Shortcut Sam

Shortcut Sam

Fiction

Shortcut Sam tried out for the high school track team.  They had a track with multiple lanes and each lane had a different number.  The track was composed of straight lines and curved lines and wrapped around in a loop.  The route around the outside lane was bigger than the route around the inside lane.

Shortcut Sam started in the outside lane and ended up drifting into the most inside lane into the wrong place.  The coach said you are in the wrong lane and that would disqualify you in an official race but this is just tryouts.

Since you are so fast I think you should race but I need you to go in a straight line.  If you try a shorter distance track then the path is a straight line so you should be able to stay in your lane easier, please try racing from here to there.

So Sam raced on the path the coach told him.  The coach had all the other students race that same distance also.  

The coach said, "Sam, you had the best time, you made the team."  He then told him when the next competitive race against other school teams was.  He told Sam that although you have the best time right now you still have to show up to practices in order to continue to improve before the big race.

Sam said, "I do not need to go to practice.  I had the best time."

The coach said, "You made the best time for now for this school but if you do not continue to practice, the other students who do practice will eventually do better than you and also we do not know if your current time is better than the best current time of students at the other schools, so if you do not show up to practice you can not run in the big race."

Sam replied, "You are just discriminating against me because I am from the inner city."

The day of the big race came and Sam did not show up to a single day of practice but he arrived early for a pre race meeting.

The coach told him you did not show up to a single day of practice and now you want to race.  Sam replied, "I do not need to practice, I am the best and I will prove it right now."

The coach said, "Normally you should not race so soon before the big race because it will tire you but I will time you and if you can run across the same distance as last time faster than every single other student then you can run the race."

Sam said, "I will"

Sam ran and the coach timed him and he got exactly the same time.

The coach said, "Sam, your time is exactly the same as last time."

Sam said, "Last time I ran I was faster than all the other students therefore I am the fastest and you must let me race."

The coach said, "Since all the other students were practicing, the very worst of the other students now has a better time than what your best time was before you started practicing.  You do not have the very best time of all my students, you actually now have the very worst time because you never showed up to practice so you never improved."

Now this was not the only time Sam took a shortcut.  Taking Shortcuts was Shortcut Sam's way of life.

Sam lived in the inner city but bussed to a school in the suburbs.  He was not a good friend to Patient Pat but Patient Pat was a good friend to Shortcut Sam.  But Shortcut Sam always said Patient Pat was mean to him because he was warning him to do things the right way even if it takes longer and is harder work because in the long run you will have better results and not having to fix mistakes later will actually save you time in the long run.

For example Patient Pat tried to explain the importance of trying to learn to do math with a paper or pencil or in his head instead of using a calculator.  But Shortcut Sam called Patient Pat an evil man who was guilty of discriminating against him because he was from the inner city and because of his disability instead of thanking him for his helpful advice and useful warning.

When Shortcut Sam was told he had to do math homework by the math teachers.  He told the math teachers, "No I do not, you are just assigning me homework as a way of discriminating against me because I am from the inner city."

The teachers said, "We are not discriminating against you, all the other students are assigned homework also.  You may think not doing homework is fun but in the long run you will not be able to do math if you do not practice."

Shortcut Sam said, "I do not need to practice the calculator already does math for me."

The teacher said, "You need to practice because if you do not learn enough self control to even study such a simple thing as this, you may take other shortcuts in life that could cause disasters."

Sam said, "I have a disability and if you do not let me use a calculator you are discriminating against me because of my disability and I will sue you."

The teacher said, "You need to take a special test by a qualified specialist to prove you are disabled."

Sam said, "You are just trying to claim I need to take a test to prove I am disabled because you are discriminating against me because I am from the inner city and I will sue you if you make me take the test."

The teacher slammed a calculator down on his desk and said, "Fine, you do not need to take a test to prove you are disabled, but I warn you if you continue taking these short cuts then disaster awaits you."

Sam said, "Disastrous awesomeness like not having to study!"

Years later Sam finally graduated from high school but he got a certificate of completion instead of a high school diploma.

Next Sam enrolled for college classes and paid for it with money from FAFSA

He then said since I am paying them to give me credits I should not have to show up to classes and he did not show up to any classes or take any tests nor did he withdraw from or cancel or drop any classes.

When he tried to enroll the next semester he was denied.  But he said where there is a willingness there's a way and more importantly a shortcut that does not take much strength of will to accomplish.  So he just enrolled in more colleges hoping he could get in anyway even though the FAFSA money did not work right. 

