On My Honor I Will Do My Best To Safely Construct Tents & Stay The Hell Off Of Large Open Fields During Thunderstorms

Gosh, the Boy Scouts are falling all over the place this year. First there was that terrible incident in Virginia when scout leaders tried to construct a tent and the metal top hit some power lines. The avoidance of power lines when you have metal-topped tents - should't that be in the Boy Scout manual? To add insult to injury, several scouts and leaders had to be treated for heat-related health problems, which prompted President Bush to cancel his appearance there, adding "wimp" to various adjectives used to describe him.

Then there's also been a string of lightning strikes, both in Ohio and Utah. What the heck? Or maybe this is like that year when the press seemed addicted to reporting shark attacks a few years ago - the amount of incidents isn't any different, it's simply the amount of press coverage that's changed. Who knows.