A mother taking her infant daughter's social security number and using it to charge up thousands of dollars in debt. Who does she think is responsible for the debt? And her infant daughter starts her life as an adult with a tainted record. Thanks, Mom.
A man is swimming in a local lake and, in plain view of other swimmers, disappears under the water. When he doesn't resurface, they call for help and begin trying to find him in the muddy waters. A diving crew later finds his body. Ten years previous his brother drowned in the exact same spot.
A young man visiting Six Flags over Georgia climbs over two security fences in an effort to reach out to riders on a high-speed roller coaster. He and a friend climb through the rails and he gets stuck, just as the coaster approaches. He's decapitated. An off-duty fireman waiting in line to board the ride calls 911. Those security fences were in place for a reason, buddy. The investigation requires Six Flags to post LARGER and more frequent signs. Give me a break - like the guy didn't realize he was putting his life in his own hands. How could this be Six Flag's fault?
On the 4th of July, a woman decided to celebrate by shooting her handgun into the air. After discharging all her bullets, she goes into the house to reload and hits her best friend and brother's fiance, killing the woman. Wow! What a way to celebrate.
Of course, none of that can top the punches thrown between two city officials at a recent public reception. Word is, one of the men could've wiped the floor up with the other, had he tried. Instead of debating the imminent winner had a sensible man not intervened, why don't we take up a collection to send these two men to anger management classes - separately.
One more, of an entirely different nature. We're all learning the Ten Commandments. While most of us are capable of figuring them out if we spend some time thinking, we decided memorization in order would be helpful. On the way to church yesterday, I took along the listing Dane had made and we began memorizing. When we got to "Thou shalt make no graven images," I paused to talk about graven images with the children. Deanna spoke up:
"Like when Moses was up on Mt. Sinai getting the 10 Commandments and they made the golden calf."
"Exactly," I said. "They made a statue, then began to worship it, bowing to it and singing songs of praise."
Deanna: "There's one thing I don't quite understand, Mama. How could they think it was a god? THEY made it."
The humor of the situation hit me. Yep. To consider something you create with your own hands to be a god . . ."just how did I get here? Oh, yeah. That gold calf that I JUST made put me on this earth before it was even made . . . "
News of the Bizarre, alright.
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