Rant #1,743: Crazy From the Heat

We all know that people get crazy from the heat.

I don't know what it is, but the summer heat makes people lose their minds.

Not all people, just some people.

It must be some chemical reaction triggered by being hot, but some people cannot take the heat.

As an example, don't we see people driving more dangerously in their cars during the warmer months?

They make stupid maneuvers that they would never try at any other time of the year but the summer.

And this seems to be a worldwide phenomena, people simply get nuts when it is warm.

Here is a story I just read about, and it demonstrates, once again, that people do get crazy from the heat, even when "the heat" is around them.

Authorities in Ohio say that a man who was just sentenced to 18 years in prison for a July shooting of a man in the face took his own life by throwing himself over a guard rail after having been just sentenced for this crime.

It happened in Jefferson County, Eastern Ohio, and the man, Jason Binkiewicz, was being lead out of the courtroom after sentencing.

Somehow, he got away from the deputy that led him out of court, threw himself over the court building's third floor banister, and hit the ground, killing himself.

Sure, this is an extreme case, but sort of a double "crazy from the heat" deal, because not only was he sentenced for an attempted murder that took place in July, but he jumped over the railing and killed himself in August.

Heck, if he had survived the plunge, I don't know what he would have done for an encore in September.

I guess you can say one less in the prison system to be bothered with--but that would be heinous, as heinous as the crime he committed in the middle of summer.

There was another one closer to home, in New Jersey, where a guy jumped on the train tracks and would not get off of them, only to be pulled to safety by a New Jersey Transit cop who pulled this idiot to safety literally seconds before a train would have went over him, and probably would have hit the brave officer, too.

People do do the oddest things in summer.

I mean, we do have air conditioning, so we shouldn't all be nuts from the heat, but many of us are.

Even air conditioning doesn't cool many of us down.

Summer should be a fun time, but to many, it isn't.

I think the heat gets the glands going and the mind going haywire for some of us, and we just do the darndest things during the hottest period of the year.

I just thought I would bring this topic up today, the week leading into the unofficial end of the summer, right into Labor Day, a day that I have to labor, unlike many others who have the day off.

Watch yourself and watch those around you, because people only have a limited amount of time to go crazy during the summer.

And in my neck of the woods, the heat appears to be diminishing leading up to the holiday. Although today will be in the 90s, by the end of the week and leading into the holiday weekend, it is only going to get into the high 70s.

So the "crazy from the heat" crowd have just a limited time to act, well, crazy from the heat.

And maybe that's a good thing.