A rich Texas ambulance-chasing lawyer is in critical condition after a fire engine with sirens blazing plowed into his Bentley today in Dallas. I hope he recovers fully, if only so we can all appreciate the irony in good conscience.
Ambulance chaser meets ugly with ambulance
Friday May 16, 2008
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I had thought this might spark commentary on the ambiguous nature of humor. If the guy lives,and avoids serious injury, it's funny, in the end. If he dies, or is left seriously hurt, it's not. Except possibly after enough time, and with enough emotional distance. What did Alan Alda's character say in Crimes & Misdemeanors? "Comedy = tragedy + time."
Then again, I laughed like hell at "Jackass"...
Rod, you really, really need to read some "Pearls Before Swine." :)
perhaps there is a God after all...
If the official determination is that Mr. Loncar failed to yield to an emergency vehicle, then the people in the third car (woman and children) should sue him for damages and injury. Also, the city should sue him for the damage to the fire truck.
There is no excuse for interfering with emergency responders. The extent of his injuries should not be cause to excuse him. If we are expected to offer him sympathy, where does that put us in offering it to the woman and children, or to those whose lives or injuries might have been saved or prevented if the fire truck had not had the accident?
I am not a conservative. But, laughing at the misfortunes of your enemies, or categories of people you see as enemies, is unfortunately not limited to conservatives or liberals...and neither is a tendency to try and remind those people of our shared humanity.
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