Drive Drunking

So this morning my morning commute was sheer hell. The reason? Two females in the "early morning hours" (read: after the bars closed), were driving the wrong direction down a divided highway. Apparently they had been driving in the wrong direction for several exits and state police had received calls about them, but were not able to catch up to them before they ran head on into a propane tanker. Luckily the driver of the propane tanker wasn't injured and the tanker was empty. The two women? They were killed and of course the entire three lane highway was closed down for hours into the the early morning commute.

Honestly, I can't say that I feel sorry for them. Anyone that gets so blindly drunk that they are able to enter a divided highway via an exit ramp with all the "Wrong way!" signs and then continue driving for miles pretty much is asking for it. You would think that between the signs, and the fact that you really have to try to get on a highway like this heading the wrong way, and of course seeing the headlights of other vehicles driving in right direction would maybe be an indication that they were going the wrong way?

Also, it takes quite a bit of talent to not notice the headlights and sound of a tanker heading right for you... especially since each side of the divided highway has three lanes in which to manuver and during the wee hours when this collision occured, anyone who wasn't completely bombed out their gorde would have likely been able to avoid this crash even "if" getting on the highway was an honest mistake by a non-drunk driver.

I sort of resent that the news refers to this as an "accident" and the two dead people as "victims". Incidents such as these are not accidents at all, but instead calculated acts of stupidity. Not only are these morons jeopardizing their own lives getting behind the wheel when they are so messed up they can't even navigate their way onto a well marked intrastate correctly, but they are also jeopardizing the lives of everyone else that is unfortunate to share the road with them.

The real "victims" of incidents like this are the innocent people that these retards kill. For instance, the other day, a man killed one person and critically injured another as he drove home drunk... One of the victims he ran down was still lodged in his windshield when he called the police about 6 hours LATER saying he thought he might have hit someone... Hmmm what gave it away brainiac? The corpse lodged in your windshield? I wish this idiot and those like him would get the death penalty. Do I feel sorry when idiots like this take themselves out? Nope, not at all. In fact, I say a silent cheer this morning that there is one less drunk on the road and therefore the rest of us are all a little safer. If you think that is heartless then just imagine if it was your family member who died lodged in this asshole's windshield.

As for the passenger, perhaps in this case she was not driving, but "birds of a feather" do flock together. It is fairly likely that she was also bombed (or she would have offered to drive) and if her friend had not been the "designated driver" in this instance that she herself would have been behind the wheel. I don't think she is an innocent victim and she also had the choice not to get into a car with her trashed friend. She made a very bad mistake and it cost her her life. Darwin strikes again.