You recall several years ago when the Exxon Valdez ran aground, creating a costly oil spill in Alaska. The coast was polluted and the wildlife poisoned. People flocked to the area to put in time and money to care for the geese and seals contaminated by the spill. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale. Sometimes it seems it is not worth even trying.
A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places. ‘Til that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman. What happens when you try doing good, but you do more harm than good?
Two animal rights protesters were picketing the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death. There are times when those you try to help run all over you.
Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn’t pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with “return to sender” stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits. Okay, sometimes we can smile when the bad guys get it themselves.