As the readers of my blog are “above average”, you will all be familiar with the Darwin Awards … but to refresh your memory:
“The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of
the human genome by honoring those who
accidentally remove themselves from it...
I found my nominee for this Award for 2007 this morning while driving on I43. I do not presently know his name --- but if his past actions are any indication of his future --- his obituary should be fairly imminent !
Southbound traffic on I43 this morning was stop and go from about Locust to the interchange due to the Marquette Interchange construction.
As typical of such a situation, traffic would intermittently speed up to about 50 mph, and then a few hundred yards further, would come to an abrupt stop.
After a couple of these sprints, I noticed a motorcycle rider in my rear view mirror --- who was engaged in talking on his cell phone.
No, he was not using a handsfree cell phone --- that would have disqualified him from being nominated.
The sight I observed was:
Traffic speeds up --- motorcyclist takes right hand from throttle, puts phone to ear and converses --- traffic comes to stop --- he frantically puts phone into his mouth to hold as he grabs the handles and brakes to a stop --- more conversation while traffic is stopped --- traffic takes off again --- phone back into mouth as he accelerates to speed --- hand back off throttle --- phone taken out of mouth holder and conversation proceeds until next panic stop ………….
If anyone has a better nominee for the Darwin Award --- please feel free to share.
