How not to drive

Yesterday, I had to run into town just to do one or two little things. Being rather inclined to laziness, I took the bus back. As we headed out of the Plaza, I could hear the chatter on their radio system - one of the drivers came on and said that he was on Cerrillos, and needed the dispatcher to call 911 because someone was driving absolutely insanely and had already hit a number of cars.

Turns out it was this guy, who ended up killing one person and putting at least one other in the hospital. Apparently he'd been arrested for kidnapping and domestic violence a month ago, and has a prior DUI charge. The police don't think he was drunk at the time, though this morning's headlines said that they were "investigating". (Dude drives like he's absolutely batshit crazy in Northern New Mexico? It's more likely he's drunk, but possible he's both drunk and crazy.)

Scary as hell. Things like this are one of the reasons why I get so twitchy on my bike here.