Editorial: Vehicle, intelligence, empathy all sank to new depths at Rocky Point
On Monday night, a man deliberately drove his car off the Rocky Point boat launch. We might not know this except the driver apparently put the whole thing on the internet because a streamer allegedly promised him money.
There’s still a lot we don’t know. For instance, it’s unclear whether a blockhead was acting at the behest of a buffoon, an idiot was advising an imbecile, or an oaf was exhorted by an insensate, unthinking individual 50 percentage points from being a half-wit.
Maybe I’m being too harsh.
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After all, there was a time when, if you did something moronic behind the wheel of a car, you could tell people you swerved to save the lives of a family of deer. Now, the nadir of automotive idiocy can be immortalized amid the internet’s unholy archives.
It’s worth remembering that Port Moody recently paid $750,000 to dredge 4,000 cubic metres of sediment from Rocky Point.
The contaminants were so worrying the mud had to be trucked to a landfill instead of being dropped in the ocean.
Speaking to CTV News, Danny Valliers with Coquitlam Towing noted oil slick around the car.
In the future, let’s keep our waterways and our streaming services free of toxicity.
After about 10 hours in the drink, the car was successfully towed out of the inlet. The boat launch was reopened Tuesday afternoon, around the same time millions of drivers vowed to never lend their car to a streamer.
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