Stupid Rays

I forgot to put this in at the top of the other post, so I decided to just put it in as a separate entry.

Way back when, when I used to on the road a lot I noticed that people literally seemed to be getting to be worse and worse drivers, literally from day to day. The decline was that steep. So finally I got out of that whole line of work, not just for that reason, but that was part of it.

Well, so I thought to myself that this decline would have to level off somewhere or else people would literally be driving into trees and things for no apparent reason. As it turns out this actually seems to be happening however.

But anyway, what caught my eye was that I noticed when there was a big propaganda push on by the government for something to do with how bad Iraq is before the war supposedly started, I noticed that it seemed like people's driving got worse even faster. Someone I know was identified to me as suddenly getting to be a much worse driver, apparently almost over night. Then when the propaganda died down a little bit, this person's driving seemed to improve, when it got ratcheted back up, the driving went down again. And not just for this one person. It seemed to be a kind of general phenomenon.

So I jokingly thought that we were all being shot by stupid rays when they wanted to hit us with some propaganda, maybe to soften people up or something, and it had the unfortunate side effect of rendering people unable to drive correctly.

So In a way I still kind of half regard that as a joke, but the more I see the more I start to wonder.

So anyway recently it has come to my attention that people in a certain region of the country have all apparently suddenly forgotten how to swim, or at least how to float.

So here we have June 6, boy drowns
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/06/06/boy_3_drowns_his_twin_rescued/

It was the third drowning in three days, the article says.

And here is another, apparently from June 7, some other person drowns
http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2005/06/07/news/news/news01.txt

Here we have June 9, five people have drowned in 5 days it says
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=100931

I just heard of another one on TV but I am not going to bother hunting up a link for it. Suffice it to say people are drowning left and right.

Why? The water has been around for a pretty long time. People in general have been living near water since the dawn of time. Some of these people are drowning in water they could virtually stand up in. So how to account for this?

Maybe they are being hit by a different kind of stupid ray, instead of making people drive their cars into crowds of children on the sidewalk or houses, it makes them forget how to swim, or makes them forget that they don't know how to swim, or some fool thing like that.

Ever notice how recently it seems like instead of having one obscure freak accident, we'll get several, like instead of one plane crash landing in a field or on a road, we get like 4 or 5 over the course of a couple of weeks. Why is that? Copycat "accidents"? Copycat drownings?

Maybe. Who knows. Just something to think about.