Riot in Denmark 'n so forth 'n so on.....

I wuz thinkin’.....well, actually I was in that twilight state between wake ‘n asleep, y’know when you’re beginning to wake up but you’re still trying to sleep (did’ja ever get the feeling that ya wanted to go, etc)....’n I was thinking (or dreaming) about unintended consequences ‘n how they’ve affected humanity all these many years....(I know it sounds like deep tho’ts but bear with me cuz I ain’t that deep, which you prob’ly already know)....anyways, I was thinking about a kid building a dam on a small creek somewhere out in the boonies ‘n the effect it c’d have on people, places ‘n things elsewhere.....like blocking some essential something or other that was s’pozed to run into a big river ‘n then to the ocean to provide a food source for a band of people in an isolated situation on the other side of the world ‘n the whole thing ends up causing a riot in Denmark.....
Now almost anyone with half a brain knows that actions have consequences, ‘n knowing that, you also know that actions have unintended consequences ‘n the trouble with unintended consequences is there simply ain’t no way to plan for ‘em...cuz of course, you didn’t know they were gonna happen ‘n that’s why they call ‘em unintended....I remember this ol boy back in the sixties whose parents bought him a 7/11 store so’s he could have a job...one day a salesman was running his mouth (as salesmen are wont t’do) ‘n told him he should get himself a gun to keep under the counter, y’know, for protection ‘n stuff....well, it sounded like it made sense so the young man bought a gun ‘n put it under the counter near his cashbox....’n of course, one night another young man walks in the door ‘n puts a gun in the young owners face ‘n demands all his money.....as the young man told it to me later, “I reached for the money box. I don’t know why I picked up that gun, I didn’t mean to.” What he did was pick up the gun ‘n shoot the young bandit dead in his tracks. When the police investigated, they found that the bandit had brandished an unloaded weapon. Well, y’know, if he hadn’t gone in to rob the store, he wouldn’t have got himself killed but knowing that he was legally in the right didn’t help the young store owner who managed to stay in business for about four more weeks. I never did find out where he ended up....Oh, the store owner was 23 years old ‘n the bandit was 22...both victims of unintended consequences altho’ I suppose y’could say that if either one of ‘em had given the matter enuff tho’t beforehand, they prob’ly could’a seen what was comin’......