Bringing new significance to the term "vicious cycle" a 65 year old Novi, Michigan woman robbed a gas station in order to buy gasoline (story here). Anna May Kwasny never had a criminal history before so she kept things simple. Using a toy gun she robbed one gas station and then drove three miles to another station so she could pay for gas there. She could have stolen both gas and money at her first stop but I suppose she didn't want to appear too greedy her first time out.
Baby steps, baby steps.
As prices rise for the life's blood of America's highways, I expect more exemplary behavior to blossom. Perhaps one day we will be blessed with a world in which gasoline is more precious than life, and Mel Gibson wanders the highways as fearsome road warrior. Oh sorry, I had a late night last night and I fell asleep while watching the SciFi Channel.
Sadly I know the truth. When humans are forced into a difficult situation two forces usually come into play. They can either succumb to their baser instincts and give in to panic and selfish action or they may just tap into that blasted creative problem-solving mode built into them by their Creator. They are both their best and worst while mired in a crisis. Time and time again I've seen it. Crops fail so they invent irrigation. Diseases strike and they develop medicines. Resources dwindle so they develop NEW resources and new ways to more efficiently use OLD resources. They're harder to kill off than cockroaches, and I LIKE cockroaches. So Armageddon is still on the predicted schedule, ho-hum. However if we can continue to spread the panic we may be able to cause as much harm as inhumanly possible.
Heading beyond Thunderdome,
Brackish
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