Richard was a energetic 31-year old who was once a resident of my small town, once. Fortunately he is now a resident of the cloud that hangs over the gene pool collecting the evaporated vapor.

The story begins on a hot summer afternoon during which his blood alcohol percentage was surprisingly just below the legal driving limit. He had had a boring day and decided to spice it up with his favorite pastime, rolling down his windows and turning up his speaker with a not particularly loud or exiting song. But he had done this every Friday since he could drive, it was time to change something! He decided to stand up through the window of his car and lean over backwards, hanging by his legs and touching the receding blacktop with his fingertips. Richard did not get time to fully descend as his driver-less and speeding car veered at 90mph such that Richards head had an unkind encounter with a speed limit sign, killing him almost instantly. But one wonders why such an injury might have caused him to expire!

This exceeds mere idiocy because Richard, with his own two hands, was the worker who had finished setting up the very sign his brain(?) had collided with. Not last month, not last week, but earlier that morning!

The song playing at the time,"Good to Go".

Submitted on 07/15/2008

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Personal account ,august 2006

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Candi said:
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Speeding? Ho-hum... Loud music? Yawn... Leaning backward out the window _when you're the driver?_ Getting there... And colliding with the _speed limit_ sign YOU just put up!?!?! I say give the man a Darwin! And compliments on a most stellar write up, Anon.

Bruce said:
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Having put up the speed limit sign himself was the kicker for me. Thanks!

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