Donkeys on Wheels 3: The Quest for Darwinism

Most of the donkeys out there are minor irritations. Some of them are fairly irritating, but very just downright piss you off.

Enter our featured donkey, the RGP Donkey of the Minute as well as a certain future member of the Darwin Awards hall of fame (www.darwinawards.com). This jackass is not only a truly idiotic member of the donkey community, he has a very good chance at killing someone. Here's his first post.

From: James Yeager
Subject: What is the best way to play online poker while driving?

I can connect to the web through my sprint phone, now I either need to project the screen on the winshield or send the computer screen to one of those televison eyeglasses, or . . . any ideas or suggestions . . . this may sound
silly but I am dead serious.

Blink blink. What? Ok, so maybe he's a troll. They are fairly common, and lately this donkey has been shopping his new blog for the past few weeks. Or maybe he isn't. A few people replied with the obvious "you're a moron, you're going to kill yourself" type replies. He then chimed in with this one:

Other have done this, Erik Lindgren says that he plays while driving from LA to Vegas! Obviously this would work better on the highway w/ cruise control.

Ummm, yeah, or maybe even better, with someone else driving you half-wit! A few people tried to tell him that Erik most likely wasn't driving, but he wouldn't have any of it:

You miss the point, it's not because E.L. has done it, it is because I wish to do it. The fact that he has means it is possible. Thanks for the creative ideas to solve my delima.

Many people zone off when driving, and are pretty much on autopilot. Somhow the brain seems to do ok, and snap out of it during an emergency. My point is not to argue the safety of playing poker while driving, but to figure out the best
safest way to do it. Also often I'll read cardplayer magazing while driving, I think this is the lessor of 2 evils.

Holy christ, this guy is out on the roads reading magazines! Now he wants to now try playing online poker while driving, while he clearly can't even figure out the English language. I sure hope he lives far away from me, and I feel for the first family he kills while trying this.

A few people (a few of whom are well-respected members of the RGP and the poker community) pointed out that he's sure to kill someone, to which he replied with the following posts:

Man, there are no facts to support your argument. It could be that people who drive and play poker are actually safer than other motorist. Like I said, show me a link between playing poker while driving and accidents, property damage, fatalities or any other negative secondary effect outside of my opponets losing money.

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not knowing you guys personally i'd say you are both in your 50's and a little to conservative for todays style of poker. Do you play tournaments and have your results been poorer the last 1 1/2 or so?

Yeah, I'd say alot of "crazier" things have been done. Obviously it wouldn't be prudent to play poker while driving in most instances, however on the open hightway, on a road trip, done with a degree of caution, you aren't going to hurt anyone.

Guys, loosen up a bit, in life, as well as poker, you'll find it rewarding.

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I gotta tell you that I was supriesed the here on RGP, most poeple were so ultra tight. prone to flying off the handle over this one.

Posts like the last one lead me to believe this is very possibly a troll, but then again, the 5th grade grammar and spelling skills have me wondering. Still, he seems passionate enough about being a complete donkey that he deserves an entry.

Morphy