Anonymous American Idiot Award #1

This new category celebrates those people I don't know by name, but are still so freakin' stupid that I just have to recognize.

So, on Friday, I was standing at the bus stop on the West Second Street side of the university parking structure. Ivy (not yet Warner) Street gets the green. Some jackass comes barrelling up Ivy in a lifted Nissan pickup, then cuts onto Second Street doing about 50. That's a 90-degree turn, and he didn't do any circle for it or anything to decrease the sharpness.

So, of course, to qualify for this award, he obviously can't hold the turn. The pickup starts to fishtail.

Now, he's fishtailing, right? Thankfully, there's no traffic coming in the opposite direction, because he's now totally sideways as he's sailing past me and steadily veering into the opposing lanes.

Okay, first rule if you're fishtailing: it's hard to straighten yourself out. If you want to avoid major damage, steer into the direction you're spinning.

Nope. Our Idiot decides to try to straighten out. On the bright side, he managed to get back to about 45 degrees before decimating the driver's side door of a black car in one of the parking spots along Second.

So, he wins the first Anonymous American Idiot Award I give out for the following reasons:

1) Trying to act like a hotshot in a Nissan pickup.
2) Lifting a Nissan pickup.
3) Having some awful-looking blueish-gray paint color.
4) Hot-shotting on Second Street, right by campus, at 2 p.m. on a Friday, right when everybody is getting out of classes for the week.
5) Completely ruining two vehicles.
6) Letting me acutally see my first car accident, instead of just hearing it.