January 30, 2007

The Shortcut

After George Weller's senseless automotive meanderings in an outdoor market, this one is a bit more understandable:

An investigator in the Metro East community of Shiloh says an 84-year-old woman who crashed her car through an elementary school's cafeteria -- killing a student -- was headed for a driving class at a nearby senior citizen's center.

I imagine it was a AARP driver safety course. Their website offers a list of warning signs of when to stop driving, with "A scythe-holding individual in black robes asks you to take him for a spin in your chariot" soon to be added.

Posted by floridacracker at January 30, 2007 04:50 PM

   



Comments

Proving, once again:
Age and guile beat youth and innocence.

Posted by: rg at January 30, 2007 09:46 PM

I needed that. Thank you.

Posted by: richard at January 30, 2007 09:48 PM

and a bad haircut...

I suppose in her defense she wasn't talking on her cell phone or applying makeup as she drove into the school building, a rather large inanimate object.

Posted by: Gmac at January 30, 2007 10:09 PM

Well it's no joke in the Cardiology community.. we started inserting ACDs years ago, nicknamed 'donkey'
because when the damn thing senses no heartbeat..it goes off. The poor bastard(ess) that has one gets kicked by a donkey-only right inside your chest.

Sometimes they have been known to goes off repeatedly, as in the defense's arguement a few years ago here in Lakeland...when the old man killed a father and daughter duo shopping in Publix.

There is no law in Florida that says if you have an automatic defibrulator, you lose your license..but there damn sure should be.

Posted by: csason at January 31, 2007 02:31 PM