PROOF that SCs are blind!!

[Automan Empire]

There is a popular independent hamburger stand down the street from my shop. Recently, a car jumped the curb and smashed into the building, causing severe structural damage. The place is now not only closed, but red-tagged with large signs declaring UNSAFE STRUCTURE, DO NOT ENTER! There is a large tire-print on a caved-in brick wall, and two of the four support poles for the wooden overhang where you order/pickup are bent and folded over. The large wooden beam they hold up is split and splintered, and hanging down dangerously. There are two wooden benches smashed into smithereens, scattered across the area you'd stand to order, and the remaining benches are arranged as a barricade to this area, each festooned with a large TEMPORARILY CLOSED sign. On top of all this, there are several strings of yellow CAUTION tape, wrapped around the works. From all the way down the block, one can discern that the place AIN'T OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

So anyway, I was waiting for a traffic light, and I spot this numpty who has pulled into the usually crowded but now empty parking lot. He parked facing the caution tape and no less than six CLOSED signs. He got out and walked around the perimiter of the closed signs, staring intently at the menu board. Still looking at the menu board, he tried to pick his way through the caution tape, ducking under the splintered beam, trying to reach the holy grail of the ORDER HERE window, which was closed tight with yet another SORRY TEMPORARILY CLOSED sign smack in the middle of it. Watching his body language, I saw him slump in disappointment, then whirl and start walking away in obvious pissy disbelief that the place was NOT going to serve him food despite being on the verge of collapse!

It brightened my day that the hardworking immigrant owner, who is probably ruined now through no fault of his own, was not there to be yelled at by the SC.

[JustADude]

It brightened my day that the hardworking immigrant owner, who is probably ruined now through no fault of his own, was not there to be yelled at by the SC.

Well, lets just hope that the assmunch that wrecked his shop had liability coverage and/or enough assets to seize to offset the damage.

[XCashier]

Well, lets just hope that the assmunch that wrecked his shop had liability coverage and/or enough assets to seize to offset the damage.

I hope so too. It sucks that all your hard work and investment can be wiped out by just one jackass.

And that customer... He had to manually move all those barriers, walk around the tape and signs, and he still couldn't figure out that the place wasn't open for business?! It's mind-boggling how concrete-skulled dense some people can be.

[Geek King]

Well, lets just hope that the assmunch that wrecked his shop had liability coverage and/or enough assets to seize to offset the damage.

And barring any of that, that the owner had the proper insurance taken out on his business to cover damage and loss of business. Hell, even our little anime can takes out insurance in case something catastrophic happens to cancel or shut down the con.

[digilight]

If he rents/leases his location he is going to be required by the landloard to have a policy in place. And for a business that serves food he would also have to have a business insurance policy as well.

I know that my policy for my business covers both the structure as well as the internal contents such as equipment and supplies, it also covers for damage/loss to client/customer items as well as my own. So he should be (hopefully) ok on that front.

Some policies also cover loss of income as well, so he may be ok on both fronts.

[crazylegs]

And that customer... He had to manually move all those barriers, walk around the tape and signs, and he still couldn't figure out that the place wasn't open for business?! It's mind-boggling how concrete-skulled dense some people can be.

I've seen people step out infront of police cars/ambulances with more flashing lights than Vegas and making more noise than the BeeGees, I've seen people duck *under* three layers of 'Police Stop' tape, I've seen people try and walk down a road with more Police/Fire Engines while listening to the gas ROAR out of a hole in the ground.

In my conclusion people are stupid.

[webchimp]

And that customer... He had to manually move all those barriers, walk around the tape and signs, and he still couldn't figure out that the place wasn't open for business?! It's mind-boggling how concrete-skulled dense some people can be.

I used to work at a holiday camp where the main family room could seat well over a thousand on three levels. On a day we used to put chairs on the steps leading up from the bottom level with a sign on saying 'Please use lower level', something like that. Every week there would be at least one family who would ignore the several hundred empty tables and move the sign and chairs to go sit on the middle level. Cos they were special, you know. Signs like that 'don't apply to me.

