Seattlest: Garfield High School Softball Bus Crashes, Loses Roof

Raspberi

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:38:29 -0800

As a very good friend of one person on the bus, and acquaintance of many others, I have had many a discussion of this today. Here's what I've got: The bus crashed. No one knew what happened. Big impact. A crazy amount of screaming. One girl apparently said she heard the roof caving in and everyone else believed her. They thought that they were going to die. Yup. The team's had an awful season: something like 70% or more of their games have been rained out (the softball league apparently cancels at a whisper of rain, or a wet field.) and then they do badly when they can play. A very good friend already had to quit the team after a coach, not seeing her, whipped a bat into the side of her head. Like, her temple. I would not want to be on that team.

abbey

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:03:36 -0800

For those of you wondering "WTF was this guy thinking?" The local news is reporting he was following the directions of a GPS Device, which obviously don't take the height of the vehicle vs. overpasses in account when giving directions. But still THE SIGNS, guy. The Signs!

jeverettr

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:00:51 -0800

Much like knowing about the Wheedle, understanding that the maximum height for anything going down LWB is 9' is emblematic of being from here. And all failing that, the lights flashing, the signs, and the HORN BLARING AT YOU when you're overheight is also helpful. Here's to the driver, the chaperones, and the entire team from GHS for not knowing that when it says 9', it means 9'. You win today.

mbq

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:03:26 -0800

you see, dope *does* affect your ability to make spatial judgments.

Simonian

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:07:21 -0800

What part of 'low clearance' did the idiot not understand? My school bus used to go under there and we had to get way to the left and hope no one was coming really fast the other way while we listened to the antenna scraping the underside of the bridge.