The stupidity continues...

So, the stupidity continues today, later on in the day... Though, this is a different incident, and not one involving Shopper's Drug Mart or Pharmaprix...

I had finished teaching today, and I thought I would try to pass by the Pharmaprix at the corner of Guy and Ste. Catherine to see if I can get some of the specials they offered. I took the bus 66 back to my house, because it passes right in front of my place from downtown.

So, I was enjoying my bus ride home, since I was able to score all the stuff I wanted last night (or tecnically speaking, this morning, the period of time when it's Saturday, but according to the workers there, it wasn't Saturday). At the intersection of Decarie and Côte St. Luc. (The latter being the street that the bus was traveling on, and Decarie being a major road). A small little car on Côte St. Luc, needing to turn left onto Decarie to head north, decided that it had enough time to cut the bus off. The bus had to brake hard in order for people to not have been injured and for the two people in the small car to not have been killed.

How much more time would the people in the small car have saved by cutting in front of the bus? There might have been a few more cars behind the bus, at most, and the difference would have been one minute... But no, they decided to risk their lives by cutting in front of a bus... Which is more smart? Waiting a minute, or being hit by a bus and being killed instantly?

Here's a formula: small car turning left cutting bus off + big bus going forward and can't brake in time = big accident involving at least two dead, the two in the car.

This is pretty stupid, and in my opinion, definitely more stupid than the Saturday/not-Saturday incident at the Pharmaprix. But it still doesn't take the cake for a certain organization, one which I will no longer comment on.