It's ugly out there, and it's only getting uglier, particularly if you work in the inflatable latex manipulation industry. Workplace rivalries are resulting in turf wars, intimidation, and threats of physical violence. Just how bad is it?
Two airheads tried to pop a rival balloon artist in Central Park, authorities said yesterday.They were mocking his accent. He should have manipulated one of his balloons to resemble a machete and said, "This is a knife." Even better, the rivals questioned whether Nassif was properly certified by the city, to which he tartly responded, "I said I didn't need one because I don't use helium." BURN! Nassifm allegedly threatened to have his rivals legs' broken, although one imagines he actually meant "bent into the shape of a two-headed rabbit." Anyway, tense, tense times.The men threatened Charles Nassif, 39, telling him, "If you stay here, you'll see what will happen to you," police sources said.
"I felt like I was violated," the Australian native said. "They were mocking my accent."
I've read similar of the "people frozen to look like, say, the Statue of Liberty or something else that would attract a tourist resplendent with spare change and bills" industry.
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Such a tough town - they were actually mocking his accent!
“If you stay here, you’ll see what will happen to you.â€Â
This is trivially true. Is it too much to ask that people come up with philosophically interesting threats?
Especially so if the intention is perform the verbal equivalent of rape.
It's like Man Push Cart but with latex not bagels. And without the neorealism.