Continuing the Recap - Biohazard Saturday

This is quite weird.
I'm looking back a week and recounting the stories.
Anyway, perhaps by now you would have heard about the biohazard hoo ha.
Thanks to the GP boys. But i won't recount it. If you want to know, ask me personally.
The moral of the story is, we can't go around pretending that we planted biohazards anywhere. As unlikely a target as the ping pong room can be.
It made me question a lot of things though.

• what a society we live in. a prank can spiral so out of control. everyone is so paranoid. procedure is the bible.
• the people you read about in the papers can't all be hardcore. it's so easy for you to be implicated, even with the tiniest or silliest of intentions. you can't stereotype people. maybe they just happen to sound like they fit the mold.
  
• the world has such vastly different realities. although we all live in the same point in history, the conditions in 1 place are so different from another. so while some people in australia are getting paranoid over a bag filled with washing powder and olive oil left in the ping pong room, someone else in Sri Lanka is getting blasted with debris from a bomb in the civil war. Can you say fear is justified in either? I leave that to your judgement.
  
• i can be a good friend in need. and i can be fairly biased in opinion when it comes to people i know.
  

Anyway, it was my weekend's excitement. And quite a lot of concern too. Well, until one of my 2007 freshers decided to walk into a glass door and I got to play nurse for a little while. A few stitches after a 6 hour wait and he's all better.
So it has a moderate (if not happy) ending.
But perceptions, definitely questioned. Never trust everything you read in the news, 'cos facts can be twisted every way possible.
Imagine if it was someone you knew. Maybe you wouldn't jump to conclusions too quickly.