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Trivial Pursuits => History => Topic started by: Golfhaus on October 19, 2007, 10:17:30 pm

Title: Grandma smashes up Comcast office with a hammer
Post by: Golfhaus on October 19, 2007, 10:17:30 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702359.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702359.html)

Interesting discussion on MeFi (http://www.metafilter.com/65695/If-I-had-a-hammer), where I found this. Mostly centering around this question: Would the media have found this story so funny-ha-ha if the person of interest was a man? What if he was a black man?

Title: Re: Grandma smashes up Comcast office with a hammer
Post by: Arachno-capitalist on October 20, 2007, 01:58:32 am

Quote from: Asherdan on October 19, 2007, 11:02:20 pm

If it ain't obvious I'm basing my opinion on the fact that we're basically a society that wants a good show.

Fox will pick this up as a weekly series of old women seeking vigilante justice on big corporations. Next week: Grandma in Wheelchair Torches AOL Office.

Title: Re: Grandma smashes up Comcast office with a hammer
Post by: jaydub on October 22, 2007, 05:03:47 pm

Quote from: Asherdan on October 19, 2007, 11:02:20 pm

If it ain't obvious I'm basing my opinion on the fact that we're basically a society that wants a good show.

It ain't just us.  Pretty much anyone from the Romans to the Bushmen to the Tuvan Throat Whistlers likes slapstick, mayhem and bare ass-cheeks getting smacked.  Its part of our shared humanity.

Title: Re: Grandma smashes up Comcast office with a hammer
Post by: Carlos del Vaca on October 22, 2007, 05:54:25 pm

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."  --Mel Brooks