Sure, 'stupid.'
It's stupid to stop your car on a freeway.
It's even more stupid to even enter a freeway, but how can you not enter the freeways given our level of sprawl and the knowledge and induced expectation that we can traverse an entire city in 15 minutes?
This woman stopped her car on a freeway, (in the left lane!) to prevent killing stupid ducks and to help them across the road. The world is outraged at the deaths of two speeding motorcyclists who crashed into her car:
Motocyclists killed
I've stopped to avoid killing geese though not on a 'freeway.' I've also slaughtered a few cats and other critters on freeways and off.
Around 200 people are killed themselves by bigger critters every year on the killing fields known as our automobile roadways every year:
Stupid Deer
The motorcyclists were traveling 75 in a 55 MPH zone. Little mention has been made of this.
No word has been made of how close they were following. I was just tailgated last night the entire time I was on the freeway. I was doing 55 MPH in the right lane. My friend told me to 'tap the brakes,' a common 'remedy' for stupid behavior.
Our freeways have become the haven of such incredible projected 'road rage' anger, impatience, and frustration, coupled with an amazingly powerful means of crushing and ripping apart human and other living bodies.
Vehicular death is still the leading (non-chronic disease) killer in the US, and we love to single out stupid 'girls' for doing something not uncommon in the world of stupid things in our stupid auto culture.
Much of this destructive power is being transmitted to our local 'arterials' as they serve as 'pre-freeways:' ramps to the freeways. We are in the service of sprawlers in a sprawling culture of un-limited space who need to get home to their hobbies and responsibilities many of which require getting back in the car.
When the Freeway System was conceived and plotted in the 1940s, the number of vehicles was around 27 million.
As we began construction in the 1950s we had increased to 40 million.
As construction continues and re-construction with maintenance has begun faltering we now have exploded to around 240 Million vehicles on our roads including small cars, humvees, SUVs, pick-up trucks like tanks, motorcycles, semi-tractor trailers, etc.
The image you see sometimes in old AAA travel brochures of a happy family traveling down a freeway, apparently all to themselves is no more.
Now, any given trip to Columbus from Cleveland, at any time down I-71 you are never out of sight of another vehicle and commonly, as on all freeways, there are several automobiles around you, all hurtling forward at max speed.
It's always Rush Hour in America, and around the world. Total madness.
You assume a considerable risk to yourself and your family on the freeway, not only from stupid people stopping cars for ducks, deer, moose, humans, stalled cars, accidents, even humans and human parts from accidents, but also from stupid cars with their wheels badly balanced and falling off, worn out brakes and other mechanical issues.
You must be crazy.
High Speed transportation should be left to Professionals and infrastructure designed for professionals.
The slaughter will continue.