Now Sam started applying for lots of colleges and even though he had a very low GPA compared with other students from his suburban school who could not get into IVY leagues despite their hard work Sam was accepted into multiple IVY league Universities. How did he get into IVY league universities?  His parents never went to college, and he was from the inner city and registered as disabled even though he never proved he had a disability but merely said he did, and these factors could make up for his low grades.  Sam also had another secret, he was lazy, a truly lazy man.  Because Sam was so lazy that made him more similar to your typical person then the rare and exceptional people who tried hard.  This similarity to the common person made him a very persuasive talker who was very charming to your typical lazy person like college admission staff even though hard working people found him not to be charming but obnoxious.

Now the IVY league universities he was accepted into had so much donor money that unlike regular public schools, all students accepted whose parents made less than a certain amount of money get in for free as long as they fill out a FAFSA form.  Now some people make little money because of unfortunate life circumstances beyond their control or because they sacrificed their income and or wealth for a greater good but not Sam's parents. Sam's parents had little money because they, like Sam, were lazy in fact they taught Sam to be a lazy person.

Now there was one catch Sam only had to fill out a FAFSA.  But because his grades were so low he was on academic probation and because he wanted to hide his low grades from when he skipped a whole semester and because he owed debt he did not pay back for not showing up to classes, he could not get FAFSA to get through correctly to get the IVY league universities to consider him qualified for free tuition.

Now as for the debt on the FAFSA due to some special circumstance it was forgiven because things tended to go his way even though he did nothing to earn or merit such good fortune.  But it came with a weird catch that he was not allowed to use FAFSA again for 3 years after it was forgiven.

He told Patient Pat, "This is so unfair I should be allowed to go to college now, for free and not have to pay anything for it.  I do not want to be older than such and such a age when I get my bachelors degree"

Patient Pat said, "You can go to college now you already earn enough money to afford technical college without taking out any loans or getting any grants, scholarships or fellowships and still have money left over for food and rent.  You can also take CLEP classes if you put in the effort to study at an even cheaper price than that.  A credit toward graduation is a credit toward graduation regardless of the source.  With that you can get an associate degree and pay off any college debt you have with the better job you can get with an associate degree.  An associate degree is better than no degree even if it is only halfway toward a bachelor's degree and if you have an associate degree with good grades then you are even better qualified to get into IVY league schools than when you first applied and were already accepted with no previous college degree.  And you might not even have to worry about paying off debt to use the FAFSA to get into the IVY league for free. Did you not just say it was forgiven and all you had to do was wait 3 years then you can use the FAFSA and get into the iVY league for free?  Just be patient and things will work out better then if you take some rash shortcut"

But Shortcut Sam said, "No, I need you to help me write essays for scholarships.  Since I can not get FAFSA money I need scholarships that do not require FAFSA to go to college."

Patient Pat said, "Why should I help you write essays for scholarships for a school that you will never graduate from because you will not study or practice math  in order to pass the math classes necessary for the very specific type of degree you wanted that requires lots of math, even though I told you about other options that require less math, but even those options require more math then you are willing to learn.  You must prove that to me you will not quit before you start like when you ran the race or used a calculator for math that even fourth graders could do on paper or in their head while you were still in high school, not because you were unable to but because you never tried.  You must prove it by studying math with me until you are at least up to fourth grade level without a calculator otherwise you will not be able to pass college remedial math.  I expect you to study 1 hour with me every day, frankly that is not enough time, because there would be 720 hours if you studied an hour a day for 180 days a year for the four years from first, second, third and fourth grade that a regular child would study just by showing up to class every day and doing the work without a calculator not to count any homework outside of class and you want to go to college in less than 120 days from now, which would only give about one sixth that many hours if I merely ask an hour a day from you instead of the full 6 hours to catch up for the time you slacked off with your calculator shortcuts instead of doing real math for all those years of math class."

Shortcut Sam said, "You are discriminating against me because of my disability and because I am from the inner city."

Patient Pat said, "If you were not from the inner city where you were raised by such lazy parents I would not even be willing to talk to such a lazy person as you.  You should be grateful that I offered to teach you math for free instead of charging you many times more than minimum wage which I could and most people who have my level of education if they were willing to even spend the time to teach you at all instead of getting a real job.  As for your disability there are some people who really are disabled but I know you and you are just lazy, you never tried to prove you are disabled, if I saw you trying all those hours and still could not succeed then maybe I would believe you but the only disability you have shown me until you have spent hours trying and failing  is the disability of laziness and pure and simple not trying "

Shortcut Sam he would study and put in less than 20 minutes a week on average, but lied and tried to make it look like he was serious and deceived Patient Pat.

