Posted: 10/2/2007 10:22:04 PM EDT
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Howdy, folks! My first post in BotS. (Not an LEO, but support them). Anyway, I was driving down the road this morning and passed a late model car that had blown right past a stop sign and through the 'T' intersection and was now nose deep in the ditch. Yup- woman driver. I am not sexist, and I know plenty of crappy male drivers, but it occurred to me to ask yall what all genius moves you have seen the fairer sex pull in an automobile. Any takers?  Sorry if this is a mega-dupe or something, like I said- my first post in this forum. |
| I did not see this but one of the guys i was riding with had to deal with it. A women left hard times cafe and went northbound. The road is 2 lanes south with a concrete median and 2 northbound lanes. The lady was in the far right northbound lane heading to the bridge. She swerved across both northbound lanes, over the median and across both southbound lanes. She wedged her car in between a grove of trees and the bridge abutment, missing both by a small margin. He vehicle went over the embankment never touching it and hitting the cross road 30 feet below. The officer saw marks on the road but none of the grass was disturbed on the embankment. She then crossed a road with 1 lane running east and one lane running west. Her vehicle was found tangled up in the guard rail. Apparently she climbed back up the embankment and waited for the officer to arrive. Suffice to say, she had a few drinks before driving. |
| I can't speak from a lot of experience, except from my ride-alongs during my internship, but I noticed that men do just as many stupid things as women. I think most of the time when we came up on a flipped over car or something it was a male though...but that's only in my short time frame of experience. |
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Since you specifically asked about women, I won't offer up the stupidity that I've seen the men pull off. The one that comes to mind first was many years ago in Galveston. First a little relevant information that some people will need. Galveston is an Island on the Texas coast, and years ago (back in 1900 if anyone cares) there was a bad hurricane that pretty much wiped the island off the map. The people of Galveston rebuilt the island and raised it like 12 feet or something similar and built a concrete barrier seawall along a good portion of it's length. The seawall is as expected about 12 or so feet tall and for all practical purposes is a straight drop off to the granite rocks below. Back to the story, this girl from a family with money got drunk and ran her car off of the seawall smashing it all to hell. But wait there's more. While her car is in the shop getting fixed she is driving her dad's car around. His car was a Jag, or BMW or some other stupidly expensive surrogate phallus and she proceeds to get drunk and run that car off the seawall not three blocks from where she wrecked her car... I guess the moral of this story is that money will not buy smarts. -Out |
Ouch!  I see a bruise forming! 
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