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"&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t see! I can&rsquo;t see!&rdquo; a small man with unruly hair cries out in anguish.<br />Distressed by the sudden onset of blindness in their closest friend, the Howard brothers inquire as to the cause.<br /><br />&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got my eyes closed,&rdquo; Larry explains. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!<br />It&rsquo;s a classic Three Stooges routine that never gets old &ndash; for Stooges fans, anyway.<br /><br />Imagine someone thinking he was blind because he had his eyes closed! Still, it&rsquo;s a wonder that Larry never lost his vision, what with Moe forever poking fingers in his eyes.<br /><br />Like almost every bit of shtick in the Stooges&rsquo; slapstick oeuvre, this one has deep philosophical import: you don&rsquo;t have to be blind to be unseeing.<br /><br />How true is that?<br /><br />Because not seeing can get you into trouble, it&rsquo;s generally a good idea to keep your eyes open during waking hours. You wouldn&rsquo;t want to drive a car blindfolded, for instance, or even with the sun screen still in place.<br /><br />It&rsquo;s not enough to keep your eyes open, however. You must also focus them and point them in the direction you&rsquo;re headed. In other words, you must look where you&rsquo;re going.<br /><br />Ian Hester apparently missed out on such lessons. He is suing the Granite City and Madison County Mass Transit District for more than $50,000 because he hurt himself on the Confluence Trail while trying to ride his bicycle on a path that wasn&rsquo;t there.<br /><br />It seems Hester came to the end of a road, assumed a path would follow, and kept going.<br /><br />[MUSIC UP: &ldquo;Three Blind Mice.&rdquo; FADE TO BLACK.]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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