So Patient Pat helped with the scholarship essays because Shortcut Sam was pretending to start to put in the effort.

When Patient Pat found out what Shortcut Sam did he said he would help him with no more essays and warned him that if he actually helped him get into college and graduate but he still did not learn his lesson to work hard instead of taking rash shortcuts disaster would await him.

Shortcut Sam got into college and Patient Pat never talked to him again.

When Shortcut Sam got into his remedial math classes the teachers said, "To truly understand this math you need to practice it on paper or in your head instead of using a calculator otherwise you will not be able to understand these concepts to apply them to more advanced math classes you need to actually use for your major."

But Shortcut Sam said, "If you do not let me use a calculator I will sue you, for discriminating against me because of my disability and because I am from the inner city."

More over Shortcut Sam used his persuasive ability on the administrators who only were greedy and self censored for college tuition money and the short term praise and reward from their fellows about bragging about helping the disabled and disadvantaged people from the inner city even though in the long run such noble deeds as they wanted praise for doing actually were seeds along the path of destruction Patient Pat and Shortcut Sam's gym coach and math teachers had warned about.  Shortcut Sam persuaded the Administrators that not only should he be allowed to use a calculator for remedial math but he should get special privileges to skip entire math courses that other more hard working people who took the same major as him were normally required to take because it was impossible to do advanced math with his disability and to deny him a degree would be failure to accommodate and discrimination.

Now with his degree disaster awaited but unfortunately not for Shortcut Sam but merely for everyone else around him.

Shortcut Sam started getting many jobs in fields where he was the boss of people who knew how to do math even though he did not know how to do basic math himself.  Now these jobs could be done correctly with very little math knowledge.  But these jobs could not be done correctly by someone so lazy as to not be able to bother to learn even a very little bit of math knowledge and who had the kind of personality to always take shortcuts to get around the effort of learning because they would rather stay ignorant.  Shortcut Sam's real problem was not his lack of math knowledge but his bad personality and attitude that led to him never acquiring math knowledge in the first place.  This reckless personality led him to taking dangerous shortcuts in matters other than math.

All Sam had to do for each of these jobs was get people to sign paperwork certifying that they did the different parts of the job correctly such as inspection, or calculations, or the actual physical tasks required for each stage of a job.

All he had to do sometimes was essentially carry a clipboard with forms where people checked off that they did different parts of jobs.  Same did not have to write the forms or choose the forms they were all given to him.  All he had to do was walk up to the person and ask them to sign the form.  Now although sometimes these forms seem rather silly, if someone does not actually do the task on the form and people think they did people could die because they were put there to ensure certain minimum safety requirements were met.

But Sam instead of actually bringing the forms to people checked off the boxes himself, putting a fake signature of someone else's name and then turned the forms in and took off work early.

Sam made lots of money this way and as far as he was concerned no disasters happened to him and Patient Pat was wrong.  Sam went through one high paying administration, business, human resources or management job after another and even got selected and elected for different government jobs and political offices from time to time.  Sam was admired by the ignorant masses, he was famous and successful.  He lived to a ripe old age dying about 10 years later than average only to die of a heart attack which could have been prevented or at least delayed until 20 years later if he was not too lazy to exercise and eat healthy.

Even though Sam could not see that he walked the path of disaster, Patient Pat did.  Patient Pat pointed out Sam's string of failures: the bridge collapses, the skyscraper collapses and the unusually high rate of medical malpractice and patient deaths at different construction projects and hospitals that Sam administered.  There was also the tainted drinking water scandal and the mismanaged and failing infrastructure and public transportation problems when Sam was mayor.

Sam had murdered more than 1 million people throughout a lifetime of negligence but he was hailed a hero and celebrated in public school history books as an outstanding person who achieved great things despite being discriminated against for his disability and inner city upbringing.

Body Swap Weight Loss

 Body Swap Weight Loss

Fiction

Windy Marie had the ability to switch bodies with people.  Whether it was Windy's magic witchcraft or Marie's mad science that she used to switch bodies does not matter.

Windy really liked Matthew but Matthew was dating his fiancee Sabrina.

