In the cold early morning hours of Saturday, February 16th, 2008, before the St Valentine’s Day Celebrities had subsided, about Twenty (20) miles South of Washington, D.C., Eight (8) people lay dead in the street along Route 210, a four lane highway, in Accokeek, Maryland. Why? Because no one listens to momma any more.
Some Twenty (20) years ago the Tennessee Mountain Man transported telephone equipment around the southern states and up the eastern seaboard for ma bell. A prominent sign was displayed at the exit for each of ma bell’s maintenance shops which read, “You Are About To Enter The Most Dangerous Place In The World… An American Highway. Buckle Up!”. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and other hot spots around the world notwithstanding nothing has changed and the warning is as applicable today as it was all those years ago.
Concerning the Accokeek deaths, according to FOX News, Prince George’s County Police Captain Donald Frick said “there was a speed event going on”. That has to be the understatement of the year. There had been an illegal drag race that resulted not only in the high number of deaths but several...