Salt-of-the-earth working class... dumbf@ks most of them. We used to have no end of arguments with bright sparks who were trying to buy pints of cider for their kids because 'it's just pop'. Couldn't get it through to them that their pint of beer was about 3.5-4% ABV whereas the cider was 4-5% ABV.

[wagegoth]

A friend of mine once saw the following:

She and her husband were stuck on an onramp to a major freeway here. There had been a bad accident in one of the middle lanes and there was broken glass and debris everywhere. Highway patrol was directing other cars to the outside lanes while the ambulances and EMTs were trying to do their work. A fire truck was also there. All the emergency vehicles have lights blazing.

Then, as she and hubby watched in amazement, an old man drove right past the officers, ignoring the lights, trucks, and debris, drove over several yards of broken glass, up to the back of the car that was totaled, and proceeded to honk his horn.

[JustADude]

Then, as she and hubby watched in amazement, an old man drove right past the officers, ignoring the lights, trucks, and debris, drove over several yards of broken glass, up to the back of the car that was totaled, and proceeded to honk his horn.

Please tell me he got his dumb ass arrested, or at least severely yelled at! My crippled, stunted, near-dead faith in humanity needs it to be so.

[mariamousie1]

I told this story to my mom, and she said one word: "Madeline". I had this great aunt Madeline who was a terrible driver. My grandad always said he never had a drinking problem until he drove with her. A few years back Madeline and my grandma were driving somewhere, and there was a laneway blocked with signs saying "DO NOT ENTER" and plenty of orange cones. Madeline turns to go in and my grandma goes "I don't think we can turn in here." Madeline goes "I come in here all the time!" and keeps on going. CRASH! Madeline and Grandma ended up nose down in a 10 foot pit. Luckily nobody was hurt but they had to be hauled out by a tow truck. The moral is, do not ride with Madeline.

[MystyGlyttyr]

My sister works next door to a Catfish King that had a pretty nasty fire a couple of weeks ago. Basically the entire building is covered in scorch marks, wrapped in yellow police tape, hung with signs in various neon colors that say "CLOSED DUE TO FIRE"...AND we reported on it in our newspaper at least twice. The day after the fire, it was our front page headline.

Yet she says that everyday, at least once, she hears the call from the window of "There's another one!" and she and her coworkers run to the windows to watch some moron driving to the drive-thru, honking their horn, parking, trying each and every single locked, burned, taped-off door, and only after five minutes of vain trying, finally angrily departing. Apparently after seeing this no less than 15 times by now, it still makes her giggle uncontrollably.

[XCashier]

We used to have no end of arguments with bright sparks who were trying to buy pints of cider for their kids because 'it's just pop'. Couldn't get it through to them that their pint of beer was about 3.5-4% ABV whereas the cider was 4-5% ABV.

Perhaps they have British cider confused with American apple cider, which is basically unfiltered apple juice (usually with cinnamon and other spices added and served hot) ? If not, then yeah, they're thick.

[Chromatix]

So "American apple cider" is in roughly the same category as "American cheese food"?

In short, not actually cider?

[Jack7957]

So "American apple cider" is in roughly the same category as "American cheese food"?

In short, not actually cider?

Well, we call it apple cider....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_cider

but it's non-alcoholic, though you can find/make the alcohol variety.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I've seen people step out infront of police cars/ambulances with more flashing lights than Vegas and making more noise than the BeeGees, I've seen people duck *under* three layers of 'Police Stop' tape, I've seen people try and walk down a road with more Police/Fire Engines while listening to the gas ROAR out of a hole in the ground.

In my conclusion people are stupid.

The problem is that back in days of yore, before the days of suing and blaming everyone else cept yourself for your own stupidity, the stupid people would wind up crushed, stung, bitten, eaten, drowned or burned to death and their families wouldn't get anything save money for the funeral and sometimes not even that.

You think that cave men thought anything other than, "Hee, guess it's more food for the rest of us!" when some numpty decided to ignore common sense and go pat the sabre toothed tiger? XD Back then, natural selection was allowed to do its job of filtering out the stupid.