A moral question for you folks...

[JohnR]

This is an imaginary situation, but I think it is fun to decide what one would do.

The situation:

You are in the Middle East, and there is a huge flood in progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and structures destroyed. You are a photographer getting still photos for the CNN
news service and are traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes.

You come across Osama Bin Laden who has been swept away by the floodwaters. He is barely hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go under. You can either put down your camera and save him, or take a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb.

So, here's the question ..... and think carefully before you answer the question below:















Which lens would you use ?

[Got Stripers]

LMAO

[Clammer]

400mm--zoom

[TheSpecialist]

I'd help..............................drown the son of a bitch.

[OX]

The one with the crosshairs.........................BANG!

[chris L]

id save him (5 million $ bounty on his head ) then Id gut him like the pig he is ! turn in his hide for my reward . Id carry his head like Medusa's .

[Fishpart]

I'm with Chris!!!! It would be great to ride into Washington with his head on a spear.

[10x10]

I'd rescue him.Drowning is to good for that maniac.Besides I don't like water pollution.
After I rescued him I would bring him back to NY where he would be put in stocks for the rest of his unnatural damned life on public display and the citizens of NY(or anywhere's else as well) can torture and abuse him as much as they like.After he finally is dead from general and and assorted abuse,I would take the body and put it in the cornerstone of the new WTC building with a nice big plaque as to who was in there and how they got there.Or..... maybe I would make him sit through back to back to back to back interviews with Hiraldo,Oprah,Donahue,Jenny, etc.

[The Iceman 6]

I would save him, beat the snot out of him then bring him to "seal island" where I proceed to liveline him from the back of a boat and watch those "Air Jaws" Great Whites mangle the F out of him. There is my "pulitzer" right there.

Iceman

[Saltheart]

Good one John! I would use the lens that would best focus in on the fear in his eyes as he faced death helplessly like so many of his victims. I would want to save that moment for everyone.

[Patrick82]

What good is letting him die? First I would get out a rescue line and let it go just out of reach until he was really tired. Then I'd finally let him grab it, let him swing out into the current and cut it and watch him drown.

[JohnR]

I wish I could take credit fo that but it was an e-mail I recieved - I think I'd stitch 50 or 60 plugs (trebbles and all) into his skin and then lock him in a room with BM ...


Another E-mail:

I usually don't forward these but this one is particularly frightening to me...

Don't go to the bathroom on October 28th. CIA intelligence reports that a major plot is planned for that day. Anyone who takes a poop on the 28th will be bitten on the ass by an alligator. Reports indicate that organized groups of alligators are planning to rise up into unsuspecting American's toilet bowls and bite them when they are doing their dirty business.

I usually don't send emails like this, but I got this information from a reliable source. It came from a friend of a friend whose cousin is dating this girl whose brother knows this guy whose wife knows this lady whose husband buys hotdogs from this guy who knows a shoeshine guy who shines the shoes of a mailroom worker who has a friend who's drug dealer sells drugs to another mailroom worker who works in the CIA building. He apparently overheard two guys talking in the bathroom about alligators and came to the conclusion that we are going to be attacked. So it must be true.

[STEVE IN MASS]

Well, I heard it said that killing him would make him a martyr. Capturing him and bringing him back here for trial wouldn't work, first, he'd never get a "fair" trial, second, his cohorts would use hostages and bargain for his return. So what to do, what to do?

Somebody, I think it was Jay Leno's wife, said that we should capture him, send him to Sweden and force him to undergo a sex change operation, then send him back to Afganistan to live as a woman! A taste of his own medicine.

[Patrick82]

I actually read somewhere that during a war, when there were Islamic terrorist attacks, Pershing and his crew captured a bunch of Islamic terrorists. They weren't scared because no matter how they die they would go to the Islamic heaven, whatever they call it.

First they made the men dig their own graves. Then they tied them to posts, brought out some pigs and slaughtered them. They rubbed their bullets in pig blood and executed all of the terrorists but one. Then they threw their corpses in a grave and tossed the pig remains on top of their bodies. They let the last terrorist go to spread the word. Apparently to the Muslims, consuming a pig in any form is the ultimate sin and the terrorism stopped. I don't know how true it is but hey, if it works, go for it.

[Jenn]

I think I'd stitch 50 or 60 plugs (trebbles and all) into his skin and then lock him in a room with BM ...

tOO FUNNY!

I was thinking of throwing a rope out to save him (only it would be loaded with hooks) and then reel him in , then I would probably (since I am a female) castrate (with a rusty fork) then tease him with farm animals!



OOOPPPS! wasnt this a "moral" question????

[bassmaster]

I would pluck him (skumbag) like a Barbie doll tossed into a croud of 4th grade boys...........................
then I would Live line him for sewer trout

[Jenn]

I would pluck him (skumbag) like a Barbie doll tossed into a croud of 4th grade boys...........................

thanks...I am having flashbacks oh the nasty things that happened to "day and night " barbie on the bus......so many years ago.....


I'm scarred.......

[bassmaster]

I bite the heads of smurfs. c,mon barbie lets go partie. oh my favorite song. barf......