| | bull shit...
There was an interesting article in the news today about a bull - - for
the first time in Mexican bullfighting history JUMPING the ring, and
going mad in the stands. Fortunately it only injured two
people (non-fatally) before, to the horror of 1000s of observing Vegans
and PETA members, it was put to sleep forcibly. (*Hey, ever see a bunch of
Mexicans haul ass so quickly???)
In all honesty, I don't get bullfighting, but I can tell you a story
about a man I much came to admire. He was neither Mexican,
nor did he fight bulls. He was however, relatively low
class, white and fought buses. No, I'm not kidding...
buses as in public transportation.
Now at first, this might sound silly, but he did it, and made money,
usually in settlements of about $10,000 at a time from the local public
transportation company.
Here in Japan, really big guys known as sumo wrestlers fight each
other. In other parts of the world people box, wrestle,
kick and beat the shit out
of each other in all sorts of competitive ways, but as for
formidable oponents, buses are as big as you can get.
You just can't take on a bus (or in that case an airplane or deisel
truck) and win - - not unless you have a really really really good
method and are a well trained professional. And it is for this
reason that I think this guy was dealt an unfair blow in life when he
finally got 15 years due to "insurance fraud".
Instead of
being incarcerated, a new sport should have been created in his
name, Olympiad Bus Dodging, and he should have been given a productive
job as a coach. -
- Slip and fall at 2:00 in the morning on some old ladies front
curb when there is no
wittnesses may be cowardly... but allowing oneself to get broadsided by
a bus intentionally in my humble opinion represents true skill and
bravery. My hat goes of to this bold little felon, wherever
he is today. And that leads me to another Mexico related
story in the News.
Apparently the biggest drug smuggling tunel of all time was discovered
leading from a factory somewhere past the border in Mexico, to a
factory somewhere in San Diego. The thing that really
amazed me about it was that it actually makes the premise to Hogan's
Heroes seem more credible. And for that, I will be ever
in dept to these bold drug smugglers, who incidentally were smuggling
Marijuana... something, that if legal could easily been grown
domestically in anybody's own backyard. Hmmmmmm, how
strange. The U.S. wants to make it hard for Mexicans who want to
support their families to sneak
into the U.S. to find cheap paying jobs (that few American's) want anyway, but at the same time, have laws that deprive
many other young Americans from engaging in certain types of
potentially harmless entrepreneurial and agricultural work of their
own. My conclusion : who needs pot to make people lazy... Why not just ban
work altogether ???
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