Philosophy is the answer eh? I live on a busy hwy Maurice, it has been identified as one of the most deadly highways in the USA, US HWY 19 in florida, I see people die on this highway almost every day because RUDE drivers are impatient and road rage takes over - they have never learned patience it seems - I think it comes from not enough discipline as a child but you must think differently - you say well Shades have nothing to do with them, short of moving to another city (of which I plan to do as mentioned in an earlier post) I don't see how to avoid these RUDE people that cause deaths.
I have the financial resources to be able to afford a move - what of the old man that will get run over tomorrow who cannot afford to move away. The problem is not that he is in error, it is that he must share a hwy with some of the most rude and selfish people in the country. It is on thing Maurice for you to be sitting with some friends in the pub drinking a beer and talking about sheep and some rude dick comes in and you all walk away - but when that rude person is driving thier hummer and has just run over your niece and killed her because she should have got out of his way I guess she should bear the blame. I was stopped at a stoplight in an MR2 toyota yellow spyder and was squashed by this brute in his big chevy truck, he thought I was a doctors kid and at the restaurant an hour before he had already keyed my car and was waiting on me to drive off - a total stranger, he was just mad and wanted to vent on me - a total stranger because he thought I was a super rich spoiled doctors kid - to his upset I did not die - he confused the toyota for a ferrari according to the police report - now he sat in jail a few months for that - but I think a 25 cent bullet to his head would have been more productive and economical for society - but too many maurices think oh the humanity. We can't do that to people for being mad and rude - what harm is done no? hehe
Why do you pick on the poor marauding lions? They are better than humans sometimes.
english.people.com.cn
Lions rescue abducted girl in Ethiopia
A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had chased off her captors, a policeman said on Tuesday.
The girl, missing for a week, had been taken by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them, said Sergeant. Wondimu Wedajo, speaking by telephone from the provincial capital of Bita Genet, about 560 kilometres southwest of Addis Ababa.
She was beaten repeatedly before she was found June 9 by police and relatives on the outskirts of Bita Genet, Wondimu said. She had been guarded by the lions for about half a day, he said.
"They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest," Wondimu said.
"If the lions had not come to her rescue, then it could have been much worse. Often these young girls are raped and severely beaten to force them to accept the marriage," he said.
Tilahun Kassa, a local government official who corroborated Wondimu's version of the events, said one of the men had wanted to marry the girl against her wishes.
"Everyone thinks this is some kind of miracle, because normally the lions would attack people," Wondimu said.
Stuart Williams, a wildlife expert with the rural development ministry, said the girl may have survived because she was crying from the trauma of her attack.
"A young girl whimpering could be mistaken for the mewing sound from a lion cub, which in turn could explain why they did not eat her," Williams said.
Ethiopia's lions, famous for their large black manes, are the country's national symbol and adorn statues and the local currency.
Despite a recent crackdown, hunters also kill the animals for their skins, which can fetch US$1,000. Williams estimates that only 1,000 Ethiopian lions remain in the wild.
The girl, the youngest of four siblings, was "shocked and terrified" after her abduction and had to be treated for the cuts from her beatings, Wondimu said.
He said police had caught four of the abductors and three were still at large.
The United Nations estimates that more than 70 per cent of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, practiced in rural areas where most of the country's 71 million people live.
Source: China Daily
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