[quote=“fairgentleman Z,post:19,topic:24631"”]
Believe it or not different societies have different means of transportation, usually due to their economic situation. We drive around in cars, with seat belts. Some people ride donkeys, some people live in areas with well develpoed mass transportation, and some people ride around in cargo trucks.
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I wish i had pictures from Ecuador, ever see 5 people on a dirt bike? thats a sweet one… I’ll see if i still have it
And sometimes a society is dumb enough as a whole to allow putting that many people at risk. And when a grossly overloaded truck rolls over on them, that society shrinks a bit. I only have so much pity to go around, and I’m certainly not giving it to people getting hurt doing stupid shit.
[quote=“JayS,post:22,topic:24631"”]
I only have so much pity to go around, and I’m certainly not giving it to people getting hurt doing stupid shit.
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I never said give them pity, all I said is don’t make humor out of it…
[quote=“JayS,post:14,topic:24631"”]
I always find Darwin cleaning the gene pool funny.
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I find that picture as funny as your wife slipping and falling in the snow.
[quote=“fairgentleman Z,post:23,topic:24631"”]
I find that picture as funny as your wife slipping and falling in the snow.
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Link? I want to laugh more.
[quote=“JayS,post:22,topic:24631"”]
And sometimes a society is dumb enough as a whole to allow putting that many people at risk. And when a grossly overloaded truck rolls over on them, that society shrinks a bit. I only have so much pity to go around, and I’m certainly not giving it to people getting hurt doing stupid shit.
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Say you are a security guard in Manta Ecuador, guarding a hotel with a loaded shotgun. I prime job in Manta. Guess what this prime job makes you. 2 dollars a day. thats 14 dollars a week. And 730 dollars A YEAR, providing you worked every day that year…
So this guy has to get to work… How does he get there?
Buy a car? - no he makes 730 bucks a day.
take a taxi? - from his house to the hotel would be 2 dollars, then going back 2 dollars again. YAY! he is losing money on that one
ride a bike? - who knows where he lives could take up to an hour to get to work, then work a 12 hour shift, then an hour back.
or you take that 15 minute ride in the back of an over crowded truck, for who knows maybe even free, but probably like 10 cents. so he can net 1.80 on the day, not including him having to eat.
I know if I was in his situation, I would take the over crowded truck in a heart beat
[quote=“fairgentleman Z,post:23,topic:24631"”]
I find that picture as funny as your wife slipping and falling in the snow.
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For the two to be the same, she’d have to riding on my shoulders, while I wore high heals and tried to walk on glare ice.
And yeah, at that point, I’d still laugh. Stupid people get what they deserve.
[quote=“newman,post:16,topic:24631"”]
who’s that drivin?
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Is that Patrick Swayzee? :lol: When I look at this pic it looks like the kids are tackling the child molesters van. Those kids are just sticking up for themselves, they are heroes if you ask me.
I find it odd that the van is covered with people… and there’s no one in the passenger seat. Beans?
[quote=“TrueBlue,post:29,topic:24631"”]
I find it odd that the van is covered with people… and there’s no one in the passenger seat.
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And the dude driving is in camo. Riot?
With that truck being so over loaded, I can’t see it being much faster than walking.
[quote=“fairgentleman Z,post:12,topic:24631"”]
WTF is so funny about 3rd world children getting hurt in an automobile accident?
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agreed
None of you even know what caused the van to top in the first place :roll:
I still laughed. A little. Could be a photo-chop