BEEP!
You have committed a grave offence:
Silently eating Exceptions is a REALLY bad practice. Yes, I know, this is a "safe" case, but at a minimum
you should print a "thread interrupted" message or something. If you just swallow Exceptions, they can become Mysteries. Really, really frustrating Mysteries.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.