N/A - Kindness Boomerang - N/A

There was a dead body in the suitcase, right?

OH! They ate hot dogs WITHOUT KETCHUP... so they're all good. :)
 
oh my gosh, that is so similar to the one I received today.

(Hope you have a sense of humor, I really did enjoy the first one and believe in its message)

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Did anyone else notice that the girl at the parking meter was putting money into a meter where there was no car?? Just curious
 
flyingmoose said:
Did anyone else notice that the girl at the parking meter was putting money into a meter where there was no car?? Just curious
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Or that both of the meters turned green, or that the old lady who handed her the change happened to have it in her hand already? I still liked it. :)
 
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?








A Stick. :-)
 
Neat. It is amazing how surprised people look when you do nice things for them.

Anybody figure out where this is? Which state/city?
 
bartmc said:
:devil: Looks like a ponzi scheme :devil:
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Only because society wants it to be and people are too self centered to do something nice most of the time.

This kind of thing however does work to some extent occasionally.

Two summers ago I ran across two 20something guys with big extremely capable pickup trucks at a sand beach at Glen Canyon. People get their vehicles stuck in the deep soft sand there all day long. (The stuff looks and feels ok to drive on then 5 feet further you're up to your axles) These two guys go there once a year for a week and pull people out every day. They go swimming in the morning, pull people out all day, have beer and dinner at the campfire in the evening. They will take absolutely nothing from anyone as compensation for helping. They said they do it for karma points and to feel good about helping people in the world. I met them because I got my dumb butt stuck there and they yanked my 5 ton motorhome out of the sand like it was a toy car with just one of their trucks.
Last summer I was there and a family got their suv stuck in the same nasty sand. I quit swimming in the water and went over to help dig them out. A couple other people dropped what they were doing to pitch in getting this family up on a solid surface. When we were done and the family was parked up on the hill, we told them to just help others out if they ever get the chance. We were talking on the way back to the beach..and we all figured out that in the last few years, all 3 of us had been pulled out of the sand by the same two kids with the big trucks.
 
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I bet that kid's skate board got ripped off when he was helping the geezer lady.
 
Anthony said:
Neat. It is amazing how surprised people look when you do nice things for them.

Anybody figure out where this is? Which state/city?
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Red Bank, New Jersey (its thanked in the credits at the end.)

Here's an article in Ad Week about the video:
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-life-vest-inside-137223

The video is similar in concept to the "Pay it Forward" commercials by Liberty Mutual (LM), though as you can see in the LM commercial below, the people in it appear to be motivated by emulating what they see others doing, not by actions that directly benefited themselves. Ironically, while the LM commercial is self-serving of LM, the underlying causal links in their commercial are indirect, and to me seem more appropriate to fostering a "perform acts of kindness with no expectation of immediate reward" philosophy than that displayed in the Life Vest Inside video.


P.S. In the LM commercial, the first and last act shown are identical, so they appear to be caught in a causal loop! :wink2:
 
Jersey?

Yeah, they got your niceness, right heeeeaaaa!!!




:D
 
fgcason said:
Only because society wants it to be and people are too self centered to do something nice most of the time.

This kind of thing however does work to some extent occasionally.

Two summers ago I ran across two 20something guys with big extremely capable pickup trucks at a sand beach at Glen Canyon. People get their vehicles stuck in the deep soft sand there all day long. (The stuff looks and feels ok to drive on then 5 feet further you're up to your axles) These two guys go there once a year for a week and pull people out every day. They go swimming in the morning, pull people out all day, have beer and dinner at the campfire in the evening. They will take absolutely nothing from anyone as compensation for helping. They said they do it for karma points and to feel good about helping people in the world. I met them because I got my dumb butt stuck there and they yanked my 5 ton motorhome out of the sand like it was a toy car with just one of their trucks.
Last summer I was there and a family got their suv stuck in the same nasty sand. I quit swimming in the water and went over to help dig them out. A couple other people dropped what they were doing to pitch in getting this family up on a solid surface. When we were done and the family was parked up on the hill, we told them to just help others out if they ever get the chance. We were talking on the way back to the beach..and we all figured out that in the last few years, all 3 of us had been pulled out of the sand by the same two kids with the big trucks.
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We got stuck in the snow while trying to turn around after chopping down Christmas trees for 3 generations of my BF's family last month. Normally 4 or 6 family members do that but this year it was just the two of us. We spent about an hour trying to get the truck out using sticks, hand shoveling snow, etc. and almost got a rope hooked up to a tree but it didn't work. It was late and really cold and almost dark. The walk back to the cabin would have taken an hour or two with the dog and we would come back the next day on foot up the hill with shovels. As we left there was a truck coming with pulleys (another abandoned car was stuck). He pulled us out first, and I climbed under the other truck with a shovel and got them "unstuck" and then he pulled them out. We invited him / them back for beers and dinner at the cabin. They had to go home to their families for dinner, but stayed for beer, and refused our offer of money. That is the first time I've been "rescued" by a stranger. It was awesome.
 
Helping people out up in the mountains has always been just "normal" my whole life. You see someone stuck or broken down anywhere other than I-70, you stop and help.

Quite a different scene down here in the "rat colony" of Denver. Unless we're under 3' of snow, then the "mountain neighbor attitude" seems to re-surface.

I've always thought it explains a lot of what is seemingly awful behavior, voting, lifestyle, etc... when seeing news about tiny snowstorms plaguing eastern cities on the news. I see ten or twelve people standing videotaping some guy who can't get his car up a hill and think, "Wow. Those people suck."

But then I realize when you cram that many people in like rats, their behavior changes subtly. It takes a bigger event to bring out the good behavior. Like this...

 
Helping and concern for others is one of the reasons that I like living in this area of Texas. Quite a big change from Dallas.
That was quite a video Nate
 
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