Random is as random does.

[fangirl_says]

Ugh, I woke up in the middle of a dream where I was supposed to have been taking care of someone's dogs for them, but I realized I had forgotten to go feed/water them for like a WEEK, and I was trying really hard to get to the house where they were kept, but things kept happening that stopped me. And I woke up before I could get to them, and now I'm still feeling all sad/upset/guilty over these IMAGINARY DOGS that I IMAGINED NEGLECTING. I mean, wtf, brain?

Coffee, stat.

Somewhat less distressing (but even more with the wtf) is this video (found by mistigris on boingboing):

Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane - Watch more free videos

So, what do you think: real or fake?

I think I'm calling fake on this one. Although it looks pretty real when the guy throws the monitor at the woman in the cubicle beside his, I just don't buy that they'd all just sit/stand there doing nothing while this guy went on the rampage. Each one of them had a phone at his/her desk, and I didn't see any of them picking one up, either to call for help or just go 'ZOMG there's a guy going crazy in here!'. And only a couple of people actually left the room, which would've been my first instinct. So, yeah, I think it was fake.

Edit: WTH happened to IMDB?

Comments

[squeeful.livejournal.com]

Actually, everybody standing around and doing nothing to me makes it seem a little more real. It's called the bystander effect; people don't do anything to help if there are other people around and the more people, the less likely they are to do nothing. If there had been running and screaming and security bursting in, I'd have called staged because while it does happen, how many times have I seen that in movies? But who would bother to locate a psychological phenomenon that makes people behave opposite of what we would think and opposite what we see in media and tell everybody to act like that? Unless it's just bad acting. ;-D Don't know about how real the rest of it is, but everybody standing around doing nothing, totally realistic. And how many office buildings have much security that is present during the day? In any of my parents' it's all electronic to keep people out, not personnel equipped to deal with rampaging cube dwellers.

[squeeful.livejournal.com]

er, the less likely they are to do anything. or the more likely they are to do nothing.