Dumpster stories!

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Feb 10 12:35:26 2000

thomas.h.lindberg_at_se.abb.com wrote:
> A coule of years ago we had two very tragic dumpster stories in Sweden,
> three kids vere killed while reading magazines in covered
> newspaper/magazine dumpsters.

I suppose people are going to think I'm a jerk for saying such a thing,
but IMNSHO the tragedy here isn't that the kids were killed, but that
they hadn't been taught not to do such things.

It's certainly the case that I've sometimes gone places that I know I'm
not supposed to go, but I only do it if I'm pretty certain that I know
what the risks are. And if I'm mistaken, I deserve whatever consequences
I get.

Here in the USA, all of the soda vending machines now have warnings labels
advising people not to rock the machine, because some idiots managed to get
themselves crushed under machines as they've tried (unsuccessfully) to
sodas without paying. Personally I think the machines should *NOT* have
the warning labels.

And let's not even bother discussing the labels on products that say
"no user-serviceable parts inside." :-)
Received on Thu Feb 10 2000 - 12:35:26 GMT