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Add to NewsvineA 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
posted by
Rod Dreher
@ 7:01pm
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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"...
Posted by: Rod Dreher | May 16, 2008 11:21 PM
Rod, you really, really need to read some "Pearls Before Swine." :)
Posted by: Erin Manning | May 16, 2008 11:34 PM
perhaps there is a God after all...
Posted by: godisaheretic | May 17, 2008 1:31 AM
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?
Posted by: Franklin Evans | May 19, 2008 12:39 PM
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.
Posted by: hattio | May 19, 2008 8:33 PM
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