Truck race, eight die

I don't have all the facts, but like Obama, I have an opinion.

Less of an opinion, of course; it's more of a prediction.

The spectators were supposed to keep back fifty feet from passing trucks. They didn't. And the race organizers didn't force them to stay back. They got so close, in fact, that it looks on the videos as if they could touch the trucks as they raced by. Knowing people, I would assert that that was exactly what they were trying to do. Cool, look how close I am. The wind from a passing truck is tugging at my clothes.

I have never believed that the so-called "responsible party" was anyone but the people who took action that was flagrantly stupid and outside of common sense.

The butane barbecue lighter tells you to be sure to point it away from your face when starting it.

The rotary lawn mower tells you not to use it to trim the hedge.

and the organizers of this race didn't build a monkey cage to keep a bunch of ignorant fools from getting their moronic bodies underneath the wheels of a truck zooming past at sixty miles an hour.

Boo hoo.

So what's my prediction? That the organizers of the race are going to be held responsible for the idiocy of these people.