As much as I love working on cars, random accidents such as this tempt me to throw down my keys...

Even were one the most defensive driver alive, how could such a psychotic driver be avoided? Granted, the risk of death is omnipresent--but arbitrary, unavoidable accidents happen every day; although we become aware of that fact only if a friend or loved one is injured or killed. Daily newspaper headlines describe innocent motorists being gruesomely maimed and killed by idiotic drivers. Just today a young local girl was killed and her friend hospitalized in a coma when a cell phone-impaired driver jumped the median on US441 and hit them head-on. The cell phone driver, of course, escaped unscathed.

Why is it allowable to murder people on our highways? If I were to shoot and kill anybody randomly in public, I'd be incarcerated for the rest of my life. Should the license to kill really be handed out like candy at every DMV in America? Don't the victims' families deserve real justice instead of a slap on the wrist for every driver that ruins one or more people's lives?

These questions seem more pertinent than a query into whether a particular brand of automobile is beloved enough to prevent the laws of physics from taking effect...

just a thought though.

__________________
"I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brillaint blaze
than it should be stifled by dryrot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time."

-Jack London 1876-1916

1983 300CDT (running WVO since 12/05)
1981 300SD (parts car)