Think your day is going bad? Well here's a little perspective to make you feel better.
"Holy crap!" Somebody get me a pen!" Who says American teenagers are self-centered? Who says America's young people are lacking empathy? Who says contemporary collegians have forgotten how to write?
Certainly not the emergency room medical staff at St. Lukes Hospital in Tempe, Arizona, where some Arizona State University frat brothers recently distinguished themselves with an impressive display of humanistic responsibility and written communication skills that may have just saved one of their friends his life.
How?
By anonymously dumping their "having-a-Bad Day" buddy in an emergency room wheelchair with a Post-It note stuck on him explaining that his lack of consciousness and dwindling pulse rate might have something to do with the 20 shots of tequila he had just ingested.
See? Neighbor looking out for neighbor. The leaders of tomorrow. This is why the terrorists will never win.
Certainly not the emergency room medical staff at St. Lukes Hospital in Tempe, Arizona, where some Arizona State University frat brothers recently distinguished themselves with an impressive display of humanistic responsibility and written communication skills that may have just saved one of their friends his life.
How?
By anonymously dumping their "having-a-Bad Day" buddy in an emergency room wheelchair with a Post-It note stuck on him explaining that his lack of consciousness and dwindling pulse rate might have something to do with the 20 shots of tequila he had just ingested.
See? Neighbor looking out for neighbor. The leaders of tomorrow. This is why the terrorists will never win.
"Stay back. NYPD Crime scene." Now..., switching to a Bad Day scenario that involves some slightly less heroic behavior (but is no less entertaining), we come to the case of one Amanda Bynes, who once upon a time was considered an actress/celebrity, but more frequently these days is regarded mainly as a train wreck.
...Like that never happens with former child stars.
Bynes is making court appearance headlines this week after she was arrested in NYC for reckless endangerment. Specifically: for throwing a bong out the 36th story window of her high rise apartment. Seems the cops came a knockin' on her door after the apartment building management called to complain that the former child star had been rolling joints and smoking weed in the lobby of her building. Bynes allowed the officers into her smoke filled apartment whereupon a delayed reaction moment of paranoid clarity ensued, whereupon further, she is alleged to have picked up a bong that was sitting on her kitchen counter, and throwing it out the window...an act that she apparently was hoping wouldn't strike the two police officers standing in front of her as odd, because, you know, ...it's New York.
She further claimed that it wasn't a bong, it was a "vase". Again, apparently hoping to skate by on the oft used "Hey, everybody throws vases out their windows here in New York" argument.
The police were not impressed.
A street level search for the marijuana missile turned up no bong, a fact that Bynes is claiming proves her innocence. However, civil authorities are continuing to press their prosecution, reasoning that because it was a loaded bong, and in fact, "It's New York", it was probably snatched out of mid air, stolen, and smoked before it ever hit the ground.
...Like that never happens with former child stars.
Bynes is making court appearance headlines this week after she was arrested in NYC for reckless endangerment. Specifically: for throwing a bong out the 36th story window of her high rise apartment. Seems the cops came a knockin' on her door after the apartment building management called to complain that the former child star had been rolling joints and smoking weed in the lobby of her building. Bynes allowed the officers into her smoke filled apartment whereupon a delayed reaction moment of paranoid clarity ensued, whereupon further, she is alleged to have picked up a bong that was sitting on her kitchen counter, and throwing it out the window...an act that she apparently was hoping wouldn't strike the two police officers standing in front of her as odd, because, you know, ...it's New York.
She further claimed that it wasn't a bong, it was a "vase". Again, apparently hoping to skate by on the oft used "Hey, everybody throws vases out their windows here in New York" argument.
The police were not impressed.
A street level search for the marijuana missile turned up no bong, a fact that Bynes is claiming proves her innocence. However, civil authorities are continuing to press their prosecution, reasoning that because it was a loaded bong, and in fact, "It's New York", it was probably snatched out of mid air, stolen, and smoked before it ever hit the ground.
"Waiter! Check please!" And what Bad Day chronicle would be complete without yet another story about a bunch of American tourists getting themselves stranded on an Iceland iceberg...While sitting around a dinner table?
As ABC News reports, the near tragedy occurred (near tragic because dessert was for all intents and purposes...RUINED!) when an two adventurous bon vivant couples set up a dinner table on a portion of Icelandic glacier in the Fjallsarlon glacial lagoon, in an apparent attempt to illustrate to the world just how FABULOUS they were.
Unfortunately for them, Mother Nature returned the gesture by illustrating how fabulous SHE is, by providing a sudden gust of arctic wind strong enough to break off the patch of glacier they were grandstanding on, sending it floating off into the lagoon.
One of the attendees managed to leap to shore just in time, and was able to summon help. All three of the stranded diners were eventually rescued.
No injuries were reported. However, Kielbasablog has learned that two of the group are reportedly showing symptoms of PTSD, directly as a result of the event. According to sources, the psychological trauma occurred when the threesome ran out of safe small-talk dinner topics, and one diner attempted to salvage the conversation by mentioning that he was a personal financial planner and detailing the advantages of investing in fixed rate annuities. He also openly admitted to having a poster of Mitt Romney on his bedroom wall, a disclosure which resulted in a brutally prolonged and awkward silence.
Confided one of the victims, "At that moment, I was praying for a Polar Bear to come and eat me."
As ABC News reports, the near tragedy occurred (near tragic because dessert was for all intents and purposes...RUINED!) when an two adventurous bon vivant couples set up a dinner table on a portion of Icelandic glacier in the Fjallsarlon glacial lagoon, in an apparent attempt to illustrate to the world just how FABULOUS they were.
Unfortunately for them, Mother Nature returned the gesture by illustrating how fabulous SHE is, by providing a sudden gust of arctic wind strong enough to break off the patch of glacier they were grandstanding on, sending it floating off into the lagoon.
One of the attendees managed to leap to shore just in time, and was able to summon help. All three of the stranded diners were eventually rescued.
No injuries were reported. However, Kielbasablog has learned that two of the group are reportedly showing symptoms of PTSD, directly as a result of the event. According to sources, the psychological trauma occurred when the threesome ran out of safe small-talk dinner topics, and one diner attempted to salvage the conversation by mentioning that he was a personal financial planner and detailing the advantages of investing in fixed rate annuities. He also openly admitted to having a poster of Mitt Romney on his bedroom wall, a disclosure which resulted in a brutally prolonged and awkward silence.
Confided one of the victims, "At that moment, I was praying for a Polar Bear to come and eat me."
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