Monday, January 14, 2013

Revenge At Its Most Menacing

I guarantee that you have seen revenge in some way at some time in your life. Revenge has always been around, since the beginning of time, usually ending up with someone dead. It's also been a favorite to use revenge in many TV shows and movies. In Hamlet, a play written by William Shakespeare, revenge is one of the main themes. When Hamlet finds out that his uncle,  Claudius had killed his father to become king and marry Hamlet's mother, he plans to kill Claudius in revenge for his father.  But revenge doesn't always have to involve someone being injured or killed. Sometimes it's just plain funny, or just completely annoying for the other person. These acts of revenge can be priceless(For everyone except the person in which it's towards).
                  How many times has this happened to you? A group of Jehovah's Witnesses (Or any church group for that matter), has come to your door with pamphlets and brochures hoping to turn you to their church and usually end up wasting your time or coming at the wrong times. Well for a British woman named Jane White it happened...every month...for about twelve years. Eventually, she got fed up with it. So she came up with a plan to return the favor. She decided to go to their church, and after a few minutes of knocking on the door during the middle of their service, she was let in. For the next thirty minutes, she went on talking about her religion and handing out pamphlets until one of the members called the police. But the message was sent pretty loud and clear. Guess what happened after that? They never came back to her house again.
               Another funny act of revenge was when a college freshman named Mark Bao got his computer stolen. Lucky enough for Mark, he was really good with computers. He was able to play around and remotely access the computer and see what his thief has done on his computer. Unfortunately for the thief, he found some videos of the thief dancing to music. Making it even more embarrassing, Mark uploaded the video above on Youtube. And it wasn't one of those videos that got only a few videos. This video got almost two million views.
                   Revenge can be delivered in many ways. It could either end up in death like in Hamlet, or it can be like these and just be embarrassing and annoying for the other person (As well as funny for the rest of us).