Before I explain let me first say Happy ThanksGiving! Ok, now that's out of the way back to my post. I woke up a little early this morning and have been watching the news. One of the first things I hear is a story about how a traffic ticket saved a little girl's life. I watched the story very curious how this could be. Well as with most things in life don't believe the headline, get the story.

So the story is this. A state trooper pulled over a a lady who was swerving from lane to lane. After pulling her over he finds out why, her two year old daughter is sick, crying, and crawling around outside of her child safety seat. Now I don't have kids or anything but even I know you must have a small child (I think she was 2) in a child seat. So obviously he ticketed her for not having her daughter in the car seat. An hour later the lady was involved a high speed head on collision with a semi truck. She was badly hurt but should recover and thanks to the car seat the child was basically unhurt.

Here's where the insanity comes in. The media is running this story as the ticket (and therefore the officer) saved the girls life (the headline on the link above is "UHP trooper's traffic stop may have saved a life"). What the fuck? Did I read that right? No, the ticket didn't save her life, a stupid mother almost got her daughter killed! How was the story not "Negligent mother could have killed child". Or at a minimum "Office saves idiot mother's daughter from serious injury". The thing that scares me most here is we are now thanking our government for saving us from ourselves (or rather saving stupid people from themselves). Please, please stop the insanity...