The Fountain Lady Reports Prove that Misery Loves Company
Making fun of the Fountain Lady shows just how miserable and desperate America has become.
My mother has a saying, misery loves company and it applies to all those enjoying the misfortune of the fountain lady.
What is a red herring? - A red herring is a misleading clue something to distract or to divert attention or mislead. A female red herring will dart in front of it's enemy to distract the bigger fish from eating it's young. It is a deliberate attempt to divert attention by being led astray.
Misery Loves Company
Before we begin I'm going to let you laugh one last time at the Fountain Lady and the fact she almost broke her neck. For the life of me I fail to see why this is funny in the least bit? Are most of us that miserable with the life we lead?
Yes she was foolish and yes she readily admits it, but does all that really justify making her out to be a laughing stock of the world by posting it on YouTube and by national news organizations carrying it on national television?
This woman is in a mall walking and texting and no she's not watching out where she is going. To her dismay she walks right into the side of a large water fountain, falls forward over the edge, totally unprotected and into the water. Soaking wet she quickly shuffles away obviously embarrassed. What bothered me about the incident was how she fell forward without any protection of her hands forward to brake her fall. It's obvious, but-for the water she would have fallen onto her face and probably broken her neck.
The mall security guards watching her on closed circuit cameras watched her fall and instead of finding her to make sure she didn't need medical attention, instead they turn their attention to posting her falling on YouTube. Their efforts garnered much attention and apparently she even ended up on National News and News-a-tainment shows with little else to do besides make further attempts to bolster their sorry-ass journalism careers by making fun of someone caught in a moment of foolishness.
So how does the public react?
Instead of watching the video clip and immediately wondering if the lady was hurt most (99.99% of the idiots out there) laugh and rewind the Tivo. Immediately upon watching it for the umpteenth thousand time they call her stupid and run to the nearest computer where they spend endless days jawing about her misfortune. Then she sues over who put her on YouTube and that brings out the McDonald’s coffee crowd who boo and hiss trying now to make her out to be a lawsuit happy charlatan. But her law suit has nothing to do with how she fell and everything to do with outing the numbskulls who instead of working tried to garner their own five minutes of fame by causing her an Internet eternity of humiliation. It’s all a red herring.
The red herrings in this case are the security guards who instead of doing their work securing the premises were too busy laughing at customers, recording it and then posting that embarrassing moment on YouTube. Who else have they done this to? By embarrassing this customer publicly and worldwide they have kippered her embarrassing moment.
They should be fired, outed and made to own up publicly for what they did. They owe her an apology and anyone that thinks otherwise isn’t admitting they too have done foolish things. Other customers of the mall should know how they too will be treated should they ever do anything embarrassing that is caught on tape. Let's say for instance while bending over to tie your shoes your pants split and it's caught on tape. Should your ass-split pants be outed to the world? How about falling in a dress and it ending up around your waist, is that news worthy?
We should all be ashamed of the news professionals that jumped on the band wagon and showed this on national or local television for the sake of increasing ratings. How could this ever be news worthy? (George Stephanopoulos anchor of GMA, I see you smirking during the interview. George you should be ashamed that your career has sunk this low.) Is someone falling on ice or picking their nose in public worthy of professional journalism? How about an elderly person, who confused walks in front of a speeding car? Is that news worthy? When did funny ever cross Walter Kronkites radar screen as something to make the 6:00 o'clock news?
Making fun of her lawsuit is also a red herring
The publicity about her lawsuit is also a distraction by miserable people hoping for someone else to join them in their misery. Her lawsuit is meant to extract some revenge by outing those who deliberately attempted to embarrass her. An eye for an eye, if you will. Her filing the lawsuit takes guts and an ounce of being pissed off. She needs to fight back at them and the rest of you miserable louts, to try and gain back some of what little privacy she has left. I for one would want to be left alone and I'm sure that's all she wanted after falling into the pond of scum that was inside the mall security office was to be left alone.
All I can say is you go girl; sue em all. And while you're at it sue Good Morning America and all the other news-a-tainment programs that tried to capture ratings by exploiting a private citizen's act of being human. They invaded your privacy. You’re all a bunch of miserable goofballs looking for comfort in someone else’s misery. My advice, get a life.
[The original post automatically posted without being edited; I was busy in a mediation.]
Apparently, Above the Law isn't above the lame.
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