Chopping Block, Ep. 4 ---- The First Blameless Society

I am sorry to say that we belong to a generation of idiots. Can you believe at this very moment somebody is figuring a new way to leech money out of the government? Worst part is, that we as the rest of society have to put up with it. Not in monetary terms.
Easy case in point. CD cases. Can you believe at one point in time they didn't put plastic wrap on CD cases? I think this goes back to vinyl records even. Yeah, they were open to the public, you could sample the real record before you buy it. Not now of course. Let me tell you how this happened.
Some guy named Joe Schmo who has been around the petty theft block the few times finds himself in a record store where he can easily steal the tapes and vinyls by stuffing them in his big coatpockets. People would come up to the counter complaining their tapes are gone, the records in the vinyl...missing, and the owner gets pissed. Joe Schmo is eventually caught in the process and he goes to trial. In trial he is asked why he stole all this music, why he couldn't stop.
What did he say?
"Because nothing was there to stop me."
Holy shit, every lawyer shrugged and said "he's right, you know" and Joe Schmo walks. The record producers now have to put stickers and plastic wrap on every product so nobody is tempted into stealing. Now we have to deal with it. Those huge machines at Wal-Mart, with a bar-code scanner so you could sample the CD without buying it. Those cost a ton of money to develop, which came from your dad's and my dad's pockets. It doesn't stop there.
The hot coffee case comes to mind. This is mind boggling, a woman goes into McDonalds, and buys a cup of coffee. In a restaurant, they are supposed to keep coffee at a blistering temperature. This is standard so no bacteria can grow in this coffee. That sounds perfectly reasonable, and I'm willing to take five and wait for my coffee to cool down. This lady spills it on herself and gets, like, second degree burns. She takes it to court, complaining there was no "WARNING! HOT COFFEE" label on her coffee cup, there was nothing warning her that her coffee is hot. Isn't that why it's called coffee?! It's supposed to be fucking hot! Maybe if she ordered an iced coffee and it came back absolutely hot, I'd go back and say "sorry, I ordered an iced coffee, there must be some kind of mistake." But no. I think she spilled it on herself, knowing she could get something from this.
She did.
About two million dollars worth. Because there wasn't a label telling her the obvious.

Jeez. Just because there isn't a label saying you shouldn't stick a fork in a toaster because you are going to be shocked...doesn't mean you should do it anyways. We are basically paying for it. Ink isn't cheap. Neither is plastic wrap. We even have to pay the guys who work at the recycling plants.

Don't think you are doing something good for the environment because your cardboard coffee coaster is made from recycled paper, either. You are going to throw it in the trash, where it goes to a landfill. There goes that, huh? I guess you have to have idiots to see the intelligent people....like me. Haha.

Back on subject.
These people are making the rest of us look like idiots. I don't blame them. I'm sure any one of you would take a few volts from your toaster to get an easy million...or six. But still, shouldn't intelligence be ahead of greed? Somewhere, right now, somebody is doing something even the reality show producers would gawk at. Just because nobody said they can't.
Hello, isn't that called a conscience?
These people put aside their need to make an honest dollar and live life like anyone else to do something that's going to get them in the news, and it's going to get them a lot of money.
Sound oddly similar?
Criminals do that too. So yes. You do know what I am saying now don't you!
These people are stealing from us. They aren't breaking into your house, they aren't taking your girlfriend from you, but you can bet your flat-screen TV you worked two years to have they are stealing from us. Our government is losing money because there's a new loophole somebody finds and puts to use. Granted, the war isn't helping either, neither is our new president's whackjob ideas to jumpstart the economy.
But still, imagine what six million dollars could have done elsewhere. Bullets, guns, that's half an Abrams tank. Six million is enough business loans to start off a whole bunch of entrepreneurs who will eventually bring us out of this mess. But no.
Alas, there is some idiot with a couple Ferrari's, a 100,000 square foot mansion, with a maze and swimming pool, entertaining scores of women with that six mill...because he stuck a fork in a toaster while it was on.

How many lawyers are willing to make that fast a buck?
we should pay them double their fees to not take the case and just throw the idiots in jail.
I mean, 120,000 dollars to the lawyers is better than 6 million towards the bonehead willing to zap himself.