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March 17, 2005
Caution: Extreme Stupidity Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Posted by Dave Blount at March 17, 2005 7:32 PM
A little supporting documentation on yesterday's post about leftist heroine Rachel Corrie, who martyred herself to moonbattery by deliberately standing in front of an Israeli bulldozer:
LindaSoG at Something... and Half of Something passed along an email from a construction worker who has experience with bulldozers similar to the one that pressed Corrie into a Fruit Roll-Up.
The author points out that even when they aren't armored to protect the driver from terrorists' bullets, visibility is very limited. There is a 30–40 foot blind spot directly ahead and directly behind the driver, who would not be able to hear a bullhorn over the engine even in an open-cab model. To quote the author:
We always tell our folks on the ground to give the machines a WIDE berth and MAKE SURE the operator SEES YOU and knows where you are! ALWAYS stand off to the side well away and NEVER directly in front of or behind the tractor EVER.
Top forward speed is 7.3 mph. Normal working speed is 2.4 mph. The author wonders:
WHY would anyone stand in front of this thing and blame the Operator who has VERY limited ability to see out of it. The average person in reasonable health can walk faster than a dozer can move on flat ground. That girl chose her own tragic fate.
Anyone who blames Israel for this kook's demise is indulging in willful stupidity — which is tragic when you consider that if Corrie's death means anything, she died to demonstrate just how dangerous willful stupidity can be.
