Daily Blague

This picture of extreme, collective stupidity deserves a pause. Drivers on a foggy highway in Florida complained that they could not see what was in front of them but they did not pull over. Pulling over would be unAmerican. Wait for the elements to clear up? Never!

I understand the economic pressures that drove the truckers to persist. But for the drivers of sedans, driving into the unknown was simply default mode.

The AP copy reads:

A fuel tanker was engulfed in flame early yesterday when a truck slammed into it on a foggy highway south of Belle Glade, Fla, the authorities reported. Six people were injured, two critically, in a pileup of cars and 13 tractor-trailers on US 27 near the Palm Beach-Broward County line. Drivers reported that they could not see in front of them.

Not that I wouldn't have been just as dumb.