Sometimes we take it for granted that most people have at least a modicum of intelligence and forget that there are some truly stupid people out there. Now I'm not saying you have to be educated to be intelligent - there are plenty of self-made millionaires out there who don't even have their high school diplomas, but sometimes I wonder how some people manage to even tie their shoes in the morning.
Like the guy a nurse friend was telling me about. He decided it would be a good idea to stand in the middle of a golf course holding a golf stick in the air in the middle of a thunderstorm "just to see what would happen". Obviously this guy had skipped science class the day they covered Ben Franklin's kite experiment. And did this young Einstein take a friend or two to watch the show (and cart him to hospital when the inevitable happened)? No he did not. So when he got hit by lightning THREE TIMES, he ended up lying unconscious on the course all night before someone found him and took him to the hospital where he was treated for severe burns to both feet & possibly permanent nerve damage to the arm that held the golf stick. The miracle to me was not that he was not killed, but that the lightning managed to hit him TWO more times before he fell over! Honestly, what a bloody muppet. I told my friend that we could only hope that the high dose of electricity rendered him sterile and thus prevent him from passing his stupidity on to another generation. We can only hope.
You only have to go to YouTube to see the extent to which some people will push the bounds of stupidity. Of course, this all makes for great entertainment - after all, where would we be without the likes of "Jackass" or "America's Funniest Home Videos"? And in watching these things we encourage further stupidity from these cretins. It is a vicious never-ending cycle.
Oh well, at least it's funny.
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