Public Defense

I've seen dead people.

Yup, dead people. Not walking around or anything, but you know...laying on the ground all fucked up with holes, pools of blood, all that stuff. Not every day but a few times.

I've seen hurt people.

Yup, hurt people. Physically and emotionally. People that have lost family members and people that have lost everything they've ever owned in their lives all in just a few minutes. People that are still alive after a horrific accident wishing they were dead. You know, hurt people.

I've seen and touched over $100,000 in cash...then put it in a briefcase.

Yup, I always wondered what that much money would look like and one day I saw it. It was not a big a pile of money as I had anticipated. Nothing illegal or unethical...just business. I only wish that it was MY cash.

I've seen the most beautiful sunset.

Yup, I've seen what I consider to be the most beautiful sunset that I'm certain I'll ever get the opportunity to see while standing on a private beach in Malibu. I'm not a person that believes ANY beach should be privately owned but this sunset was the most amazing and spectacular thing to behold and being on a secluded beach made it only more beautiful. I mean, there were half dressed women who did "part-time" work as catalog models playing volleyball with a few of my friends directly behind me and I didn't even notice until AFTER the sun had disappeared below the Pacific. Yeah, that amazing. Well, the chicks were pretty amazing too but that's for another blog post.

Quite honestly, none of these stories even begin to scratch the surface of the things I've experienced in my life. As bad as some of the experiences were, I think I learned a little about myself and what I'm made of each time I was presented with these scenarios. I have lived with no regrets and no interest in ever taking anything back...until today.

This morning, I went to my local coffee place and as I walked inside, I saw the most horrible thing I've ever seen in my life. It was an aberration of nature...something that whichever G*d you believe in, he should have DESTROYED the minute it was concocted and set loose upon this magnificent planet we call Earth. It is something that would make the average person fall to their knees and say, Why lord!!! Why have you forsaken me? Why, oh why have you done this to me and to this fellow human being? Why have you allowed this freak of nature to exist on the same plane of existence as Man?! Why!?!

Luckily, I'm a just one step above the average person, and I had the wherewithal to pull out my trusty camera phone and take a picture of the following: