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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (417775)	9/17/2008 8:40:29 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578499

Steve, that's nothing new. When I was a senior in high school, I remember walking to school and seeing an "accident" in front of the school parking lot. A guy I knew was being given sobriety tests by an officer before being arrested. Meanwhile, in the other car, two girls were being pulled out and put onto stretchers. Immediately I wondered why that "drunk" guy was drinking at 7:30 AM in the morning. He was a party jock, but even then the timing was off. Then I noticed why there were no skid marks on the road and the grass. Maybe the crash was slow, I was thinking. At that point, another classmate came down the sidewalk and said, "Oh, this is fake." Five to ten minutes later, one of the firefighters on the scene shouted into a megaphone, "This is what happens when you drink and drive!" A few days later, there was a funny editorial cartoon in the school newspaper. It showed the school building exploding, bodies flying, and onlookers saying, "Great special effects!" The caption: "Never cry wolf." Great point. Tenchusatsu