David’s Journal

I heard that an angry Frenchman intentionally drove his car into a crowd of wildcat protesters today.

The protesters were angry about a new labor law. The driver was angry that they were standing in the middle of the road. When he tried to drive off after plowing his way through and lightly injuring a few people, the protesters got angry some more. Angry + angry + angry = car gets flipped upside down by mob.

That’s not the interesting part, though.

Because an event in April 2006 and an unrelated event in March 2004 always means a trend, at least according to my neural pathways, I happened to recall this classic story that I wrote up in my blog at the time:

Très désolé
3/17/2004
From the “People” category — posted at around 13:34

In France, a man known simply as “Pierre” thought he found Osama bin Laden.

So he aimed his car at him and accelerated.

Not only did “Pierre” miss, thus wrecking his own car, but it turns out that he was mistaken.

The man he tried to hit with his car was not, in fact, Osama bin Laden.

“Pierre” was ordered to pay $615 and sentenced to a three-month suspended prison term.

Coincidence? Je pense pas.

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