Rampant Exclamations

Here’s a few items from the WTF? pile I happened to stumble upon this week.  And no, I didn’t actually use StumbleUpon, I do my own internet detective work thank you very much.  With a little help from Watson, of course.  This week I’ve decided to stick with the theme of completely idiotic things I read about, instead of the normal doses of Awesome. 

• In California, a man driving a motorcycle on the highway was carrying a laptop bag full of cash for an unspecified reason.  So, of course, the bag flew open and spilled cash all over the highway, causing cars to stop in the middle of traffic as the people grabbed at the lost bills.  Good citizens they were, they all fled when the police arrived.  I have no idea why this moron carried a laptop bag full of cash and hung it loosely on the side of his motorcycle hoping nothing bad would happen to it, but I just assume this was karma’s way of punishing him for knocking over that convenience store two towns over.
• Want a new and exciting way to get fired that will have the Internet buzzing by sundown?  Have cybersex on the company dime!  And as an online video game GM, no less.  Apparently patrolling Conan’s new game for reported offenses wasn’t enough of a thrill for this guy, so he accepted an offer to cybersex with one of the players.  A couple things to note: 1) The GM was a straight male; 2) The player was playing a male avatar, but said she was a girl in real life, but turned out to be fucking with him and was really a dude; 3) The guy was SO FIRED with the quickness.  I know you’re thinking it, so I’ll just say it: that GM was confused by a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.  Oh Tropic Thunder, I haven’t even seen you and I know I love you.
• This last one was supposed to be about how screwed up China is for giving the world fakeass CGI fireworks during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics, but I just don’t know anymore.  On first read it seems like China was trying to trick everyone into thinking their city wasn’t a barren smoggy wasteland where even the brightest explosions couldn’t penetrate its thick pollution membrane, and I was perfectly content with that assessment and should have left it at that.  Alas, I broke all Internet blogging protocols and actually researched it at different sources for 5 minutes, and now it seems they just did it on SOME of the shots they wouldn’t be able to get because it’s a No-Fly Zone so no helicopters would be able to get the angles they wanted.  I no longer know whether to be outraged or just not care.  Did any of you watch the Opening Ceremonies?  Does this make you feel lied to and manipulated?  Is this prom night at your uncle’s cabin all over again?

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