Monday, June 16, 2008

Think People

Every so often (actually too often) you hear about a story that really makes you wonder if people even think at all. Recentyly there was this story in which a high school in San Diego was trying to teach the students about the dangers and aftermath of drunk driving.

To teach the students about the real personal affects of drunk driving they went around the school and told all the students a few students were killed by a drunk driver the night before. Brillant. This might be the stupidest f**king idea I have ever heard off. I can't believe so many people went along with it and are still defending it. If I was a teacher in that school there is no way I would allow that to be carried out in my classroom. Period. Everyone who went along with this should feel ashamed of themselves.

This reminded of an episode of The Office this year in which Michale decides to fake fire Stanley to teach him a lesson. Everyone in the office tries to tell him it is a horrible idea but he does it anyways. When he does it, it backfires and Stanley goes off on him telling him how horrible of a boss he is and that he is going to take him to court. The only difference was that was on television and was funny, this is real and horrific.

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