Do we really need more drama?

What happens when a horrible thing happens to one part of the country? People get jealous of the attention and start causing their own little dramas, that's what.

Take for example 9/11. New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC were the targets.

This left a lot of people out of the drama loop, so they had to create their own with e-mail hoaxes, gas rationing (my sister in podunk Goshen, Indiana, a REAL terrorist target because of all the Amish food) reported that people were paying 10 bucks a gallon for gas. Why? Who knows. The local paper found someone from the area that now lived in Florida, who worked at a beauty salon where two of the terrorists got their hair cut. She never actually cut their hair, she was the receptionist. A week after the terrorist attack, she realized who they were and called her mom who asked "are you ok?" Um, why wouldn't she be ok? My late father use to call this phenomena "the Michiana connection".

Local newscasters would find someone that had seen a picture of the world trade center at the library, and report the ominous connection they had to the terrorist attack.

Hurricane Katrina is not immune. Sure, there are already TONS of humane and animal suffering going on, but now I'm getting deluged with OH MY GAWD I JUST HEARD THAT ALL PETS ARE BEING SHOT (or euthanized, or drowned, or name gruesome death here) BY (insert reputable organization here).

Yep, that really makes the donation roll in. Reputable organization kills all animals... I can hear the phones ringing with people throwing money their way. Don't think so.

Food lobbyists have also gotten into the act, slandering the good work of rescue organizations. I have no idea what this has to do with food, other than the food lobbyists don't seem to be trucking semis full of food to help anyone, just sitting in front of a computer and bitching about a rescue organization getting money to help out. An organization that is actually down there... doing something... not finishing off a donut in their cushy window office.

I don't know what is worse, the morons that make this crap up, or the morons that believe it and spread it around as truth. A friend of a friend of a friend of an old acquaintance that I knew through my great uncle said...

Throw a known name into the mix and it makes the lie doubly true, but you can still smell the crap and know what it is... apparently not everyone can do that.

Hey, I have the Neiman Marcus $1,250 cookie recipe... want it? I'll give it to you for 50 bucks and donate all proceeds to Hurricane relief, but not to that reputable organization that is killing animals faster than they can get ahold of them.

Come on people, why bother going down there in the first place? If you were going to euth them, just sit in your office, no need to waste precious donations actually GOING there to put them to sleep, just let them suffer and drown, same thing isn't it, but a lot cheaper.

good lord, society is scary.