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ORIGINAL SUBMISSION:

While I was taking Drivers' Education in Wisconsin, we had a patrol officer come to speak to our class about safety. Like all such officers, he came with several true cautionary tales from the region, and the irony of this one stayed with me.

In a town several miles from ours, seven college kids decided to raise a little ruckus after a party. Piling into a pickup, one of them in the cab and the rest in the back, they drove down deserted back roads pulling stop signs out of the dirt (with the goal of getting as many as possible into the truck before the fun palled). Speeding back to the party, they were struck by a delivery vehicle at--you guessed it--an intersection which had until recently sported a safety marker. The six in the back of the truck were killed, and the driver was badly injured.

The patrol officer said he would never forget the sight of the dead students sprawled at the wreck--surrounded by twenty-seven stop signs.

Submitted on 01/02/2006

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
This one (particularly the last line) is ironic and funny! Definitely good enough in my opinion to keep as a Personal Account!


Greg said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
I really like this one! Thanks for sharing! :-)


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