Am I going to hell because I laughed? http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=353452 Driver swerves to miss cat and hits 36 kids, one adult in Shizuoka Friday, October 28, 2005 at 07:41 JST SHIZUOKA — The driver of a passenger car dodged a cat and the vehicle crashed into a line of nursery school children in the city of Shizuoka on Thursday afternoon, injuring 36 children and an adult looking after them, police said. Five of them were injured seriously in the accident which occurred on a road with one lane on each side at around 1:10 p.m., firefighters said. The children are aged 4 or 5, and the adult is 23. The police arrested the driver, Akira Yano, 59, on suspicion of inflicting injuries caused by negligence.
Unless it's a deer that could possibly kill you from the impact, small animals don't get the right of way. It's just too risky considering that you didn't see the small animal in the first place so your awareness of the road isn't a 100%.
why is it ok to hate cats? is it the dogs are for men, cats are for women thing? is it some american thing where their men are considered wusses if they dont hate cats?
Keep in mind this occured in Japan, where roads are narrow, and buildings tightly constructed. If I see a cat in Houston, I'm still going to swerve to miss.
I can appreciate how people might find the irony of the situation amusing, but anybody who wouldn't try to avoid hitting a small animal as a first reaction is sub-human in my judgement. Obviously in retrospect the correct decision would've been to run over the cat. When I was like 18 I was driving on a hilly country road and I guess spooked a mouse which was imediately chased somebody's house cat right under my front wheels. The look of sheer joy and determination on that cat's face as he disapeared out of sight is forever burned in my mind and is the stuff of nightmares. I would gladly have changed a broken nose and a totaled car for that horrific memory and the cat's life. If somebody ran over one of my cats without trying to avoid it, and the cat hadn't significantly contributed to it's own demise, I would feel perfectly justified in beating that person to the edge of/just past the edge of death, so you'd beter stay away from the road in front of my house mateo.
Sorry cat lovers, but this is one of the funniest photos I've ever seen http: //www. ebaumsworld.com/freecat.html (delete spaces)
As someone who was unfortunately recruited to take endless motor vehicle classes so I could be Safety Instructor for the mobile sales staff, I can tell you that we sub-humans are only doing what the police recommend. Insurance agents and police officers both told me that swerving to avoid a stray animal, while the noble thing to do, leads to more HUMAN fatalies than you'd want to know. Sorry if my anti-cat comment hurt your feelings, but there was some honesty to my comment (despite its poor taste.) Unless I am going 20 mph or lower, I am _not_ swerving to avoid an animal when human lives (mine, my family's, an oncoming car, or pedestrians - seen or unseen) could be at risk. And while you may have been exposed to enough gamma radiation, radioactive spider venom, or red kryptonite to give you the super powers to make these judgements at high speeds...I lack those super powers and therefore will go with the safe option. Of course, the best thing we all can do is avoid talking on a cell phone, drive at a reasonable speed, don't fiddle with the radio, and pay attention to the road...in which case we can brake harmlessly and let Kitty go its merry way....where my dog will hopefully eat it.
on a serious note.... here's the conversion factors you have to use if speed > 60 mph, run it over if speed < 60 mph, stop and stay humble.
lol hmm, add me to the list going to hell but what's funny is the irony though, ya swerve to miss a cat and hit 36 kids instead.
