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SKAT Accident Causes Mess on Main St.
Dateline Anacortes, WA - July 25, 2006
A SKAT (Skagit Transit) accident caused a messy tieup
today, leaving trapped commuters feeling flushed. The
accident occurred around 5:00pm, during the height of
afternoon traffic.
Authorities believe the driver may have lost control of
the SKAT right as it was exiting the Starlight Bowl parking
lot and merging into traffic on Main. The SKAT then struck
a light pole and slid across Main, leaving skid marks
across both lanes.
Eyewitnesses to the accident said that there was a great
screeching sound, and then they saw pieces of SKAT flying
everywhere.
"It was amazing," said long-time resident, 57 year old
Annabelle Thompson, who was riding the SKAT at the time
of the accident, "I have never seen a SKAT do that before.
I've taken the SKAT every day for the last 15 years, and
its never seemed to just explode like that. There
was SKAT debris all over, and even flying in my face! I can
only thank God that I came through it alright."
Another eyewitness, George Parker, was watching from down
the street.
"I wasn't but maybe half a block from the SKAT. I saw it
hit the pole and start sliding, then I just smelled sulfur
and burning rubber. I could tell right then that the SKAT,
that this one was gonna be ugly. I just kinda turtled, well
my head just kinda turtled up. Then I heard the SKAT pieces
kinda spray around, and I looked back up."
Police on the scene were unable to discern what made the driver
lose control of the SKAT.
"From what we've seen, there doesn't seem to be any reason
why the driver should have lost control [of the SKAT]," Officer
Heylook Poopjokes told reporters, "The road is dry and smooth, there
are no slippery patches. The driver seems to indicate that the
SKAT started sliding out, meaning the back wheels, and that
he just couldn't hold it in anymore, and that's when it just
slid all the way across the street."
As the old saying goes, SKAT happens.
For WNN this is, Getit Skatjokes reporting.
This is a freaking horrible article. -- Waldo
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