Sunday, November 14, 2004
Only in the USA...
... do police stop child hurting himself... by... hurting him.
har? :| what happened to good old stepping in and wrestling the offending object away from the kid. 50,000 volts. That's gotta hurt.
Observation of the day - Strangely, there is no wine at communion at St Ignatius' church... I wonder why?
Random recalled facts :
- a taxi driver turned a corner at a T junction the other day and stopped abruptly for someone to get in. I mean how stupid is that? If I hadn't had the presence of mind to check left (again) whilst turning I would have run full tilt point-blank into him whilst accelerating around the corner. I think I had a total of 0.5 seconds to react.
- taxi driver pulled past me on the expressway today at what must have been 120 km/h after tailgating a slightly-speeding me for what must have been 5 minutes. Naturally, since I was 3 car lengths from the next car, he wound up stuck back in traffic. :|
- it takes me 27 minutes to drive from bukit timah to changi airport.
- some parts of upper bukit timah are actually quite pretty at sunset, with the mist rising from the trees catching the last gold-tinted breaths of the fading sun.
- pesky colds take forever to go away.
har? :| what happened to good old stepping in and wrestling the offending object away from the kid. 50,000 volts. That's gotta hurt.
Observation of the day - Strangely, there is no wine at communion at St Ignatius' church... I wonder why?
Random recalled facts :
- a taxi driver turned a corner at a T junction the other day and stopped abruptly for someone to get in. I mean how stupid is that? If I hadn't had the presence of mind to check left (again) whilst turning I would have run full tilt point-blank into him whilst accelerating around the corner. I think I had a total of 0.5 seconds to react.
- taxi driver pulled past me on the expressway today at what must have been 120 km/h after tailgating a slightly-speeding me for what must have been 5 minutes. Naturally, since I was 3 car lengths from the next car, he wound up stuck back in traffic. :|
- it takes me 27 minutes to drive from bukit timah to changi airport.
- some parts of upper bukit timah are actually quite pretty at sunset, with the mist rising from the trees catching the last gold-tinted breaths of the fading sun.
- pesky colds take forever to go away.
