Driving While Idiotic

Drum roll, please:

The first nominee for Stupid Criminal Of the Year is …

Peter Mbugua of Wylie, Texas.

Pete was charged with causing the death of a motorcyclist in a traffic accident in March. Seems that he was exiting Interstate 71-75 in Kentucky when he couldn’t stop at a traffic signal.

That’s pretty bad, but Pinhead Pete was offered a sweet deal. All he had to do was admit to knowingly driving his tractor-trailer truck with defective brakes.

Had he done so, he would have gotten probation. That’s a three-syllable word that means “no time in the slammer.”

For some reason, Pete wouldn’t sign on the dotted line.

So he went to trial.

And got convicted of second-degree manslaughter.

And got eight years in prison.

… Good thing. Anybody that dumb shouldn't be on the road.