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A 14 year student was hit by lightning and lived to talk about it on the Today Show. Here is a link to the story. Of interest are the comments following the story. I cringe at the negativity from some of the dumb *$$e$ and applaud the some of the retorts.
Bruce
Wow...first off Miracle is a good word to describe this.
Secondly, I cannot believe that people were so hung up on making horrid comments about his appearence. Long hair or not, he could have been so severely burned beyond recognition. Would they have made fun of him then?
Also, describing him as a pretty boy, a girl and such was a little much.
The one thing I like though is that the main people who fought for him were the youth. The younger generation was replying in support of his hair, but also him as a person. It seems the ones hung up on his appearence missed the point that the kid was alive, and still attacks him anyways.
Unbelievable! I cringed as well Bruce. Though a lot of people stepped up against the ignoramouses. Thanks for posting this article.
-Phil
HI Bruce, and all,
La Pine is where this happened, which is only like 20 miles south of where I am in Bend here. There was a great shot of Austin in the front part of the paper. Amazing hair (in contrast to his dad's). Lightening and electrical storms are very, very common here in the summers, early fall. Bad news because of all the timber in the region, and many forest fires start that way here, burning thousands of acres at a time. The storms come up out of now where, and within 15 minutes you can be in a deluge. What happened to Austin is not a surprising chain of events. Our office power can frequently dip, and is bad news for computers.
Austin is a very lucky young man, with great hair. The paper here made now funny comments about it at all, and the kids his age were not making fun of his hair at all. We here are at a high altitude, and with 30 local golf courses, more than one golfer has been hit by lightening while playing here in the high desert.
Glad you got to see what great hair one of our local kids has.
-Dan in Bend
What a story, and he is a handsome young long hair!!
It's jealousy, I could think of nothing else.I mean, with the kid's amazing durability and mature way of speech, and his hot chick-promising looks, you can't feel superior over him. I couldn't.
Here is another great shot of Austin's hair, with his classmates in the background. He has a lot of support from his class, and has been all over the newspapers across the state.
I hope this uploads ok.
-Daniel
I'd like to ask the board if those idiots who cared about nothing except the length of his hair deserve the title, "Hair Nazis"?
Gosh, lets ask James.
Did you all notice how many justified his hair length with "he's only growing it for locks of love"?
Paul
Yeah, I noticed that also. As much of a wonderful org Locks is, and this wonderful young man is noble for doing this, using locks of love to justify his hair shows that they too are intolerant themselves. They just happen to appear tolerant because he's going to do good (in their eyes) with it. I wonder how much there tune would change if he just liked long hair and was just letting it grow out like you and I. But of course they might figure that the Locks argument is the only one that might win some of the hearts of the bigits. Which, as we can see, didn't help any.
Daniel
yeah i personally dont honestly believe that someone would grow their hair long solely for the purpose of donating to locks of love, although it could be a side thing (growing your hair to terminal length, hacking some off and donating then regrowing, i could actually see myself doing that), they just have to love being a longhair as well, and like you said this reasoning allows people to believe "hes just doing it for charity because hes such a wonderful person" instead of trying to comprehend that some guys actually like having long hair.
Well. Funny you mention that. I think some people justify and some people just do. I had mid back length hair when I was 18. I donated my long hair to the Sick Kids hospital and sported my short hair for a little. Then I started growing it again for the purpose of donating it. I then cut it again and gave them some, but left much of the length on and realized that I wanted my hair back again.
I think it's a noble cause if you are being honest about actually donating it. I don't think it should be something used to justify it, because that is a worth while charity (In my mind)
Thats my story really.
Not that I feel like being cynical here, but personally I'd never grow my hair for the reason of cutting it for the charity. I may be selfish, or stubborn, but just no. With all the years needed, and care and attention, and bearing of other people's fingerpointings... no. I'd rather give some concrete help such as money, or clothes or my old toys. If I am to sacrifice 2+ years of life in attention and whole-hearted hoping for something, then I won't devaluate all of it for some cause I can fulfil much more practically.
Hehe dont worry thats not particularly selfish in my opinion, thats just logical, growing long hair and suffering through the awkward stage and all the "finger pointings" as you put it, just to cut it for charity as soon as it got long? Thats not noble so much as its self sacrificial compared to your other charitable options.
I dont think it's selfish of anyone. Personaly I thought it was a time for a change when I cut my hair. I was wrong, and I missed it. But I had already cut it, so I gave it to the sick kids.
I grew it out again and cut it and gave them more. I don't have much to give financialy but it helped though. Or I assume. I raised money for it too by getting donations for my haircut :)
Overall, if it imspired me to grow and this time keep my hair.
Hair Nazis maybe, Pinheads for sure!
Bruce
I know I get tired of the number of times I get asked if I'm going to donate to Locks of Love. The way these people seem to assume that this would be the natural reason for a guy to be growing his hair out.
Perhaps they should both appear on "USA got talent"!!! Talk about cardboard performance. So for LOL well his hair is hardly long enough for that!
Cheers,
John.B
PS..I don't even use that N word either!
I think theyre too f**king stupid to be hair nazis. But thats just me
Hey Bruce,
I posted this on their site;
"Would all you hair haters say anything if this was a girl with short hair?"
That point was overlooked don't you think?
Lets see what those jerks say about that bit of bait.
Paul
Good one Paul!
What the hell is wrong with those people!
Bruce
I checked and so far it seems to have shut them up.
Paul