| If You’re Going to Be a Jackass, Don't Be a Half-ass Jackass |
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Focus, people, focus!
It's high time that someone in this screwed world stands up and says that enough is enough. And if no one else is going to step up and take the initiative, the notoriety or the monetary gain of becoming a world-renowned leader, then I guess it's up to me. On Friday, May 9th, a youth in St. Petersburg, Florida in Sarasota County was seriously injured after falling off of a five-story condominium and landing on a pool deck. He's now being treated in a hospital for serious trauma to his torso and legs. Was he committing suicide like any normal human being would? No. Was he high on crack and thought he was a bald eagle and attempted to see if he could fly? Not by a long shot. The police determined he and his dumb little buddies were imitating a stunt from the TV show, "Jackass." The police came to their conclusion after they learned the youth's friends were near the pool filming their friend plummet to the pool deck all in the name of good clean comedy. Now I know I'm not alone when I say this, but this kind of irrational thinking in today's youth has got to stop. I had the opportunity to watch the tape the boys had made, and it was all too shocking. "My God," I thought. "This is horrible. I give one star at least." First of all, the focus was way off. The camera was trying to shoot way too far from the subject from the ground up. They should've stood on the roof with their buddy and shot him as he plummeted from the roof to the ground. Not only would the film be clearer and sharper, but also there would've been an equal amount of light distributed into the lens. The camera movements were also very jerky to the point where you couldn't get a clear shot of the subject falling from the roof. You could tell it wasn't a very stationary camera, and that they should've used a tripod so the images would be more crisp and clearer. That's just common sense. But obviously, if you're a guy who's jumping off the roof of a building just to get a laugh in the first place, common sense really isn't a phrase that's in your vocabulary. Of course, we haven't learned anything from this incident that we didn't know before "Jackass" went on the air. There have been a string of these filmed imitations since the show became popular, and they all have been trying to tell us something very important about our children – they have no artistic vision. I've seen a hundred of these videos of kids imitating "Jackass" from across the county, and all of them are just poorly organized and badly shot and are very low in quality. It's as if they didn't care about how the movie looked in the end and they just wanted to get the shot of a kid setting himself on fire or hot gluing a cardboard box to his butt. So some major kudos are in order for the folks who created "Jackass" for alarming the world about the lack of intelligence and creativity in our children, and for bringing the world "Human Bullseye." |
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