About 50 Indians may have blinded themselves because they believed that staring at the sun would allow themselves to see a vision of the Virgin Mary.Apparently, this vision can be seen over the former home of a hotel owner in Southeast India. Although that hotel owner had previously claimed to have statues of the Virgin Mary that cried honey and bled oils and perfumes.There is truly a sucker born every minute.
Have you ever done something stupid or known someone who has? Whatever reason we choose to excuse our silly slip ups, we will all make at least one blundering blooper in our lifetime. Unfortunately the people in the stories below put themselves in the predicament of either being or ending up in the public eye.
I had such an embarrassing experience yesterday at the bank. I was waiting to see a consultant, along with three other people. I don’t like talking to strangers like that. People usually make senseless small talk and I think its stupid. Anyway, to get back to my embarrassment. The girl next to me was probably in her late twenties, and seemed extremely impatient. After a while she asked me why one of the consultants didn’t see any clients. I answered her with a bit of a clueless expression on my face and a slight shrug, after which she told me that she had to get her cash passport sorted out, because she was going to visit her sister in South Korea in a few days’ time.
I asked a bit about her trip, and whether she was looking forward to it. Now since we were not waiting in a normal queue for the cashiers, but instead sitting, waiting for consultants (in the forex department), she probably thought I was traveling somewhere abroad as well. So she asked me &ldquo
Well, want the answer to this question?:) There are several answers for this question. Some of them are given below.
Teenagers do crazy things :p. They take drugs, have sex, ride with drunken drivers, and pretend to be asleep when it’s time to do the dishes.
But it’s not that they don’t ponder the the potential consequences. In fact, a new study finds teens spend more time weighing risk than adults and in fact often overestimate the odds of a bad outcome. But the desire for acceptance among peers wins out in the decision-making process of a young mind.
Cornell University researcher Valerie Reyna and Frank Farley of Temple University conducted a review of scientific studies on the topics.
Compared to adults, teens take about 170 milliseconds more weighing the pros and cons of engaging in high-risk behavior, the researchers conclude :O. Adults scarcely think about risk, perhaps because they think they recognize risk intuitively. Teens, on the other hand, take time to