Windy was morbidly obese.  Her diet consisted of whole milk and dairy products without any fat reduction such as cream, butter, cheese, cream cheese and ice cream as well as margarine, fried foods, fried french toast, french fries, breaded and fried vegetables and  breaded and fried,meat, and fatty meat products not lean meat product and deserts such as cake, cookies, and sugary candy.  She avoided any vegetable that was not covered in cheese, margarine or butter or fried in fatty oil.  She did eat fruit sometimes like deep fried bananas or cherries on top of ice cream.  When eating eggs she would separate the fatty yolk that she liked from the egg whites and throw away the egg whites.  

Windy would order pizza with extra meat ( and not the lean kind of meat ) and extra cheese.  She would cut out the crust and then unwrap individual slices of processed cheese containing products with artificial ingredients from their plastic packets which she would wrap around the crust like a blanket and put in the microwave to melt the extra cheese around the crust.  After taking out the crust with melted cheese from the microwave she would put it on a plate with the rest of her pizza or sometimes put it on top of the pizza already inside the box using the box instead of a plate.  Next, she would put butter and margarine in a microwave safe bowl and stick it in the microwave to melt it then pour the melted butter and margarine all over the pizza and pizza crust.  

 

Matthew worked at the pizza delivery company and she would order pizza a lot to force Matthew to visit her.  

She considered it exercise to push the button in her automated wheelchair to get over to the door and pick up pizza from Matthew.

With her automated wheelchair she had scrapped up the wood in her place of residence.  She broke a table trying to push on it to get up to the microwave to melt her butter and margarine once.  So she now had the microwave and fridge in just the right place on a much stronger table positioned differently to make it easy to melt butter and margarine without breaking a table again.

Windy's diet and exercise habits were very different from Sabrina.

Sabrina ran an exercise program for pregnant women and was receiving education to become a midwife.  Sabrina was also a pilates and core exercise instructor, personal trainer and weight loss coach.  Sabrina would spend three hours a day stretching while studying for her midwife program.  

Sabrina looked up women's Olympic time for swimming, biking and running various distances.  Sabrina would always exercise at the highest speed she could consistently maintain for each distance she biked, ran or swim and came close to women's olympics swimming and running distances but could not quite do well enough to qualify.  Sabrina would swim, bike or run 4 to 7 days a week at various distances ranging from sprinting to long distance depending on how much time she had that day.  Sometimes she would use a treadmill or stationary bike.while watching educational material and sometimes she would run or bike outdoors.

Sabrina would also lift weights while watching educational materials in her home gym and got first place in a women's power lifting contest that was local to her region.

Sabrina took monkey style kung fu and would spend a half an hour each day outdoors practicing various moves similar to gymnastics using the soft grassy ground to do handstand walking, front and back handsprings, flips, cartwheels and so on.

Sabrina ate a high carbohydrate high protein vegetarian diet eating fat free skim milk and fat free dairy products and never consumed butter margarine, or foods with added hydrogenated or trans fat.  Sabrina avoided food with animal fat except the occasional eggs because the only dairy products she consumed were fat free.  Windy took vitamin and mineral or dietary element supplements to avoid any gaps in nutrition from her diet.  She used flaxseeds, flaxseed oil, canola oil and chia seeds to ensure she had enough Omega 3 fatty acids but never used fish oil supplements because they violated her vegetarian value system.

Matthew liked Sabrina because of her self improvement, fitness and nutrition oriented lifestyle.  Matthew wanted to have a family with Sabrina so he could raise super smart, morally upright children who only ate healthy food choices, and who achieved extreme fitness goals like Sabrina.

Many people liked Sabrina because they described her as smoking hot but that is never why Matthew liked Sabrina.  Matthew liked Sabrina because he thought she had good values that would result in her being a good mother who would raise children with good values.

Although Windy could walk she chose not to because she would rather use the wheelchair.  Windy Marie used some sort of magic and or technology to see and listen to Matthew and Sabrina without them knowing.

Windy found out where they would go on a date by an outdoor cafe that is within sight distance of a bank security camera.

Windy walked up within line of sight of Matthew and Windy and the bank security camera.  

Windy pulled out an illegal drug needle from her purse and injected herself with it and then threw it on the ground instead of in a nearby safe needle disposal bin.

Windy made sure she was near a chair or table leg and that Matthew was looking at her when she did this.  Windy then pulled out a shotgun and pointed the gun at Sabrina and yelled, "I want to buy drugs, give me your money so I can buy drugs or I will shoot you."

