[1604] in Humor
HUMOR: ...squash him like a truffle
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 13 17:51:29 1996
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:33:42 EDT
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:04:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: George Neville-Neil <gnn@wrs.com>
Forwarded-by: roderic.williams@snfc430.pacbell.com (Rod Williams)
This item was reported on NPR's "Car Talk":
Cecile Porc drove for eight miles with a cyclist spread-eagled across her
windscreen, refusing to stop because she thought he was a mugger. Madame
Porc, 83, hit the man at a crossroads near Valence [France], catapulting
him onto the bonnet where he clung for dear life. As she accelerated to
70 miles an hour, she was shouting "Murderer, Murderer" said the victim.
He hammered on the windscreen and screamed "I'm a cyclist" but she just
turned on the windscreen wipers. She was eventually stopped by a police
roadblock but remained unrepentant. "My only regret," she later declared,
"is that I didn't drive into a wall and squash him like a truffle."
