Related Link » Two Loaned Ferraris Wrecked By High School Baseball PlayersThis story reads like an April Fool's joke, but I have reason to believe its posting date was coincidental. In any case, as crazy as the financial wreck was, I think the back-story is even more interesting.
“A high school baseball coach in Oklahoma City loaned both his Ferraris to a quartet of his players — who managed to wreck the hell out of them in a mall parking lot. The players, all juniors, had been given the cars completely unsupervised by the coach, who apparently has a terminally dangerous case of bad decision making. The former neurosurgeon gave the kids his 1991 Ferrari Testarossa and 1995 Ferrari 348, which inevitably ended in the 348 T-boning the Testarossa.”
— By Ben Wojdyla, Apr 1, 2009
A brain surgeon lets a bunch of yahoos, whom he coaches in high school baseball, borrow unsupervised two very expensive cars; which they proceed to wreck. Surprise, surprise? Well, yes, it is surprising to some extent.
It is not very surprising that a former brain surgeon owns multiple Ferraris; he performed brain surgery, for god's sake. It pays a bit more than slicing salami at the deli, you know? What is surprising, however, is that a brain surgeon would act contrary to common sense in a situation that does not exactly rise to the intellectual level of "brain surgery"!
This story, however, settles, once and for all, the age old hierarchical dilemma: Which put-down for stupid actions carries greater clout: "It's not exactly brain surgery!"; or, "It's not rocket science!"?
I rest my case.
Post #1,076 Rocket scientists rule!
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