What would you do…if it’s nighttime, you are drunk, your car has a flat and no headlights, your cat is desperately hungry and you have no cat food? (TAR Lite #13)
Would you:
1. Stumble next door and ask a neighbor for some cat food?
2. Give your cat a bit of human food while your neighbor drives you to the store to purchase some cat food?
3. Let your cat go out hunting for some tasty birds or mice?
4. Try to drive your disabled car to the store yourself because, well, your cat needs food, it needs it now and the fact that you didn’t plan appropriately for your cat’s needs takes precedence over everyone else’s rights (drivers and pedestrians alike)?
Congratulations if you selected #4, which is what Amelia Poisson, 42, did in her badly damaged car—which got that way because of a hit and run committed two days earlier, also while she ...