Ravenwood - 08/18/03 12:35 PM
The AP reports on a Darwin candidate that was killed while working on an amusement park ride. The worker was lubricating the ride when his long hair became tangled in one of the cars. He was lifted 25 to 40 feet into the air, before being "scalped" and falling back to mother Earth. If the scalping didn't kill him, the sudden impact with a fence surely did.
While I don't usually poke fun at someone's unfortunate demise (unless they were really asking for it), I always roll my eyes whenever I see lines like this in a news story:
[Sheriff's spokesman Jan] Smith said grief counselors were on hand but that the fair continued after the incident.Yes, grief counselors. Yet another sissification of America.
Category: Schadenfreude
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The point of grief counselors is that there's nothing that isn't planned for. The authorities are in charge of everything. It's sort of like a comprehensive set of regulations that serve to prove that the regulators are not at fault for whatever happens. Somebody violated a rule. Dying is the same sort of thing. It looks bad. But we handle it, everything's under control. I don't think there's actual grief or that it's counseled. Or you could say that the grief counselors are for the authority's grief, mostly, putting what has escaped for a moment back into a regulated system. Sissification happens only insofar as people don't make fun of them.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at August 18, 2003 3:26 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
