Thinning out the 'idiot' gene...

I was going to create a bit of an artsy post about a lady being attacked by a whirling page 3 model from the Daily Star. The newspaper was swept by the wind as I walked up to work this morning, and curiously enough it flew accross the street. Shedding its pages. The last page to shed happened to be the page 3 girl 'photospread' (insert your own joke here), which swiftly attacked a passerby, who had to use her skillful avoidance techniques (she must be acosted often by 'radical extremist fundraisers' in the city centre) to sidestep the buxom beauty as it sought to wrap herself around the poor passerby.

But today I've yet witnessed another reason why humanity is movin ever so closer to its own 'but you CAN plug that radio and put it in the bathtub' demise.

Some people are just purposely (must be a subconscious realisation that their genetic material is at a n evolutionary dead end...or they are just dumb...though you're not supposed to call them that anymore...not politically correct, you see) thoughtless.

My office just had a fire alarm go off. It took over 15 minutes to evacuate the building, because some people would not leave their seats because they thought it was just a drill.

A fire drill that lasts 15 minutes, even though the rest of the people around them are collecting their belongings and high-tailing it like a looter in a riot when the police arrives.

Apparently they only got up after two things happened: a voice over the LOUD and IMMENSELY ANNOYING fire alarm said 'This is not a drill. Please exit the bulding', and one of the buildin'g 'fire safety officers' walked up the them and asked 'Why haven't you left the building? The alarm's been going off for 15 minutes. Most of the other people have already evacuated the building.'

One person apparently said 'But the alarm is so soft.'

SOFT?!

That blinking thing can wake the dead!

It probably warned off several cargo ships 20 miles out to sea to avoid the area!

Perhaps my building's next alarm system will involve cattle prod weilding 'helpful assistants' to get people to move (again, temper, Aji Chombo. You must be 'politically correct').

Seriously, though. If you notice that even the 'faint and distant' building fire alarm has gone off for 15 minutes. Don't you get the least bit curious?

Do people not watch disaster or horror films anymore?

It definitely must be a trigger in a person's genes then.

'Bub, yer just not cut out to continue yer genetic line. We'll turn the fire alarm sound into 'easy listening Kenny G music' until the smoke or flames take care of you'...