OMG, I crashed!

Cellphone for talking: Check. Cellphone for texting: Check. Hand on steering wheel: Oops.

If a tow truck ends up in a swimming pool, there can be a good reason. Maybe a tornado, or an earthquake. The driver could have a heart attack at the wheel. All perfectly understandable. On the other hand, there’s what went down on Tonawanda Creek Road yesterday.

Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies say the driver of a tow truck was apparently talking on one cell phone and texting on another. (which makes it a little tough to PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD!) So the truck hit a car, crashed through a fence, hit a house, and plunged into an in-ground pool. Oh yeah, one of the cars being towed also slammed into the house.

Quick note from the department of irony. As you may notice from the post directly beneath this one, just yesterday we were discussing the dangers of texting while driving. Apparently that story needed proof.

But back to this story. The two people in the car, which was stopped waiting to make a turn, were injured in the crash. The truck driver faces a whole bunch of charges. And it took a long time to clean up the mess…..because when you have to tow a tow truck out of a swimming pool, you have to find a bigger tow truck.

Dude, hide the weed!

I don’t want you to think I’m encouraging drug use…but you know, if you’re gonna drive around with weed in your car, there are a few things to avoid. Like leaving a bag of it out in plain view on the seat, just in case a cop pulls you over. And don’t do anything that will get you pulled over. Especially at 3:50 in the morning. Cops tend to be a little more suspicious that time of day.

Good advice, but too late for the guy who was busted by Town of Tonawanda police Monday morning. Police say when they pulled him over for having a cracked windshield, they spotted a bag of pot right there on the back seat.

Too bad it wasn’t crack….the irony of that would be too much, even for me.