Another Sample Question and Two Amazing News Stories.

As of now eligible participants for the contest starting at 7 AM Pacific Daylight Time on June 15, 2009 right here on The Dahn Report are Dona, Pat, DR, and Kaye. In order to be an eligible participant for the “what do these three things have in common” contest you must post a message anywhere on The Dahn Report between now and when the contest starts. Yesterday’s sample question was “what do car tires, crops, and a roasting pig have in common?" They all are rotated. Between now and when the contest starts I will be posting sample questions for you to cut your teeth on. I won’t be posting sample questions everyday but once in a while there will be a question either at the beginning or end of the blog post. Today’s sample question? What do McDonald’s, St. Louis, and a foot have in common?

There were a couple of stories on the news last night that just had me shaking my head and asking the question, “how could people be that dumb?”. First up is a young couple playing a version of strip poker. They weren’t using a deck of cards, however, they were using rocks. Rocks thrown from an overpass down on to cars traveling on Interstate 5. Every time one of their rocks hit a car, a piece of clothing would be removed. In all before they were caught and arrested fourteen cars were hit and several people were injured. When caught the girl was down to her underwear. The two twenty year-olds are now facing several years in prison. They just didn’t think throwing rocks off of an overpass on to a moving car would hurt anyone. Doesn’t that just make you shake your head?

Another how dumb can they be story? A family got home from McDonalds. The youngest child’s happy meal didn’t have an orange juice in it. The oldest brother went back to the McDonalds who then refused to give the brother the missing orange juice or refund their money. So what did the twenty year-old brother do? He called 911. What did the McDonald’s employee do? Called 911. Who spent the night in jail? The oldest brother for making a non-emergency call to 911. There is so much wrong with this story that it just boggles the mind. Come on McDonalds have you ever heard the words “customer service”? How damn difficult would it have been and how costly would it have been to give the customer an orange juice? Come on oldest brother, just leave the damn store and don’t go back there. Maybe call the manager the next day. But to tie up 911? Even a twenty year-old shouldn’t be that stupid. What makes the story even more troubling is the family of the oldest brother doesn’t think he did anything wrong because the McDonald’s employee told him to call 911. And the family is still patronizing that particular McDonalds. Doesn’t that just make you shake your head?

What do you think of these two stories? Do the two love birds playing strip rocks deserve to spend several years in jail? Did the oldest brother deserve a night in jail and maybe even more time in jail if he is convicted of the crime of calling 911 for a non-emergency?

And last but not least what do McDonalds, The City of St. Louis, and Feet have in common?