Windy then yelled, "now," while shooting the shotgun vertically in the air and walked forward with an angry look on her face, pretending to accidentally trip over the chair or table leg.

Windy then pretended to accidentally drop the shotgun in such a manner that it travelled or launched a far distance away from her as she fell.

Sabrina immediately leaped to where the shotgun was and was about to grab it when Windy Marie shot a body switching ray at her, switching bodies with her.

Windy in Sabrina's body then grabbed the shotgun and pointed it at Sabrina in Windy's body and yelled, "Do not move or I will shoot!"

Matthew then called the police.

When they went to court Windy in Sabrina's body testified how she saw her shoot up illegal drugs and point a shotgun at her and demand she give her money.

Sabrina in Windy's body testified that Windy switched bodies with her with a body switching ray and she had been framed.

Windy was declared insane and court ordered to go to a special facility to get psychiatric treatment for her delusions in addition to drug addiction treatment

Matthew broke up with Sabrina after she started behaving like Windy.  Matthew said, "I am not breaking up with you because you gained weight but because you started picking up a lot of really bad habits.  Your bad habits will cause you to die early so you can not be there for your children if you have any.  If you serve your children the type of food you eat they will have serious health problems.  I want any children I become a parent to, to learn monkey style kung fu from you, as well as how to become super athletes, but now you do not even exercise.  I wanted to raise children to be smart but now you never study anymore and will not pass on the value of learning new things to them nor will you have any knowledge to teach them because you quit learning yourself.  I wanted you to teach my future children moral values, but the only values you seem to have lately are laziness and gluttony which I do not want to teach my children.  There is no point in marrying you if you would not be a good mother."

After Matthew broke up with Windy in Sabrina's body he started visiting Sabrina in Windy's body who he noticed lost a lot of body fat and put on a lot of muscle and was exercising regularly and eating healthier than Windy would.  Sabrina in Windy's body told Matthew she stopped eating a vegetarian diet because she could not control what she eats at the facility completely and can not just order foods and supplements to get enough nutrition with a vegetarian diet in the facility, but if she ever gets out she plans to return to a vegetarian diet again.

Matthew told Sabrina in Windy's body about what happened to Windy in Sabrina's body and how she started acting like Windy and that he believed she was telling the truth.  They made a plan that Sabrina in Windy's body would tell them that she realizes she was wrong and was jealous of Sabrina all along and she made up a story because she wanted to blame Sabrina for her drug and eating disorder and to have a way to get out of responsibility for her actions and that she must have hallucinated or had delusions that resulted in her blaming Sabrina well under the influence of drugs and that she was just using drugs as a way to get out of the pain of the consequences of her laziness and eating disorder.

After many months and many visits from Matthew, Sabrina in Windy's body was finally released and then married Matthew.

When Windy in Sabrina's body found out, she said to herself that, "Matthew broke up with me and married her because she had a smoking hot body even though she had a horrible personality and he did not like me because I was obese even though I had a great personality.  I am so done with that scumbag Matthew!"

Windy in Sabrina's body then found another skinny woman who was dating another man she liked and repeated the process and switched body's with her.

Fraudstein

 Fraudstein

Fiction

There was a guy named Fraudstein who became considered the smartest person in all of world history.  Fraudstein did not pass Algebra.  Fraudstein had his wife do all the math for his science papers.  Fraudstein and his wife copied previous science papers written by other people, only they changed details such that where the previous theoretical science papers did not have self contradictions these new science papers did.  Fraudstein did not give his wife any of the credit nor the scientists they copied.  

Fraudstein claimed his special theory could be proved by observing a rare astronomical event only at a special place and special time that almost no one would be located at when it happened.

Many of the  people who traveled to that place and were there at that time believed the observations did not fit Fraudstein's predictions but most people could not prove Fraudstein's predictions were wrong because they were not there.  A vote was made by the people there about if Fraudstein's predictions were right or wrong and he was so close to losing the vote that a special person was assigned to decide the outcome of the vote and changed him to become the winner thus proving by scientific consensus that his predictions were right despite the fact that if this special person did not decide the final outcome of the vote he would not have won.

Since then predictions based on Fraudstein's theory were claimed to prove his theory numerous times doing experiments that can only be proven with millions or billions of dollars that people who are not millionaires or billionaires or given millions or billions of dollars in government funding at taxpayer expense can not afford to observe.  Only people with special legal clearance were supposedly allowed to see these special experiments.  Some people claimed the published results of these experiments they never could afford to see or were not given legal clearance to see did not actually fit the predictions but they were told they were just not smart enough and got the calculations wrong.

