> No cluons were harmed when Tom wrote:

>>Actually, regardless of whether your cause was moral or not, there
>>are lots of people who will come along and save your ass if they can.
>>Just for the hell of it. Not everybody, of course, and not every
>> time, and sometimes not very effectively, but it happens quite a bit
>> more than you'd expect.

>
> And sometimes with flavored oils and sometimes with whipped cream. Often
> with chainsaws which may or may not be weilded in your defense, but which
> will likely scare that obnoxious neighbor enough to make him call the SWAT
> team. They could also come bearing goldfish, which probably falls under
> the
> "ineffective" heading, but oh, the frat stunts you can pull, especially if
> the chainsaw and whipped cream people join in, but not Mr. Obnoxious -
> he'll just complain about the noise, put whistlers in the exhaust pipe of
> your Harley to get even and sic his Pomeranian on your friends. And he
> would just get annoyed by the eels in his mailbox from last week, when
> nobody was trying to help because of that thing with the grease on the
> trampoline and the rabid mayflies, but it seemed like a good idea until
> the
> damn do-gooders took HIS side. Still, he's bitter because his ex is your
> new girlfriend, and she teases him by sunbathing nude on the roof of your
> condo, which is what started the fire and the explosions (you never should
> have stored the gunpowder so close to the steam-powered vibrator) - oh,
> and the fireworks were pretty. But anyway, don't worry about the help -
> the
> lawsuits will take a long time wind through the courts and they'll never
> find your house in the volcano until it's too late to avoid yet another
> zombie apocalypse.
>
> Or something.
>
>
> Mark Edwards
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