XPost: alt.birdwatching.ducks   
   From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 06/21/2014 09:56 PM, richard wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 05:43:19 +0200 (CEST), Yes They Walk Among Us wrote:   
   >   
   >> A woman who parked her car on a highway to rescue ducklings has   
   >> been found guilty of causing the deaths of a motorcyclist and   
   >> his daughter who slammed into her vehicle.   
   >   
   > Did anyone bother to ask just how close to the car the motorcyle was before   
   > they collided?   
   > Did the biker not have sufficient time to maneuver out of the way?   
   > IOW, was the biker tailgating?   
   > Did the biker not have clear vision of the parked vehicle?   
   > If he did, why not maneuver around it?   
   > If you can't tell if a vehicle is parked, it's damn time you got off that   
   > bike and parked it.   
      
   I wondered about that too.  No mention of the details -- blind curve,   
   inattention, oil on the road, boxed in by a car on the right?  Did the   
   passenger move injudiciously?  Still, stopping in a traffic lane is   
   automatically a hazard and the stupid cow is lucky she herself wasn't   
   killed.  Would it have been different if her car had stalled?   
      
   And did she get to keep the ducks?   
      
      
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