Last week, I attended the Skip Barber School of Racing at Lyme Rock Park. It was an educational (not to mention insanely fun) day filming for Mazda of Manchester. I’ll have some videos of driving tips that I’ll be rolling out over the next few weeks, such as this one on distracted driving and driving with pets.
You’d think someone would leave the school and start whipping down roads and trying to power-slide. Instead, I came away with a deep respect for the power of vehicles and the importance of safe driving. I also drove away with my eyes opened as to just how many bad drivers are out there.
But let me say this. There are bad drivers, and then there are IDIOT drivers.
Driving home from work last night, I encountered a guy whipping in and out of traffic on 291 in Manchester at some 85 mph. Aggressive driver = bad driver, says Skip Barber.
You’ve seen “that guy” before. Heck, you’ve probably been “that guy” while running late to work, an event, or Dunkin Donuts.
But here’s what turned “that guy” into “that idiot”. Take a look at the picture. Look closely, ladies and gentlemen. That would be a DOG in the back of his pickup truck. And no, you’re not hallucinating – the hatch is down. 85mph, weaving, cutting people off – and putting his dog and lives of other drivers at risk.
What if he stopped short? What if there were an accident? What if the dog decided he’d had enough of his owner and non-stop slanted election coverage by major news networks and took the final leap into oncoming traffic?
I don’t know about you, but my fiancée and I have doggie seatbelts for our dogs. Laugh it up – Madison and Chewie are SAFE when we are driving around.
Would you put your KID in the back of an open pickup truck on the highway? No? Then why would you do this to your DOG?
What do you think?
Kyle S. Reyes is Director of Marketing for Carter Chevrolet and Mazda of Manchester.
Your concern is much appreciated. I should have pointed out that my passenger snapped the picture while reaching over the dashboard to try and capture his license plate. I also should have said "I estimate he was traveling approximately 85mph. Figured it was a pretty conservative estimate, considering I was traveling at 67mph when he came flying out of nowhere like a bat out of hell. :)
"It's me and my world and I'm the only one in it" Kinda like the attitude that carries over to many many other of life's situations. Not sure why car manufactures even bother to install turn signal indicators . No one uses them. Photo of dog is sad. But thankfully its not a photo of a child. ---I hope this moron does not have a child.
Thank you for recognizing me as a dog professional... Anise P. troll of the day
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/rpt/2009-R-0203.htm It just goes to show you that there is NOTHING they won't make a law about.
Bottom line: If you're not willing to meet your responsibility as a dog owner/fosterer, or, at the very least, follow the law in this regard, then don't own a dog or, if you do, don't transport it in an unsafe manner.
Human Idiocy this is perhaps my favorite example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDkxokZUDug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlaYUy7nj8w&feature=related
Bush and Cheney are responsible for allowing 9/11 to happen so they could have a reason to invade Iraq, high oil prices, the illegal invasion of Iraq, allowing Osama Bin Laden and other in Al Qaeda to waltz into Pakistan so they could illegally invade Iraq, Halliburton and others being War Profiteers and getting trillions in NO BID CONTRACTS, allowing corporations to run amok of all of the regulatory protections that protect US, allowing wild drill and cap in the Gulf not to add oil to the market to bring prices down but to asign ownership to said wells which led to the BP disaster, sidestepping all of our environmental laws, KILLING THE ELECTRIC CAR, allowing STRIP MINING, DRILLING, LOGGING etc etc in our NATIONAL PARKS without protections, using religion to control people, using the military for their personal gain ( the illegal invasion of Iraq), ignoring calls that the economy was crashing from 2003 up to their departure, they can't travel to many countries because they were tried and convicted of several War Crimes, and being generally very arrogant ignorant jerks. I'm sure I missed a few things. http://www.think-aboutit.com/conspiracy/TheBushCrimeFamilyTree.htm oh yeah, Dick Cheney meets with Kenny Boy Lay to discuss ways of helping ENRON rip-off California and the rest of America---- CT's Deregulated Electricity you really think those people care about you?
I have noticed, though, that the folks who are shouting the loudest about how stupid dog-restraint laws are haven't noticed that the law, and the issue, isn't really about the dog. I'm glad that dogs are protected by the law and even happier to see smart owners that properly restrain their animals in vehicles, but the law didn't come about from BHL lawmakers concerned about the canines.