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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 10-09-2001 09:48 AM

Subject: moral test

These are really tough times to test how we might act given a certain set of circumstances. However, I think most of us - if actually put to the test - would do the right thing. I may be wrong but I'll put my faith in humanity....

The situation: You are in the Middle East, and there is a huge flood in progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and structures destroyed. Let's say that you're a photographer and getting still photos for a news service, traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes.

You come across Osama bin Laden who has been swept away by the floodwaters. He is barely hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go under. You can either put down your camera and save him, or take a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb.

So, here's the question and think carefully before you answer the question below:
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Which lens would you use?

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Jerry Chase
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1068
From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-09-2001 12:29 PM

I like the idea that is going around the net. Since killing him will make him a martyr, and imprisoning him will only create outraged cries for his freedom, the story goes that the CIA should secretly take him to an undisclosed hospital and give him a complete sex change operation, bring him to South Beach nightclubs for orientation, then release him back to the taliban, where he could be treated as a third wife.

I've also heard comments that we should rename our public crappers to bin Ladens and put a decal of his face on the interior.

"Here's lookin' at you, kid."

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-09-2001 06:34 PM

Hey, why not? There was a news picture last night of talibans wiping their feet on a US flag. So why not wipe our butts with them? I'm thinking Osama toilet paper.

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Greg Mueller
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1687
From: Port Gamble, WA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-09-2001 06:42 PM

Unfortunately if those Afghans saw Osama toilet paper on a news show, they wouldn't know what it was and wouldn't get the joke. You might say it would go right over their heads.

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Sean McKinnon
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1712
From: Peabody Massachusetts
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 10-09-2001 07:06 PM

A father and son we were walking in manhattan in the distant future. The father points out to the son where the twin towers stood, the son asks what the twin towers were, The father tells them that were symbols of capitalism. The son asks what happened to them and the father answers some arabs blew them up,

The son asks dad whats an arab?

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Bill Enos
Film God

Posts: 2081
From: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 10-11-2001 12:05 AM

If ever captured, release him unharmed at a well publicized time and place into the large crowd that will have gathered to receive him while the police look the other way.
Or just feed him feet first into one of those large brush chippers.

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Richard C. Wolfe
Master Film Handler

Posts: 250
From: Northampton, PA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 10-11-2001 12:42 AM

How about the old practice of walking the plank... in this case from the top of the Empire State building.

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Will Morrow
Film Handler

Posts: 91
From: Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2001

posted 10-12-2001 06:08 PM

I really like the sex change punishment. My only request is that I am allowed to perfrom the operation with a belt sander, and a dremmel. Yeah, that would be sufficient.

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 10-12-2001 11:37 PM

On a talk show recently, the host was talking to a retired general. (I like it when they have retired military people on because they don't have to be politically correct anymore).

Anyway, the host says to the retired general; What would you do if you were part of the ground forces, and found bin Laden? The general (in perfect deadpan) says; "Shoot him while trying to escape..."

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