Thursday, July 24, 2008
Idiot Drivers
Yesterday a friend of mine told me about an early morning (1 a.m.) accident near his house out in the boondocks. It seems he was getting ready for bed when he noticed flashing lights outside. It turned out to be the emergency response to a tanker truck in a ditch. His worry was that the truck might have been carrying hazardous materials.
It turns out the truck was hauling "nitrogen-based products" that weren't hazardous. Hmmm, ever heard of TNT? Anyway, I looked in the next day's paper for information about the accident and found a couple of column inches on it. Seems the idiot driver , Leonard Paszek from South Bend, Ind. turned where his GPS told him to turn instead of looking at the road and turning where he should have turned! Just how lazy must you be when you don't even want to look out the window when making a turn on a dark country road? I don't care how good GPS gets, I'm still going to want to confirm I'm driving on a road with my own low-tech eyes.
