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Offline Corsair

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Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
on: January 01, 2006, 05:35:54 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/01/teen.iraq/index.html

I can't believe there hasn't been a thread about this yet... I can't fathom for a second what this kid was thinking. I mean, this is truly the height of stupidity.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #1 on: January 01, 2006, 05:47:21 pm
Ooops, someones going to be grilled in a moderate oven when they get home...

In a way, I do sort of respect him feeling guilty for living in a luxury while others are suffering, but toddling off to Iraq like that, he's very lucky to still be alive.
 

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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #2 on: January 01, 2006, 05:50:56 pm
If he was willing to go into unstable parts of Iraq to see an uncensored view of the current functionality of society, then good for him.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #3 on: January 01, 2006, 06:10:14 pm
Maybe he should have brushed up on his arabic before his quest.
 

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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #4 on: January 01, 2006, 06:12:00 pm
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The U.S. government advises citizens not to visit Iraq.
That is a gem.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #5 on: January 01, 2006, 06:19:10 pm
Somebody posted this over at SB.com, so i'll just re-iterate what I posted there.

This kid wasn't stupid in the sense, he followed his goals and ambitions, and unlike his peers, sought an unbiased view of the events going on in Iraq - i.e., the Truth. Such a goal is never a bad thing, as it shows willingness to learn and to follow one's passion through.

However, the way he did it practically reeks of stupidity, idiocy, teenage arrogance and impatience. Not to mention the lack of concern for his family should anything happen to him.
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Reply #6 on: January 01, 2006, 06:38:02 pm
:lol:
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #7 on: January 01, 2006, 07:00:25 pm
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Not to mention the lack of concern for his family should anything happen to him.


On the other hand I would not have cared if my family objected to me coming here.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #8 on: January 01, 2006, 07:11:50 pm
On the one hand, it's really dumb - walking into a foreign country, with no knowledge of the language, when you pretty much know that fighting's been there.

On the other hand, I don't see much better wait to get an up close and personal, uncensored, view of the situation. Besides joining the US Army.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #9 on: January 01, 2006, 07:18:04 pm
He did what 95% of journalists don't have the balls to: walk to streets of Bahgdad in order to put his money where his mouth us. Stupid, yes. Admirable? Extremely.
 

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Reply #10 on: January 01, 2006, 09:45:20 pm
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Teen Does Really Stupid Thing

So? Next headline: Water is wet.

Still, the kid's intentions are admirable, though the way he carried it out may have been less than intelligent.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #11 on: January 01, 2006, 10:19:27 pm
"It is not so much what you are doing as the idiotic way in which you are are doing it that bothers me."
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #12 on: January 01, 2006, 10:24:44 pm
Quote from: ngtm1r on January 01, 2006, 10:19:27 pm
"It is not so much what you are doing as the idiotic way in which your are doing it that bothers me."
That's basically what I meant.

Quote from: nuclear1 on January 01, 2006, 09:45:20 pm
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Teen Does Really Stupid Thing

So? Next headline: Water is wet.
There was supposed to be a bit of irony there...

I mean, don't get me wrong, I think that the kid's intentions were awesome. But I mean... I can't think of too many easier ways to get kidnapped.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #13 on: January 02, 2006, 06:38:01 am
[q]If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in Washington D.C. (among others) is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington D.C.[/q]
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #14 on: January 02, 2006, 06:59:42 am
I agree. Continuing with the trend of the current administration, the new capital should be in Ding Dong, Texas.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #15 on: January 02, 2006, 09:27:03 pm
:lol:
 

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Reply #16 on: January 02, 2006, 09:40:46 pm
the only punishment that kid got was his visa taken away from him. HIS FRIGGIN' VISA.

grandma says if that was her kid he'd much worse.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #17 on: January 03, 2006, 08:13:27 pm
He's Arabic. If the stupid News Networks woulda  shut up and stopped saying stuff like "OMG THIS KID IS AMERICAN, ALONE, AND IN IRAQ" and stopped showing everyone his pictures, he woulda been fine. After spending a little time in Iraq he'd probly pick up the basics of the language, and he looked Arabic, so he would blend in perfectly. He would've been fine. Unless of course he is COMPLETELY stupid and tells everybody (in english) that he's alone and from America. *stoppes talking to breath*
 

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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #18 on: January 03, 2006, 08:17:45 pm
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He's Arabic


He's arab DESCENT, not the same thing. He can't even speak arabic.

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After spending a little time in Iraq he'd probly pick up the basics of the language, and he looked Arabic, so he would blend in perfectly

It takes more than a week to pick up the basics of a different language. Plus he would still have an american accent.
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Re: Teen Does Really Stupid Thing
Reply #19 on: January 03, 2006, 08:29:24 pm
And anyway, they didn't run the story until after he was picked up and taken back to the U.S. Embassy.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
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