Terrorists, Rocket Scientists & Speed Racers

I find myself wondering why some people do the things that they do which in turn result in an untimely death of said person.

And with all of my deep thoughts of whys and hows, and with trying to come up with some super interesting reason,

I’ve decided it’s simply a case of natural selection.

Let’s take un momento to analyze how I have come to this conclusion.

Example 1-  The jackass from Iraq who mailed a letter bomb, which was returned to him for insufficient postage.

The bomb blew.  He’s dead.

Why? Natural selection.

Somebody stupid enough to be mailing letter bombs in the first place should get blown up by some means. The fact that it was by his own bomb makes it epic.

Example 2-  The rocket scientist who decided to ride a jet-ski off of Niagara Falls, hit the home-made rocket to shoot him over the past the falls, and get picked up upon landing.

Duh.

What kind of dork puts a plan like that into motion? I seriously wonder what the last thing he thought was….

“Oh shit, Batman, this ain’t gonna work!?!?!”

 

Hello, natural selection. Somebody stupid enough to go over Niagara Falls in the first place hasn’t go enough common sense to walk and chew at the same time… Natural selection.

 
Luckily, this guy didn’t have time to procreate any offspring as he was too busy making dud rockets.

Example 3-  In the not so distant past, most of the railroad crossings here in the United States didn’t have any kind of warning system in place to warn motorists that a train was coming.

As if looking to your left and seeing that 118 tons (give or take) of steel, bolts, nuts, and steam barreling down the tracks isn’t enough to tell you a train is coming, idiot.

So, local governments nationwide began putting up railroad crossing signals.

You know, you’ve seen them… the flashing red lights on either side of the road, the huge bar that drops down blocking an idiot motorist from getting to close to the tracks, the loud bells that scream “dang, dang, dang”… right.

So, these precautions are in place for what reason?

Anybody?

 

They are in place for people who are too blind, or too careless to see that 118 tons of death on a track is coming right at them at possibly 50 MPH.

However, the epitome of stupidity is the motorist who is just so sure he/she can make it around that huge arm barrier to the other side of the track before that 118 tons of death on a track gets to them. Ooops, doesn’t work out quite so well every time.

One such occurrence in Silicone Valley, CA, shows us that regardless of all the bells and whistles in place, some people are just too ignorant to think can be smited from this Earth.

Natural selection? I think so.

I suppose I would hate to do something really stupid that resulted in death. Seriously. If you don’t want to die of a deadly cocktail of drugs, hello… don’t do the cocktail of drugs.

If you don’t want to die by hitting the water/rocks at 100 MPH, don’t jump, rocket, Jet Ski, boat, or swim over Niagara or any other falls.

 

If you don’t want to go down in your family history as the moron who tried to beat up the train, don’t try to out run the train…

Pretty simple, kids.