Friday, March 20, 2009

Getting Naked

Today I was looking around the internet, and I ran into more stories of, for lack of a better word, idiots. In Denver, the manager of a Blackjack Pizza came into work to an idiot hanging above his oven. When he went into the kitchen he saw a man's legs hanging from the vents and cries of "Help me, Help me". The man had tried to break in a became stuck. When the manager found him he had been stuck for around six hours. As if getting stuck trying rob a store is not bad enough, when the firefighters were removing the man from the vent (which took half an hour), in order to get him out they had to remove his clothes, furthering his embarrassment. What must have this guy been thinking when he decided to try and go in through the vent? If the guy from Mission Impossible can barely get away with a vent robbery, I am surely not going to try it. In another incident, an Aurora electrician was staying in Steamboat Springs at a restaurant he was working on. When he found himself locked outside of the restaurant, which had not yet opened for business, he decided to try and go in through the vent. This man was not as lucky to be stripped down and embarrassed, he died in the vent and was found asphyxiated the next morning by his co-workers. What I don't understand is that there were two others who were in the restaurant, I'm sure if he had knocked loud enough, one of them would have heard his knocking. Plus, what are the chances that neither of the two others had a cell phone, call one of them until they answer.
In another story, a strip club in Providence RI is choosing to hold a job fair. The club manager is claiming that business is good, and people are still willing to pay for drinks and lap dances despite the economy. He is hoping to recruit about 30 more employees. This whole situation seems a little backwards to me. Men are always going to want to see naked women, there is no denying this. Regardless of how bad the economy is, a recession cannot get to a man's libido. And in tough economic times, I thought stripping was a sort of job one turns to when they have no money or are out of work. With the unemployment rate above 10 percent in Rhode Island, why is it then a strip club manager is worrying about whether or not he will have employees, instead of whether or not he will have customers.

Question of the Blog: How bad would your financial situation have to get before you took a job as a stripper?

Blackjack Thief:
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_11958219

Dumb Electrician:
http://cbs4denver.com/local/electrician.vent.stuck.2.963577.html

Backward Job Fair:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29791612?GT1=43001

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