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Old 05-11-2011, 10:00 PM
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Man in Papua New Guinea Perplexed by Escalator

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Old 05-11-2011, 10:07 PM
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Thankfully their are still people like that in the world.
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Old 05-11-2011, 10:17 PM
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What's amazing (by US standards) is all the people who stopped to help him. Imagine how he would be treated by the average american mall rat.
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Pretty cool.
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Old 05-11-2011, 10:21 PM
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When I was in Cambodia in '03, a mall with dual escalators had a grand opening and the main attraction were the escalators.
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He was wondering how he was gonna get back down.
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Old 05-11-2011, 10:29 PM
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They got quite a groove going there.
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Old 05-11-2011, 10:31 PM
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What's amazing (by US standards) is all the people who stopped to help him. Imagine how he would be treated by the average american mall rat.
I don't know. I think, by and large, people world-wide are generally kind and willing to help a stranger. I saw two guys in a local mall that were very gracious to an older lady who was struggling with some packages, with no trace of irony I could find. I am embarrassed to say I had pre-judged them incapable of graciousness.
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Old 05-11-2011, 11:15 PM
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He did good for his first time unlike this fellow who has probably done it a thousand times.

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I recently read a book written by two women whose boat went aground and sank in a lagoon not that far from Papua New Guinea. In their attempts to salvage it, one of them went to Port Moresby. They described it in very undesirable terms.
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Old 05-11-2011, 11:35 PM
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A little history about that area.
During WW-2, the Communists were createing havoc in Malaysia. They would come out of the jungle, do their thing ,and dissapear back into the jungle.
The British were very clever in how they dealt w/this problem.

The Britt's went down into Borneo, and brought back some very real 'Head-Hunters', and turned them loose in the jungle, with the mission of hunting down the Chinese Communist opposition.

In a short period of time, the Commies waved the white flag, and begged the British controllers to 'call-off' the men from Borneo who were hunting them-catching them- and doing all sorts of nasty things once they did find a communist.
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Have you heard of Borat?

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Old 05-12-2011, 02:22 AM
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He was probably wondering what happened to all the steps when they all got collected at the top. What did they do wth them?
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Wait, there are escalators in Papua New Guinea?
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Thats like most Benz owners when they see the hood release handle.

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