Ben Carson: Pompeii Victims Should Have Outrun Lava

[ashling]

Last edited Wed Oct 7, 2015, 03:42 PM - Edit history (1)

On Edit: To avoid the obvious embarrassment suffered by posters # 4 & 5 below,
anyone even remotely tempted to post a reply should:
READ THE FRIGGIN ARTICLE !

thank you

“Most of the plaster casts we have of Pompeii victims show them basically just lying down and whatnot,” he said. “If I had been in Pompeii and I heard Mt. Vesuvius erupting, you can bet I would have made a run for it.”


He said another option open to residents of Pompeii would have been “to fight the volcano.”

“Archeologists estimate that the population of Pompeii was about eleven thousand,” he said. “You can’t tell me that if eleven thousand people put their minds to it they couldn’t beat one volcano.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ben-carson-pompeii-victims-should-have-outrun-lava

[gateley]

1. I can actually believe he said that -- good job, Horowitz!! :-)

[trotsky]

2. If only the citizens of Pompeii had all been armed with guns.

They could have shot the volcano and saved the town.

[CoffeeCat]

3. Carson tells Katrina victims

...that they should have swam harder.

Victims of Sandy? They should have ducked or purchased homes in the midwest, away from the ocean.

Everyone who has been laid off from a manufacturing job that was shipped to China? They should have majored in graphic design!

[Prism]

4. Pyroclastic flows can reach 450mph

Eesh. It's not brain surgery.

Edit: Whoops, should've read the article. I've just gotten too used to the idea that this man is some kind of idiot savant.

[SarasotaDem]

5. pyroclastic flow .... Duh

Can he Really be that stupid ?


[link:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101102/pompeii-mount-vesuvius-science-died-instantly-heat-bodies/|

EDIT .... Should have read it as well

[MisterP]

6. you're posting deceptive articles from the New Yorker, don't screech if it gets the wrong reaction

[MH1]

8. The link clearly says "borowitz-report" does it not?

Sheesh, that's almost like saying "it's from the Onion"

[Angry Dragon]

7. Ben Carson offers to do brain transplant for Trump and any other republicans