Fraustein eventually won a big monetary prize for his theories.  Fraudstein gave the money to his ex wife who was very upset at him.  You see even though she did all the math work Fraudstein was unthankful to her and ungrateful to her and divorced her instead of giving her credit because he wanted to marry his first biological cousin who he did marry in addition to divorcing his wife who was faithful and committed to him and did nothing wrong to him personally, although she did plenty of things academically wrong to support her unfaithful and uncommitted husband.

Although Fraudstein initially had critics in the scientific community most of the people who disbelieved him kept their mouths shut so it appeared that the scientific convention supported him.

In the Gov Viet Goon Ion saying Fraudstein was wrong would get you thrown in the mental hospital.  In other places people who said Fraudstein was wrong were called hateful bigots who hate him because of his race, religion, ethnicity and ancestry and the things they say about his theories predictions not fitting experimental observations correctly were ignored and called lies about calculation errors by hateful bigots who made the real calculation errors.  

Many supporters of Fraudstein's theories claimed that Fraudstein's theories proved that Fradustein was the smartest person in the world and that therefore Fraudstein's people group was smarter than other people groups but anyone who pointed out they were bigoted for saying that was called a bigot against Fraudstein's people group.

Once Fraudstein was asked about his theories and he said I did not come to visit this country to talk about math or science theories but about why my people should be allowed to take the land of other people who are currently living somewhere else.

The predecessors who Fraudstein stole the theories from and modified the theories of did not publish such blatantly self contradictory theories.  Some people claim you can know Fraudstein's theories are wrong even without testing them by experiments because they are self contradictory.  These people were told they were not really self contradictory but paradoxical and only look self contradictory to people who are not smart enough and that calling these paradoxes contradictions just proves the critics are not smart enough and everyone who is smart enough knows Fraudstein was correct.

Recycling Gnomes

 Recycling Gnomes

Fiction

Bob put away recycling into the bin for his apartment complex which was on the West Side of the building but could barely fit it in because it was so full

The next day Bob went to put away recycling and the bin was moved to the North Side of the building but was completely full

This was a giant bin was so large no normal human could lift it and it could not be moved without a special machine when it was emptied into the recycling truck

Has reality changed for Bob?  Did Bob enter a different parallel dimension?  Was this a paranormal or supernatural event?  Was Bob in the matrix?

Probably they just moved it and forgot to empty it.

Smoke Box

 Story

Smoke Box

Fiction

Steve walked to the library to return books in the book drop and check out some other books.  He saw on the glass door a note that some library event today was cancelled due to air quality that day then he suddenly smelled bad air like something was burning.  He could still return books and check out some more books so that event cancellation did not concern him.

Later that day Steve walked to a grocery store which was a big chain grocery store and again he smelled that smell.  But he did not smell that smell anywhere else in that neighborhood

On other days Steve would walk at nights and hear a sound like an air conditioning fan or humidifier was running near businesses that should be closed at night with no people to keep cool because the business is closed.  Why would they need to waste money to run air conditioning when no one was there and was air conditioning or a humidifier the real reason for the fan sound?

Steve noticed when he would hear this sound near corporate and government buildings he would smell the smoke smell but he did not smell it most of the other places most of the other time.  He also sometimes smelled it however when near evergreen shrubs or bushes with pine cone needle shaped leaves.  

Supposedly there was a big forest fire in a far away land with lots of evergreen and maple trees leading to bad air quality.  

He wondered in his imagination however if some sort of corporate government partnership occurred to have some sort of smoke boxes or gas emitting boxes at strategic locations to create this smell to see if they could get people to believe corporate and government news stories about bad air and the necessity of being locked down in your house.

If they could use these machines and news stories any time they want to get people to believe there is a real bad air quality event then they could use the news and smoke smell generators to lock people in their houses or apartments any time they want to control the population.  

They would combine the smell generation at high foot traffic areas with news stories about bad air quality at the same time until people believe the news stories are trustworthy based on experiencing the smell when they hear the news story.  

Eventually after doing this enough times they could then simply put a news story that the air quality is so bad you can not safely leave your house and people would eventually stay in their house without even checking if they can smell the smoke especially with the right government and corporate policies.

More over, although they can smell the smoke this time, next time they can say it is a odorless poisonous gas that supposedly kills slowly instead of instantly.  By doing this no one can refute it by saying if it is real how come I can not smell it or if it is real how come I am not instantly dead having stepped outside or if it is real how come there are people walking around outside who are not instantly dead? 

