If you find yourself driving behind the hapless South Dakota governor who shoots dogs and goats, give yourself at least 1,000 feet of following distance. It may save your life.
The lady doesn’t know how to attach the safety chain on a trailer, or a coupler to a hitch ball (read story here).
In her tell-all book (is this a good idea?), Gov. Noem admits driving at 70 mph “on a crowded eight-lane interstate outside Nashville” with her daughter in a pickup truck and when “we hit a bump … the trailer came unhitched … slammed onto the asphalt, sparks flew everywhere, and … the truck fishtailed almost out of control!”
Noem says she and her daughter “just watched ‘as thousands of people rushed by in their vehicles, oblivious to the destruction we had all just avoided,’ she said. ‘Gosh, Kass, we could have killed so many people,’ Noem remembered telling her daughter.”
You’d think a farm girl knows her way around trailer hitches. But not her.
Her book reads like she’s in a confessional booth going over her life with a priest because she thinks it’s about to end. This story suggests it could anytime she hits the road.
She’s not the only South Dakota elected official who’s a dangerous driver. An ex-attorney general with a bad driving record killed a man and then reported hitting a deer (see story here). Both he and Noem are Republicans. Why are Republicans such bad drivers?
Is it because Republicans are bad at everything?
Photo below: This is not a proper trailer parking technique.
