MAN REPEATEDLY DRIVES CAR INTO TREE TO PROVE A POINT

Officers were dispatched to a home in Stonington, Connecticut, last Monday where they found a man “repeatedly driving a vehicle into a tree.” Joseph Michael Bailey, 44, was the driver and was in fact repeatedly driving a car into a tree around 3 p.m. that day. He continued driving the car into the tree for 30 minutes. Bailey told officers that he had done so “to try and prove a point” to another resident. It seems the daughter of Bailey’s girlfriend had struck a deer and he was ramming the car into a tree in his yard to prove a point. Police said Bailey was cited with creating a public disturbance.
* Well, I think the point is obvious, don’t you?
* Drugs are bad. That’s the point.
* Another point he could have been proving: “Ford tough.”
* Although if you’re going to repeatedly hit a truck, what you want is a Dodge Ram.
* Meanwhile, the tree’s thinking, “WTF?”
* Creating a public disturbance? Yeah, not to mention a public mystery.
* I like the other resident’s attitude: “I’m not sure you’ve convinced me of your point, Joe. Keep hitting the tree for another half an hour.”
* I think I get it: He was showing the other deers in the area what cars can do.
* I like how it says, “It seems the daughter of Bailey’s girlfriend had struck a deer” like that explains anything.
* Maybe it’s a New Age Nordic ritual: When a car hits a deer you must run your car into a tree for a half hour in honor of the deer’s spirit.
* 3 p.m.’s a little early to be this wasted.