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Problems with Daily Motion vids

I tried posting a another clip but am having trouble hosting it here.

Who wants to be a good Samaritan?

Just yesterday morning in Melbourne there was a shooting that took place. One rampaging gunman was trying to kill a lady, which of course is not a good thing to do by anyone’s standards, and out of nowhere a good Samaritan tried to get the woman to safety, but it was too dangerous and too risky. The result? He ended up taking a bullet and in return the Samaritan died shortly either. It just goes to show how far is too far when it comes to helping strangers in troublesome situations, and has since become the cause of many a debate.

The question is this. Is it too risky to be a good Samaritan?

I have thought this through and I thought of all the possible situations. If you saw a couple feuding in public, would you try and intervene? If you saw a lost child, would you report them to their parents? If you found a wallet on the ground, would you bring it in to police or perhaps even a store owner nearby? If you saw a baby fall from a tall building, would you try and catch it? If you saw a shooting take place, would you take a bullet for the civilian/s who is in the middle of it all?

I have once lost a wallet on a bus, but a good Samaritan found it and I received it back the next day. I have also found wallets on buses which I returned to the bus driver, but unfortunately the heartlessness of individuals remains, particularly here in Australia. I’ve seen studies on current affairs programs which have shown that less people are willing to help. For instance, children whom are lost in the mall are ignored, even by law enforcement agencies, but it’s the younger generation who ignored the lost children. The same thing happened when money was given to stores for honesty. The result? Most of them kept the cash.  This is from a nation that embraced the idea of giving random people a ‘free hug’, yet we’re not compassionate enough to give money back to it’s rightful owners.

The same thing happened in the states, where a study shown that people are not willing to help a feuding couple. No wonder why their divorce rate is so high, and no matter why Jerry Springer is so popular. They consider feuding couples a joke at the couple’s expense.

But that’s just the basic dilemmas. I’ve seen footage of good Samaritans trying to help, most of these attempts successful. I remember seeing on the news that a cameraman who was at a live news cross of a car on fire with a man trapped inside and the cameraman went to the burning wreckage and brought the man to safety. I’ve also heard of a man in New York who saved a teenager from dying on the subway by ducking under the moving train for safety. These are the people who truly deserved their awards for bravery. If only there were more people like them.

Which brings me back to that guy who was shot trying to save a life, and the unanswered questions that will linger on for years to come. Is saving a life really worth taking a bullet in the process and if you did, would you die a hero figure?

If you have any thoughts on this please feel free to discuss.

Some video dumping – NOT

I thought I might place a few vids from Metacafe for you guys, just for kicks, but i9t turns out the coding won’t work here.

Update time

As yet another Loewe TV blows up, Paris Hilton is back in jail, and this time serving the original 45 day sentence as planned. Man I feel good.

Paris Hilton, do not pass go, do not collect $200

If you are reading this, Paris Hilton is in jail. Times are quite hard for her, especially as that failure she calls a ‘singing career’ has taken a final blow as she got dropped from her label. And to make things worse, when Sarah Silverman mentioned about Paris’ jail time, while Paris herself was there, everyone cheered. If I were there I’d be cheering too.

Poor Miss Hilton won’t be getting any sympathy from me any time soon.

Consider the warranty void

This is what happens when you put a camcorder in a high-powered blender. I have to give this guy credit for catching it from the camcorder’s perspective.

The new blonde

I read recently that Bec Cartwright died her hair a darker tone, but does that get rid of the accompanying blonde jokes?

Well that depends  on the person. Sometimes the blondeness sticks with you. For example, Ashlee Simpson was blonde, died her hair brunette and what happened to her? She couldn’t even lip-synch correctly. I haven’t had the same problem with Bec as of yet, only time will tell.

A tired country

I heard about this last night on the 6 o’clock news and I thought I might type a bit about it here. It seems that younger Australians are getting less shuteye than they did exactly 20 years ago.

Ah, 1987, when Pluto was a planet and John Howard would be seen as someone who wouldn’t become Prime Minister of Australia. Research has shown that teenagers are going to bed later than before and getting up earlier, which explains the increasing popularity of energy drinks. I’m approaching 20 myself and while I tried to get at least 8 hours sleep during my teens, kids these days just don’t agree. Perhaps all those Playstations and mobile phones are quite the distraction. Its at the stage where sleeping is considered uncool and I think times must change back, because your brain needs to relax.

A vendetta against me?

Do you hate it when you bag some crap site out, only to be abused on MSN afterwards?

Well that’s what happened to me tonight, and I’m not happy to talk about in full detail. All I can say is that I feel as like I have a price on my head.