There are many types of perfumes and smells corporations have experimented with for years.  Although one might think smoke being emitted from a single source in a large quantity would be visible.  Much corporate research has been done to see which chemicals people are more or less sensitive to smelling.  Someone could simply choose a chemical which produces a stronger smell stimulus with less molecules or mass or that is more difficult to see with the eyes for the same amount of mass or number of molecules

Steve thought he smelled the smell near the evergreens because the smell was meant to be similar to burning evergreens to match the current story.

Steve had a friend who was a meteorologist who did not believe Steve's imaginative speculation of possibilities when he told them this scenario.  The meteorologist friend said they could not fake that because they could not build a large enough smoke machine to produce a smoke smell over an entire city.

Steve asked could they have one to produce the smell near a single building instead of over an entire city however?  His friend said yes

Steve's meteorologist friend was not understanding what he was saying the first time or did not want to understand what he said.  Steve was not speculating there was a single giant smoke machine to cover the entire city but multiple small sized smoke machines at the most high foot traffic locations like popular businesses, restaurants, grocery stores, government buildings, post offices and libraries.

They would not necessarily be smoke machines but could emit some other gas that is colorless and much more difficult to see then smoke with a stronger smell per mass and or per number of molecules then smoke so that it would be more difficult to see it's emission source with the human eye

Now it would not even necessarily have to be some chemical substitute for smoke  but real smoke could also be used and still have it's source hidden.  Although sometimes you can see smoke from a barbecue grill under certain circumstances, that smoke can also be smelled from a great distance without being seen.  

Smoke is sometimes easily visible near the source before it spreads out but sometimes no longer easily visible far away from the source once it has spread out more.  All they would have to do is put the source of emission where all the locations where it can be seen from would violate trespassing laws to go to. Large buildings might have plenty of locations for this to be done from where the smoke could be smelled but not seen especially during the hours the buildings are closed.

There are also many chimneys in buildings where it would be normal to see smoke from. People in some certain locations could also be instructed to use their chimneys simultaneously at strategic times to make the air smell like smoke when the news story rolls in. 

 Although car emissions are supposed to be regulated government and corporations could intentionally create cars that emit extra smelly exhaust that people will mistake as bad air quality from some other source and have people assigned to drive them around.

But this was just Steve's imaginative speculation.  Other people who talked to Steve have speculated that rich people in government and corporate positions intentionally let fires happen to seize land at cheap prices and to kick people out of their property making them depending on the government and to create real air pollution to justify locking down people to protect them from the pollution they created in order to enslave people through lock downs.  But that is just their crazy imaginative speculation.

Drowning Wall

 Drowning Wall

Fiction

Steve was going to college and new to the area.  His parents told him do not play in the river or you will drown.  He heard stories about drunk people drowning in the river,  One day someone gave him a tour of different parts of the city.

He was shown the place where people drown in the river.  The story goes that someone was drunk and people were running after him and he continued to run until he fell in the river.

Steve was a lifeguard certified level swimmer and he knew that was not the real cause of death.  The real cause of death was a giant man made wall no one can climb with no ladder.

Even if someone was an olympic level swimmer or lifeguard level swimmer or navy seal or the best swimmer in the world there was a huge problem.  There was no way to get out at least unless you really thought about it for a long time.

Essentially someone who fell into that spot would have to swim forever until they found a spot with land on it to get out of the water.  Even the best swimmer in the world can not swim forever without a break.

Now maybe if the current is not too strong they could try to swim all the way to the other side of the river or follow the wall until it leads to an end where you can climb up to land or walk on shallow water.

Of course someone might say it was ok not to have a ladder because it would be instant death anyway but there are two problems with that.  

First do not presume the person's swimming ability maybe someone skilled enough could swim and survive in that location even if there is a strong current

Second if it is that deadly then at least put a guard rail to keep people from accidentally falling off if they get to close

But you can not put a guard rail everywhere a cliff too steep to climb naturally exists leading to a fall into the water

While you can not put one everywhere such a cliff naturally exists but this was a man made structure so the same person that made the giant wall could have put a ladder on the wall or a rail or slanted it so you can go up the wall if you fall into the water

When Steve got back to his home city he saw another man made wall that you can not climb next to another body of water with no guard rail and no latter

Steve concluded these things are everywhere and hoped some brave and or greedy lawyer would start suing governments to make these things safer. There is no need to create a man-made drowning problem with such walls next to water bodies but offer no man-made solutions such as latters or guard rails. 

