Anger Can Make You Stupid

Without a doubt, anger can make a person stupid. I'm sure we've all seen people get mad and then do something incredibly stupid -- something they would never have normally done. In fact, some people get angry and punish themselves (and that's something I've never understood).

That's what happened to the man in this true story. It seems that an airline called Ryanair has been passing out scratchcards to it's passengers as a publicity gimmick to keep those passengers flying with their airline. In the past two years, passengers have won 10 cars, over 300,000 euros and about 100,000 flight vouchers.

On a flight from Poland to England this last week, one man won 10,000 euros on one of the scratchcards (about $13,600). For some reason, this idiot expected the flight attendants to immediately give him the money. When they tried to explain that he would need to get the card verified and get the money from the scratchcard company, he became very angry.

Then he threatened to eat the card if he were not paid immediately. The crew tried to explain they did not carry that kind of money on the plane, but he would get the money by contacting the scratchcard company and begged him not to eat the card. Some of the passengers even joined in and urged him to not eat the card.

But his anger wouldn't let him listen to reason. He stood up and ate the the card in spite of all their appeals. Now he will get nothing. This fool had let his anger convince him to throw away over $13,000.

Since the company can no longer pay off on that card, they say they will donate the 10,000 euros to a charity. They are going to let internet users choose which of five charities will get the money.

I can understand someone getting angry, although this nut was stupid to think the flight attendants would have the money to pay him. We've all gotten angry at one time or another. But I really don't think I could get mad enough to throw away over $13,000. Could you?