There is some wisdom in not jumping to conclusions before you have all or a least most of the facts first. It's hard these days to not think that the entire world is filled with bad people doing bad things. But sometimes if you just wait for the facts to come out, it can really turn out to be something quite different. It can turn from heartbreaking to heartwarming and downright funny.
Here is an example.
An Air Force veteran and his family recently moved to San Antonio, Texas, and put out little American flags on display in their new garden in honor of Memorial Day. Soon after the little flags were placed, they started to disappear leaving only the tiny poles in place. The family was heartbroken that people could be so mean and were upset that maybe they had moved to a hostile place.
Fortunately for them, their new next-door neighbor had been filming the culprits on her cellphone and showed it to the family. Busted, they thought. They could bring these thieves to justice! Well, their heartbreak and revenge soon turned into something quite different. It turns out the evil, flag-stealing culprits were two resourceful squirrels industriously building a nest in the top of a tree for their little squirrel family and were just using the flags as readily available materials! Clever little rodents!
The neighbor told them that she saw one of the squirrels tear off the first flag and, so amazed by its cleverness, she started filming the rest of the theft. Ten flags in all were ripped from their little poles with great effort by these two little thieves and used to make quite a colorful little nest in the tree.
So the moral of this story is that sometimes when you think the worst of people, it could really just be squirrels building a nest.
Here is an example.
An Air Force veteran and his family recently moved to San Antonio, Texas, and put out little American flags on display in their new garden in honor of Memorial Day. Soon after the little flags were placed, they started to disappear leaving only the tiny poles in place. The family was heartbroken that people could be so mean and were upset that maybe they had moved to a hostile place.
Fortunately for them, their new next-door neighbor had been filming the culprits on her cellphone and showed it to the family. Busted, they thought. They could bring these thieves to justice! Well, their heartbreak and revenge soon turned into something quite different. It turns out the evil, flag-stealing culprits were two resourceful squirrels industriously building a nest in the top of a tree for their little squirrel family and were just using the flags as readily available materials! Clever little rodents!
The neighbor told them that she saw one of the squirrels tear off the first flag and, so amazed by its cleverness, she started filming the rest of the theft. Ten flags in all were ripped from their little poles with great effort by these two little thieves and used to make quite a colorful little nest in the tree.
So the moral of this story is that sometimes when you think the worst of people, it could really just be squirrels building a nest.
I expected some or all of the terrorists in London would be known to the authorities, but its appalling that one was the star of a popular news program about aspiring terrorists and his neighbors had called him in multiple times because of his justifications of Islamic murders. Clearly radical changes needed to be made at many levels.
ReplyDeleteI recognize cops don't walk on water and sometimes outrages happen, but I don't get why the cop in the incident described below is being charged with anything. All he did was put a drug addict who ignored a taser into a chokehold. The other option would have been letting the guy run loose and maybe eat someone's face or something.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kenneth-lopera-charged-tashii-farmer_us_59364d13e4b013c4816a92ef?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
A white police officer in Las Vegas was arrested on Monday and charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a black man held in a chokehold for more than a minute, officials said.
Officer Kenneth Lopera was charged on the same day the Clark County Coroner’s Office ruled the May 14 death of Tashii Farmer, 40, near the Las Vegas Strip was a homicide due to police restraint.
The coroner also found Farmer’s enlarged heart and methamphetamine intoxication were contributing factors.
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Farmer, who also went by the last name Brown, approached the officer on May 14 inside the Venetian Hotel, saying he believed people were chasing him, police have said. Farmer, who was sweating and looked panicked, then ran into a restricted area.
Lopera ran after Farmer, catching up to him outside the hotel where he tried to arrest Farmer, police have said.
With hotel security guards helping him, the officer used a Taser in an unsuccessful attempt to stun Farmer into submission and later held him in a chokehold, according to police.
After Lopera released Farmer from the chokehold, Farmer was no longer breathing. Paramedics rushed him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
DAMN AMERICA HATIN' SQUIRRELS!
ReplyDeletenice!
ReplyDeleteVery cute! Always good to remember too that the world is nicer place than we often think and people as a whole are much better.
ReplyDeleteOut of curiosity, does anyone know this?
ReplyDeleteOoooh where... is my hairbrush!
Ooooh where... is my hairbrush!
Andrew: Hmmmm, uh, what my mother would say when we did something bad for $2000, Alex?
ReplyDeleteAnthony - This is a combined response - Cops don't walk on water, but they also are put in the position of standing between crazy people and the general public at great risk to themselves. Since the brainiacs decided long ago to give certifiably mentally ill people over 18 the right to decline treatment or limited "observation" in a facility.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why one of the reasons why the brainiacs who decided long ago to just give street cops in the UK cops sticks, seems foolish in hindsight...
Bev, LOL! Good answer. But no. It's from something. I'm just curious if anyone knows. I heard it for the first time recently and now it's stuck in my head...
ReplyDeleteNo hair... for my hairbrush.
Not fair... for my hairbrush.
This is actually good news. 130 Imams are refusing to give Islamic burials to the latest group of terrorist. This is probably the first genuine step toward actually ending the glory of terrorism that I've seen coming from the Islamic world. Let's hope the rest sign on and that the trend continues.
ReplyDeleteI looked it up. It's from a Veggie Tales cartoon....I have only seen snippets of these when my neice & nephew were very small.
ReplyDeleteAlso, to defeat an "ear worms", listen to the whole song that is stuck in your head all the way through and then hum the theme song from "The Waltons". I swear that it works every time.
That would be The Hairbrush Song.
ReplyDeletetryanmax and Bev, Exactly! And it's bizarrely catchy! LOL! LOL!
ReplyDeleteSilly Songs With Larry -- The Hairbrush Song