When I first decided to start my blog, there were some idiots in the news that I felt I needed to comment on.
One guy, for example, lived in an ultra-rural area that did not have a municipal fire department. On purpose — they had held elections to consider founding one and voted “no”. So a nearby town offerred fire protection as a subscription service. This guy opted — repeatedly — not to join. So when his house burned to the ground, he was amazed that the fire department — which responded to protect its subscribers’ homes nearby — did not help him.
Or another guy, who refused to sign up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), who then became ill, could not afford coverage, and was amazed to find out that there isn’t some sort of government program for people like him without medical insurance. There is — it’s called the Affordable Care Act and you refused to sign up for it.
Then it was quiet for a while regarding idiots in the news, and my blog sat unused. Until today.
This guy was so engrossed in his video game that, when his 4-year-old daughter was in the way, he sent her outside to go play in the pool, where she drowned.
So after he retrieved her body from the pool and called an ambulance, he was quoted as saying
“I was trying to catch a Magikarp [pokemon character]”
“I never caught that Magikarp.”
And the money quote
“If I ever catch a Magikarp I’m gonna name it after my daughter so I don’t forget about her”.
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