Stupid people doing stupid things

Truck with 35,500 pounds of explosives detonates
There's just so much sheer pleasure in this article:

The truck driver, a passenger in the cab, a motorist and a motorcycle rider were hospitalized after the truck "pretty much vaporized," Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Todd Royce said.

Witnesses said the truck's driver appeared to lose control of the vehicle after taking a curve at high speed, Highway Patrol Lt. Doug McCleve said.
You would think that if someone were driving a load of 35,000 pounds of explosives, maybe they would moderate their speed just a tad. Maybe.

Witnesses rushed to help the driver and his passenger, freeing the pair from their safety belts, McCleve said. The dazed driver was just coherent enough to say the word "explosive," giving rescuers a sense of the danger, he said.
Rosebud.

He looked up to see "a mushroom cloud of fire, and shrapnel just starts falling down," he told KUTV of Salt Lake City. "The shrapnel is hitting the forest, and crackling like bacon."
Mmm, bacon.

The truck was headed to Oklahoma, company officials said. They wouldn't say what type of explosives the truck was carrying.
Big explosives...big, big explosives. Y'know, the kind that explode.


And in other news:
Dog tick found to spread spotted fever
This makes sense, next they'll identify the carriers of fido fever and rexirrhosis.



~A