School cannon blows up student's leg and the town threatens him to shut up.

Read the article linked below, the towns people there utterly disgust me:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/296584_cannon20.html?source=mypi

You know when the Roman Empire fell one of the things that was happening was that the people were more involved with sports and other things than dealing with the reality of whats going on around them or even the well being of it's own people. The signs are appearing everywhere for history repeating itself.