Sunday, April 26, 2015

RUPTLY stringer robbed during filming at Baltimore



They are all young. For the most part robbing is a young man's game. This reminded me of the videos of mobbing monkeys that steal food and cameras and purses and everything possible then split, in India and Gibraltar and other exotic places, and here Russians are filming our exotic species. She should know take care out in the wild like that. This is another of those live and learn things. Glad nobody was seriously hurt. And now you know.

Oh! Speaking of. See, in both cases what went wrong here is the observers taunted their subjects of study. That's bad. It's resented. It signals, "hit me." The little boy pounded his little chest, as you do, and the gorilla charged, as they do.

9 comments:

chickelit said...

This reminded me of the videos of mobbing monkeys that steal food and cameras and purses and everything possible then split...

According to Ann Althouse, you shouldn't do that, Chip:

And to use an animal to say something about a person...you are inviting trouble if you're using that animal to represent membership in a traditionally discriminated-against group. link.

Simian similes are foxes paws.

chickelit said...

The clip did remind me of the time that union brutes tried to grab Althouse's camera on the WI capitol steps and she yelled "help, police" before Meade the enforcer stepped in. I could find that clip if I were so inclined.

Chip Ahoy said...

Shame on me. And thus shamed how am I to recover? It's as bad as the gang mentality and robbery itself. When will I ever learn to just fall in line? It's nothing but trouble when I don't.

But you know what? We actually have such riots in Denver too. I've been hearing noise outside all night of the rioty sort. Sy-reens, helicopters and such. Could be festivities, could be sympathetic riots, could be veinticinco de Abril, who knows?

But there I am gone round and round and all tuckered out, stopped to get mail and found myself in the elevator at night alone with a large and imposing black man. He is waiting for me.

OH NO HE COULD RIOT ALL UP HERE MY ASS

Psych. He held the elevator door open. For me. He entre vous sil vou plaised me gracefully, entered, pushed the button, then leaned into the cabin wall and hunched over onto the hand rail. He is in pain. And here, I just gotta tell ya, I'm so ace at this, I show my complete mastery at vocalizing the obvious.

"Your back hurts."

"Yeah, I gotta lower scalateral" Or something like that. Some spinal disc something. It was killing him. I hate medical things. I mean, where do I go with a conversation like this, contribute to it? Let me tell you about three spinal taps under different names. First, a spinal tap under any name is still s spinal tap and no matter what they tell you about advances they hurt like m't'f'#$%2ers. But I DID start it so how do I pretend like I'm a caring person? #care isn't cutting it. He describes his pain. And it's a terrible thing.

"I thought you were going to walk fast to get out of your pain faster."

"Uh, yeah. huh."

"I expected you to look like Groucho Marx"

"What?"

"Walking humped over with his legs sticking straight out."

That takes a bit of athletics, actually. It's very good exercise. Try it. I do it with two canes for support so I go a little lower and I can feel it work all over. It firms the beau-tox.

But he didn't. He did not hasten ahead to lessen his pain. He matched his pace to mine. He wanted to walk with me. He wanted to ride up with me and he wanted to walk the length of the hallway. With me. He dropped me off at my door as gracefully as a man dropping off a date. He kissed me gently on the cheek and said goodnight. Psych again. That was a test to see if you're paying attention. He did no such thing. He simply continued to his apartment. But it was still so very odd, don't you think? That is my personal race relations in this city in this country. Whatever goes on over there in Baltimore and whatever they ignore in Washington.

Shouting Thomas said...

The major media, of course, will not report this event.

This is the larger story of why cops respond as the guy did in Ferguson.

The major media don't want you to know this. And, if you do notice, you're a racist.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...
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Eric the Fruit Bat said...

It's hard to believe that primates can grow to be so dangerous eating a strictly herbivorous diet.

bagoh20 said...

Most of the vegetarians I know are pretty vicious compared to their satiated carnivore friends.

ricpic said...

The choice is pretty stark: will the greater society accept chaos indefinitely or will it overcome its terror at being called RACISSS and reimpose law and order?

We know that Democrat controlled cities with large black populations will accept chaos indefinitely.

So I guess the question is when if ever The People rebel against The Government. Since the answer is already in and places like Detroit, Camden N.J., East St. Louis, most of Baltimore, most of Philadelphia, most of Newark are gone, gone forever, never to return to the safe, orderly state of civilization, the solution is separation.

Anne in Rockwall, TX said...

Chimpanzees and bonobos will eat meat. Antelope DNA has been found in great ape feces, but no one has ever shown that they will eat a duiker. However, they do eat a myriad of insects. Are ants and slugs meat?

Does catch a know what I am typing? I had to identify burgers.