Re: Apology for a mistake (Man Sentenced in radioactive Poisoning

[Robb Merkel <merkel@bnl.gov>]

Hi all,

Sorry to barge in here and stir the pot a bit, but I have to agree with John.
This country has gotten so far off the path of taking ownership for their
wrong doings and placing blame in every direction other than where it should
be, on themselves. If this dude spikes the girls fruit punch, twinkie or
whatever with iodine he stole, how in the world can you people possibly start
pointing fingers at anyone other than him.
I know this is a bit different case, but it reminds me of the story of the
woman who just purchased some coffee from McD's, spills it on herself and
turns around and blames McD's saying the coffee was too hot. The funny part
is, she wins her freakin' case. What is going on?!!  I don't know where she
comes from, but coffee is always hot where I am from.
Okay, enough.




Neon John wrote:

> Jim Abraham wrote:
>
> > Franz Schoenhofer wrote:
> > Please note that I have below emphasized the "also":
> >
> >  "If somebody would have the opportunity at a university to take such
> > compounds and kill another person with them, then of course also (I say
> > explicitely
> > a l s o !!!) the university has to be cited."
> >
> > Sorry again for that mistake.
> >
> > Franz
> >
> > You're still wrong.
>
> So true.  One of my better high school practical jokes involved
> stuffing some metallic potassium up in the holes under the rim of a
> toilet in the girl's bathroom.  As I received my punishment for
> causing a girl to come screaming out of the bathroom with her
> panties around one ankle and smoke billowing out from under her
> dress, not a soul involved EVER tried to blame the potassium.  Or
> the school.  I got the 47 bazillion demerit hours, a whipping at
> school and another at home.  The potassium and the school remained
> unmolested and blameless.  My how time changes things.  Today, I'd
> be tried as a felony bomber, the school would be sued into oblivion
> and they'd probably also prosecute the manufacturer of the potassium
> even though the stuff was 40 years old at the time.  Sad, very sad.
>
> Oh... Maybe you blame the metal only when it constitutes a gun or
> something radioactive.  Must be age.  Just can't seem to get this PC
> stuff correct anymore.
>
> John
>
> --
> John De Armond
> johngdSPAMNOT@bellsouth.net
> http://neonjohn.4mg.com
> Cleveland, TN
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