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Rain Gryphon ([personal profile] rain_gryphon) wrote2012-07-23 01:59 pm
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Strange Near-Dooms

A modern-day Aeschylus - except it's at least 20% cooler when Greek gods and Eagles are the agents of misfortune, and not just the careless people who live on the sixth floor.

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A bit of an embarassment for ol' Iron Will.

The saddest thing about this is that there are people so incredibly stupid that they will actually give money to someone to talk them into jumping into a fire. And I very much doubt if it was a small sum of money. And this has been going on for 30 years.

[identity profile] loganberrybunny.livejournal.com 2012-07-23 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That may be the most serious news story that has appeared in the Daily Star this year...

[identity profile] xolo.livejournal.com 2012-07-23 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never claimed to be a high-minded sort :)

[identity profile] patch-bunny.livejournal.com 2012-07-24 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I dunno. Firewalking can be done safely. It's just physics. I'd give it a go if the chap running it knew what he was doing.