I Can't Believe This

This is a bizarre story, but the punchline is incredible.

Midwest City woman dies after swerving to avoid fridge

If a fatality weren't involved, this would likely be a funny story. A fridge on the highway? But there are some very troubling things that emerge from this story to me. First, how on earth does this happen at all??? Did someone drive down the road with a refrigerator and not tie it down properly?? Then, did that same someone have the fridge fall off of their truck and not realize that it fell off? Were they drunk??? Can you imagine them getting to their destination and saying, "Hey Bubba, where's the fridge?" "Oh, sh**!" Or worse, they knew it had fallen off, and were so afraid they'd get in trouble that they did nothing about it. They probably didn't even call the Highway Patrol to get the thing off the road.

Worst of all, in the year 2009, do we still have people that don't wear seat belts? Any time a vehicle swerves and rolls it is dangerous, but I would bet that if they had all been wearing their seat belts, they would all be alive. A Chevy Tracker isn't a super-heavy-duty vehicle but roll-cage requirements have been strong enough on US vehicles for the past twenty years that you are A LOT safer inside of it than not in a rollover crash. I don't think I've ridden or driven in a vehicle without wearing my seat belt since I was about 8 years old, and I find it amazing that anyone still insists, "seat belts kill more people than they save" or are careless enough with their own lives that they just don't bother.