The death of common sense

The Death Of Common Sense

by digby

I think one of our general problems as a society is the simple lack of what we used to call common sense. Police are tasering elderly invalids in their beds and little children who are misbehaving. The other day I wrote about a woman who was escorted off of a plane because she had attempted to take a picture of the name tag of an airline employee in the boarding area who had been rude. They kicked her off the plane despite the fact that the picture was too dark to even see the name.

This is even worse:

Ikenna, a 28-year old construction worker, went to deposit a $8,463.21 Chase cashier's check at his local Chase branch, only for the teller to decide that neither he nor his check looked right and he got tossed in jail for forgery, KING5 reports. The next day, a Friday the bank realized its mistake and left a message with the detective. But it was her day off, so he spent the entire weekend in jail.
By the time he got out, he had been fired from his job for not showing up to work. His car had been towed as well. It ended up getting sold off at auction because he couldn't afford to get it out of the pound. He had been relying on that cashier's check for his money but it was taken as evidence and by the time he got it back it was auctioned off.
All this while the cashier's check had been issued by the very bank he was trying to cash it at.

Read on for the full Kafkaesque absurdity. You won't find any remorse or accountability in it.

It isn't just the politicians in Washington who are acting carelessly with other people's lives. It seems to be a growing problem in our culture at large.

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