Because we don’t have mullets (anymore) and live in one of the few parts of South Carolina where people can read, it goes without saying that we won’t be attending this weekend’s big Monster Truck Rally in Columbia.
But there are other reasons … like the fact that these events are increasingly hazardous to your health, people.
Over the weekend, George Eisenhart Jr. – a promoter for the Motor Sports Monster Truck and Thrill Show – died after, um, walking in front of one of the trucks at an event in Wisconsin.
From FOX:
A witness tells the Wisconsin State Journal that Eisenhart walked out in front of one of the monster trucks just as it was about to pass by.
Yeah … we’re mentally filing that under “bad ideas” right now.
Of course, Eisenhart’s tragic death occurred just nine days after a flying chunk of metal killed a six-year-old boy at a Monster Jam show in Tacoma, Washington.
Monster Jam is the outfit coming to Columbia this weekend – an event sponsored by Safe Auto, of all people.
And yes, the name of the Monster Truck pictured above (the most famous Monster Truck of all-time) is “Grave Digger.”
By Gillon January 26, 2009 at 11:07 am
Well, as H.L. Mencken so succinctly put it, “A man never went broke underestimating the tastes of the American people.”(and particularly the tastes of the people of S.C.–look who they elect to political office these days)