{"id":44199,"date":"2014-08-06T16:19:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T22:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/lucky-doesnt-begin-to-describe-some-of-these-near-misses.html"},"modified":"2014-08-06T17:37:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T23:37:53","slug":"lucky-doesnt-begin-to-describe-some-of-these-near-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/lucky-doesnt-begin-to-describe-some-of-these-near-misses.html","title":{"rendered":"Lucky doesn&#39;t begin to describe some of these near misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Though a video like this always gives me mixed feelings, since it includes both:<\/p>\n<p>1. People who were really lucky that their asinine behavior didn&#39;t lead to their own (or others&#39;) injury or death.<\/p>\n<p>2. People who were really lucky that others&#39; asinine behavior (or sometimes just random occurrences) didn&#39;t lead to their injury or death.<\/p>\n<p>People who fall into category 1 will, I hope, devote themselves in thanksgiving to a life of service and contemplation and (preferably) celibacy.<\/p>\n<p>(Special Category 2 shout-out to the race car driver who casually re-adjusts his mirror at around <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/h-v0fG2Pvp0?t=3m00s\">3:00<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h-v0fG2Pvp0' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/g23CD6KPfHn' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though a video like this always gives me mixed feelings, since it includes both: 1. People who were really lucky that their asinine behavior didn&#39;t lead to their own (or others&#39;) injury or death. 2. People who were really lucky that others&#39; asinine behavior (or sometimes just random occurrences) didn&#39;t lead to their injury or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/lucky-doesnt-begin-to-describe-some-of-these-near-misses.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lucky doesn&#39;t begin to describe some of these near misses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137415,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/asinine-prank-may-trigger-discipline.html","url_meta":{"origin":44199,"position":0},"title":"Asinine prank &#8220;may&#8221; trigger discipline?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-18 11:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's hard to believe that theft of Air Force's mascot, which led to injuries of the gyrfalcon's wings to the extent there was concern she might need to be euthanized, wouldn't \"trigger discipline.\"\u275d Aurora, a 22-year-old rare gyrfalcon, was injured over the weekend when she and another falcon were stolen,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29885,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/asinine-news-commentary-exchange-of-the-week.html","url_meta":{"origin":44199,"position":1},"title":"Asinine &quot;news&quot; commentary exchange of the week","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Aug-12 12:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So, of course, it's almost inevitable that it was on \"Fox & Friends\" and included Geraldo Rivera.Words fail me, the idiocy on display here. 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Anti-Abortion New York Billboard: \u201cThe Most Dangerous Place For An African American Is In The Womb\u201d - It's an asinine billboard to put up ... but free speech protects the asinine, too. An Update\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136387,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/carbon-monitoring-we-don-need-no-steekin-carbon-monitoring.html","url_meta":{"origin":44199,"position":4},"title":"Carbon monitoring? We don&#8217; need no steekin&#8217; carbon monitoring!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-May-18 11:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/18965459\/status\/994919129470521344 Another day, another asinine, short-sighted, we'll-all-regret-this anti-science move by Trump & Co. 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