Regatta Tragedy, 2 July 2006

Most people know by now that a youngster drove a car down to the river at a high speed, crashed through the barricade set up for the Madison Regatta, and injured a dozen people. Mirabile dictu, only a dozen or so people were injured and no one was killed, although several people were hurt badly. At least that is the word so far. The car became airborne and landed in the river. The police are quite interested in obtaining the results of blood tests from the driver of the car. When I first heard of the event, I speculated that this might be the nihilistic behavior of the likes of the boys who shot up Columbine. I'll be interested to hear about further developments.