i was loading a rental car with tools to do some fall maintenance on a house we recently evicted delinquent tenants from. one of the tools i took along was a compound action tree pruner with thirteen inch saw blade (pictured below). it didn’t fit in the car until i knocked all the seats down and laid it down all the way from the boot in to the passengers seat.

i only had to see the position of the pruner for a second to realize i was a strong contender for a darwin award with a thirteen inch saw blade resting at neck level over the passenger’s seat cantilevered by the driver’s seat.

much to the dismay, i would imagine, to the folks on the email list where i sent my views on gay marriage, i removed the saw blade and turned the pruner around so that in case of an accident i may only lose my teeth, not my head.