Subj : OT Re: Stupid People
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Ellen K Hursh
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 01:56:14

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

Barrnabas Collins wrote:

> I'm watching Faux news and they had a report
> by Shepard Smith where he went up to
> people on the street and asked them why
> they are still there.
>
> "Don't tell us what to do" were what some of these people said.

You forgot the one who responded with "None of your f#cking business."
:-)

> So why haven't people realized that their
> luck may be about to run out,  that you have to be
> really stupid to stay out in New Orleans on Bourbon

Some would say that voluntarily living in a city that's *already* below
sea level doesn't display much in the way of smarts, but I suppose it
depends on one's POV... whatever floats your boat, as it were.

> street, that common sense would tell you if you
> can't get out of the state, get to the
> emegency shelter at the New Orleans super dome.

Last I heard, they were up to 40K people in the superdome.
Forty-thousand-plus people, in a huge structure that may lose
electricity and/or be flooded... not my idea of a party. (At least they
searched everybody for things like drugs/alcohol and weapons.)

> After alll with 175 mph winds, alot of rain, etc there may be very little left.

Heh... reminds me, somehow, of Ben Bova's short story "A Slight
Miscalculation".

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