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muskrat

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Anybody heard about this? Happened some fifteen miles or so from the town I work in. Shows the kinda idiots I have to deal with:

A woman's intense fear of spiders has set off an improbable chain reaction that led to a collision with a school bus and sent her 9-year-old son to the hospital.

Authorities in Syracuse, Indiana, say 35-year-old Angela Kipp had been backing the car out of her driveway with her son in the backseat Friday afternoon when she noticed a spider crawling on her shoulder.

According to the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office, Ms Kipp’s arachnophobia got the best of her and she jumped out of the car speeding in reverse, leaving her child to fend for himself.
 
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blunthead

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muskrat said:
Anybody heard about this? Happened some fifteen miles or so from the town I work in. Shows the kinda idiots I have to deal with:

A woman's intense fear of spiders has set off an improbable chain reaction that led to a collision with a school bus and sent her 9-year-old son to the hospital.

Authorities in Syracuse, Indiana, say 35-year-old Angela Kipp had been backing the car out of her driveway with her son in the backseat Friday afternoon when she noticed a spider crawling on her shoulder.

According to the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office, Ms Kipp’s arachnophobia got the best of her and she jumped out of the car speeding in reverse, leaving her child to fend for himself.
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muskrat said:
Seems the kid reached over the seat, tried hitting the brake, and pushed the accelerator instead. Car sped backwards into a bus. Everybody fine now, but I think we're gonna have the mom tarred and feathered for her stupidity. Back to you, Johnny...
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Well, no one who has a true phobia is necessarily also stupid. If the lady has true arachnophobia then I'd assess this accident as of the freak variety; a number of independent factors which coming together at the right time and place yield an inevitable result.
 
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Walter Oobleck

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I've hit the iCondemn app on my smart phone. She's probably cute, though...so how do you tar and feather a cute mom? Little kid off to the side...taking names, noting postures, critiquing dress. Could come back to haunt you is what I'm sayin. Junior...was it a boy? I think so...Junior shows up middle of the night ten years from now, has that unblinking look, black hat wide brim...you tarred my mother, outlander! What I figure is if she'd had a Smart Phone none of this woulda happened. We'd be looking at pics of the little guy (the spider, not the boy) on-line, there'd be a thousand comments weighing in on the matter, the story would receive national coverage, and The Donald would say something outlandish and the spider would build a web. Pink flamingos in Florida would switch legs.
 
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GNTLGNT

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muskrat said:
She's still getting tarred and feathered. This is Indiana, after all...
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