{"id":3404,"date":"2009-04-14T07:10:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T23:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/14\/lessons-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T07:10:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T23:10:48","slug":"how-to-be-a-lunatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/14\/how-to-be-a-lunatic\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a lunatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s one lesson you get from reading the news this week: Two Ways on How to be a Lunatic!<\/p>\n<h3>Method #1: Jump in with Polar Bears<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog-polarbears\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-polarbears\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/blogpolarbears.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"168\" \/>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/germany\/5142098\/Woman-survives-polar-bear-mauling-at-Berlin-Zoo.html\">this woman<\/a> here who did just that at the Berlin Zoo. Got viciously attacked by the polar bears \u2013 who would have guessed \u2013 but miraculously survived as she was pulled out by the very brave zoo keepers before the bears really did more damage than merely bite\u2026 like bite <em>off<\/em> the limb. She\u2019s in critical condition now though.<\/p>\n<p>It really brings to mind those commentaries about other similar incidents of people who consciously climb over fences into animal enclosures and tempt fate: do they expect animals with those big paws and huge teeth to behave differently?<\/p>\n<h3>Method #2:Be a Somali Pirate<\/h3>\n<p>You just need to hijack an American ship, then refuse all opportunities to surrender. Then wait to be surrounded by the US Navy. <\/p>\n<p>Should check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/04\/12\/navy-seals-kill-pirates-rescue-american-hostage\/\">these three guys<\/a>: they just proved that you really don\u2019t want to fool around with Navy SEALs. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/story?id=7325633&amp;page=1\">three collective heads<\/a> connected with the business end of sniper rifles used by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Navy_SEALs\">the Most Scary Elite Force<\/a> in the world today LOL.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-navyseals\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-navyseals\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/blognavyseals.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s one lesson you get from reading the news this week: Two Ways on How to be a Lunatic! Method #1: Jump in with Polar Bears Like this woman here who did just that at the Berlin Zoo. Got viciously<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/14\/how-to-be-a-lunatic\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  How to be a lunatic<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters","wpcat-12-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}