Sign of the times
How will this look on youtube:
When a robber started taking cash from his register over the weekend, Dunkin’ Donuts employee Dustin Hoffmann fought back by clobbering the man with a ceramic mug. But Hoffmann admits he was less worried about the stolen cash than how he might look on the video-sharing site YouTube.
“What was going through my mind at that point was that the security tape is either going to show me run away and hide in the office or whack this guy in the head, so I just grabbed the cup and clocked the guy pretty hard,” Hoffmann told The Record of Bergen County for Tuesday’s editions.
Via reader Paul.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:27 am
My first reaction to that story was to laugh. But then I realized that his idiotic reason for standing up for himself beats the hell out of any justification people use to cower like sheep.
December 12th, 2007 at 9:34 am
YouTube: the modern-day shaming stocks. And we’re doing it to ourselves this time, too.
December 12th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
The age-old anthropologist’s dilemma (and the physicist’s): The act of observing an event or phenomenon usually influences that event or phenomenon.
Garry Larson did a nice bit on the subject:
http://anthropology.net/2007/09/14/watch-out-the-anthropologists-are-coming/anthropologists-anthropologists/
December 13th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Well, if you look it at it just right, “Better to attack with a coffee mug than tuck tail and run” sort of parallels the ol’ Zapata quote, “Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”