ride BART regularly don't you?

[Alex]

I do. I was on it when they turned off the cell "towers" on Thursday. But fortunately my schedule is such that I'm not usually on during rush hour (I'm usually on the 6:00am train in and the 3:30pm train home) so I'll probably miss most of the fun while this works out.

And yes, BART is shooting themselves in the foot. But frankly that is an improvement and it is the least harmful shooting they've done recently. Usually it seems to be them shooting some unarmed person (though that is a topic of debate this time around). At least he wasn't restrained on the ground when they shot him.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Police caught the fvcker in the Australian fake neck bomb case using some excellent detective work

[Betty]

How do I even list how many kinds of fail this involves.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by Betty

How do I even list how many kinds of fail this involves.

Wow. Just wrong.