Ever since that movie Airheads, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of someone holding a large group of people hostage. Especially when you’re in a position to start making demands that actually get fulfilled. That made me think… what if you took a large group of people hostage, and when it came time to demands, you just said “…y’know, I change my mind about this whole hostage thing. So my only demand is that we forget the whole shabang and I walk out of here unscathed.”

Then you might be thinking, oh no, there’s no way that could ever happen, but then the dude says “Look, that’s really my only demand. If we can’t get a guarantee that’s going to happen, I’ll shoot one of the hostages in the face.”

So then you have an interesting dilemma on your hands. If we give in to the guy’s demands, nobody gets hurt. But if we don’t, he’ll shoot a guy. What do you do?

Another thought I had, is that if I had to go out in a blaze of glory and like drive my electric car off the top of a building onto a Farmer’s Market, I’d try to take a corporation I didn’t like down with me. So let’s say you want to walk into a Toys R’ Us and open fire on everybody. And you happened to HATE Skittles (bad example, nobody hates Skittles). So just put a little bag of Skittles in your pocket and you’ll be known as “The Skittles Killer.” It certainly won’t bankrupt Skittles, but it will certainly tarnish its legacy for 3, 4 months.

These are the things I think about really early in the morning.

Posted 28th January, 2012