Because I Don't Get Headlines Like This in My Hometown
Because I Don't Get Headlines Like This in My Hometown
On My Yahoo page, I subscribe to the Ahmedabad, India Local News. Mostly for the headlines. See, in my hometown, we just don't have the same problems that the fine folks in Ahmedabad have.
I found this story: Villagers beat leopard to death.
It's your typical "girl left alone/leopard steals and eats girl/villagers whup on and execute leopard" story. It's appalling. Not even a fair trial. I wonder if they even read him his rights. God Bless America.
Also:
This headline is normal enough, if a little gruesome: Three Killed, 10 Injured in Road Accident.
It seems normal enough, but I'm gonna post the lead paragraph:
Ahmedabad, July 29 (IANS) Three people were killed and 10 injured Thursday when a jeep they were travelling in fell in a pit near Surat, police said.
There are two things that caught my eye. First, that's entirely too many people to be riding in a jeep. Thirteen people in a jeep? At minimum, because it's possible that there were other people riding in the jeep who were uninjured. Yeah. That's too many people for a jeep. There aren't enough seatbelts. Unless it's one of those Super Mega Jeeps that I've been making up in my head, for use in my battles against Destro and Cobra Commander, at which time this story frightens me to no end, because those Asians have been stealing thoughts from my brain.
The other thing, however, is that these people were driving along, and the jeep they were travelling in just fell into a pit.
They fell into a pit! See, when I hear the word pit, I don't think ditch, or hole. I think of a pit being at minimum 40 feet, with the potential of being bottomless.
For the record, these people were driving, and they drove into a pit. A pit near Surat. Just driving along, and whoops! they just fell into a pit. I've just got this image of a jeep filled to the brim with 13 people, driving merrily along, and just driving and falling into a pit without slowing down. God Bless America. I've never fallen into a pit while driving in America. Well, there was that one time. In my jeep. Near Surat, Alabama.
And then, there's this:
One more Godhra accused arrested
At first, I thought Jeebus! We've got problems with terrorists, but over in Ahmedabad, they're fighting Godzilla monsters! I mean, it's one thing to know that people are plotting against our financial centers. But how would you feel if there was a giant winged lizard bug that might smash your house because it's cranky out there roaming the country side? God Bless America.
The actual story's not that funny. Everywhere you look, it's an us vs. them fight., and Ahmedabad's smack in the middle of that Hindu vs. Muslim sectarian violence.
As if leopards and jeep-eating pits weren't big enough problems.
On second thought, I think having a huge monster roaming the countryside would be less stressful. At least you can see the monster then.
On My Yahoo page, I subscribe to the Ahmedabad, India Local News. Mostly for the headlines. See, in my hometown, we just don't have the same problems that the fine folks in Ahmedabad have.
I found this story: Villagers beat leopard to death.
It's your typical "girl left alone/leopard steals and eats girl/villagers whup on and execute leopard" story. It's appalling. Not even a fair trial. I wonder if they even read him his rights. God Bless America.
Also:
This headline is normal enough, if a little gruesome: Three Killed, 10 Injured in Road Accident.
It seems normal enough, but I'm gonna post the lead paragraph:
Ahmedabad, July 29 (IANS) Three people were killed and 10 injured Thursday when a jeep they were travelling in fell in a pit near Surat, police said.
There are two things that caught my eye. First, that's entirely too many people to be riding in a jeep. Thirteen people in a jeep? At minimum, because it's possible that there were other people riding in the jeep who were uninjured. Yeah. That's too many people for a jeep. There aren't enough seatbelts. Unless it's one of those Super Mega Jeeps that I've been making up in my head, for use in my battles against Destro and Cobra Commander, at which time this story frightens me to no end, because those Asians have been stealing thoughts from my brain.
The other thing, however, is that these people were driving along, and the jeep they were travelling in just fell into a pit.
They fell into a pit! See, when I hear the word pit, I don't think ditch, or hole. I think of a pit being at minimum 40 feet, with the potential of being bottomless.
For the record, these people were driving, and they drove into a pit. A pit near Surat. Just driving along, and whoops! they just fell into a pit. I've just got this image of a jeep filled to the brim with 13 people, driving merrily along, and just driving and falling into a pit without slowing down. God Bless America. I've never fallen into a pit while driving in America. Well, there was that one time. In my jeep. Near Surat, Alabama.
And then, there's this:
One more Godhra accused arrested
At first, I thought Jeebus! We've got problems with terrorists, but over in Ahmedabad, they're fighting Godzilla monsters! I mean, it's one thing to know that people are plotting against our financial centers. But how would you feel if there was a giant winged lizard bug that might smash your house because it's cranky out there roaming the country side? God Bless America.
The actual story's not that funny. Everywhere you look, it's an us vs. them fight., and Ahmedabad's smack in the middle of that Hindu vs. Muslim sectarian violence.
As if leopards and jeep-eating pits weren't big enough problems.
On second thought, I think having a huge monster roaming the countryside would be less stressful. At least you can see the monster then.
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