Isn't it Ironic?

A Canadian man survived 96 hours pinned under his all-terrain vehicle in the Rocky Mountains by eating rotting animal carcasses and drinking melted snow.

He said he was checking animal traps on January 8 in an area about 80 miles southwest of Calgary, where ranchers had complained of wolves preying on livestock. The vehicle hit a rock, throwing him off and settling on his legs.

I'm going to go out on a limb (pun intended) and guess that he doesn't see the irony of his being trapped by having his leg pinned down while he was out checking on his barbaric animal traps.

Besides, a real man would have gnawed through his own leg. . . .

Speaking of real men, I recently purchased an audible book - Three Cups of Tea. The website describes the book as follows:

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was descending from his failed attempt to reach the peak of K2. Exhausted and disoriented, he wandered away from his group into the most desolate reaches of northern Pakistan. Alone, without food, water, or shelter he eventually stumbled into an impoverished Pakistani village where he was nursed back to health.

While recovering he observed the village’s 84 children sitting outdoors, scratching their lessons in the dirt with sticks. The village was so poor that it could not afford the $1-a-day salary to hire a teacher. When he left the village, he promised that he would return to build them a school.

From that rash, heartfelt promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson’s one-man mission to counteract extremism and terrorism by building schools—especially for girls—throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.

Twelve years later he’s built fifty-five schools. In 2005, the schools educated 24,000 children.

Two men: one's an idiot, one's a hero.