> Ah, but it is so easy to whip mobs into a murderous frenzy. > At least in some parts of the world, including my own.
Sometimes, all it takes is the home team winning the SuperBowl.
A friend of mine -- then a videographer for KRON in San Francisco -- was assigned to cover the crowds spilling into the streets after the Niners won. He wasn't out there very long before someone took a baseball bat to the back of his head to steal his camera. A videographer from another station caught it on tape. Paul told me that he watched it once, and never could again. He continued to have horrible headaches and other neurological effects from the attack years later.
Ironically, Paul went on to create the TV series "Cops," "American Detective," and "World's Scariest Police Chases." Paul pretty much invented the reality TV genre with his. I wonder if he would have aired that footage on one of his shows if it hadn't been his own head getting bashed?
Paul died almost exactly one year ago when he fell from a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean while hiking along the Oregon coast with his fiance.
Dave
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