"The Daring Dufas" wrote in message
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On 3/8/2012 11:55 PM, Robert Green wrote:
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It's clearly something about the eyeball that really makes people
cringe. In my case, these little burs were rubbing against my eyelid
which of course became sore, they didn't bother my eyeball at all. My
wife could see them, so we tried to get them out with rolled up tissue
paper, which was when we discovered that they were burned in. The
removal process was actually completely painless. They anesthetize the
eye, clamp your head in a vise and essentially dig the stuff out with a
needle.
There are two things I noticed even "tough" guys get squeamish about.
Injuries to their eyes and their junk.
My J-prof told us of the story about the sewer worker who, while lifting
a
manhole cover with a pry bar, had it winged by a passing car which drove
the
bar up through his scrotum and into his abdomen. He lay there for quite
some time as people walked by his moaning and groaning body, thinking he
was
a drunken bum. (This was, of course, NYC where children are taught to
step
around bodies at an early age.)
There's just something about the words "needle" and "eye" in the same
sentence that gives me the willies. And the heebee jeebies!
--
Bobby G.
That's odd, my relatives in New York don't fit that stereotype. It may
have been one of them who came to the man's aid?
An example of the practiced indifference of New Yawkers is riding a packed
train at rush hour and realizing that no one is making any kind of eye
contact with anyone else. Fill the car with other primates and all they
would DO is look each other over.
I watched a news show
about the NYPD running a sting in the subway against gold chain
snatchers where detectives were acting like drunken businessmen swaying
around the subway platform as bait. The cops had to keep shooing away
people trying to help them but it was hysterical when they caught a real
predator.
Watch the show: "What Would You Do?" Unfortunately they're able to film
very sad things like a whole store full of people watching a cashier hand
back the wrong change to a blind man without saying a word. Fortunately,
from time to time, as you noted, people DO step forward, sometimes very
aggressively. A woman in Brooklyn just died recently trying to shield other
people's children from a rooftop sniper.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ildren-gunfire
So good people do exist. But there are also people who will just step over
a man they think is a drunken bum. When I was a kid, some poor guy decided
to sit down and die in front of the "Angel Guardian Home for Orphaned
Children" (now a block of condos) right near my house, the bigger kids did
not step over him. They poked him with a stick until the adults finally
called the police.
I'm not going to make an issue of the skin color of every one
of the snatchers
To the untrained eye, that would seem to be what you're doing. (-: FWIW,
the woman who died shielding other people's children from a sniper was
black. SFW? (And that's not Shopper's Food Warehouse)
because it was the same and someone will claim it's a
racist stereotype.
Because it is. Generalizing from anecdotal information seems to be a
problem for some people. Like those who assume the educational sky is
falling because some clerk doesn't want to accept an obvious overpayment,
even if it was meant to result in whole dollars back without more change
being returned. I would venture a guess that most of the people involved
in screwing the economy to a standstill in 2008 were white. SFW? Poor
people (not just blacks) commit a large amount of "street crime." White
people commit most of the country's very costly "white" collar crime. Not
all, but most.
My favorite chain snatcher story was that of a young
woman who's gold necklace was snatched from her neck and when someone
came over to help her and expressed sympathy for the woman's
predicament, the gal said "That's OK, my chain was fake but his is
real." as she held up a real gold chain. ^_^
Nice. I've read that stripping jewelry in NYC is now an art form: Two big
mugs come from behind and lift the victim by the armpits while a third
accomplice removes the bling and other valuables. Happens in seconds. An
undercover cop got attacked that way and said that once two big guys hoist
you by your pits, you're pretty much helpless, even with the two guns the
cop had on him. They took those, his badge and everything else. I like
watching "Bait Car" just to hear the little stinking car thieves try to lie
their way out of it.
--
Bobby G.