It's been a while since I've shared a "Blue is a magnet for bad drivers" story, but just because I don't shuttle MrsBlue to the train every day anymore, this does not mean such incidents have completely stopped. Yesterday a truck merged in front of me on a local road because a bus was stopped in the right lane. A second later the truck behind him attempted to follow suit, in spite of being to my immediate right. I honked and he hit the brakes and sheepishly waved as I passed to acknowledge he was at fault. The funny thing is that 15 minutes later as I was stopped at a light on the way back from my errand a couple of pedestrians called to me saying they saw what had happened and congratulated me for avoiding being crushed. This reminded me that a couple of weeks ago I was stopped for a traffic tie-up on the highway and looked up to see a car approaching in the rear-view at an incredible rate of speed, which was now so close I could see that the driver was not looking at the road, and had still not seen the traffic. She then looked up, slammed on the brakes, and even began swerving to find the other lane because she clearly didn't think she was going to stop in time. Thankfully, her car managed to stop just in time, and as I watched in horrified fascination, the driver picked her cell phone out of her lap, and before hanging up said something, presumably along the lines of: "maybe I should get off the phone because I almost just killed somebody." Whew!

Driven Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	Ninja Dogs 2. Thanks Daniel. Toxie Radd 3D. The Osiris Conflict.
Stories:	Blind Dog Rescue Alliance gives vision-impaired dogs a second chance.
Science:	South Korean scientists create glowing dog: report. Thanks [H]ard-OCP.
Images:	Mass Effect 3 Gun IRL of the Day.
Media:	Multiplayer Gaming. Mortal Kombat Sitcom. Forehead Tittaes w/ Marion Cotillard. NSFW. Thanks nin. Puppy fakes her own death while playing. Oscar worthy.