Odd Stories

Well the title of this one is pretty self explanitory. On Yahoo, I found two stories that were quite odd. One made me chuckle a little, the other made my mind boggle.

The first one was in Edinburg, Texas. In Texas, a guy (for the guy's sake, they didn't mention his name) was caught growing 900 kilograms of marijuana. So before he could be caught by police, he set fire to his marijuana garden and left. Because of the fire, 35 firefighters came to try to extinguish the blaze, going at half an hour and using 4 000 litres of water (just picture 11 268 pop cans being dumped on a fire and you've got the idea). All 35 of them came back so high they couldn't pass a drug test despite wearing air packs to not inhale the fumes. This made me chuckle just because I could just imagine that. I see at least 35 stoners if not more infront of my school everyday. Just put them in firesuits and you've got this story. I also think it's pretty sad if you spend your entire life dependant on these drugs. So your willing to spend 24/7 growing them until you get caught and then your going to arsen your crops. I think that's a really sad way to live, and all the more reason you shouldn't do drugs. I have a friend who is a former drugie and he's helped kids study who's missed school due to rehab. Just ask him, they're not worth it.

Here's the link to the story:http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070622/koddities/oddity_pot_fire

The second one was stupid from the opening title. "Video game addiction: A new diagnosis?." According to a leading council of the U.S. largest doctors, (it was reported from Chicago so that's where I'm guessing it's from) they say video games on certain kids can be as powerfully addictive as heroin. They said that it should be included in a widely used mental illness manual by the American Psychiatric Association. This is stupid right from the get go and it's stupid left, right and center. First, look at the group who's using this. It's a group of doctors! A leading group of doctors! Don't get me wrong though, not all doctors. Doctors have an extremly job in society and one that not many people can do, I respect those doctors completly. It's the bad research doctors that just try to be as "safe" as humanly possible while taking away the fun in life. The doctors that are about as loose as a tightrope, those are the ones I'm targeting. These are the same kinds of people that say that television causes violance, the same people that take everything Liberal/Conservative word for word and the other Liberal/Conservative none. The people who think they know everything that goes on in Iraq even though they've never been there. This is coming from those kinds of people, why should we believe them? Also, if video games really have that kind of effect, why aren't they illegal? Heroin, cocaine, ecstacy and other drugs are illegal, alchohal is illegal to people under 16-21 depending on where your from, cigarettes under 19, gambling is illegal under 18, so if video games are really that addictive and that horrible for you, why aren't they illegal? Also, personal experiance, I have played video games on and off since I was 8. I got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas, I had a Game Boy Colour when I was 9, then I got an XBox in December 03'. When I was 8-10 I played alot, maybe 2 1/2 hours a day. At 11-13 I played 1 1/2 hours a day. Now I play about 1 hour every week and a half. Even though I played abit, none of these periods was I ever addicted. I mostly played out of boredom, if something more interesting came up, then I did that. And it wasn't hard to leave my game system. This is the same way with most of my friends, we play if we have nothing better to do, if someone comes up with something more interesting, we do it. Now I do know some people that are hard core gamers, but even they aren't addicted. They have lives. I doubt any of these doctors have ever played a single level of a game in their lifetime.

So anyway, that's my blog for today. See you round!