For those who don't read Yahoo often..

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For those who don't read Yahoo often..

Post by Vathral » Wed Nov 17, 2010 8:45 pm

I gotta admit, this made me lol, so hard. Great work America, It makes me proud that a lot of these people probably have more things than I do, yet are just so dumb.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookou ... -it-happen

If the Science Guy passes out and nobody tweets it, did it happen?
By Brett Michael Dykes

Last night in front of an audience of hundreds at a presentation at the University of Southern California, TV personality Bill Nye — popularly known as the "Science Guy" — collapsed midsentence as he walked toward a podium. Early indications are that Nye is OK, but what's odd about the incident isn't so much Nye's slight health setback as the crowd's reaction. Or, more precisely, its nonreaction, according to several accounts.

It appears that the students in attendance, rather than getting up from their seats to rush to Nye's aid, instead pulled out their mobile devices to post information about Nye's loss of consciousness.

Alastair Fairbanks, a USC senior in attendance for Nye's presentation, told the Los Angeles Times that "nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed — that just perplexed me beyond reason." The student added, "Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening."

Indeed, a cursory search on Twitter revealed a virtual play-by-play account of the incident. One student wrote, "Bill Nye tripped on his computer cord while speaking at USC, was out for abt 5 secs, got back up, spoke w/ slurred speech and fainted."

According to the school's student news outlet, the Daily Trojan, Nye asked, "What happened? How long was I out?" when he regained consciousness. Briskly picking up his humorous persona, he added, "Wow, that was crazy. I feel like Lady Gaga or something." Nye's publicity team didn't immediately respond to The Lookout's request for comment on the episode.

Still, in the annals of the digital public's civic indifference, the Nye incident is nowhere near as disturbing as another episode reported in New Orleans earlier this week, which oddly enough also involved a humorist. Anthony Barre, a New Orleans man popular for his acid-tongued comic performances on YouTube using the handle "Messy Mya," was murdered on the streets of the city's 7th Ward — the historically Creole neighborhood chronicled in the HBO series "Treme." As he lay dying, witnesses at the scene took to the Internet to chronicle the tragedy in real time, even posting photos of his body lying in a pool of blood.

Here's how the Times-Picayune's Brendan McCarthy described the incident:

Moments after gunshots roared through the 7th Ward on Sunday night, a lone snapshot appeared on the Internet.

In it, a 22-year-old man is lying cheek to the ground, crimson pooling around his neck. His eyes are closed, his torso curled.

Chaos explodes around him, with the arms of others pressed to the back of his head. And someone is holding a cell phone just inches from his face.

This is how the world learned of Messy Mya's death.

Prior to this week's episodes, perhaps the best-known incident of youthful digital passivity in the face of danger was the September 2007 tasing of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer at a speech delivered by Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry. That episode immortalized the expression "Don't tase me, bro!" The crowd of onlookers trying to capture the encounter on their cellphone cameras later prompted Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert to imagine the internal monologue of a bored-looking kid seated next to Meyer thusly: "He's thinking, 'I wish they'd stop tasing this guy, so I can get home and watch him being tased on YouTube.' "

(Photo of Nye: AP/Michael O'Koniewski)
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Re: For those who don't read Yahoo often..

Post by Sukitama » Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:09 pm

I have to say that this whole thing made me laugh. It's hilarious how extreme the bystander effect and plain stupidity have become in this world.

I will also say that the "Don't tase me, bro!" was the single most funny thing in the world.
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Re: For those who don't read Yahoo often..

Post by Onnux » Thu Nov 18, 2010 6:59 pm

So i had this great post i typed but lost it because i was doing this at my job lol. So here goes a short version.

Most people are just zombies. When things are out of the norm they don't know how to handle it so they keep doing what they do normally. I work in retail at staples and the general public just amazes me. I get people that walk by the product then ask where that product is. We get people that say we put viruses on the computer they had us checking out when they clearly surf porn and caused the infections.

We had a angry chinese man that wanted to return a laminator that was outside of the return policy that kept screaming I WANT TO RETURN! Then smashed it on the floor after we refused. About 7 customers stood there in shock one guy told the cashier he wasn't moving till it was over because he wanted to see what would happen next.

Everyone is to busy and caught up in the technology today to be bothered with helping out your fellow man. It is really sad.
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