A darwin *winner*?

Two weeks ago, I was driving on I15 through Barstow. On my right was a very large woman with a cat between her bosoms. He was really in there, and just to make sure he/she/it stayed there, the shoulder strap was across them both.

I would give a days pay to see that crash with the seat belt going taut, 400 pounds going from 70 to zero in 50 milliseconds, and airbag deployment.

Steve

Ah, the vision of that one rates up there with the images from "squirrel grenade" !!

mikey

Captain Kitty was hanging around, so I read your bit to him. He was not a-mew-sed.

And I know the last thing that woulda gone through that cat's mind in a crash ................

Right. His asshole.

Steve

Too bad the driver survived. He'll probably get out of jail and continue to endanger everyone around him till he dies, or they throw away the key.

| | Could be a strong contender. | | Jim

Had to scratch my head a bit over that one. The Darwin nominees have to remove themselves from this world in order to be considered, but the victim wasn't an active part of the stupidity, just a passive one. The idiot was the driver, but then again, you'd have to be an idiot to ride in the window of the passenger door while doing donuts, therefore the source of my quandary.

Well, technically, they just have to remove themselves from passing on their genes in the future.

I was of course making reference to the squishee, not the squish-er.

Jim

We had something like that a couple of weeks ago. in Mandurah

New driver, had licence less that two weeks.

His yobbo mate hanging out of the passenger window throwing stuff at pedestrians.

Drove too close to concrete bus shelter.

SPLAT

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Having been the recipient of stuff tossed at me from moving cars, I can't say I'm losing too much sleep over that event.

Jim

I remember a number of years back of a story in the paper where the high school kids were out playing that sort of game -- driving down the road, here was this cute chick walking along the side - passenger reaches out and whacks her on the butt as they go by --- left her with a almost permanent hand print on her butt and him with a broken arm. What a shame (his arm that is) :-)

mikey

A guy who worked for me several years ago said he reached out the passenger window one time and slapped a bicycle guy on the back.. he said after he thought it broke his arm (sore/bruised for a long time), said it took bicycle guy off his bike pretty clean..

John

I must admit that on a couple of occasions in my mis-spent youth I have held out my gloved hand when passing morons in cars who have pulled out in front of, or carved up me on my motor bike. The drivers side mirrors shear off very cleanly and make a satisfying bang. Didn't cause any problems for that class of drivers, since they don't tend to use mirrors anyway :-|.

Mark Rand RTFM

Had a long neck (beer bottle) miss me by an inch or two. Driver escaped with both rear tires flattened at 975fps. Im sure those two wheels were toast by the time he was far enough away to feel safe and clean out the shit in the passenger seat. He also didnt have a side mirror on the passenger side..least not a usable one. Ive always wondered what their parents said about that .45 hole in the side mirror.

Shrug

Gunner

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I had occasion to lock mirrors on time with a car travelling the other way on a twisty road. She was over the line, I was near it but completely on my side. Her driver side mirror connected with my truck's driver side mirror.

The bang was impressive, and because my window was open at the time, when the mirror swivelled around on its mount and exploded, all the glass blew right in front of my face and landed in the passenger footwell - I got nary a scratch.

I think her jaguar sedan mirror cost a lot more to replace than my chevy luv westcoaster.

Jim

It *might* have been an accident, that beer bottle.

Of course, he'll be a lot more careful about accidents after that.

Jim

From the jeering and catcalling as they went by..it was no accident. They were nice enough to slow down to get a good look as I went prone. They thought they had nailed me.

Ooops

Gunner

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