Police say the driver was going "at an excessive speed and with reckless and wanton disregard for the safety of himself and his passengers." The truck ran a stop sign, smashed through a pipe gate, crashed through boulders further blocking the gate, went airborne for 242 feet over a large boulder and dirt mound blocking the road, then hit two more boulders before falling 170 feet into the quarry pit.
So naturally, relatives of one of the victims are suing the quarry.
To be fair, they're also suing the driver, but he's dead.
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The Oklahoma State Legislature has decided to put up a 10 commandments monument at the state capitol building, but now they can't decide where to put it.
The State Architect wants to put it on the north side, because that area was originally designed for monuments.
But opponents say the north side is not handicapped accessible and want it elsewhere.
And the A.C.L.U. doesn't want it anywhere.
Perhaps somewhere in the bible there is guidance about where to place the monument.
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A justice of the peace in Louisiana has refused to marry an interracial couple. Keith Ballard says, "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way."
Yeah, and I'm sure that some of his best friends are black.
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Be careful of the cash you spend at Target.
A woman paid with a $100 bill at the Greenville, South Carolina, Target. But a clerk decided the bill was counterfeit, so the store sent the woman's picture to 75 other businesses in town as a warning.
Only it turned out the bill wasn't counterfeit.
This could never happen to me. The last time I saw a $100 bill was at my Bar Mitzvah.
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A travel tip: The Tennessee Williams Festival is on in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and features a Stella shouting contest.
"Stelaaaaaaaa!"
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Rumors say Italy has been paying off the Taliban in Afghanistan instead of fighting them.
The Italian government denies the rumor, but really this may not be a bad idea. Given what the U.S. is spending in Afghanistan, we might do better to pay the Taliban directly and cut out the middlemen.
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From TPM:
White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton responded to a question about a justice of the peace in Louisiana who refused to sign the marriage license for an interracial couple out of concern "for the children."
"I've seen the story and I've looked into this a little bit. And I found that, actually, the children of biracial couples can do pretty good," said Burton, who is biracial himself.
Those A**h***s at the quarry. It was a trap that anyone of us could easily have become a victim.
They should have build a solid concrete wall to stop vehicles. Where were the signs warning people that running throught the fence at high speeds could cause injury or death.
After all this happened in Oklahoma, home of cracker barrel. People made from cousins, people of challenged IQs. Taint der fault.
I am sure there was no liquor involved.
Dr. Morocco
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