Common sense
So recently I find a brief article that I couldn’t believe. Apparently, a woman driver registered a .47 blood-alcohol level after she crashed and was arrested.
What is amazing is that no one was injured in the car crash even though Deana F. Jarrett was almost six times above the legal limit of .08 in the state of Washington. That might possibly be a new record in Washington. No one since 1998 even came close. Sadly, that is not the type of record you want to set.
A few days earlier, I heard on the radio that a German truck driver crashed after he decided to cook sausage while driving. What is even funnier, or should I say incredible, is that he was intoxicated as well. Germany is all about beer and sausage. Good stuff — just not when you’re driving.
I can’t decide which story is better: the one with the wasted woman (who was 54) or the one with the hungry German. Oh yeah, did I mention that I have heard a story about a girl doing her makeup while driving? That one is pretty good too.
You would think that driving is a simple task, right? After all, you have taken a class and practiced hours and hours. It shouldn’t be hard to avoid accidents if you follow the rules. But time after time, I hear more shocking stories about what people manage to do while driving.
What I am trying to say is that we should all do our part and keep the road safe. Don’t do anything insane and please, please use common sense. I really don’t want to see your name in the news next for crazy driving.
— Ranny Ma
Comments
I have seen a man on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago (granted, in about 10 mile-per-hour traffic) steering with his left hand and playing a trumpet with his right.
Posted by: Adam Tiouririne | April 19, 2007 5:40 PM
I have heard of a man with no hands on the steering wheel and eating cereal. Apparently, in his state it was not against the law because even though there’s a law that says your vehicle must have a windshield, there is no law that says you must have hands on the steering wheel.
Posted by: Dana | April 20, 2007 6:42 AM
Apparently that woman you were talking about was a former detective or something, and had been arrested the previous day for a DUI.
Also, I heard about something where this guy bought a trailer and took it onto the highway and decided that it would drive itself. So he went to the back, and it ended up crashing, and he sued (and won) because the instructions hadn’t mentioned that the trailer couldn’t drive itself.
Posted by: Devika | April 23, 2007 11:22 AM
I saw a guy who put a recording studio in his volvo. He would spit lines into the steering wheel while adjusting the mixers and laying down the beat in the passenger seat with his right hand. He also managed to fill out his tax forms with his left hand and some mental math, and had bicycle pedals installed for his feet to power the car battery. He controlled the car with his mind. Naturally, he was blasting Crazy Frog, shaking his hips in car dance fashion, and speeding on Lake Shore Drive during rush hour. Apparently the beat came out pretty good, I heard Kanye’s using it on Graduation.
Posted by: Sam Smyth | April 25, 2007 3:48 AM