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September 30, 2005
Friday 5: Bad Boys... whatcha gonna do?
This week's question comes from me:
Ever play Monopoly? Remember the "Jet out of jail free" cards? You've just been handed five of them, enabling you to commit five crimes and get away scot-free, without the world ever knowing it was you who did them. How will you spend your crime spree, on the mere petty or the felonious? For those of us who feel constrained more by ethics than law, allow yourself to set the ethics aside for the moment and just be bad.
Wow, I must have been in an odd mood when I posed that questions. I must have been channeling for my alter-ego, the Evil Overlord. Alas, I don't think my "crime spree" is going to hold up to his expectations.
- Cut in line: I figure one of those cards is good for a full weekend of cutting in line. Movie tickets, grocery checkouts, roller coasters... all mine. But the best of all would be cutting in line in traffic. Drive to the very end of the lane being closed off and cut in to the main traffic right at the front. People have been doing it to me for years, so if I'm getting a day free of ethics, then it's my fucking turn!
- Genocide: All those plants I'm allergic to, those bugs that give me nasty bites, that spider that sent me to the hospital... all gone, wiped out in a selective biologic catastrophe. Endangered Species Act be damned.
- Nudity: I'll be sponsoring the "Tour the Capitol Building Naked" event this coming Thursday.
- Touch the museum exhibit: Actually, I'm applying this one retroactively. Long ago, before it was encased in plastic, before I was old enough to know better, and before I would have been labeled a security risk as a result, I leaned over the velvet rope and touched the Apollo XI command capsule. What made it even cooler was that I was also too young to understand about lunar modules and expendable components, etc., so I thought I was touching something that had actually landed on the moon and returned.
- Privacy laws/ethics: You (or some object you own) are placed somewhere that I can see, so I'm taking a picture whether I have your permission or not. Photons want to be free!
Attention Police: Other Friday Felons can be found here.
Meme by Dan at September 30, 2005 08:52 AM