Although these structures oppose a danger to all people they especially pose a danger to the blind, children and people in wheelchairs or at least that is one angle Steve thought lawyers could take.  Steve did not like the idea of resorting to making the lawsuit only about disability because these things are a safety hazard to all people not disabled people only but Steve would be ok with it if such a lawsuit changed building design for good on the basis of whatever grounds.

Night Fountain Bird

 Night Fountain Bird reveals already obvious safety hazard again

Fiction

Steve was walking to the library at night to drop off a DVD

Steve opened the DVD case to make sure the DVD was in the DVD case and then shut it again

As he did this he got near a fountain at the library

He heard a sound like something fallen into the water but it sounded more like the sound of a animal moving water then like a dense and hard rock falling into water

Steve heard a sound like a animal squeaking not squawking but squeaking

Steve next heard the sound of wings flapping and saw what looked like a white bird flying away over distant trees

Steve wondered do geese, swans or ducks sleep in the water at night in fountains?  Or do birds take baths late at night?  Could a startled bird fall in the water?  Was there some other animal he did not see that drowned?

This fountain was a weird fountain.

Instead of spraying water into the air like a normal fountain, this fake fountain was more like a pool with a single stair.  At the shallow level of the pool water came in from a grate or pipe like those sewage pipes by some lakeshores or the grates that water comes and goes into and out of pools from.  And at the deep end of the pool which was not deep or wide enough to safely swim in was a grate on the floor of the pool that water went down into.

Most of the surface of the pool however was covered with a flat rusty looking metal covering so that if you dropped something in there you could not see it or pull it out.  On top of the rusty metal covering was a modern art sculpture.  Not a real sculpture but a modern art sculpture.

Every fall the water would get clogged up with leaves and he wondered about the government funds or wasted volunteer time to clean up the water so the fountain does not clog and if anyone got scraps and or infections from cleaning this piece of junk.

He always saw children biking and skateboarding near the fountain and viewed it as a tragic accident waiting to happen where some child hits the metal grate gets scrapped then falls into very unclean water which could not be cleaned as well as a normal fountain

This fountain could not be cleaned as well as a normal fountain because the metal covering blocked you from seeing items that needed to be cleaned and blocked you from grabbing items.  Steve wondered how many lost items were in that fountain and if anyone ever accidentally dropped library materials in it.

And now he realized small cute animals like squirrels, chipmunks, birds and fluffy dogs, cats and rabbits could fall in it and drown and no one would know to save them because of the big covering

Even if this was donated one should ask how much taxpayer money is spent to clean such a modern art safety hazard on public property

And if it was not donated but purchased with government funds one should ask how the corrupt artist got favors from a corrupt politician to be paid to build such a safety hazard

So Steve could never know for sure if what he heard was the bird leaving the fountain or another animal falling in and drowning to death after hearing the noise of him open fhe DVD case right before he saw a flying bird

Steve wished this piece of art was split into two halves the sculpture and metal covering removed and put somewhere else on display away from water.  And the pool was made open with no covering, maybe even made into a pool small children can play in  or replaced with a real fountain.

But he knew no one would do anything about it because who is he to get rid of a pretty safety hazard.  It would be called unsafe to have such a small pool for children to play in.  You can not play in a fountain because it is unsafe or uncivilized.  He knew a person who said he got a ticket for playing in a fountain while drunk.

But it is much safer for children to play in a pool with no cover than for them to play in a covered pool with just enough opening to fall into but just enough covering to have trouble getting out of.

Sometimes Steve wondered if things were made dangerous like that on purpose in the name of art and safety just for laughs of some evil people trying to harm children in the name of enriching children's lives.

Heck there could be a whole tunnel system with an evil lair under the fountain which a amphibian race of humanoids misnamed lizard people or evil human traffickers in scuba suits come out and snatch children who play too close to the fountain or even lone adults when no one is looking because so much of it was covered.  Like one of those children tales, do not wander here or go too close to this or that place especially when you are alone without adults or monsters will snatch you.  

That sounds a lot more interesting than, do not play in the fountain because some unwise adult put a cover over it so you might drown when no one is looking and even if you do not drown it is really really dirty in fact so dirty it could kill you because of that same alleged artistic genius's safety blunder.

It is much more exciting to tell them a lake or river or sea monster will kill you than to tell children not to play unsupervised near the water or they are more likely to drown.