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Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life
scottbomb sends in this feel-good story of an engineer-hero, calling it "one of the coolest stories I've read in a long time." "A manager of Boeing's F22 fighter-jet program, Innes dodged the truck, then looked back to see that the driver was slumped over the wheel. He knew a busy intersection was just ahead, and he had to act fast. Without consulting the passengers in his minivan — 'there was no time to take a vote' — Innes kicked into engineer mode. 'Basic physics: If I could get in front of him and let him hit me, the delta difference in speed would just be a few miles an hour, and we could slow down together,' Innes explained."
Kudos to everyone involved in the story.
Except for the guy in the truck who was slumped over the steering wheel because he was asleep / blacked out from being too drunk / comatose from some medical issue.
No kudos to him.
No shit on him if it wasn't his fault (stroke or some shit), of course, but certainly no kudos.
That's not funny. This isn't a video game, and there are real, live, innocent people in those 100 cars that you'd be getting into an accident. To purposely add to a mess like this for "points" like it were a video game is disgusting, and whoever modded this up should be ashamed. Imagine the number of people who you'd be killing or sending to the hospital in your 100x chain reaction bonus.