Two thirteen year old girls were run over while sunbathing…in the damn road!
I’d like to hear their reason for sunbathing on the road, as opposed to, well, anywhere else.
Someone needs to tell those two girls that winning a Darwin award is NOT a desirable goal.
You’re not supposed to take “Go play in traffic!” as advice.
That would have been fine because they might have seen or heard the car coming and vice versa - the reason they were hit is they fell asleep. :smack:
While falling asleep lying on a road is always dumb, just how dumb sunbathing on a road was depends on how frequently or infrequently the rural road they were on was used.
Some rural roads I’ve known see no traffic at all except those who live there - indeed, the driver who ran these two over was a relative.
I dunno.
Whatever.
Now to me, sunbathing on a road at any time is an incredibly stupid thing to do as there is always the potential that someone will drive down said road.
Not to mention, I would think it would be incredibly uncomfortable.
Yesterday the high temp in Pittsburgh was 64 degrees. It was sunny, so the warmest place would probably be on the blacktop. Stupid, but I’ve seen people laying out as soon as the snow was off the ground. Not on the road, though.
StG
Maybe they’re fellow dopers and decided that the beach was far too dangerous of a place to be laying down without road cones, construction vests and flares.
You got that right. We get people run over at the beach every year here in Florida. You hardly ever hear about people getting run over while sun bathing on a road, so it much be a lot safer. 
I guess what they say about video games impacting children’s behavior is true.
Time to ban Frogger.
Just be certain to check for squashed lizards or snakes before you do lay on the road, though.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
I bet if it was a motorcycle with loud pipes it would have awakened the bathing beauties and saved lives.
That’s even more stupid than lying in the road on the way back from the pub to look at the stars. And I’ve never done that more than a few times.
My husband’s aunt told me that the rural road near which she once lived had so little traffic, she and three friends used to stretch a net across it so they could play tennis. If a car showed up, they’d take down the net to let them through. This was a very long time ago, though.
So you’re saying my broken muffler is a …Safety Device?
I’ll have to try that with Mr. LEO when I get pulled over fer makin’ a racket. :dubious:
It wouldn’t surprise me if the real story turned out to be something different (and even more reckless).