Still watching you (the USA) swirl around the toilet bowl as you go
down.

Nice bill-boards you're putting up for yourselves...

=========================

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/occupi...eet-dying-work

Imagine you are driving to work this morning in Las Vegas (yes, you are
one of the select few locals who has a job that does not involve relying
on the strip's ever declining gambling revenues or flipping a house to
John Paulson in the second, and far shorter, coming of the regional
housing bubble, with poppage imminent), and you observe what appears to
be a man who hung himself below a billboard saying "Dying for Work."

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau...r%20work_0.jpg

Confused, you continue, only to drive by another billboard with what
seem to be a man hanging off, this one saying "Hope you're happy Wall
St."

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau...re%20happy.jpg

Slowly it all clicks: the man is not real, and this is not a suicide
done in protest by some depressed unemployed person, instead it is
merely a mannequin, part of some grotesque attempt at a statement. Would
this be considered shocking, and will the thousands of commuters who saw
this feel any worse or better toward Wall Street and its denizens -
America's bankers - having seen this, or will they merely continue with
their lives?

What if the dummy was a real person? And is this merely a foreshadowing
of things to come in a country in which class warfare has not been as
violent in decades if not centuries, and in which the divide between the
haves and the have nots has never been as wide?

And what happens when the next such "stunt" involves a real person -
perhaps someone depressed enough to copycat what they saw on the 5
o'clock news? More importantly, what happens if a depressed jobless
person takes their life but first takes out some of those he thinks are
responsible for his plight - say Wall Streeters?

What happens then?

We don't know, but sadly we, as well as everyone else, may find out very
soon.

What we do know is what happened today. From the AP:

Even by Las Vegas standards, it was a shocking billboard: A mannequin
dangling on a hangman's noose below a black sign with the ominous words
"Dying for Work."

Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Jeremie Elliott says the 911 calls started
coming in as the sun came up early Wednesday, with drivers worried the
stiff, black-suited dummy swaying at the end of a rope along Interstate
15 near Bonanza Road was a real person.

"It's a publicity stunt, obviously done in bad taste," said Elliott,
adding that officials were focused on getting it down quickly to avoid
distracting drivers during the morning commute.

The graphic display along the interstate was one of at least two
unauthorized signs spotted Wednesday morning in the Las Vegas area.
Another found on Highland Avenue and Desert Inn Road was white with
black lettering that read, "Hope You're Happy Wall St.," and a similar
mannequin hanging off the edge.

A woman who answered the phone at Lamar Advertising Co., which owns one
of the billboards, labeled the act vandalism and said the display was
being removed. She did not provide her name.

Clear Channel Outdoor, which owns another sign that was affected, said
they pulled the display immediately and plan to work with law
enforcement to punish whoever is responsible.

"We condemn the destructive behavior against one of our billboards
because it is illegal and punishes our advertisers," Clear Channel
Outdoor spokesman Jim Cullinan said in a statement. "This is not an
innocent protest, but it is illegal and dangerous behavior that Clear
Channel Outdoor and the industry will not accept."

“And what happens when the next such "stunt" involves a real person -
perhaps someone depressed enough to copycat what they saw on the 5
o'clock news? More importantly, what happens if a depressed jobless
person takes their life but first takes out some of those he thinks are
responsible for his plight - say Wall Streeters?”

Sane people don’t do things like that; it’s the insane ones that go around killing totally immaterial people like Sikhs, batman moviegoers or children on vacation.

wrote in message
...
“And what happens when the next such "stunt" involves a real person -
perhaps someone depressed enough to copycat what they saw on the 5
o'clock news? More importantly, what happens if a depressed jobless
person takes their life but first takes out some of those he thinks are
responsible for his plight - say Wall Streeters?”

Sane people don’t do things like that; it’s the insane ones that go around
killing totally immaterial people like Sikhs, batman moviegoers or children
on vacation.

****

What, you never go the speech, "If Johnny went out and jumped off a cliff,
would you, too?"?

Maroon.

Steve

"Mr. Bill" wrote in :

Still watching you (the USA) swirl around the toilet bowl as you go
down.

Nice bill-boards you're putting up for yourselves...

=========================

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/occupi...eet-dying-work


Sounds like you enjoyed bringing that to a posting. This shows there are
people just as ****ed up where you are.