Of course there’s nothing funny about walkers being
killed by drunk drivers. And there’s not
actually anything very funny about mooning, and yet who can resist an ignoble
snigger, followed by a swift twinge of shame, upon reading this headline on the
Fox news website in Phoenix:
Pedestrian 'mooning' cars fatally hit by drunk
driver
The news items reads:
“Police say a pedestrian who was walking in
the road and flashing his buttocks to drivers was hit and killed by a suspected
drunk driver early Saturday morning.
25-year-old Lee Cole Koontha was
allegedly ‘mooning’ drivers and laying down in the roadway near 20th Avenue and
Indian School Road. According to police, he was likely drunk or had taken
drugs.
Although his friends tried to get Koontha out of the road, officers
say he was eventually struck by 48-year-old Stanley Stafford.
Police say they
believe Stafford was also impaired by alcohol or drugs.
Koontha was taken to
a hospital where he later died.
Stanley was arrested and booked for
aggravated DUI.”
I’m glad that Lee had friends who at least
tried to get him out of the road. He
looks like he may not have been a very easy man to befriend.
