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December 16, 2010
Snowmanicide
Snowman Neighbor, originally uploaded by MGShelton.
Hello again. Now this is wacky. Some college kids - ah, I was one of those once - at the University of Illinois built a snowman after a storm. But, not satisfied to let the snowman live an idyllic existence on a hill, they placed him in the middle of a road. Then they videotaped it, with unintended consequences:
A Champaign-Urbana bus driver has resigned after officials with the transit agency saw an online video of the driver running over a snowman built in the middle of a street.
The video is posted on YouTube. It shows the bus veering toward the snowman on the University of Illinois campus and running over it.
The video was posted after a snowstorm earlier this month and shows only one other vehicle on the street at the time. That car steered around the snowman moments before the bus hit it. It isn't clear who built the snowman or shot the video.
Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District spokeswoman Jan Kijowski told The (Champaign) News-Gazette that the driver resigned. She refused to identify the driver or discuss the resignation.
This happened a few weeks ago, and I am still not entirely certain why the bus driver had to resign over this. Yes, it was a rather immature act to kill the snowman, but snowmen (or anything) in the road are dangerous.
A few years ago, two star high school football players in Ohio thought it would be funny to put a fake deer at the crest of a hill. When the next mope to come over the hill saw the deer, he veered, crashed, and would up paralyzed.
So, really, I feel the bus driver did drivers who may not be as attentive a favor. Plus, seeing a snowman get blasted like that was pretty funny.
entry no. 1530
Posted at December 16, 2010 11:43 PM