Todays trusting soul is tomorrows lampshade......

News that another case of crazy has come about through Craigslist should come as no surprise, even when it's something as unfathomable as cutting an unborn child from it's mothers womb. Korena Elaine Roberts met Heather Snively via Craigslist while she was looking for supplies for her soon to be born child. Roberts befriended Snively, for the sole purpose of cutting her unborn child from her womb to claim as her own. This is the third such case in the past couple of years. The first thing that came to mind when I heard of this latest incident was "Whats the world coming to". I mean, the act itself, the level of insanity involved, it boggles the mind. The knee jerk reaction is to assume that there are people out there who surpass the crazy people of 10 years ago by virtue of the sheer depravity of their actions. But thats not the truth. In reality the Internet has just made it easier to reach out and touch someone. It's given the predators of this world easy access to the naive victims in waiting. And make no mistake, people are naive victims in waiting.

From pedophiles who perversely hunger for our young, to Nigerian benefactors who prey on our more dull witted,the Internet is like a Serengeti watering hole where predator and pray converge. You would hope that humans are smarter than Wildebeests, unfortunately they seldom are. I've been accused of being a pessimist, always looking at the worst case scenario, finding the negative in every positive, and that's an accurate assessment of my thought process. At the same time my perspective and general stand offishness will keep me from being turned into a lampshade in some dirt floored basement, after "having the lotion on it's skin" for a few weeks. I'm okay with that.

In a perfect world we would all live in peace and harmony and join hands across America like one big Coke commercial. Newsflash, this world ain't exactly perfect. Besides being overly trusting of complete strangers, who may or may not have ill intentions, we all have this "It won't happen to me mentality". We walk around disassociating the harsh reality on the 6 o'clock news. We worry that the boogie man will come in the form of an over sized white t-shirt wearing thug, hell bent on reliving us of our Honda Accord, or in the form of some guy with a funny sounding name and a foreign religion. The truth is you are more likely to be killed by someone you know, or someone you inadvertently invite into your world, than the stereotypical "Face" of crime.

None of this is to say you shouldn't worry about those stereotypical boogie men, you probably should. While you are at it, you should probably add anyone who tries to befriend you after selling you a breast pump on Craigslist. In other words, treat strangers with the same level of suspision you normally reserve for the guy at the Stop n Shop with the funny name and slurpee machine. Not for nothin, but we aint living in a coke commercial.